Titan - Transformers Prime #4.18

Title: Power Outage

Script: Chris Cooper

Art: Horacio Domingues

Colours: Nestor Pereyra

Lettering: Comicraft

Cover Date: Jan/Fed 2014

Cover Price: £3.99

Poster: Optimus looms behind the three kids!

Plot

Jack is staying up late playing video games on a school-night, leading to his mother shouting at him, but before he can give a good excuse the power goes out, but not just for his room (as he thinks his mother cut the power as punishment) but in the entire town.

At the Autobot base the Autbots have detected this incident, but it's much worst than Jack believed, the entirety of the USA has lost it's power due to an EMP. Elsewhere, Starscream and Soundwave are finishing their work on the EMP's in three locations. The Autobots detect the locations (as the signals are stronger in three places) and head out to disable them.

When separated and all working on the devices, the Autobots are separately attacked by the three Predacons, Predaking, Darksteel and Skylynx, and are all pinned down by the much larger and more powerful beasts, however after a short time the teams manage to defeat the beasts and disable the devices, returning power the the US.

Back at Jack's home he and his mother are glad the power's back on, Jack later calls Raf and wonders if they should contact the Autobots about the blackout, but decide against it as it was probably nothing.

Jack soon goes back to his game, but gets annoyed when it's revealed that the blackout wiped out his saved game as well. June screams at him for not going to bed again.

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck

Arcee - Motorcycle

Ratchet - Ambulance

Bumblebee - Sports Car

Bulkhead - Off Road Vehicle

Wheeljack - Race Car

Smokescreen - Race Car

Ultra Magnus - Truck Cab

Decepticon

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Soundwave - UAV

Vehicons - Cars

Megatron - Space Shuttle (Mentioned)

Predacon

Predaking - Dragon

Darksteel - Ursagryph

Skylynx - Winged Dragon

Human

Jack

June

Raf

Agent Fowler

Jasper Residents

Notes

• This issue is a continuity headache - Bumblebee still has no voice, Optimus is alive, yet the Predacons introduced in Prredacons Rising are up and about, and seem to be on the Decepticon's side!! AHHH!!
• At least Optimus looks like he's in his proper body this time around.
• Ultra Magnus and Smokescreen are actually seen here! Only took them a few issues!!
• Soundwave speaks freely in this issue...
• At one point Magnus is seen with a bot that looks like a combination of Wheeljack and Bumblebee, we can assume that it's meant to be Wheeljack due to context though
• Hey look! It's a Christmas tree!! It only appears in one panel though and shoved in a window, and added with the mention of Christmas holidays before, it seems likely they were just added to make this a festive story(ish) due to it's release date.
• The next issue is marked as "Introducing Skylynx" a character who appears quite a lot in this issue, and is even name-dropped at least once! Silly Titan!!
• Shouldn't June have called it "Christmas Vacation" rather than "Holidays" since they're American?

Other Features

Ultimate Smackdown - Airachnid vs Arcee

Megatron's Christmas Conundrums!! - Megatron gets festive....yeah

Competitions and Adverts - Splattered all around!

The Trans Files - Article on Insecticons

Whiizz Band Avenue! - Bumblebee vs Knock Out maze puzzle

Soundwave's Stumpers! - Soundwave gives you more puzzles

Mega Mouth - Arcee and Megatron read the fan mail again