Titan - Animated #2

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Grimlock, Swoop and Snarl in Alternate Mode

Cover Date: Dec 2008

Price: £2.60

Poster: TFA Megatron and "The Many Faces of Megatron Part One"

Comic Title: Grimlock & Megatron are Dead?

Comic Script: Robin Etherington

Comic Pencils & Inks: Diego Hourdan

Comic Colours: Kat Nicholson

Comic Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

The Autobots head to Dinobot Island after receiving a distress signal from Grimlock. After landing the team are attacked by Snarl and Swoop who have been infected by a rage virus. Ratchet is critically injured by Snarl and seems to die. Bumblebee, Afterburn and Sari go after the Dinobots to get back the part that Snarl tore out to save Ratchet.

The Autobots attack the infected Dinobots, who have injured Grimlock, whilst Sari inserts her key into Grimlock to heal him. Afterburn tells Sari to give him the key so he can use it to cure Swoop and Snarl.

Later Afterburn and Bumblebee get back to Ratchet to save him, when they find him fine, Ratchet reveals that he lied about his missing part being vital so he could get the other two to work together. The group laugh it off and begin to head home.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Ratchet - Ambulance

Bumblebee - Hatchback

Afterburn - Off Road Car

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Swoop - Pteranodon

Snarl - Triceratops

Optimus Prime (mentioned)

Prowl (mentioned)

Bulkhead (mentioned)

Other

Sari Sumdac

Captain Fanzone

Comic Notes

• Ratchet fakes his death just to see if the other two can get along? PSYCHO!!
• Afterburn is shown to be very vain in this issue
• The Rage Virus is very similar in appearance to the evolved Hate Plague seen in Beast Machines, where the victims had red glowing eyes. However unlike that version, this one isn't transmitted through touch.
• It's never revealed what caused the virus to only infect Swoop and Snarl, but it was most likely thanks to the Decepticons.
• Ratchet seemed to forget he had magnetic powers until Sari reminded him...
• Afterburn's back story of having attended an anti-virus crash-course and being at the academy is revealed to be fake in a later issue, showing that this event was most likely caused by the Decepticons.

Extra Features

Adverts - Loads of Ads trying to shove things down my throat

Autobots Transform! - Page with random things like a short comic, some jokes etc

Character Puzzles - Prowl based puzzles

Nano-Bites - TFA based news and new items

Captain Fanzone's Fan Zone - Voyager toy checklist

Competition - Win some TFA things and some books

Game On - Article about the TFA DS Game

Blast from the Past Part 2 - Adaptation of the episode, continued from the last issue with screen shots and speech bubbles

Bee Mail - Reader Mail read by Bumblebee and Bulkhead