Titan - DOTM Volume 3 #2

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Shockwave

Cover Date: August 2011

Price: £2.50

Poster: DOTM Movie Poster

Comic Title: Gold and Blood

Script: Robin Etherington

Art: Horacio Domingues

Colours: Nestor Pereyra

Lettering: Rona Simpson

Comic Plot

In Central Columbia the Tanto Gang use explosives to unearth the lost city of gold, El Dorado under a tip from Mr. Wave, upon informing him that the operation was successful, Mr. Wave appears from a container that he had the team ship for him to reveal that he is in fact Soundwave! The Decepticon starts attacking the humans and destroys their ship. lennox, who was hiding out and spying on the gang informs NEST about the Decepticon and starts attacking him.

Ratchet and Optimus air-drop in and join the fight, taking on the Tanto gang and Soundwave alike. Soundwave tries to fly away but gets caught by Optimus, the two are dragged underwater by Soundwave himself, and they fight beside the unearthed city.

Whilst fighting, the two reveal one of the human's bombs still active, and Kubikiri has it detonated as payback for Soundwave tricking him and double crossing him.

Both Transformersare shot out of the water and the city is destroyed. Soundwave is sent into the sky (where presumably he transformed and flew away) and Optimus landed on the beach. Optimus is told that the Tanto Gang ran off and they believe that they may be a serious threat in the future, but to not worry about it for now.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro (mentioned)

Decepticons

Soundwave - Satellite/Jet

Humans

Lennox

Mr. Kubikiri

Tanto Gang

Comic Notes

• Soundwave's human alias is Mr. Wave...not exactly imaginative is he?
• Mr. Kubikiri sounds like he should be Japanese or something...yet he has pale skin and blond hair, though his eyes are narrowed a bit I guess...
• Soundwave is shown in his Mercedes robot mode, despite having his Satellite Alternate Mode still....
• El Dorado, the lost city of gold is real! But then it blows up....
• Why did Soundwave have the humans ship him to their location? He can fly!!!
• Soundwave's plan is to make currency useless by spreading the gold from El Dorado and making it all worthless by comparison, causing the stock markets to crash and so on...I wouldn't mind having some gold honestly!!
• The Autobots managed to stop an international incident, but don't have anything to show for it (Tanto Gang escaped, Soundwave escaped, El Dorado blew up)
• The Tanto Gand never appeared again (maybe if there's a new series for the 4th movie though!)
• These prequel stories after the previous issue told you "to be continued in DOTM" are most likely because pretty much every main Decepticon was killed in the movie!

Extra Features

Adverts

Competitions

The Lowdown... - Shockwave's profile

Sideswipe's Armoury - The V-22 Osprey

Ratchet's Joke Page - ....yeah....

Hunt the Ark! - Decipher the code and find where the Ark is hiding

Crater Jump Game - A board game

Starscream's Stumpers! - Puzzles

Mega-Mouth - Sideswipe and Megatron chat away