IDW - More than Meets the Eye #3

Comic Staff

Title: Liars, A to D Part 3: The Chaos of Warm Things

Written by: James Roberts

Art by: Alex Milne

Colour by: Josh Burcham

Letters by: Shawn Lee

Editor: John Barber

Storyline

Just as the Lost Light takes off from the planet Shock goes to see Ore's remains in the engine room and says his goodbyes before deleting the evidence of Prowl communicating with him before the original launch. Shock then goes looking for the tracking device that Prowl had them take into the engine room and tries to complete his mission, when suddenly a trapped Sparkeater breaks out of a now damaged door and attacks Shock, eating his spark. Red Alert shortly finds him and informs Rodimus, who seems excited.

Rodimus has the crew, bar a few members who could be of use, go to some habitation suites so they can be safe.Whilst leaving Tailgate recognizes Cyclonus from before the Ark launched and asks him for some help.

In the lower decks Ratchet and the rest of the Autobots assembled by Rodimus look into what happened to Shock and soon they believe it is indeed a Sparkeater. This is confirmed by Ratchet examining the body, and Chromedome using his Mnemosurgeon abilities to see Shock's last few moments of life.

Upstairs Cyclonus and Tailgate find a room and claim it, whilst Hoist and Boss look at Cyclonus in an unhappy way, though Cyclonus doesn't really care about that. Tailgate's happy with the room, but again Cyclonus doesn't care. Elsewhere Swerve and Skids find a room, but soon discover that it's an Engex distillery and bar, which leads Swerve to reminisce about how he and Blurr had always wanted to run a bar together before the war. Skids gets bored and goes into an airduct, but before he leaves he asks if Swerve likes music, and then comments that "Skids and Swerve" DOES actually sound quite cool.

Back in the lower decks Chromedome pulls himself out of Shock's brain and is in pain, but confirms that it was a Sparkeater. The team begin to search for it, but Rodimus and Drift remain behind to investigate the area, and because Rodimus has a plan, since Ratchet believes the Sparkeater will go after the brightest spark he can find to eat.

Upstairs Animus knocks on Whirl's door to get him to open it and let him in, as he didn't find a room yet himself and he doesn't want to get in trouble with Magnus, when he hears a noise. Whirl tries to let him in, but discovers that the door is locked. outside the Sparkeater has just killed Animus when Whirl busts out of the room and fires some missiles at him. Trailbreaker appears and protects the Sparkeater with his forcefields and Whirl is told that if he detonated one of those sparks then half the ship would explode. The Sparkeater goes hunting for Rung now, as he has the brightest spark on the ship.

Rung has just finished decorating his office when the Sparkeater breaks in and begins to attack him, however Skids appears from the airduct and rescues the Autobot. In their room, Cyclonus and Tailgate talk about what happened in the past 6 million years whilst Tailgate was asleep, and Cyclonus wonders what side Tailgate would have chosen if he had the choice.

Skids and Rung are escaping the Sparkeater in the ducts when Rung gets a message from Rodimus, who explains that they found the room the old owners of the ship trapped the monster in and had fed it Turbofoxes to keep it quiet. He asks Rung to lead the monster to the engine room as he has a plan. Skids and Rung make it to the elevator shaft and jump down it, and enter the elevator, where Brainstorm is confused.

The Sparkeater rips into the elevator, but Rung and Skids escape, leaving Brainstorm to die, but he's spared when the Sparkeater concentrates on hunting down Rung.

In the engine room, Rung makes it to Rodimus, who uses him as a lure for the Sparkeater to come closer to the engines and himself, whilst Drift keeps Skids from interfering. Rodimus throws Rung to the side at the last moment and grapples with the Sparkeater, and then holds him against the generator, whilst Perceptor activates them, drawing the monster and Rodimus' arms into the engines, impressing both Skids and Drift in the process.

Later in the Medibay, Ratchet has replaced Rodimus' arms, whilst Magnus tries to tell off Rodimus, who has to remind him that HE'S in charge of this mission, not Magnus. On the other table Tailgate is being fixed by Ratchet and he talks about how he's been thinking about the war recently, and reveals that if he's allowed to, he'd like to be a Decepticon.

Characters

Autobot
Rodimus - Speedy Car
Ultra Magnus - Truck
Drift
Ratchet
Swerve - Off Road Vehicle
Skids - Van
Whirl - Osprey Helicopter
Animus - Treaded Vehicle Killed by Sparkeater
Shock - Treaded Vehicle Killed by Sparkeater
Ore - Treaded Vehicle Killed by Quantum Generator
Trailbreaker
Chromedome
Rewind - Giant Memory Stick
Rung - Communications Maintenance Vehicle
Brainstorm - Jet
Perceptor - Treaded Vehicle
Red Alert
Hoist - Tow-Crane Truck
Boss
Prowl (Flashbacks/On Ore's Communicator Screen only)
Cosmos - Orbiter
Smokescreen
Brawn
Grapple
Powerglide - Jet
Pointblank
Xaaron
Inferno
Huffer
Dipstick - Car
Blurr (Mentioned)
Sentinel Prime - Truck (Flashbacks only)
Nominus Prime - Truck (Flashbacks only)
Impactor - Tank (Flashbacks only)
Sideswipe - Speeder (Flashbacks only)
Sunstreaker - Speeder (Flashbacks only)
Grimlock - Armoured Truck (Flashbacks only)
Decepticon
Megatron - Cybertronian Tank (Flashbacks only)
Starscream - Tetra Jet (Flashbacks only)
Blip (Mentioned)

Cybertronian 
Cyclonus - Space Jet
Tailgate - Car (Wants to be a Decepticon)
Proteus (Flashbacks only) Killed by Starscream
Senate (Mentioned) Killed by Decepticons

Other
Sparkeater Killed by Rodimus with Quantum Generator
Turbofoxes Killed by Previous owners of ship

Comic Notes

• This story confirms that Prowl was communicating with the Duobots before the ship departed, and judging from the dialogue here they were drafted by Prowl after they pulled a prank on him (welding his hands together).
• The thing Prowl asked the Duobots to place on the ship was a tracking device, which it's unclear if it's still around or not now. (this also caused the Generator to go wrong when Ore went too close to it)
• Rodimus seems to be a bit of an unconventional leader, he thinks that a Sparkeater hunt would be fun, he locks his crew in quarters with no knowledge, and even uses Rung as live bait in the end.
• Ratchet really doesn't like Drift...
• I can totally see Swerve becoming the bartender on the Lost Light now...
• Skids seems to be warming up to Swerve as a partner/friend
• Animus was first seen in the prose story Bullets (just like Hyperion) and just like Hyperion he dies after his name drop. However in Animus' case he actually appeared unnamed in the previous issue in a crowd scene. It's revealed here that he lied in order to get himself on the Ethics Committee before.
• Animus seems to be made up of a combination of a few older character models and body types. His torso seems to be based on Cybertron series Leo Breaker (complete with lion face on chest) his back features some tread kibble like Lio Convoy did in The Gathering and The Ascending. His head looks like a combination of Beast Wars Razorbeast and Ironfist...what a fun character!
• Rung has his own office on the Lost Light, which he has just finished decorating (until the Sparkeater slams down the door). Rung has some of his toy spaceships however, so I guess he recovered at least a few after Cyclonus accidentally sliced off his arm.
• Cyclonus' recounting of the war that Tailgate missed seems awfully in favor of the Decepticon's point of view as the right way, which could explain why Tailgate decides he wants to be a Decepticon in the end. (plus you know, Tailgate's experiences with Autobots so far is basically Swerve...YIKES!!)
• One of the swords left behind in the Sparkeater's chamber seems to have similar markings to Drift's sword, and Drift seems interested in it as well
• Perceptor still has his Sniper-eye, but appears to have returned to a scientific mindset as well
• Okay...we now have Ore, a Sparkeater and Rodimus' arms in the Quantum Generator....When are they going to remove them exactly??
• Rung's spark is the brightest most likely because he's stayed away from the war, unlike most of the others on the ship.

IDW - Chaos: Police Action

"POLICE ACTION"

Characters

Autobot

Bumblebee - Muscle Car

Ultra Magnus - Car Carrier

Prowl - Police Car

Streetwise - Police Car

Jazz - Sports Car

Groove - Police Motorcycle

Hot Spot - Fire Engine

Inferno - Fire Engine

Omega Supreme - Base and Rocket (Rocket segment off world)

Wheeljack - Race Car (Hologram via other team)

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mentioned)

Huffer - Truck Cab (Mentioned)

Perceptor - Cybertronian Tank (Mentioned)

Decepticon
Swindle - SUV
Brawl - Tank Stasis Locked by Swindle's device
Breakdown - Lamborghini Gallardo Injured by Streetwise
Scrapper - Front End Loader (On Screen) Murdered by Spike in past
Megatron - Stealth Jet (Mentioned)
Menasor - Stunticon Gestalt (Mentioned)
Bludgeon - Cybertronian Tank (Mentioned)

Human
Spike Witwicky Gone AWOL
Kyle Pennington
Sandra
Ben Simpson (Facsimile) Destroyed by Skywatch personnel
Nina (News Anchor)
General Allenby
Spike's "Girlfriends"
General Witwicky (Mentioned)
John Powell (Mentioned) Killed by Jazz in past
Henderson (Skywatch)
Skywatch Personnel
Civilians
Sandra's Mother (on phone)
Sergeant Tim Simmons (Mentioned) Killed by Devastator in past

Storyline

Pennington is deputized by the Autobots left on Earth to help them investigate Spike (since they need a human to do some of the investigating). Later, Pennington is monitoring the news with Hot Spot and some others and see Ben Simpson continuing to bad-mouth them, even claiming that the Autobot shuttle (Omega Supreme) that left the planet before may be just waiting in orbit to start bombing them (despite them having been detected as leaving the solar system already). Hot Spot says they need better PR, which Pennington replies by joking that they should start some fires and have the Autobots save the day, which Hot Spot actually thinks is a good idea (leading to Pennington giving a worried look to Streetwise, and Inferno just slamming his face into his palm).
Spike approaches Prowl in his office and asks what he's doing about Simpson, who says he's doing nothing, since this is a free country. Spike then wonders what Prowl's been up to as they've been using a lot of resources for a secret investigation lately, which Prowl just explains that it's just an internal Cybertronian matter, Spike drops it and tells Prowl that he'll be out of contact for about 36 hours now as he has to do some clean-up after the Autobots had to destroy a military base when confronting Megatron (in Revenge of the Decepticons). Elsewhere in Omega Supreme, Bumblebee and Jazz are monitoring Prowl's conversation with Spike and trying to investigate him further, with Jazz being bored and feeling useless since he's been limited to no duties after he killed a human before, but isn't being charged with anything internally.
Jazz storms off after Bee dismisses him, and Prowl tells Bee that Pennington has some leads now, and that he plans to follow Spike to see what he's up to for 36 hours. After a while Prowl has followed Spike going to see several generals and also some of his "girlfriends" when suddenly Breakdown appears and attacks Spike in vehicle mode. Prowl, still in his police car guise goes after him, as does Spike. After a short and dangerous chase Breakdwon runs into Streetwise, who transforms and busts in his roof, badly hurting the Decepticon. Prowl orders Streetwise back into vehicle mode before a human sees them and they break their cover, he does so and the two Autobots get away before Spike arrives on the scene (with Breakdown escaping as well).
Later, at base Ultra Magnus moans at Prowl and Streetwise about how the mission was a failure an dhow Streetwise almost made the situation worse (as they would be exposed as having Autobots in police car guises, and thus infiltrating their law systems). Prowl says that they need to neutralize Simpson as well, but Magnus just says that Spike's the priority now.
Later on Prowl goes to the construction site where Scraper was murdered, which is now an office building and starts looking for any remaining clues, he manages to find some melted components of Scrapper's face under the floor in the building, so he extracts it, when suddenly the building starts to explode and begins to fall on top of him.

Prowl is rammed out of the way just before the rubble crushes him by Streetwise, who was following him, who then leaves to deal with Brawl, who was the one who attacked the building. Prowl think's it's wrong and looks to the side where he sees a silhouette of a robot in the distance, but before he can go to him to chase him he realizes that Streetwise has just gone off to fight a tank, so he goes to help his partner. With Prowl's help they manages to disable Brawl and use a suppressor device created by Wheeljack to trap him between his two modes, they drag him back to Omega Supreme.
Later Pennington finds Sandra, who's been in hiding since she betrayed Skywatch four months ago, and the two discuss what's happening over some coffee, and she continues to defend what she did by exposing Skywatch like she did. She tells Pennington that if he wants to get away from Spike and Skywatch then he can come find her again.
Back at base Prowl and Streetwise start interrogating Brawl, who insists that he's the only one involved in the attack, but Prowl knows he's lying, but before he can say anything else Brawl goes into stasis lock thanks to a devices in his head. Prowl calls Wheeljack, who is in Optimus Prime's team going to Cybertron and has him look at Brawl via hologram. Wheeljack explains that his inhibitor weapon isn't to blame, and that he was rigged to go into stasis lock at a certain time.
Sandra is picked up from her house in one of her new disguises to go see Ben Simpson by a pair of police officers as an escort, she goes with them, but soon realizes that they're Autobots (Streetwise and Groove) and that they're taking her to Skywatch, she doesn't fight it and just allows them to take her in. Sandra is taken into Omega Supreme, and is purposefully taken past Spike's office so he can see that she's there.
Sandra is taken to the interrogation room where Pennington says he's not happy about this, but it's necessary. Magnus and Bee approach the human and she starts defending herself, but Magnus just says he doesn't care about what she did, and he would have done the same in her place, and that they want to talk to her about Spike instead. Meanwhile Prowl is looking to the Scrapper remnants and discovers the remains of a compound designed to kill Cybertronians, which no Autobot or Decepticon would use as a weapon, meaning that it had to be a human, who intended to kill a Transformer.
Sandra explains to Magnus that Spike is an ego-maniac, and that all the power he's been given over the past few years since the Decepticon Invasion has gone to his head and made him arrogant, and that he believes that he's the star of an action film (mentality wise). Prowl can hear all of this through the surveillance footage, so he just approaches Prowl and admits to killing Scrapper.

Spike and Prowl debate the morality of Spike's actions, which Spike defends as being because Scrapper was dangerous as he helps to form Devastator, who killed many people in New York. Prowl says that he can't trust Spike anymore, not after learning that he's been lying to them since the start. Spike says that he's never trusted the Autobots, he likes some of them, but never trusted them. Prowl has to let him leave, as he can't really debate the morality of his actions, considering some of his own recent actions.
Bumblebee calls a meeting and says that Sandra has given up Ben Simpson's location and they're going in, with Skywatch, to detain him. The operation begins, with the Autobots acting as police escorts for Skywatch, but Simpson has one of the Megatron guns still, but appears to be disoriented. Outside the Autobots detect a signal, and Magnus is told to transform and deal with it. Inside his base, Simpson goes to shoot the Skywatch members with his gun, but they shoot him first, revealing him to be a Facsimile, which were thought to have been decommissioned a long time ago.
Outside, the Autobots go after the signal they detected, who is revealed to be Swindle, and Ultra Magnus quickly disables him, and arrests him after all this time. Swindle is taken to Omega Supreme and dragged through the corridors, which Spike sees, and gets worried. Swindle's taken to the interrogation room where he explains everything, about how he was Simpson's controller and was using him to ruin human-Autobot relations, and that he helped distribute the Megatron guns after they arrived and that he was the one who commanded Brawl and activated that stasis lock device on him. After a bit more pressing however Swindle reveals that  he's also had dealings with a human and gave him technology to help hunt down Transformers etc...SPIKE WITWICKY!
Prowl and Bumblebee go looking for Spike, but Omega reveals that Spike left an hour ago, meaning that he's gone AWOL, and that Pennington left the base with Jazz a while ago as well. Jazz and Pennington arrive at Skywatch's old base so Jazz can communicate with General Allenby, whilst recording and sending out the meeting to all major news networks at once so they can't cover it up, and explains what Spike did (including the deals with Swindle, who is a known war criminal) and that he's gone AWOL, and that someone higher up must have known about it too. Jazz tells Allenby that he's dissolving the alliance between the Autobots and Skywatch, and then uses an EMP to destroy all the data on the base's database.
Later, outside Jazz starts pouring oil and other explosive liquids around the base and tells Pennington that he believes that he's a good person and that he didn't know about Spike's actions, but he has to leave him and not take him back to Omega Supreme with him. Jazz sets the base alight and causes it to explode, destroying all evidence of their technology from there, and returns to Omega.
Later Prowl is in his office and learns of Jazz's work and actually agrees, and that Optimus must have as well, which is why he left only a few Autobots behind to wrap up loose ends.

Notes

• This story could be seen as a precursor to the upcoming More Than Meets the Eyes and Robots in Disguise series', where the cast are split across 2 different stories, with different casts in each one.
• You may be wondering why everyone is so bothered by Spike killing a Decepticon. Well the reason is because he went hunting for Scrapper in particular and brought a weapon designed to kill Cybertronians, and on top of that Scrapper was just hiding, he wasn't causing any problems for anyone. If Spike just happened to be out on his bike and Scrapper attacked him or something, then fine, but because he went out and planned to murder him, that's the reason for the problem.
• I doubt that it's a coincidence that most of the Autobots in Bumblebee's team here use emergency vehicles as their alternate modes
• Kyle Pennington is 34 years old
• The scene where Pennington jokingly suggests the Autobots cause incidents just to save the day from them, and Hot Spot actually liking the idea is both hilarious and frightening. (mostly due to Inferno's *face-palm* in the background)
• Breakdown's hatred of Spike is shown again here
• Streetwise and Prowl are teamed up again in this story, just like in the first issue of this ongoing
• Sandra has been hiding out and using disguises since she betrayed Skywatch in International Incident, this was months ago in this timeline
• Wheeljack's holographic cameo is most likely due to them not having any medics left on Earth, and them needing one
• Omega Supreme is in pain due to him being separated and split across 2 planets
• When alone, Ben Simpson is kind of a slob and lives in a very empty building. This is likely due to him being a Facsimile
• Talking of which, Swindle is shown to have acquired the Facsimile technology that was disregarded before All Hail Megatron
• Ben had one of the Megatron guns, it's not clear yet whether it was picked up and removed from Earth after this storyline.
• Swindle's vehicle mode, which is briefly seen here is likely based on his Animated counterpart's, and not his usual Jeep form
• It's revealed that the technology used to create the Skywatch Crash Suits and some of Skywatch's wepaons was sold to Spike by Swindle all along!
• Magnus is worried about the human's reactions if they learned that some Transformers had taken on police car modes
• Spike is basically insane, he think's he's the star of an action movie, and has now gone AWOL
• Jazz destroy's Skywatch's old base, and destroys all the data on Transformers they have, and officially severs ties with the humans, which Prowl actually agrees with. Jazz then sends out a message to all news broadcasters about his meeting with Allenby to get Skywatch disbanded before the Autobots leave
• The Data Slug with Ironfist's Aequitas data on it is seen a lot in this story, which shows that Prowl didn't destroy it. Spike also seems to know what's on it as he points to it when he's talking about how they've both done questionable things. Though of course it doesn't matter now if Prowl does destroy it, since it's been revealed since this story that Verity made a copy of the data anyway.

My Thoughts

Art
The art here is quite nice really, it has bold colours and lines, no major details that distract you, but enough for it to look nice

Story
This story nicely acts to wrap up several Earth-based stories, and does it in a very quick and entertaining way

Continuity
This is set after the Chaos Theory storyline, following the characters left on Earth
The Facsimiles haven't been seen since before the beginning of All Hall Megatron
Swindle collected Brawl from North Korea, it's not clear if he also brought the other Combaticons with him or not (and they are currently unaccounted for in the current comics)
Holoavatars are seen for the first time in massive use since before All Hail megatron
Skywatch's main base was destroyed by the Decepticons in The Revenge of the Decepticons arc
Some story points haven't been finished yet though, we have no idea what's happened to Jimmy Pink, the Facsimile plot from the first "season" of comics and some other small details
Scrapper was killed by Spike in the International Incident TPB

Other
Swindle's alternate mode is based on his Animated one
Streetwise and Prowl have similar vehicle modes, despite their robot modes looking so different
Spike is kind of ugly in this storyline....

"RIDE-ALONG"

Characters

Autobot
Prowl - Police Car
Optimus Prime - Truck
Hot Rod - Sports Car
Bumblebee - VW Beetle
Ratchet - Ambulance
Jetfire - Jet
Seaspray - Hovercraft
Windcharger - Sports Car
Brawn - SUV
Hound - Jeep
Sideswipe - Sports Car

Decepticon
Thrust - Jet (Mentioned) Killed by Cops

Human
Prowl's Human Partner
Civilians
Cops
Skywatch

Storyline

Prowl is hiding out in his police car mode as a beat cop's vehicle on Optimus Prime's orders, as he has been for about 8 months now. 2 Years ago, after Megatron's defeat Optimus and Prowl walk through a mostly destroyed New York where Optimus decides that they must help the humans to rebuild, in any way they can, but because of their fear now they'll have to do it in disguise.
Back in the present Prowl witnesses the humans at work, rebuilding the destroyed world and getting on with their lives, whilst back at base the Autobots are at each other's throats. On one of his rounds, Prowl has to stay silent whilst some angry cops and other humans execute Thrust in cold blood.
Prowl reports back to base, where more Autobots are arriving for asylum. Prowl is worried that the Humans are returning to the city now, so they might be discovered and killed like Thrust, which Optimus understands and says that they're planning to move to a new base soon anyway. Prowl is told that Bumblebee has been sent out for a mission to scout for a new base, which Prowl is annoyed with, because he was supposed to be in command of certain members of the team, like Brawn and Bumblebee.
Whilst on his rounds again Prowl is being driven around New York when some workers are moving a severed Transformer hand, with a blaster still in it, when it fires by accident thanks to one of the workers touching the trigger and blasts a building, causing it to collapse, Prowl sees a girl about to be crushed by it when he breaks cover and rams her out of the way and Prowl explains to his human cop driver that he couldn't keep on just letting bad things happen like he has been. The human respects that, despite him having been hiding as his car for 8 months, and he lets him escape before Skywatch arrives.
Later Prowl gets away, and the Autobots move to their cave base, after a while Prowl is exposed again trying to help Breakdown and gets attacked, later the Autobots and Skywatch join forces and the Autobots are allowed out on their own somewhat, and even helps out with some police work too.

Notes

• This is Spotlight Prowl, it's been packaged with Police Action because a) it had no where else to go and b) it seems appropriate enough
• The last couple of pages are just retelling events from For All Mankind basically.
• The Autobots were set up in an abandoned building before moving to their cave base
• Prowl hid amongst the humans as a police car for 8 months without breaking cover
• It's mentioned here that Thrust was killed by some cops in this Spotlight, however he was seen alive and being captured by Spike's team in the AHM coda
• This story was done to show why Prowl changed from a manipulator in the early comics to a sympathetic character in the early parts of the Ongoing...however his personality changed very soon after this comic was set as he sent off Ironfist to die in LSOTW just for data.
• There are about 10,000 Transformers alive now according to Prowl, however since this comic was originally released Galvatron has revived about a million Transformers for his army, and in The Death of Optimus Prime and the RID series it's revealed that there are thousands of non-aligned Transformers still alive as well, making his estimation a bit wrong....
• It's kind of odd that this issue was placed behind Police-Action in this TPB, and without any note about where in the series it's set, since it's set earlier in the series and shows characters in older character models etc

My Thoughts

Art
Very detailed, but expressive artwork, the colours are quite bold as well

Story
This story is just used to explain Prowl's out-of-character reaction to Breakdown's treatment in the first issue of the Ongoing. It does that well enough...

Continuity
This is set mostly between All Hail Megatron and For all Mankind

Titan - Prime Volume 4 #6

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Stock image of Starscream

Cover Date: APRIL 2012

Price: £3.25

Poster: Megatron and Starscream on a rocky terrain in front of Dark Energon/Bumblebee attacks you

Comic Title: All the President's 'Bots!

Script: Robin Etherington

Art: Dario Brizuela

Lettering: Comicraft

Comic Plot

On the Nemesis Megatron is angry that the Autobots are still alive and blames Starscream so he orders them to deal with them once and for all. So Starscream heads out with a team of Vehicons and attacks Air Force One, kidnapping the jet (knocking out everyone on board with gas) and holds the crew and President hostage.

Early the next morning Fowler arrives at Autobot HQ and tells them about the kidnapping (thanks to having the black box from the plane that Starscream delivered to them, saying he'll be at the Grand Canyon, in code). The Autobots head to the canyon where they find that Starscream has set up a batch of cannons to use to kill them.

All of Starscream plans however fail in the end as Optimus and the rest just ram through and kill the Vehicons, and even take control of the cannons. Starscream is confident that Optimus won't attack him however as he has the president in his hand, and she could be hurt if he does anything. However he is proven wrong as Optimus quickly attacks the Decepticon and slices off his arm, and catches the human.

Starscream, being injured now, flees. The Autobots leave before the humans wake up. The humans wake up later with the president having had weird dreams about robots.

Comic Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Arcee - Motorcycle

Bulkhead - Off Road Vehicle

Ratchet - Ambulance

Bumblebee - Sports Car

Decepticon

Megatron - Cybertronian Jet

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Vehicons - Sports Cars

Human

Agent Fowler

Madame President

Jerry (President's Husband - Mentioned)

Secret Service Guy

Air Force One Crew

Comic Notes

• Super sized cover this time...
• This issue comes with a toy gun on the front cover, and also has the text "The President must die!!!" on the front....whilst this is just a usual Titan free toy and the basic plot of the comic (Screamer threatens to kill the president) this can't be a good PR move....
• Starscream leads a team of Vehicons off the Nemesis and attacks Air Force One...now whilst it would make sense for him to lead a team of the jet-alternate mode Vehicons, he actually leads a bunch of car ones....yeah....
• The Autobots seem quite brutal against the Vehicons in this issue...
• Awww...the green Ratchet from last issue is no where to be seen :(
• Starscream loses his arm again (how many times is this? 2? 3?
• This story is clearly set before Screamer's exile from the Decepticons
• The kids aren't in this story as it's set during the night and early morning...guess they need their sleep huh?
• The Vehicons on the Nemesis are clearly seen shaking whilst Megatron is shouting...poor things
• Why the President is a white woman instead of based on Obama is anyone's guess
• Why does the President NOT know about the Transformers?
• The President husband, Jerry seems to be a good little househusband, cooking for his busy wife (though not enough to worry about her going missing for a whole night however....)

Extra Features

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Profile - Starscream

Episode Guide - Masters and Students

Starscream's Stumpers - Puzzles with Starscream

Mega-Mouth - Arcee and Megatron read the fan mail

Ratchet and the Vehicons - A Grid puzzle to solve

Road to the White House - Maze Puzzle

Awesome Prime Wordsearch! - It's not actually that awesome

Back Page Cut-Outs - Cut out a Bookmark, Build a cardboard Optimus Prime