Titan - Movie Volume 1 #16

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Optimus Prime and Bumblebee

Cover Artist: Lawrence Etherington

Cover Date: October 2008

Price: £2.60

Poster: Optimus and Bumblebee in a city destroying itself

Comic Title: Dark Spark

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Jeremy Tiongson

Colours: Jason Cardy

Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

The Decepticons have picked up their attacks and are overwhelming the far spread Autobots. Ratchet decides to help the Autobots by reviving the dead Jazz using the Allspark shard. 6 days later Optimus meets with the President to discuss the planetary instabilities from the Allspark still, and assures them that a team of specialists are on the way to help out.

Above them Thundercracker reports to Starscream that the planet is spitting up raw energon, but the Autobots have beaten them to it. Starscream seems sure that they'll get to it themselves.

In Savannah Jazz is up and about again Optimus sends Ratchet and Jazz out on a mission, but asks Ratchet to keep an eye on Jazz, just in case. On the mission, Jazz speeds off ahead and sets up a Holo-Forum activator to try and auction off Earth to the highest bidder (as it's full of raw Energon now). Ratchet tries to stop him, but Jazz shoots him with an Inhibitor Clamp, which fully petrifies him.

Suddenly Dreadwing and a Decepticon Jet attack Jazz and his forum, causing it to explode. Ratchet repairs himself in the confusion and scares off the Decepticons. Once the smoke clears Jazz has disappeared as well, leaving Ratchet ashamed of what he's caused to happen

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Jazz - Sports Car (Gone Rogue)

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Elita One -Motorcycle

Armorhide - Truck Cab

Longarm - Tow Truck

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Skyblast - Jet

Strongarm - Jeep

Evac (mentioned)

Decepticons

Starscream - F22 Jet

Payload Drones - Vans

Dreadwing - Fighter Jet

Dreadwing Drones - Fighter Jets

Thundercracker - F22 Jet

Blackout - Military Helicopter

Barricade - Police Car

Megatron (mentioned, dead)

Humans

President Allen

Tom Banachek

Comic Notes

• The comic is advertised as "Part One" despite being a single issue story
• Longarm has been repaired after his injuries in issue 12
• Barricade and Blackout are shown to still be alive here
• On his reappearance Longarm is shown telling himself to pick a target (This could be a mistake as Ironhide might be telling him to pick his target, or Longarm might just be self-motivating himself)
• Jazz is revived by the corrupted Allspark fragment placed in Ratchet's care in issue 14. He turns out evil because of it
• Some of the characters are given some quite extreme makeovers here, like Ratchet's wheel placements.
• The Decepticon's marathon adjacent base is under water
• That odd jet design from the previous issue is around here as well...maybe it's meant to be Thundercracker?
• Ratchet can fully heal himself as he carries a full set of replacement parts on him (most likely in subspace)
• Jazz doesn't remember what it was like being dead

Extra Features

Adverts

Competitions

Megatron Origin reprint - Part 3 of the reprint

Team Titan - Comic News

Character Profile - Elephorca (though all pics are of Torca)

Beast Wars: The Ascending reprint - Part 3

The Clock is Ticking! - A subtle reminder that the Animated Magazine is about to start

Way Past Cool! - Bumblebee reviews new video games

Artobots - Fan Art

Star Screams - Starscream's letter page