Basic Information
Cover Characters: Starscream and Megatron
Cover Artist: Jon Davis-Hunt & Jason Cardy
Cover Date: May 2009
Price: £2.99
Comic Title: Revolution Part 2
Script: Simon Furman
Pencils: Andrew Griffiths
Inks: Gary Erskine
Colours: Digikore
Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft
Comic Plot
Starscream informs his troops that the Autobots are all dead, and sends them out to retake Earth for the Decepticons. At her home in Falls Church, Mikaela is depressed whilst watching footage of the ship's destruction.
The Decepticons begin a rampage, and none of the Military are allowed to intervene due to the mind control devices on their commanders, all hope is lost.
That is..until Stockade and his New Decepticons arrive. Stockade confronts Hardtop, who is powerless against the powerful Decepticon. Stockade has his team located the Fulcrum unit to Hardtop's team and has Fracture take control of it, turning all of Hardtop's Payload troops against him. Hardtop surrenders to Stockade and joins forces with him against Starscream.
Blackout reports Hardtop's defection to Starscream and says that Mudflap has either defected as well or was killed. Starscream is losing it at his base when suddenly he envisions Megatron telling him to revive him.
On Cybertron/Unicron the Autobots, having survived the explosion, have set up lights and are working on something inside the planet.
Comic Characters
Autobots
Optimus Prime - Truck Cab
Longarm - Tow Truck
Strongarm - Jeep
Ironhide - Pick Up Truck
Armorhide? - Truck Cab?
Salvage - Pick Up Truck
Evac - Rescue Helicopter
Grindcore - Front End Loader
Camshaft - Sports Car
Skyblast - Jet
Arcee - Motorcycle
Bumblebee - Concept Camaro
Elita One - Motorcycle
Decepticons
Megatron (Ghost)
Starscream - F22 Jet
Thundercracker - F22 Jet
Mudflap - Crane (either killed by or defected to New Decepticons)
Hardtop - Military Buggy (defects to New Decepticons)
Barricade - Police Car
Blackout - Military Helicopter
Payload Drones - Vans (some defected to New Decepticons)
"New Decepticons"
Stockade - SUV
Overcast - Fighter Jet
Storm Surge - Hovercraft
Incinerator - Osprey Helicopter
Fracture - F1 Race Car
Humans
Mikaela Banes
General Seward
President Allen (mentioned)
Comic Notes
- Blackout was coloured like Evac in one scene...which is very confusing in the situation...
- Also Thundercracker was coloured like Dreadwing in the same panel...ANNOYING!!!
- And Hardtop like Brawl.....ARGGGHHH!!!!
- Mikaela is drawn VERY unhealthy looking in her scenes...well maybe she's been crying?
- The mind controlled humans are stopping any military from taking action against the Decepticons.
- Stockade and his New Decepticons finally arrive on Earth, but they attack Starscream's forces (under Optimus Prime's suggestion)
- Stockade and his team are still powered up with Nucleon
- Fracture can use her powers to take apart a Fulcrum (command) drone and reassemble it under her control (thus taking over all it's subsidiary troops
- Hardtop and maybe Mudflap have defected to the New Decepticons, otherwise Mudflap was killed.
- Starscream has had statues made up with his head on them in his base.
- This is the first named Decepticon Civil War since Marvel
- Megatron's intentions are made clear here, when he convinces Starscream to revive him.
- The Autobots are hiding out on Cybertron and are refitting it for something.....
- The Autobots in the last 2 panels are either in the wrong colours or aren't drawn in too much detail (they are background characters after all) But it IS possible to work out who is who from the available cast
- The scanning beam from Overcast is pure black...this was likely meant to be a different colour originally
- Storm Surge can fly....
- Remember the red variant Payloads from the early issues in this timeline? Well now they have green, purple and grey ones!
TFA Comic Title: Megatron's Revenge
Script: Simon Furman
Pencils & Inks: John McCrea
Colours: John Burns
Lettering: Andrew James
Comic Plot
Megatron is inside Autobot HQ and has just killed Afterburn, and reveals to Bumblebee that Afterburn was just a spy drone that he's created. Then he turns on attacking Bumblebee who has juts been joined by Sari and the other Autobots.
The Autobots attack Megatron, and start to get the upper hand, when Megatron calls for Starscream, Lugnut and Blitzwing to help him. Optimus begins to set up a plan, when Bumblebee attacks Megatron head on, whilst the Autobots and Deceptiocns continue their fight, and Starscream gets a plan.
Sari heals up Bumblebee with her key and the Autobots start to win the fight. Nearby Starscream takes advantage of this by blasting a metal scaffold which falls onto Megatron, aiming to kill him, but then decides to take advantage of the situation and pretends to rescue Megatron, regaining his trust somewhat. The Decepticons retreat on Starscream's orders, taking Megatron with them.
In the aftermath Optimus wonders if anything was really accomplished, with their base destroyed and exposed (Ratchet moans that it'll take weeks to fix up). Optimus congratulates Bumblebee on his actions today, whilst Bumblebee silently mourns Afterburn.
Comic Characters
Autobots
Optimus Prime - Truck Cab
Bumblebee - Hatchback
Prowl - Police Motorcycle
Bulkhead - SWAT Van
Ratchet - Ambulance
Afterburn - Off Road Car (killed by Megatron)
Decepticons
Megatron - Osprey Helicopter (injured by Starscream)
Starscream - Harrier Jet
Blitzwing - Jet/Tank
Lugnut - Bomber Plane
Humans
Sari Sumdac
Comic Notes
- There is no additional front cover inside this issue for this comic, and the lettering is done by a different person than usual, both indications that this wasn't completely finished at the end of TFA's run, but was completed especially for this printing.
- Did...did Megatron load Afterburn into his cannon and fire it? DUDE!!!
- It's revealed here that Afterburn was a spark-less drone and never truly existed...despite him having feelings and so on
- Megatron seems to act more like a stereotypical villain in this issue rather than his normal portrayal
- Bumblebee seems really upset over Afterburn's death and even calls him his friend...despite the two not seeming to get along at all before hand
- Starscream is back with the Decepticons...despite being a fugitive in Season 2 and a talking head in Season 3...
- Optimus seems a bit cold here as well, as he basically tells Bumblebee to forget about "that drone"
Extra Features
Adverts
Competitions
Megatron Origin reprint - Part 11
Web Word - Black Arachnia's crossword puzzle
The Purple & the Red - Colour in the Front Cover from issue 20
Way Past Cool! - Bumblebee reviews some games
Mystic Megatron's Transformers Horror Scope! - Megatron gets out his tarot cards
Beast Wars: The Ascending reprint - Part 11
Top Gear - Win stuff and look at it!
Star Screams - Starscream's fan mail page
Arcee's Soulmates - Arcee's running out of eligible bachelors
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