IDW - Robots in Disguise Animated #3

Written by: Georgia Ball

Art by: Priscilla Tramontano

Colours by: Josh Burcham

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Edits by: John Barber

Plot

The Autobots are hanging out in the scrapyard talking about their favourite TV show "Bin Battles" and how they would have done better in the show than the actual contestants. During this discussion, Fixit informs Bumblebee about his research into Clipshade, and locates another of his Cybercomrade allies, a Buffaloid named Overhead, who has been located at an abandoned storage facility 40 miles out of the city Bumblebee splits the team into two groups, Bee, Grimlock and Strongarm will go after Overhead, whilst Sideswipe, Denny and Russell go out to the other Storage facilities in the area, so as to distract Magnus' team whilst they go after their real target.

Whilst the Autobots are busy, Overhead steals the cargo from a security team working at the Crown City Municipal Bank, by disguising as their van, and drives off.

Later, Overhead returns to the abandoned storage facility that she's using as a hide-out, where Bee and the others are already waiting for her. The team try to confuse her and capture her in the same way they defeated previous Buffaloid prisoner Terrashock, but she is revealed to be smarter than her co-prisoner, and is able to fight off the Autobots, but does end up surrendering when she points out that all she wants to do is go back home, and offers to give up her real boss, since Clipshade is just a stooge. She gives the Autobots a transmitter with a signal that will call out her boss, so long as they don't put her back in a stasis cell.

Bumblebee and Grimlock head away to set up the transmitter, whilst Strongarm babysits Overhead, and Sideswipe is still stuck at the other storage units, where Denny has become engrossed in bidding on the storage units himself.

Before long, someone responds to the transmitter, who is revealed to be Clipshade. Bumblebee exposes himself and asks how he escaped from Ultra Magnus' custody, but after a short fight, Clipshade reveals that he's a double agent working for Magnus, and he was captured originally, and on purpose to get himself engrossed into the Cybercomrade Sect as a spy to try and find out who the mysterious head of the group is

At the storage unit, Strongarm wanders into the unit, and realizes that the equipment stolen by Overhead isn't actual just random junk, it's all ingredients for a space bridge! Overhead gets herself easily free from her cuffs and knocks out Strongarm, before taking her equipment revealing herself to be the head of the Cybercomrade Sect.

Soon, the Autobots, including Clipshade arrive at the storage unit, where Clipsahde reveals himself to be an actor actually named Spectrosynth. Afterwards, Magnus and his team appear, and say that it's time for answers....

Characters

Autobot

Bumblebee - Sports Car

Sideswipe - Sports Car

Strongarm - Police SUV

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Fixit

Ultra Magnus - Truck Cab

Arcee - Motorcycle

Bulkhead - Off Road Vehicle

Clipshade/Spectrosynth - Sports Car 

Autobots in Flashback (Flashback only)

Decepticon

Overhead - Security Van

Megatron - Space Jet (Mentioned)

Cybercomrade Sect (Mentioned)

Human

Denny Clay

Russell Clay

Security Driver Joe

Joe's Co-worker

"Collector Kenny" (Mentioned)

"Kenny's Uncle Gene" (Mentioned)

"Bargain Billy" (Mentioned)

Notes

• "Bin Battles" is a parody of programs like "Storage Hunters"
• Being a Buffaloid, Overhead shares a character model, with some minor differences with Terrashock, but unlike him, she isn't an enforcer.
• The "Morton Donuts" sign is missing some letters that makes it spell out "Moron Nut" when Denny is hanging it up...HAH!
• Overhead's comment that her "compartments have compartments" is similar to Rung's comments on his own body in More Than Meets The Eye.
• Some of the Autobots in the flashback look a little familiar, with some appearing to resemble Prowl and Blades, and one even seemingly having TFA Grandus' head model.
• The mystery of Clipshade's gun not working last issue is unceremoniously revealed here to be because it's not a gun, it's a light projector....ahem...
• So...why exactly couldn't Magnus and the others tell Bee and his team about Clipshade being a double agent?! Even if they only told Bumblebee it would have made sense!