Basic Information
Cover Characters: Optimus Prime
Cover Art: Barry Spiers & Lee Duhig/GURU-eFX
Cover Date: June 2010
Price: £2.50
Poster: Optimus kicks a Cybertron shaped ball
Comic Title: Inside Out!
Script: Simon Furman
Art: Jon Davis-Hunt
Colours: Hi-Fi Design
Lettering: Den Patrick
Comic Plot
In Bloemfontein in South Africa, Bludgeon stages a breakout from the NEST Maximum-Security Containment Facility with a little help from Scalpel, who he had smuggled in with him when he got captured whilst the Football World Cup takes place nearby.
Breakdown mocks Bludgeon for getting captured by Jolt, a Cadet before they manage to escape. NEST detects the cells being destroyed and sends the local Autobot team of Smokescreen, Brawn and Wideload to see what's happening. In the Facility, Bludgeon kills Breakdown for insulting him and has Scalpel set off a bomb that causes the Facility to blow up, allowing the Decepticons to escape.
The Autobot guards are being beaten down by the Decepticons, who are forced to let them escape due to the media presence and them trying to limit the bad press for the Autobots right now (thanks to all the damage being caused etc)
Comic Characters
Autobots
Jolt - Electric Car (mentioned)
Brawn - Military SUV
Wideload - Truck
Smokescreen - Sports Car
Bumblebee - Concept Camaro
Springer - Osprey Helicopter
Gears - SUV
Decepticons
Bludgeon - Tank
Reverb - Motorcycle
Tankor - Tank
Breakdown - Sports Car
Scalpel - Microscope
Skywarp - F22 Jet
Dead End - Audi R8
Lockdown - Muscle Car
Comic Notes
- This story was moved to coincide with the 2010 Football World Cub, and was meant to be later in the series.
- Despite showing Optimus playing football with a small Cybertron, none of this is shown in the issue. In fact football itself is only shown as a backdrop...
- The Decepticons shown breaking out aren't named here, and they are all pretty much in the wrong colours, but they can be identified by later issues and common sense, such as Reverb being in Knock Out's colours, Dead End being in Sideways' colours, and Tankor and Bludgeon being switched around in one scene, also Lockdown has a random colour scheme as well
- Scalpel was smuggled in by Bludgeon it's revealed here
- Breakdown doesn't seem to be liked by any of the continuities...he's killed off pretty much immediately in every appearance of his.
- Whilst it's understandable that we've never seen Wideload, Smokescreen or Brawn before, since they're positioned in South Africa, but why is Gears randomly with Bumblebee and Springer when they go to stop the local team from destroying the place.
Extra Features
Adverts
Competitions
Bumblebee's Guide: The Solar System - Mercury
Get Shirty! - Some World Cup shirt based design contest
Way Past Cool! - Bumblebee's games reviews
The Beautiful Game - info on the World Cup...zzzz
Law & Disorder - Barricade and Ironhide chat awa- HA! That kid has a transforming costume!
Starscream's Stars - Horoscope
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