IDW - Transformers vs G.I. Joe #3

Title: Funeral for a Friend

Written by: Tom Scioli and John Barber

Art, Colours and Lettering by: Tom Scioli

Production by: Chris Mowry

Edits by: Carlos Guzman

Plot

The Joes have their prisoner Dr. Venom working on building the Joes some B.A.T.'s to fight Cobra with, whilst the rest of the troops are attending a funeral for Hawk, who has apparently died from gangrene (though not really,,, as everyone, including Venom knows it's a trap for Cobra).

During the "funeral" Cobra arrives and attacks the funeral, and within a few seconds Hawk appears from his coffin and joins the fight (.....yeah). During the battle Starscream and Shockwave emerge from the water to reveal that they somehow survived being hit by the Joe's death ray, and joined forces with Cobra.

Meanwhile on Cybertron, Perceptor and his team bring the captured Joes to see Grimlock, who decides to throw them to the Sharkticons. Arcee throws them some of their ammuniion to give them a fighting chance, and Jinx manages to kill the Sharkticons with bombs (without killing herself or the others in the process of course)

Back on Earth, the Decepticons tear into the ship and let Cobra troops in, they're looking for Soundwave and Venom, but cannot find the former, they manage to find Venom, and shoot his guards to not-death, and try to take him with them. However Venom turns sides officially and kills Buzzer with his own gun, staying the Joes.

Meanwhile, Duke infiltrates the retreating Cobras by wearing one of their uniforms and coming back to their back with them (great security guys!). When at the Cobra base he sees Snake-Eyes randomly there, and assumes he's jumped sides, and witnesses as Destro and some of his guards head through a portal...

Destro arrives on Cybertron through the protal, but all his human troops have died in the process, with him surviving due to him being a cyborg. Megatron is impressed by the human who has perfected "real life" (ie being a robot) and agrees to work with Cobra in exchange for help ridding Cybertron of the Creeper-Vines.

At the Joe's base in Iacon, the team are dissecting Wheeljack, despite his protests, but after he plays a message from the President Scarlett calls for the procedure to stop. Suddenly Brawn and the others turn up and start fighting the Joes, until both sides are knocked out (or hopefully killed) by their opposing weapons.

Back on Earth, Venom is given the mission to rebuild Soundwave as a Joe-controlled robot (sure...nothing can go wrong there right?)

Characters

Autobot

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Slag - Triceratops

Swoop - Pteranodon

Arcee

Wheeljack - Car

Brawn - Van

Mirage - Car

Perceptor - Tank

Metroplex - Moving Battle Platform/Slug Thing?

Bumblebee - VW Beetle Dead - Head with Megatron, Body with Joes as Battle Suit

Decepticon

Megatron - Gun

Shockwave

Starscream

Laserbeak

Cyclonus

Darkwing

Straxus

Scorponok - Scorpion

Trypticon - Battle Platform

A Conehead

Soundwave Dead, being rebuilt by G.I. Joe

Sharkticons - Sharks Killed by Jinx

G.I. Joe

General Flagg

General Austin

Dr. Venom

Hawk

Breaker

Clutch

Jinx

Cover Girl

Spirit

Duke

Scarlet

Lady Jaye

Torpedo

Dial-Tone Shot by Cobra

Shipwreck Shot by Cobra

Shipwreck's Birdie Shot by Cobra

B.A.T.'s Under Construction

Far, far too many to even care about

Cobra

Serpentress
Destro
Snake-Eyes
Buzzer Killed by Dr. Venom

Cobra Troopers

Other

Notes

• UGH! More of this tripe!
• The BAT's that Venom is working on, despite being made for the Joes clearly have Cobra insignias on their chests (with even space for a Decepticon insignia inside too)
• So Hawk is dead? Who cares!
• Oh wait he's alive actually....wow....
• Shockwave and Starscream somehow survived the attack from the Colton Bolt...how did the Joes not notice that their bodies went missing?!
• Metroplex is a giant slug it seems....(my guess is that he is a mobile city as the Decepticons run the whole planet, but from the art it looks like a weird large slug...
• Despite most of the other Autobots looking like they are based on their toys, Grimlock seems to have a random robot mode design.
• One of the Sharkticons has a Decepticcon logo on his fin, whilst this was true for the toy line, there's no need for it here.
• How did the humans survive the explosions that killed the Sharkticons exactly?
• Dial-Tone, Shipwreck and his birdie all get badly shot up here by Cobra...yet they all seem fine by the end of the scene....wonder if Buzzer will turn up after surviving his head exploding too?
• So Snake-Eyes has randomly joined Cobra? Despite their former leader being the reason his face is destroyed, him attacking their new allies and there being no evidence of this before this issue...right....
• Why is Darkwing randomly hanging out with the high ranking Decepticons?
• The Joes are literally tearing Wheeljack apart to see how he works, despite him screaming and pleading for help....THESE ARE THE HEROES?!?!
• Also, Flagg has a battle suit made out of Bumblebee's corpse....remember that Megatron also has his head around his neck...any similarities here guys?
• I so hope that that explosion caused by the Energon Bomb and Green Arrow (helpfully named on panel as there's no way we could tell what they were supposed to be otherwise) killed all the characters assembled...
• Wow the scale and perspective in this thing is messed up!