Basic Information
Cover Characters: Ironhide and Bumblebee
Cover Artist: Cosmo White
Cover Date: November 2008
Price: £2.99
Poster: "The Many Faces of Optimus Prime Part 1", Ironhide and Bumblebee vs Zombies
Comic Title: Return to Cybertron Part 1
Script: Simon Furman
Art: Jon Davis-Hunt
Colours: Hi-Fi Designs
Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft
Comic Plot
Having finally arrived on Earth, the Specialist team are put to work on trying to calm down the planet's eruptions of Energon, but aren't doing so well, with the town of Sylacauga being destroyed from an eruption.
Optimus informs President Allen that Earth's problems are running core deep now, but doesn't tell him that he has a plan to use Nucleon from Cybertron to calm down the planet.
Ironhide and his team head to Cybertron on a ship and begin searching for Nucleon, unaware that there are other Transformers already on the planet. Whilst searching, the Autobots find a dish array that looks out of place and start investigating it, when suddenly Stockade and his "New Decepticons" appear and attack them.
Stockade easily beats Ironhide in a hand to hand fight, and explains that he and his team are all powered up by Nucleon. Bumblebee realises that that's what they're there to recover when suddenly an anomaly appears in the sky, attracted by the dish array, in hopes that it can re-energise Cybertron for them.
Comic Characters
Autobots
Optimus Prime - Truck Cab
Camshaft - Sports Car
Evac - Rescue Helicopter
Salvage - Pick Up Truck
Grindcore - Front End Loader
Ironhide - Pick Up Truck
Bumblebee - Concept Camaro
Arcee - Motorcycle
Armorhide - Truck Cab
"New Decepticons"
Stockade - SUV
Storm Surge - Hovercraft
Fracture - Race Car
Incinerator - Helicopter
Overcast - Jet
Divebomb - Jet
Decepticons
Megatron (mentioned)
Other
President Allen
"The Entity"
Comic Notes
- The front cover lies to us. There are no zombies involved in this story...though since this was released near Halloween, it's totally possible that that's why they had a zombie cover.
- The specialist team mentioned in the previous issue is made up of Camshaft, Evac, Salvage and Grindcore...that's right, a team of repaints!
- Wasn't it a bit obvious that just capping an exploding source of Energon would just cause a back-log and explosion? Some "specialists"!!
- The Allspark has been revealed to have infected the core of the planet
- Nucleon is different here from other continuities...it seems more like the Plasma Energy from Exodus than the G1 version
- The Autobot's ship looks a bit phallic....
- Cybertron is shown as being abandoned, bar a few Decepticons, yet in IDW and Volume 2 of Titan it's shown that others live on the planet by this point
- Armorhide is shown in Strongarm's colours here, even when in vehicle mode
- On the last page of the comic, there is one EXTREMELY big tower building
- This is the first Titan UK comic to be drawn by Jon Davis-Hunt, who later becomes the full time artist in Volume 2
- The ship that the Autobots suddenly have is likely to have been what brought Evac and the others to Earth
TFA Comic Title: Dino-Might!
Script: Simon Furman
Art: Lee Bradley
Colours: Kris Carter
Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft
Comic Plot
Starscream and his clones have attacked and defeated the Autobots and taken on their base. Sari goes to Dinobot Island and enlists the Dinobots' help.
Back in Detroit, the Dinobots attack Starscream's clones whilst Sari rescues the Autobots, Starscream gets scared and flies off, leaving the Autobots to act as hosts to the Dinobots who agreed to help on the condition that they could stay at the base whilst it rains, which is now.
Comic Characters
Autobots
Optimus Prime - Truck Cab
Bumblebee - Hatchback
Ratchet - Ambulance
Bulkhead - SWAT Van
Prowl - Police Motorcycle
Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex
Swoop - Pteranodon
Snarl - Triceratops
Decepticons
Starscream - Harrier Jet
Starscream Clones - Harrier Jets
Megatron - Osprey Helicopter (mentioned)
Other
Sari Sumdac
Sparkplug (robot dog)
Comic Notes
- This comic is to advertise the upcoming TFA comic series by Titan
- Starscream's clones are in his own colours rather than different ones like in the series
- This comic is set in Season Two
- The first page is based on a cover involving Galvatron from Marvel UK
- Sparkplug being with Sari seems a bit out of continuity
- Snarl and Swoop can talk here
- Snarl shouldn't be named until Season Three when Scrapper names him that.
Extra Features
Adverts
Competitions
Megatron Origin reprint - Part four
Starscream's 10 rules on ruling - Starscream gives his advice for future tyrants
How to Draw... - Scorponok
Way Past Cool! - Bumblebee reviews some new video games
Beast Wars: The Ascending reprint - Part four
Character Profile - Lio Convoy
Top Gear - New stuff to look at and win
Artobots - Artwork
Star Screams - Screamer is an angry host
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