Titan - Age of Extinction #1

Comic Title: Adrift in Time

Writer: Robin Etherington

Pencils and Inks: Horacio Domingues

Colour: Nestor Pereyra

Lettering: Comicraft

Poster: Optimus, Bumblebee and Crosshairs running

Cover Price: £3.99

Cover Date: July 2014

Free Prime series PVC Figure: Optimus Prime or Breakdown

Plot

Following the battle in Chicago, the Autobots have healed their wounds, and the humans begin to rebuild the city. Optimus and Drift head to the Moon to investigate the ruins of the Arkk, to make sure nothing else important was left behind. Amongst the junk left behind, Drift finds the murdered body of a Decepticon that he was friends with back during his day as a Decepticon.

Drift flashbacks to five year ago when he, Lockdown and Knucklehead (the dead guy) attacked an Autobot facility, and he was forced to stop Lockdown from killing some Autobots who had just surrendered. This action caused an argument, and led to Lockdown trying to kill the other 2 Decepticons, but was instead knocked off the wall,a nd seemingly lost, but not before vowing to kill them both for their treachery.

Back in the present, Drift builds a makeshift gravestone from rubble on the Moon for Knucklehead and worries that Lockdown may be keeping his word after all.

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Drift - Sports Car (Decepticon in Flashback)

Autobot Troops (Flashback Only)

Decepticon

Knucklehead Killed by Lockdown

Lockdown (Flashback Only)

Megatron (Mentioned)

Breakdown (Mentioned)

Human

Chicago Repair Teams

Notes

• New movie coming out? Time for a rebranding I guess!
• This story is set between Dark of the Moon and Age of Extinction, and revisits the Ark on the Dark Side of the Moon
• As usual with Titan, the series uses the new character models for the characters, and not the appropriate (for this point in time) older ones 
• Drift has only been an Autobot since some time in the past 5 years
• Knucklehead is implied to be part of the Decepticon invasion team on the Moon, but was murdered before he could be deployed
• This issue comes with either and Optimus Prime or Breakdown figure as part of a collection of 9 figures released in thee first 5 issues of the comic. These seem to be re-releases of a Columbian promotion figure set, but still very cool :)

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Ancient Terror - Profile for Grimlock

Supercars - Information on the new AOE car modes

Crosshairs' Conundrums - Puzzles!

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