Titan - Age of Extinction #4

Title: Locked In

Writer: Martin Fisher

Pencils, Inks and Colour: Andres Ponce

Lettering: Comicraft

Cover Date: NOV/DEC 2014

Cover Price: £3.99

Poster: Movie Poster showing the main Transformer characters

Plot

Lockdown is talking to/taunting his prisoners when he suddenly realizes that one of them is missing. Suddenly the ship's systems all come under someone else's control. Lockdown goes towwards the command deck, but messages the rest of his crew to not interfere, as he wants to have fun with this.

Lockdown approaches the command deck, when he is attacked by a scraplet, who multiplies and starts to kill the Cybertronian. Sojex, the escaped prisoner, who was revealed to be a plant by a crme group who were angry with Lockdown for getting their boss imprisoned, gloats over her killing Lockdown, when suddenly he appears in the room, revealing that the Lockdown she killed was a hologram, and that he destroyed the Scraplets with water.

A short battle ensues, but Lockdown manages to knock out Sojex, and locks her up again, taking her back to her crime group for them to punish her for failing to kill him.

A short while later, Lockdown receives a mysterious message from a group, offering him a bounty to claim on Earth....

Characters

Mercenaries

Lockdown - Cybertronian Car

Mercenary #1

Steeljaw

Other

Sojex Captured by Lockdown, and delivered home

Furry Bat Monster Captured

Lockdown's Bounties Captured

Scraplets Killed by Lockdown

"The Creators"

Coseem Crime Gang (Mentioned)

Notes

• This issue comes with either TF: Prime Ratchet or Starscream as the free PVC gift...just one left for the whole set!
• This issue actually seems to fit with the plot of the actual movie rather than the mis-direction leaked information (such as Lockdown being the Decepticon leader etc)
• Though I guess the last 3 issues would explain where Lockdown got the aerosol of water though...
• The Steeljaw seen on Lockdown's ship is actually based on the design for the Steeljaw from DOTM, rather than AOE. This wouldn't be a problem, except the DOTM version was a pet to the Wreckers, rather than alien wolf minion here.
• Lockdown's alternate mode here is possibly based on his Construct-Bots toy's.
• The Scraplet's weakness here is the same as it was in Marvel.
• The end of this comic leads directly to Lockdown's involvement in AOE's plot (therefore this could actually be set BEFORE the previous three comics) but would be set a short time before the events of the film, since he was helping Cemetary Wind kill the Autobots.

Other Features

Lots of Adverts

The Lowdown on Hound - Character Profile

Massive Movie Quiz - Quiz based on the Movie's events

Grimlock vs Scorn - Comparative profiles

Crosshairs' Conundrums - PUZZLES!!!

Are You...Battle Ready? - AOE Character personality test (I got Drift)

The sprint for Cybertron - Game Board

Lockdown's Letterbox - Lockdown and Crosshairs read the fan mail

Drift's Wordsearch

Transformers Prime DVD Competition

Rescue Bots Books Competition (Repaint the Heatwave on back to win!)