IDW - Transformers #44

Title: The Transgressors 

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Andrew Griffith

Colours by: Josh Perez

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Plot

Before the war, Tracks is admiring some of his new "Chic Chips" that his brother, Needlenose has designed for him, but they have an argument about Needlenose's friends, and interest in Megatron's rebellious writings. Needlenose leaves, and tells Tracks to not be on the wrong side of history...

On Cybertron, today, some Camiens are picketing their religion to the Cybertronians, but are interrupted by Needlenose and Brawl, who have just returned from Earth, along with Dreadwing. They denounce the words of the Primes, and destroy some of their pamphlets.

Nearby, Starscream is looking over the city from his office in Metroplex, claiming he has everything under control to someone unseen, whilst Arcee is sneaking around on the walls of the city.

Elsewhere, Optimus and Tracks (who is the spacceport manager now) say goodbye to Mirage and the Protectobots, who are returning to the Lost Light, and Tracks moans about how the Camiens don't use standard ship codes, since they haven't flown for centuries (due to a lack of fuel).

The two of them end up in an alley with Arcee, who reports to Prime that she's located Brawl and Needlenose on Cybertron, trying to recruit for Galvatron's forces on Earth. Prime says he'll tell Starscream. Tracks gets annoyed, and decides to deal with his brother himself, whilst also telling Arcee that she doesn't know what it's like to lose someone, like he has with Needlenose.

Arcee leaves, and heads to a point she used to like to watch the city on before she left for Earth, and thinks things over.

Elsewhere, one of the ships has been reformatted into a Decepticon bar, where Needlenose and the others are tallking about their plans to recruit Decepticons to the Jupiter Commune, Brawl gets annoyed with Needlenose when he realizes that this really just for a peaceful Commune, and not a secret army. An argument begins, and Needlenose sneaks away to get some more drinks from the bar.

At the bar though, Needlenose is confronted by Tracks, and starts telling him off, but Needlenose wont give in, resulting in Tracks punching his brother. Before he can do anything else though, all the Decepticons have their weapons trained on the Autobot.

Luckily though, one of the Badgeless comes through the door and threatens to arrest the entire bar for illegal gatherings, engex sales etc, unless they hand over Needlenose and the others to him for Starscream to deal with. Before the Decepticons have to make a decision though Arcee apepars behind him, and "disarms" the Badgeless Officer, and drags him away. Tracks goes with her, at her request. Needlenose asks Tracks to tell Optimus that they don't want to fight the Autobots anymore, they just don't want to be ruled by them either.

In Starscream's throne room, he's having an argument on his current political situation and power with the image of Bumblebee in his mind. Suddenly Arcee appears with the Badgeless Officer in tow, she kills the Badgeless and engages in a short fight with Starscream. She however stops fighting, and tells him that even though she doesn't like him, she knows the planet can't survive another war and divide, so she asks him to try and keep it all together for them.

Later, and elsewhere, Needlenose and the others get together and present their sales-pitch for the Decepticon Commune to a large crowd....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Tracks - Car

Arcee - Car

Metroplex - City/Space Ship

Mirage - Race Car

First Aid - Ambulance

Groove - Motorcycle

Streetwise - Emergency Car

Hot Spot - Fire Truck

Blades - Helicopter

Bumblebee - Car (Hallucination) Dead

Prowl - Police Vehicle (Wanted Poster)

Megatron - Tank (Mentioned)

Optimus Maximus - Autobot Gestalt (Mentioned)

Broadside - Battleship/Jet (Mentioned)

Hardhead - Personnel Carrier (Mentioned) Dead

Decepticon

Needlenose - Fighter Jet

Brawl - Tank

Dreadwing - Stealth Bomber

Acid Storm - Fighter Jet

Submaruader - Submarine

Sinnertwin - Two Headed Dragon

Squeezeplay - Crab Monster

Onslaught - Anti Aircraft Truck

Cindersaur - Lizard Monster

Sparkstalker - Insect Monster

Dauros - Tank

Bartender - Motorcycle

Decepticon Populous 

Horri-Bull - Bull (Flashback) Killed by Bumblebee

Galvatron - Tank (Mentioned)

Soundwave - Personnel Carrier (Mentioned)

Ratbat - Cassette (Mentioned) Killed by Arcee

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Badgeless Officer - Car Killed by Arcee

Civilians

Camien

Lady Cohrada - Helicopter

Aileron - Hovercraft

Other Picketer

Other

Quark - Photon Microscope (Flashback)

Pre-War Civilians (Flashback)

Solus Prime (Mentioned)

Primus (Mentioned)

Council of Worlds (Mentioned)

Notes

• This story establishes that Tracks and Needlenose are "brothers"...I guess they do have a couple of similar features right?
• It is also established that Needlenose and Horri-Bull were involved with each other (it's unclear if they were actually in a relationship) so Bumblebee's murder of Horri-Bull in front of him is a bit more disturbing now...
• One of the Camien Picketers is designed after the Beast Wars Neo character Cohrada, but with helicopter parts, whilst Aileron seems to be based on Go-Bots Crasher, but a lot more stout that her counterpart.
• Seriously...where did Arcee get her large cleaver from?!
• Mirage and the Protectobots (having de-combined) head back to the Lost Light this issue.
• Dreadwing was abandoned by Galvatron and the others before they headed to Earth.
• A few of the Decepticons in the bar are generics, based on other characters such as G2 Ramjet, Action Master Thundercracker, an inverted Rung and Whirl and other comic homages.
• The inverted Decepticon Rung appears to have kibble from a motorcycle, despite Rung's lack of a real alternate mode.
• The Badgeless Officer's design looks a bit different to what we've seen in the past. He also appears to have car kibble, meaning there may be 2 different versions.
• Starscream is revealed to be seeing Bumblebee (in his pre-Dark Cybertron body) as a hallucination. He was earlier shown to be "talking to himself" when he was communicating with Scoop on Earth. Is this just a hallucination, or a ghostie made from the Shockwave Black Hole?
• It can be assumed that this issue is either set just before or after Combiner Hunters, due to Arcee's presence and appearance.
• The very last page is based on the scene in MTMTE where Rodimus recruits the Lost Light crew.

TFCC #64 - Another Light Part 4: Restoration

Writers: Jesse Wittenrich & Pete Sinclair

Pencils & Inks: Eryck Webb

Colours: Evan Gauntt

Letters: Jesse Wittenrich

Managing Editor: Pete Sinclair

Plot

The battle between the Autobots and Decepticons on the Shattered Glass Earth comes to an end with Optimus falling with a smoking hole in his chest.

Meanwhile, on the displaced Classicsverse Earth, the evil Ultra Magnus has been knocked out, and the good Ultra Mammoth is concerned, since the blast from the Origin Matrix wouldn't have killed him, since the two artefacts of the 13 couldn't harm each other, it merely recharged the Terminus Blade. Magnus goes on a rampage, and knocks down his good counterpart, who loses his Matrix.

However, luckily the Nexus Prime team arrive from nowhere, take custody of the Matrix, and merge into Nexus Prime, and recreate the Star Saber, using the Matrix as the hilt. Nexus Prime slices off Magnus' arm, and takes the Terminus Blade from him. Magnus gets scared and drives away, however, Nexus Prime uses the Terminus Blade to open a hole to another universe and sends Magnus there, sealing him away.

Nexus Prime tells Ultra Mammoth that he cannot repair the damage to the Multiverse by Magnus' actions, be he does plan to make sure that this can NEVER happen again, leaving Mammoth and the others to wonder what he meant....

On SG Earth, the Autobots retreat, with Blaster carrying Optimus onto Sky Lynx. The Decepticons celebrate their victory, but Galvatron has a bad feeling that the Thirteen are trying to tell and warm him about something happening.....

Characters

SG Autobot

Ultra Magnus - Truck Cab Sent to another Universe by Nexus Prime

Wheeljack - Race Car

Tracks - Muscle Car

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab Badly injured by Galvatron

Rodimus - Sports Car

Drift - Race Car

Trailbreaker - Van

Big Daddy - Muscle Car

Swerve - Pick Up Truck

Prowl - Police Car Injured by Grimlock

Inferno - Fire Truck Injured by Grimlock

Ratchet - Ambulance Injured by Grimlock

Rewind - Cassette

Chromedome (Head Only)

Sky Lynx - Space Shuttle

Blaster - Boom Box

Random Guys

SG Decepticon

Galvatron - Rescue Helicopter

Starscream - Cybertronian Jet

Weirdwolf - Wolf Caught in Rewind and Chromedome's trap

Treadshot - Sports Car

Heatwave - Multiple Missile Tank Part of Nexus Prime

Autobot

Ultra Magnus/Mammoth - Mammoth

Grimlock - Mega Raptor

Prowl - Police Motorcycle

Ironhide - Van

Silverbolt - Concorde Jet

Skyfall - A10 Jet Part of Nexus Prime

Breakaway - Fighter Jet Part of Nexus Prime

Decepticon

Topspin - Helicopter Part of Nexus Prime

Landquake - Battle Tank Part of Nexus Prime

Other

Nexus Prime - Gestalt

Aquarius (Mentioned)

Notes

• There's no character profile in this comic!
• So...it turns out that Prowl, Inferno and Ratchet, the 3 guys who were badly injured along with Optimus in the prequel issue to this, were beaten up by Classics Grimlock.
• The character in the background of Rodimus' reaction on page 7 is coloured like SG Swerve, but appears to use Tailgate's character model...I'm gunna say it's Swerve though!
• Hey look! Those guys from the first 5 years of comics came back!
• Also turns out that Nexus Prime can de-combine into his component parts again.
• The prequel story we saw earlier in the series of Optimus meeting Unicron, like Megatron did in the Movie, happens just after this issue I think, so I guess we'll see the fallout of that next issue!
• So...from the sounds of it Nexus Prime plans to use the two swords to destroy the Shattered Glass universe, so as to stop any further problems it could cause in the future

Other Features

Article on Frank Welker being at Botcon

Jim Sorenson talks about his Botcon experiences

Pictures of New Hasbro announcement toys

Article on how the new Oilmaster toy was designed

Article on the "Return of Blurr" script reading

Advert to sell the leftover Botcon toys from this year

IDW - More Than Meets the Eye #43

Title: The One Where They go to Earth

Written by: James Roberts

Pencils by: Ale Milne

Inks by: Alex Milne and Brian Shearer

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: John Barber

Plot

Megatron calls for Swerve over the ship's intercom, but can't get through to him, he informs Rodimus that Earth appears to be chasing the Lost Light, and any attempts at communications with the planet results in a "theme tune" about Swerve's bar playing on repeat.

Meanwhile, in the Medi-bay, First Aid is given a going away present from Tailgate of photos of the crew and his friends so he wont forget them, despite his trip only being a short one back to Cybertron for the celebrations for Caminus and Cybertron. First Aid and Velocity are both worried since she's never been left in charge before, and she's only just arrived on the ship. Before anything else can happen though, Skids runs in with Swerve in his arms, in a terrible condition.

Soon, they determine that Swerve is alive, but only just, as he has massive systems failures, but his brain is working in overtime. Before long they determine that the Swerve they've been seeing around, acting happy and his usual self has been just a holo-avatar projected by the real one. However they can't treat him, as his condition is so frail that it could kill him.

Shortly afterwards, they find out that the Earth following them is a hologram too, and Swerve has been projecting that too, as well as several holographic humans as well.

Rodimus calls together a team made of Cyclonus, Tailgate, Skids, Bluestreak and Rung to send their own holo-avatars down to the fake Earth (Swearth) and find Swerve's own avatar, so he can tell them what is wrong with his real body. The team are sent down with some basic lessons in humanity.

On Swearth, Cyclonus and Tailgate wait in the apartment whilst the others are scouting the city, looking for Swerve's avatar, where Tailgate finds a comic series, "More Than Meets the Eye", depicting their adventures on the Lost Light, and starts reading it. Skids and the others return to the apartment empty handed, and they start replanning their strategies, when Rung accidentally shoots Cyclonus in the face with a paint ball gun....ROLL CREDITS!

After a while, Tailgate finds out in issue 21 of MTMTE that Swerve opened the time case when no-one was looking, which no-one else knew about. Bluestreak returns to the apartment again with their wacky neighbours Ted, Sheldon and Jerry, who immediately start arguing and insulting each other, as they don't get along.

Bluestreak receives a phone call from Rodimus, who has arrived on the planet with the rest of the crew to speed up the search. Bluestreak quickly summarizes the planet up for Rodimus as "Sitcom world" where there are laughter tracks, clapping audiences from nowhere, and nothing really makes sense in the large scheme. Megatron joins up with the others, and he finds it strange being a human for the moment.

Back at the apartment, Bluestreak is helping the neighbours get their locked door open, when Skids talks to Rung about how no-one had been to visit Swerve for months, allowing him to get into this bad condition. Suddenly Tailgate chimes in that his comic has reached this point in the series, where they are looking for Swerve. In the "previously" page Swerve explains what happened to him with the Meta-Bomb and the Time Case, and calls into question his own reality. Rung deduces that this is Swerve actually talking to them, and realizes something else, that the three neighbours are all aspects of Swerve's personality, so he tricks them into responding to the name "Swerve" causing them to remember their true self, and merge into Swerve's avatar.

At a bar, Megatron is tickled by Nautica, as she wants to see if he was ticklish, but in the process Megatron cuts his hand on a glass, and finds the fragility of humans interesting. Rodimus comes back in and reports that Bluestreak and the others found Swerve, but he refuses to tell them where he is injured.

At the apartment, Swerve says he can't remember where he is injured, as he's feeling no pain, then explains that he hid away because he felt as though he wasn't a "main character" any more, not since the beginning of "season two". He fell in love with sitcoms as he could relate to them as he's a misfit like them.

Cyclonus berates him for giving up, and points out that the entire crew is on this planet to find him, and that in the process they are risking their own lives to help him out, showing him that he is indeed loved and cared about, as a "main character". Suddenly Swerve's shoulder begins to bleed in an Autobot insignia shape, and he remembers where he was injured.

Later on, First Aid and the others have left the Lost Light for Cybertron, and Velocity reports to him that Swerve is recovering from the infection in his shoulder, and he should make a full recovery soon. However First Aid makes a shocking discovery when he flicks through Tailgate's photos, as an old picture of Swerve with Ironfist reveals that he used to have an insignia in that same arm. He tells Velocity to operate carefully on the shoulder, as Agent 113, the Autobot mole within the DJD probably shot a message into his insignia in the past, which is still there. And sure enough...Velocity soon finds a bullet within the wound...a bullet that not only caused an infection inside Swerve, but carries a message from Agent 113.....

Characters

Autobot

Rodimus - Car

Megatron - Tank

Ultra Magnus/Minimus Ambus - Vehicle Transport/Minesweeper

Swerve - Van

Tailgate - Car

Skids - Van

Rung

Bluestreak - Car

Nautica - Submarine

Blaster - Acoustic Tank

First Aid - Ambulance

Velocity - Race Car

Nightbeat - Car

Brainstorm - Jet

Chromedome - Car

Rewind - Data Slug

Groove - Motorcycle

Mirage - Race Car

Ratchet - Ambulance (In Opening Credits Footage)

Whirl - Osprey Helicopter (Issue #1 Cover Only)

Drift - Race Car (Issue #1 Cover Only)

Red Alert - Emergency Car (Issue #1 Cover Only)

Ambulon - Leg (Photo)

Ironfist - Van (Photo)

Fortress Maximus - Tank (Mentioned)

Agent 113 (Mentioned)

Mainframe (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Decepticon Justice Division (Mentioned)

Blot (Mentioned)

Blip (Mentioned)

Cybertronian

Cyclonus - Jet

Ten (In Opening Credits Footage)

Diagnostic Drone (Photo)

New Medi-Drone

Bob - Insecticon (Mentioned)

Knights of Cybertron (Mentioned)

Chief Justice Tyrest (Mentioned)

Other

Verity Carlo (Acts as Ultra Magnus' Avatar)

Jerry Merged into Swerve

Ted Merged into Swerve 

Sheldon Merged into Swerve

Nanobots (Mentioned)

Notes

• The issue title, and the apartment the Autobot Holo-avatars use is based on the "Friends" TV series from the 90's
• Tailgate's holo-avatar appears to have aged a little bit since the last time we saw it.
• Tailgate says that the comic is the only thing there is to read in their apartment...despite some books being clearly visible in the table/cabinet under the tissues next to Cyclonus.
• Skids was last shown with a Holo-avatar based on Matt Smith's Doctor Who, here he looks like Chris Ecclestone's version of the character.
• A couple of the scenes shown in the "opening credits" are actually from covers, rather than actual comic interiors (ie the one with Nautica dancing, and Rodimus handing the ship's keys to Megatron)
• The "Swerve's" theme tune is based on the "Cheers" theme tune.
• First Aid and the others leave for their role in the Combiner Wars crossover storyline in this issue.
• Apparently it takes a lot of energy and concentration to create Holo-avatars, which may be another reason why they aren't used so much nowadays.
• It's revealed here that Swerve in fact opened the Time Case just after Tyrest was shot in issue 21, but off-screen, and with the time-waves from it, combined with the Meta-Bomb he was affected with during Overlord's attack caused him to become more conscious of his life as a fictional character, and the time-waves giving him infinite spark energy to create his elaborate holograms etc.
• The Swerve that we've seen since (probably) the end of Dark Cybertron  has been a holo-avatar of the real Swerve, who locked himself away to hide from reality. This explains how he's been able to absorb all of Earth's culture in such a seemingly short period of time
• Ted the Priest is based on Father Ted, Sheldon the Scientist is based on Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory, and Jerry the Comedian is based on Jerry Seinfeld (though none look like their "real" counterparts.
• Bluestreak mentions that Rodimus' voice sounds different in his human form, implying that the characters change their voices (so the male-persona Cyclonus probably sounds female in his holo-avatar form for example)
• The "reflective" avatar programs used for the new holo-avatars gave Megatron a walking stick, possibly showing that he's been crippled from the special fuel he has to take.
• Swerve's hab-suite number is 43, which is also this issue's number. Fun!
• Since Swerve appeared to get the message bullet before the Chaos storyline (he was shown with a covered up shoulder there) you have to wonder if Agent 113's message is actually important still, I mean it must have been in there for like 3+ years by now...
• It's shown here that the "previously" pages we've had in the past with Swerve talking to the readers have actually been happening in continuity as well!

IDW - Combiner Hunters

Title: An Uneventful Night

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Yamaishi (Coordination: Phase6)

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: John Barber

Plot

Chromia arrives for her shift guarding the Enigma of Combination along with a Badgeless officer, relieving Ironhide of his duty. Soon, Arcee breaks into the store room, knocks out the Badgeless and fights with Chromia, she manages to evade Chromia's strikes, and grabs the artefact, racing off into the city afterwards. Chromia gives chase, and reports this to Windblade, who wants to deal with Arcee personally.

The three Autobot Females leave the city for the Sea of Rust where they are spotted by a ggroup of Camien Torchbearers, who are searching the area for artefacts of the Primes, as the Crystal City and a Titan were there in the past. Arcee manages to knock down Windblade, and continues fighting Chromia.

The Torchbearers recognize Windblade and quickly join her side in the fight, protecting the important Camien from Arcee, however when Arcee threatens to destroy the Enigma, one of the Thirteen's gifts, they react with horror. Rust Dust rushes to stop her from skewering it with her cleaver, which activates the Enigma, and merges the Torchbearers into Victorion, who has a single desire to destroy Arcee and protect the Enigma.

Windblade and Chromia protect Arcee from the combiner, as they don't want anyone to die over this. They devise a plan to use Arcee as a decoy whilst Windblade tries to calm them down. Victorion tries to kill Arcee, and even Chromia after seeing her defend her, but Windblade does manage to calm her down, and despite Arcee's disbelief, the combiner willingly de-combines at Windblade's request.

Arcee explains that she wants the Enigma destroyed as it's sole purpose is to pervert the Cybertronian form, which Windblade points out makes her sound like Galvatron, with those opinions. Windblade says they'll all keep the robbery secret, as they need to maintain the lie that Starscream and her, and therefore Cybertron and Caminus are a good alliance.

Arcee agrees to let Windblade keep the Enigma safe, but tells her to kill Starscream the moment he steps out of line, then leaves.

Later, Chromia returns to the store room with the Enigma, and lies to the now awake Badgeless that the burglar was scared off. She convinces him to not report it to Starscream, as otherwise he'd just look bad in front of the "Chosen One", which he agrees to, and they continue their shift.

Characters

Autobot

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Chromia - Speedbike

Arcee - Sports Car

Ironhide - Van

Decepticon

Waspinator - Wasp

Devastator - Constructicon Gestalt (Flashback)

Galvatron - Tank (Mentioned)

Camien

Pyra Maxima - Emergency Vehicle

Rust Dust - Motorcycle

Skyburst - Helicopter

Stormclash - Helicopter

Jumpstream - Sports Car

Dust Up - Sports Car

Victorion - Torchbearer Gestalt

Mistress of Flame (Mentioned)

United Cybertron

Badgeless Officer, Giggles

Starscream - Fighter Jet (Mentioned)

Other

Cybertronian Civilians

Primus (Mentioned)

Solus Prime (Mentioned)

The Thirteen Primes (Mentioned)

Crystal City Titan (Mentioned) Dead

Notes

• Chromia and Windblade's new colour schemes are attributed to being formal-wear, due to it being a Camien holiday (due to the reunification with Cybertron). Arcee's is due to her stealth paint design, as seen in the Earth-based Transformers comic.
• Likewise, Chromia's new weapon is mentioned as ceremonial. It's unclear where Arcee's came from though...maybe it was a gift from Galvatron?
• The Sea of Rust shown here appears to be the name given to the wasteland surrounding Metroplex and other small settlements now.
• Victorion is shown using her helicopter propellers as a weapon from her lower arm. Despite this, the toy has the propellers on her UPPER arms.
• Victorion appears to be the fastest, most stable minded Combiner thus far in IDW.
• Arcee's hatred for Combiners using the Enigma seems to stem from her experience with Jhiaxus changing her into a female by force.
• Despite the title of the comic, this issue takes place during the day (we know Cybertronian nights are dark)

IDW - Transformers: Windblade #5

Title: Race Against the Light

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Corin Howell

Colours by: Thomas Deer

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: John Barber

Plot

Windblade and the others now know why the Velocitronian cities are always moving, and why they are able to survive energy-wise from just solar power...their sun literally scorches the surface of their planet. Windblade and the team race alongside the city, and manage to work together to reach an access door, and enter the city, where they meet up with Moonracer.

Inside the city, the team are told about how the only way they can get Velocitron to ally with Cybertron is to win the Benefit race that day, and to win impressively, since the current planet leader, Override, is having some problems with a rival, Ransack lately.

Ironhide escorts Blurr to the stadium, along with Moonracer, who needs to be present for the proceedings, whilst Windblade, Chromia, and Moonracer's assistant Clocker head down to Navitas' brain chamber.

In the brain chamber, Windblade is depressed to find it in disrepair, and tries to communicate with Navitas, but finds him brain damaged, since the Velocitronians abandoned him, and just rely on him to maintain the city and their needs.

Blurr enters the race, which he learns is a "no rules" event, and is soon attacked by his fellow racers, who have all been outfitted with weapons and tools to injure the others. During the race, Moonracer identifies Blurr to Override, and suggests that Cybertron may still want their alliance to happen, but Override is so far unimpressed by the Cybertronian racer.

In Navitas' brain chamber, Windblade directly accesses Navitas' brain, and uses it to cause obstacles, and ramps along the race course (since there are no rules) and manages to let Blurr win that way, since the Velocitronians weren't expecting it.

After the race, Blurr calls out Override on whether the alliance should go ahead, which Override puts to the audience. They all agree and Blurr succeeds in creating the alliance.

Windblade tells Wheeljack, back on Cybertron, but he's worried since Starscream is now getting ready to meet MORE colony representatives....

Characters

Autobot

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Chromia - Speedbike

Blurr - Race Rocket Car

Ironhide - Van

Wheeljack - Race Car

Metroplex - City/Space Ship (Mentioned)

Velocitronian

Override - Race Car

Ransack - Motorcycle (Probably)

Moonracer - Sports Car

Knock Out - Sports Car

Clocker - Race Car

Knock Out's Conjunx Endura (Prime Breakdown) - Off Road Vehicle

Roadmaster - Race Car

Navitas - Part of Delta City

Velocitronians - Racing Vehicles

Camien

Mistress of Flame (Mentioned)

Caminus - City/Space Ship (Mentioned)

Other Cybertronian

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Solus Prime (Mentioned)

Notes

• Moonracer was made Cybertronian ambassador because she impressed everyone by keeping up with the moving city for an entire day
• Override and Ransack, the two "leaders" of Velocitron are based on their Cybertron series counterparts. Clocker is also based on his Cybertron counterpart.
• Like how Metroplex and Caminus are being used as cities, Navitas is also incorporated into Delta City on Velocitron.
• The guards to the Benefit race appear to be based, design and colour-wise by Transformers Arms Micron Wildrider
• Racemaster appears to be based on the G2 character Rapido, but with his name from his United counterpart.
• Blurr has been turned into a vehicle similar to Cybertron series Crumplezone's in this series, rather than being a more traditional car.
• The pin in Windblade's "head-dress" is shown to be able to act as a stylus for touch-screen interfaces. Most likely in case the Titans are unable to talk properly etc, like with Navitas here.
• From the preview and past issues, we can guess that the new guests are from Eukaris (the Beast Wars planet)

IDW - Transformers vs G.I. Joe #8

Title: Pax Megatronus

Written by: Tom Scioli and John Barber

Art, Colours and Lettering by: Tom Scioli

Production by: Chris Mowry

Edits by: Carlos Guzman

Plot

Billy, Cobra Commander's son has delivered a seemingly dead Snake-Eyes to his father and his troops, and for his good job, the Commander allows the Koh-Buru-Lah monster to kill him by tearing him apart. Elsewhere, the Autobots on Cybertron start to rally together again since Optimus has "tamed" Scorponok, and leads the troops to victory. On Earth, Flagg has killed the special committee and taken over the White House, before Hawk leads him out.

Whilst on Highway Omega, the road starts to transform and take the Joes into space, revealing it to be in fact Omega Supreme, and heads to the nearby Cybertron. On the way, Omega attacks Astrotrain and throws him down to Cybertron, helping to rally the Autobots even further.

Optimus and Megatron begin their fight, whilst having an audience from their troops, and Snake Eyes reveals that he isn't dead, and attacks the Cobras on Earth.

During the "fight" Megatron reveals he has the Matrix within his chest and has begun corrupting it, using it's power and connection to Primus to reshape Cybertron to his will. The Decepticons subdue Optimus, whilst Megatron has his "Evil Cybertron" use it's pincers to stab the Earth, causing it to seemingly blow up. In the aftermath, Megatron blasts Optimus point blank into his chest, and sends him falling down a ravine.

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Possibly killed by Megatron

Bumblebee - Car

Omega Supreme - Highway Omega/Rocket

Wreck-Gar - Motorcycle

Kup - Pick Up Truck

Wheelie - Car Probably killed by Harvester Unit

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex Dino-Head Only

Other Autobots

Decepticon

Megatron

Starscream - Jet

Viper - Rattler Jet

Scorponok - Scorpion City

Trypticon

G2 Ramjet - Jet

Thrust - Jet

Shrapnel - Stag Beetle

Cyclonus - Jet

Mindwipe - Bat

Army - Billy's Arm Probably killed with Billy

Limbot - Billy's Leg Probably killed with Billy

Stranglehold

Other Two Pretenders

Astrotrain - Flying Train

Other Decepticons Being Overthrown by Autobots

GI Joe

General Flagg

Hawk

Flash

Lady Jaye

Stalker

Sci-Fi

Gung-Ho

Rock n Roll

Beachhead

Quick Kick

Scoop (Mentioned)

Joe Soldiers

Cobra

Cobra Commander

Pythona

Golobulus

Nemesis Enforcer

Major Bludd

Firefly

Tomax

Xamot

Crimson Guardsmen

Cobra Vipers

Other Cybertronian

Primus (Mentioned)

Other

Snake-Eyes

Billy Killed by Koh-Buru- Lah

Koh-Buru-Lah

Jugglers Committee (Mentioned) Killed by Flagg

US President (Mentioned) Deposed by Flagg

Notes

• Yeah...it's still going on....
• The opening page is design to emulate "The Last Supper"
• Flagg killed the committee off screen it seems, and possibly the President as well....THESE ARE THE GOOD GUYS?!?!
• Also, this means he single handedly killed this "Jonin" as well....
• Viper from the Combiner Wars toyline gets a cameo here...that's a silver lining right?
• Omega Supreme was alluded to being missing along with Optimus earlier in the series. Not sure why he was on Earth though...
• Wreck-Gar seems to be using Dark Energon and Nucleon as a drug during the Decepticon's oppression.
• Wheeljack can take on a form similar to the Arcee trio from Revenge of the Fallen.
• Wheelie is about to get smelted alive by a Harvester Unit...poor fella
• The Pretenders shown here would appear to be final results of the experiments on creating Human-Transformer hybrids, shown in the previous two issues.
• From the end of this issue and the preview for the next one, we can only hope this is nearing the end now...