Titan - ROTF Volume 2 #8

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Skids and Mudflap

Cover Art: Barry Spiers & Lee Duhig/GURU-eFX

Cover Date: Winter 2010

Price: £2.99

Poster: Skids and Mudflap go to war

Comic Title: Back-to-Back

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Jon Davis-Hunt

Colours: Hi-Fi Design

Lettering: Den Patrick

Comic Plot

Soundwave attempts to interrogate Ransack as to the location of the Matrix, but he refuses to tell him. The Twins watch the event and attack the base to get answers. The Twins manage to disable Grindor and Ravage, but then Soundwave and Starscream attack the Twins and badly injure the duo.

Starscream prepares to kill Mudflap when Ransack saves him, flies off and tells them that he's going to tell The Fallen about this. Soundwave chases after him.

The Twins watch Soundwave escape then suddenly see an army of Protoforms arriving on Phobos, who immediately attack the Twins, but luckily the duo are saved when the Autobots arrives and takes on the drones.

After the fight the Autobots have the drones rounded up, but the Twins can't find Starscream and Ravage, Ironhide tells them not to worry about him, and tells them that the Autobots believe that they aren't traitors now, after reassessing all the evidence. The Twins decide to forget all about The Fallen after all the trouble it's caused them.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Skids - Smart Car

Mudflap - Smart Car

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Sideswipe - Concept Corvette

Arcee - Motorcycle

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Decepticons

The Fallen (mentioned)

Soundwave - Satellite/Jet

Starscream - F-22 Jet (injured by Ransack)

Ransack - Bi-Plane

Grindor - Military Helicopter (injured by Twins)

Ravage - Missile (injured by Mudflap)

Lugnut Drones - Entry Pods (arrested by Autobots)

Comic Notes

• YAY! Original Artwork on the covers again! (8th issue to start with again!)
• This marks the end of the Twin's storyline that started in the first issue of this volume..the Twins are never seen again....
• Ransack still has his green robot mode and redish vehicle mode from the previous issue
• Soundwave totally bitch-slaps Ransack
• Ransack threatens to tell The Fallen about Soundwave's actions, seeing as how Soundwave is alive and well in later issues and the movies, it's clear that Ransack must have been "silenced" or he just couldn't get in touch.
• Arcee appears in her movie 1 toyline character model, rather that the ROTF version seen in an earlier issue
• The Lugnut drones from Issue 1 are seen again, but in grey Protoform mode
• Ratchet makes one of his rare appearances in Volume 2 now
• The Twins decide not to mention The Fallen to Optimus, in hopes that nothing ever comes from it (FOOLS!)
• It's unknown if Grindor was arrested as well as the drones, though it's likely that he escaped
• The Autobots must have followed the Twins to Mars and now know they aren't traitors after reassessing all the evidence they had against them.
• Sideswipe says "You Drive --I'll Carve!" to Ironhide, a reference to Mikaela's line to Bumblebee in the first movie.
• It's possible that the Lugnut Drones were amongst those who were in the Detention Center later in this volume, which gets liberated by Bludgeon.

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