Titan - Prime #16

Comic Title: Fury From the Deep

Writer: Chris Cooper

Art: Dario Brizuela

Lettering: Comicraft

Cover Price: £3.99

Cover Date: August 2013

Poster: Optimus and Ratchet try to kill you

Characters

Autobot

Bumblebee - Urbana 500 Sports Car

Decepticon

Piranacon - Seacon Gestalt Fatally wounded by a rock

Snaptrap Dead

Other Seacons (Mentioned)

Human

Jack

Miko

Raf

Al

Diner Owner

Crew of the Mary Jane (Flashback) Killed by Piranacon

Plot

Al, a retired sailor recalls an incident from about 10 years ago to the kids, who are on vacation, where he was attacked by a giant sea monster, who destroyed his ship, and killed his crew. They don't believe him at first, but when Miko notices a metal tooth arouns his neck, they start to think it could be the Decepticons.

Raf looks into the matter and discovers that a ship was sunk with only one survivor, with the same name as Al said, and they think the Decepticons could be involved, so they decide to go to the ocean to check it out (well they don't actually take it that seriously and just plan to have fun there).

The kids reach "Devil's Cove" with Bumblebee and go into the water on a small boat, Bumblebee starts to get agitated and suddenly the kids are dragged under water. Bumblebee dives underneath to save them, but he comes face to face with the giant sea monster.

Inside a nearby cavern, the kids wake up and find several torn apart wrecks, seemingly used for repairs, and they also find a dead Decepticon, who Raf identifies (using TFWiki on his laptop or something, they call it the "Autobot Archive" though) that it's Snaptrap and tells the others that he's normally found with the 5 other Seacons, who can combine into Piranacon. They figure out that this must be the sea monster who's attacking boats, but Raf also says that Snaptrap works as Piranacon's main mind, so without him Piranacon is basically a mindless monster.

Outside Piranacon and Bumblebee have their underwater fight (FINALLY) with Piranacon's sole consious thought being to kill the Autobots with maximum force. Inside the cave the kids have no luck in finding a way to escape, until Jack finds some old WWII Sea Mines still active. The kids place them near the blocked entrance and it explodes shooting rocks outwards with one fatally wounding Piranacon. The kids are sucked out of the cave to their doom, however Bumblebee rescues them before it's too late and takes them back to shore, where they warm up next to a fire, and decide that next year they'll have a "staycation" instead.

Notes

• This issue is clearly the one meant to be put in issue 12, but for some reason was held back. Having read the issue it seems most likely because it's set during the kid's summer holidays (ie, NOW!)
• The comic also announces that the next issue is out on the 10th of October, with a giant issue and with it being Beast Hunters related, so from the sounds of that we ARE getting the Beast Hunters rebrand for the comic, and it is becoming a more regular comic too, but they just wanted to get this older comic story done with before that
• Oh there's a lot of "stronger" language at the start of this comic than we tend to see in kid's comics, "hell" and "god's sake" are both used by the doomed sailors, whilst appropriate in the situation, it seems a bit out of place here
• The boat, the Mary Jane, or MJ, is probably a reference to the Spider-Man character for some reason
• Piranacon looks like he's just a slightly altered version of his G1 self...still we could use the G1 Seacons as him on our Prime toy shelves now of course!
• Yeah...Piranacon has survived for at least 10 years of attacking ships etc, yet gets killed by a single rock to the face? I think they just wanted to end his storyline rather than have to return to it again!
• I like how when Raf is drowning he still holds onto his laptop...and it's probably okay too!!

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