Sig Pub - Robots in Disguise #13

Notes

• The screen-cap comic here is based on the episode "Cover Me"...they skipped a few episodes here....
• Because of this time skip, we are given no real reason for the paintjob changing abilities or why Optimus' team is on an away mission.

Features

Door Hanger - Destroy the front cover to make a door hanger!

Mission Alert! - Fill in the form and join the Autobots!

The Legend that is Optimus Prime - Solve some Optimus themed puzzles

Battle of the Bots - Bumblebee vs Busk profiles

Draw Hammerstrike - Take a wild guess what happens here!

Puzzle Hunting with Drift - Puzzles with Drift!

Observation Test - More puzzles!

Autobots Punch Up! - Pull-out poster!

Grimlock at the Double! - Puzzles with Grimlock now!

Comic Investigator - Answer the questions about the comic!

Objective: Solve Puzzles - MORE PUZZLES!!!!

Transformers Post - Fixit judges the tiny human pictures!

Puzzle Action - WHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! Why so many puzzles!??

Create a Decepticon - Put the Decepticon parts together into a monstrous form....you monster!

IDW - Micronauts #6

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: Ander Zarate, Joanna LaFuente, John-Paul Bove, Thomas Deer

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: David Hedgecock

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Oz, and the Biotron unit he is in collapse from the stab wound, one of the other MOD Acroyears objects to the change in their mission, as Oz was supposed to be captured alive, but Raith kills the Acroyear, and engages in battle with the Micronaut Acroyear, and claims that if Oz wants to stay alive, he has to do so by himself.

Oz is dying when suddenly he finds himself inside the Entropy Cloud, facing a Time Traveler, who speaks in riddles, but alludes to Oz needing to enter the Entropy Cloud physically to save the universe, much to Oz's irritation.

Oz wakes up, fully healed much to everyone's shock, allowing Acroyear to knockout Raith. The Biotron unit begins to go on a rampage, and begins acting and speaking on his own, again to everyone's surprise. Biotron leads the crew to the Heliopolis, and they launch it out of the outpost to find themselves in the midst of a full on battle between the two Ministries.

Inside the outpost, the two Barons fight it out, but Karza manages to defeat (and maybe kill) Daigon. Karza is soon informed that Raith went against orders and tried to kill Oz, which led to him escaping, much to Karza's anger.

Oz explains what happened when he was "dead" and tells the other Micronauts that he has to enter the Entropy Cloud to save the universe, which the others agree to join him on, as they enter the cloud, unsure what will happen...

Karza, unwilling to allow Oz to escape before he can use his powers for his own use, he jumps through the window of the outpost and follows them in centaur mode into the cloud....

Characters

Micronaut

Oziron Rael

Phenolo-Phi

Larissa

Microtron

Acroyear

Biotron Granted Sentience

Ministry of Defense

Baron Karza

Commander Raith Defeated by Acroyear

Acroyear Army

Raith's Squad

Shazraella (Mentioned)

Ministry of Science

Baron Daigon Defeated/Killed by Karza

Troopers Defeated by Ministry of Defense

Other

Time Traveler

Notes

• The Time Traveler seen in this issue looks different to the one who appears in the Revolution tie-ins. It could be a different one, but why?
• It's implied that Oz healed his own stab wound, as that was Shazraella's plan from the dialogue from Raith.
• As well as healing his death-wound, he also seeped his own sentience into the Biotron unit, giving him a personality similar to his own, and can act on his own accord without orders or a pilot now.
• So...I guess the Ministry of Science fixed the Heliopolis whilst they had it in storage then?
• Like with Karza's centaur mode last issue, Daigon has his own version, which is based on the "Force Commander" toy that can combine with his own horsie named Oberon.
• I don't know if Karza killed Daigon in this issue, but if he did, then he LITERALLY face-palmed him to death....I kinda hope he did now....
• This issue leads directly into Revolution: Micronauts

IDW - Micronauts #5

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: David Garcia-Cruz & Ander Zarate

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Karza is informed that the Pharoid in the Ministry of Science's custody is the one who escaped from the communing with the Entropy Cloud, Karza decides that Daigon is to use the knowledge from the Pharoid to take an advantage, so he sets out to settle the score, once and for all. He orders Commander Raith to capture him whilst the rest of his forces take down the rest of Daigon's troops, whilst Karza Enerchanges into his Andromeda centaur form, ready to fight Daigon himself.

At the Ministry of Science's outpost, Oz is taken back to his cell after his interrogation, but hasn't given any information yet. He's planning to stall the procedures some more until they can find a way to escape, when the chief interrogator for the Ministry, Membros, appears, ready to use more invasive means to extract the information.

Before he can do anything, Karza's attack begins, and the cell is breached by several Acroyears, during the battle, they identify Larissa and Oz as their targets for different reasons, and prepare to kill the others, however Oz does something to one of the ship pilots, and manages to slice the Ministry of Defense shuttle in half with the outpost's shields, slicing it in half and causing explosions.

The Micronauts escape, with Acroyear taking the lead as the only one with access to their main weapons (he just summons his sword from sub-space). Both Oz and Larissa ignore the questions about what they're doing and why they were targeted in particular, and they head to the storage area.

The team recover their equipment and Oz enters the Biotron so they can fight against the invading Ministry of Defense troops. They start to fight, but Oz is confident that they want him alive, so he lowers his guard, utterly shocked as Commander Raith stabs him through the heart, to everyone's shock, and Oz starts to die....

Characters

Micronaut

Oziron Rael Stabbed by Raith

Larissa

Phenolo-Phi

Microtron

Acroyear

Biotron Stabbed by Raith

Ministry of Science

Membros

Troopers

Baron Daigon (Mentioned)

Ministry of Defense

Baron Karza

Shazraella

Shazraella's Attendants

Commander Raith

Raith's Squad

Acroyear Army

Other

Time Travelers (Mentioned)

Notes

• As mentioned in issue 4, this issue begins right after the discussion between Karza and Shazraella in issue 3
• Despite them having been retired, Karza still has at least one Acroyear I at his disposal
• Karza's Enerchange into a Centaur-monster in this issue is based on his toy, where he can combine with his horse, Andromeda, which here appears to be his battle mode.
• This issue spells Daigon as "Daegon" again, it is back to normal next issue.
• Membros seems to be based on the same type of body as the Assassin from issue 3
• Larissa is identified as a "secondary target" in this issue, implying  that Hezlee sent her with Oz and the others to hand her over to the Ministry of Defense due to whatever her secret past is.
• I hope the bio-weapon managed to get vented out of Biotron before Oz went inside his cockpit!

IDW - Micronauts #4

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: David Garcia-Cruz

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Baron Karza is looking into the Entropy Cloud, thinking about the past, when he is joined by Shazraella, and the two begin to reminisce about their shared past...

In the past, Baron Karza and Baron Daigon aid the Emperor in controlling the Council of Worlds in Microspace, and are joined by the Emperor's son, Red Falcon.

The Pharoids are complaining because their temples are being attacked across Microspace, and their people are being slaughtered. Red Falcon is concerned due to the Pharoids being unpopular with the rest of Microspace, but volunteers to save them himself.

Afterwards, Karza is wandering the halls when he sees his future wife, Shazraella, with Red Falcon, much to his displeasure.

Before long, the Ministry of Defense, with Red Falcon leading them, attack the Pharoid's enemies and manage to liberate the temple. The attackers are killed by the Ministry, but one of them warns Karza that the Pharoids have done something that will wind up destroying everything. Karza isn't interested however, and kills him.

Afterwards, Karza makes his way inside the temple, where he finds Red Falcon amongst the Time Travelers in their caskets, and he claims to be able to see his great future.

Later, they return to the Emperor, where Red Falcon convinces his father to allow him to be the messenger for the Time Travelers, as they can help their people grow further. Both Daigon and Karza become concerned with Red Falcon's new attitude and covetous nature.

After the meeting, Karza and Daigon are talking, and Karza decides that for the greater good, they may need to kill Red Falcon, Daigon disagrees and considers it treason, but doesn't report it.

Karza watches the city for some time to consider his options, when Shazraella appears and they start an affair. Shazraella claims that she is worried about Red Falcon, as he has become obsessed with the Time Travelers and their prophecies to him, so Shazraella agrees to help Karza to stop him.

Shazraella takes Karza to a secret lab, where she gives him some poison to give to Red Falcon. Karza soon meets with Red Falcon, and poisons him, stopping him from fulfilling his new destiny.

Karza remembers further that the Time Travelers never appeared before them again, and wonders if they even appeared before Falcon himself.

In the present, Shazraella claims that the Emperor would have understood why Karza killed his son, had he not been in cryo-hiberation, then leaves him to watch the cloud some more.

Following this meeting, a Devil Head Microtron enters the room and presents Baron Karza with another copy of his helmet, stating that it was found in the debris from around the Entropy Cloud, and proceeds to send himself to a smelting chamber, leaving Karza to ponder the meaning of his own helmet being found exiting the cloud....

Characters

Emperor's Envoy

The Emperor (Flashback Only) In Cryo-Hibernation

Red Falcon (Flashback Only) Killed by Baron Karza

Council of Worlds Members (On Monitors)

Ministry of Defense

Baron Karza

Shazraella

Shazraella's Attendants

Devil Head Microtron Sent self to Smelting Chamber

Acroyears (Flashback Only)

Scavenger Units (Mentioned) Destroyed by Devil Head Microtron

Ministry of Science

Baron Daigon (Flashback Only)

Other

The Pharoid's Enemies Killed by Ministry of Defense Forces

Time Travelers (Mentioned)

Notes

• Despite this being issue 4 of the series, this entire issue, including the framing device seems to be set before the actual start of the series, this is proven when next issue has Karza and Shazraella continuing their conversation from issue 3.
• The "Council of Worlds" shown in the past here in Microspace shares a name with the new Cybertronian alliance with their Colony worlds. Whilst this is a fairly common seeming title due to their shared roles, a later revelation will show us that this universe was created by Micronus Prime, a Cybertronian...could they have taken the name through that in some way?
• True to continuity, we see the Ministry of Defense army filled with Acroyear I units in the past.
• One of the Pharoid's enemies seems to allude to the Pharoids and Time Travelers being the same beings and are dangerous. This is a plot that will continue on in the series
• It's revealed that the two Ministries were created to assist the Emperor in running the Microspace, when the Emperor entered cryo-hibernation, their rift happened, and they went to war.
• Baron Karza is revealed to have been having a secret relationship with Shazraella, even when she was in a relationship with the Red Falcon, aka the son of the Emperor.
• Shazraella claims that Falcon had a vision of himself as emperor, her as empress and with the Time Travelers as his advisors. Knowing Shazraella's duplicity, she may have made up all of this just to convince Karza to kill him. Karza even wonders if he ever met with the Time Travelers in the first place.
• Baron Daigon is named "Daegon" in this issue. This also happens next issue...it is confusing...

IDW - Micronauts #3

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: David Garcia-Cruz

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The Micronauts are taken into custody by the Ministry of Science, with the Heliopolis and Biotron being placed into storage along with their specialist equipment. Baron Daigon explains that he wants Oz to help him to save the universe, and takes them towards the Entropy Cloud...

Meanwhile, on the perimeter of the cloud, Baron Karza is discussing with his wife Shazraella about the destruction of the research facility, and finds it strange how Daigon himself went to the site as well. Whilst they talk though, an assassin appears and attacks Karza, who easily kills his would-be killer, and Shazraella reveals that Daigon has found a Pharoid, and taken him into custody..

The Micronauts are in a holding cell, where Oz explains that he worked with Daigon along with several other Pharoids when the Entropy Storm first appeared to try and contact their close relatives, the Time Travelers, who vanished just as the cloud formed, but he claims to have found nothing when they communed with them..

Oz is taken to meet with Daigon in his office, where Oz calls Daigon a warlord due to his actions with the war, and using the current apocalypse scenario to gain power. Daigon explains that he knows that Oz has his people's powers, despite his claims to the contrary, and wants to know what he saw in the Entropy Cloud, and also wants to know what happened to the other Pharoids, who were found with the brains gouged out as they communed with the cloud, and Oz vanished.

Characters

Micronaut

Oziron Rael

Phenolo-Phi

Larissa

Microtron

Acroyear

Biotron Place in MOS Storage

Ministry of Science

Baron Daigon

Random Troops

Pharoid Trackers (Flashback) Dead

Ministry of Defense

Baron Karza

Shazraella

Shazraella's Attendants

Acroyear Guards Destroyed by Assassin

Other

Assassin Killed by Karza

Time Travelers (Mentioned) Missing

Notes

• Despite his sentience, Microtron is seen by the Ministry of Science as just machinery
• So the Acroyear II units are easily killed by the Assassin in this issue...are we sure the older models were retired for being weaker and not just for cost effectiveness?
• Shazraella is revealed to have been the "Mistress of Spies" and despite being retired, still has contacts everywhere.
• The Assassin's comments about Karza being a murderous traitor will be explain in the next issue.
• Oz explains that his species once had psychic powers and have a connection to a mysterious species known as the Time Travelers, who went missing when the Entropy Cloud appeared.

IDW - Micronauts #2

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: David Garcia-Cruz

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The research station blows up, but Oz and his crew manage to escape just in time, with Oz still using the Biotron unit, the Biotron unit explains that the Phobos units were rigged to attack when an unauthorized person interacted with Biotron, which Oz did. The Heliopolis is damaged in the explosion, so it and the crew plummet towards a nearby planet.

The crew manage to survive due to their equipment protecting them, but they need repairs. Phen stays with the damaged ship since her space glider suit needs repairs before she can use it, so the rest of the crew head towards a nearby town to get replacement parts for the ship.

Along the way to the town, Larissa explains that she was lied to by Hezlee just like them, so she is offered to stay with them for now.

In town, the crew start looking for their needed parts when a part of the research station lands in the town and starts to emit a gas. Biotron informs them that this is a warhead releasing the bio-weapon, as part of the ship's protocols. The crew manage to get the warhead into Biotron, where it emits it's gas into his air-tight canopy, but leaves him unable to hold Oz until the filters get rid of the vapours.

The townsfolk celebrate and allow them to take the parts they need, but are interrupted when Phen arrives, followed by a swarm of Acroyear units from the Ministry of Defense, who they assume to be after the bio-weapon. The crew fight them off and defend the townsfolk until they themselves are saved when the Ministry of Science arrive and take down the MOD Acroyears with ease. Oz and the others surrender when Baron Daigon, the head of the Ministry of Science, arrives, and greats Oz by name, clearly knowing him.

Characters

Micronaut

Oziron Rael

Phenolo-Phi

Larissa

Microtron

Acroyear

Biotron

Ministry of Science

Baron Daigon

Space Gliders

Ground Soldiers

Phobos Units Killed by Acroyear

Ministry of Defense

Acroyear Swarm Destroyed by Ministry of Science and Micronauts

Baron Karza (Mentioned)

Other

Shanty Town Aliens

Hezlee Ferro (Mentioned)

Notes

• Luckily Larissa and Phen have retractable oxygen masks to help them live in space just after the space station explodes...sometimes...other times they can just breath in space...
• So....Biotron can transform in a treaded vehicle.....can I just class this as a Transformers series now?!
• Larissa had no idea about the bio-weapons on the station, meaning she was being sent there by Hezlee for ulterior motives
• It's shown here that Space Gliders are used by the Ministry of Science whilst the Ministry of Defense use Acroyears for soldiers
• Despite needing a biological "battery" to power them, Biotrons are shown to be able to operate for a while unpiloted, so long as they are given orders.

IDW - Micronauts #1

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Breakdowns by: David Baldeon

Finishes by: Fico Ossio, Max Dunbar, Jack Lawrence and David Baldeon

Colours by: David Garcia Cruz, Joana LaFuente, Thomas Deer and John-Paul Bove

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The planet Saqqura is engulfed by the Entropy Cloud, and begins to tear the planet apart. A science team on the planet are observing the destruction to try and find a way to stop it in the future, but one of the scientists has a spat of consciousness and wants to escape with as many of the population as possible, but is stopped from leaving when his Biotron unit simply stops reacting due to his own mission. The team are struck by the cloud...

Later, on Micropolis-12, Oz is completing a delivery, when he gets insulted that some of the workers are being callous about the destruction of Saqqura, and ends up causing a fight between his crew member, Acroyear and the workers. Oz ends up being through off the harbour, but is saved by Phenolo-Phi in her Space Glider suit. She returns him to the harbour, where it is revealed that this always happens when they come to this planet.

Oz's client, Hezlee Ferro, joins them and escorts them into his office for another job. Inside he asks them to go to the Valtricos research station to recover some medical supplies that are being held there by a Ministry of Defense blockade, so he can give them to the needy. He also asks Oz to take his new employee, Larissa, with them to protect his interests.

At the perimeter of the Entropy Cloud, where Baron Karza is ordering relocations for populations and his own assets to stop them from being destroyed by the spreading cloud, whilst also waging a war with the Ministry of Science.

Oz's ship, the Heliopolis, arrives at the research station using it's warp drive, and the crew are transported on board the station to locate the medical supplies. Within moments however, the team encounter a large number of sentry bots begin attacking the group. Acroyear attacks the robots, whilst Larissa uses her shield generators to create protections for herself and the others.

The group find themselves at the storage area where they hope to find the medical supplies so they can escape the station, but only find  Biotron unit with a long dead pilot inside, and several Phobos units surrounding the room. Oz enters the Biotron unit, removing the corpse in the process, where Biotron informs him that the station houses no medical supplies, but rather biological weapons. Just as Oz is about to inform the crew about this, the Phobos units activate and begin firing, blowing a hole in the side of the station....

Characters

Micronaut

Oziron Rael

Phenolo-Phi

Larissa

Acroyear

Microtron

Ministry of Defense

Baron Karza

Shazraella

Shazraella's Attendants

Devil Head Microtron

Ministry of Science

Biotron's Pilot Died of old age, via Entropy Cloud

Scientists on Saqqua Killed by Entropy Cloud

Valtricos Sentry Bots

Main Biotron

Phobos Units

Biotron Units Destroyed by Entropy Cloud

Other

Hezlee Ferro

Hezlee's Goons

Denizens of Saqqua Killed by Entropy Cloud

Notes

• *Gasp* Another non-Transformers series on this site?! What is this madness!?
• In case you don't already know, the Micronauts were a toyline that involved magnetic artist-mannequin-looking figures that can detach parts to change their appearances etc. Instead of following the toyline fully here, it was decided to merely use the original figures as the design basis for the series, but with more "normal" looking aliens as the people under the suits etc.
• Examples of this are that Acroyear is just one of a mass-produced line of Acroyears, and Oz is a member of the Pharoid race, whilst Space Gliders are a type of suit that Phenolo-Phi uses.
• The interchangeability of the limbs etc in the toys has been translated to "Enerchanging" here, which is where they summon weapons or other attachments from sub-space.
• From how things are played out here, it looks like Acroyear is new to Oz's crew
• The Ministry of Defense outpost is made of various existing Micronauts playsets.
• Baron Karza's Microtron uses the devil head configuration, whilst the Heliopolis's Microtron uses the regular seat head.
• Despite being a main character here, the main Microtron is only seen in 3 brief panels this issue...his evil counterpart appears more!!
• Though not explicitly called out here, the Biotron unit, and corpse-pilot at the end of this issue were amongst the scientists at the start of this issue. This is used to show that the Entropy Cloud is able to manipulate time, which is brought up more in the Revolution tie-in stories.
• Oz's eye colour is a little inconsistent here, some times they are blue, then brown...I'm not sure if this is a mistake, or just a trait of Pharoids.

IDW - Revolution #3

Title: O Ship of State

Written by: John Barber & Cullen Bunn

Art by: Fico Ossio

Colours by: Sebastian Cheng

Letters by: Tom B Long

Edited by: David Hedgecock

Editor-in-Chief: Chris Ryall

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

In Microspace, the Heliopolis is at the centre of the Entropy Cloud, and the ship approaches the planet sized (to their point of view) body of Micronus Prime, the progenitor of Microspace itself, and is now being used as Baron Karza's base of operations to try and save Microspace,

Karza contacts the crew of the Heliopolis and explains that he has been in the cloud for many years now, trying to learn how to save the universe, and explains that time works differently in the cloud. He asks for the crew's help in saving the universe along with him, which they reluctantly agree to do, despite his evil past.

In the Macroverse, Matt Trakker returns to Governor's Island and confronts Scarlett about not telling him and his team about the Cybertronians being sentient, and accidentally reveals that Miles has captured one of them, without her knowledge. Miles turns up and escorts Matt away, to speak with him.

Elsewhere, Kup is hooked to a torture device and watched by Sly and Vanessa of MASK, and Vanessa tricks him into revealing all he knows about Ore-13 and the reason it is exploding, along with the knowledge of the stash of Ore-13 under Autobot City.

Rom has been taken back to Autobot City for both parties to explain their actions to eachother, and Rom explains how he only killed Dire Wraiths, and warns the Autobots about them infiltrating the planet's infrastructure, and are using Ore-13 to cloak themselves from his analyzer. Windblade reveals her recent finding that the Titan has a connection to another universe where Micronus Prime lies, dead, and explains that the Microspace is dying as well. Optimus is sympathetic to the situation, and decides that they must prioritize Earth's safety over another universe's, which Windblade agrees to, disgruntledly.

Aileron returns to Autobot City and reports that Kup has been captured, and he the Ore-13 is being sent away through a spacebridge to another universe, causing it to detonate. Aileron is prepared for repairs, whilst Rom looks at the spacebridge and begins thinking about things...

Back at Governor's Island, Scarlett is wondering if they can trust Manheim since he's hiding things from her and his own team, when suddenly Doc enters the room and reveals that the Joe corpses weren't humans after all, including Colton. The group are unnerved by this revelation, and wonder if the alien infiltrators are their allies, or enemies.

Scarlett gets in contact with an "old friend" to try and solve this issue out once and for all...

In Microspace, Karza receives  communication from his ally in the Macroverse, who tells him to not take any more Ore-13 yet, as the transport is causing the Ore to explode on Earth. Karza doesn't care however, as he sees the safety of Microspace to be more important than one planet, so he activates the spacebridge regardless.

On the Heliopolis, a Time Traveler suddenly appears and informs the crew that their true mission is about to begin, just as the spacebridge is deployed from Micronus' chest...

At Autobot City the Autobots try to figure out the link between Aileron's report and Rom's mission, when Rom examines the spacebridge and gets shocked when his suit reacts to it, and the Ore-13 around the room...

Back in Microspace, the spacebridge is opened, and to Karza's shock Ore-13 begins shooting through it, and starts detonating in the space around Micronus, he believes that his ally has turned against him. Elsewhere, the Time Traveler tells Oz and the crew to head through the portal so they can save the universe, including Microspace, which they agree to...

Back on Earth, Rom has taken control of the spacebridge in Autobot City, and the Ore-13 and is the one sending it through the portal to Microspace, justifying it as sacrificing an unknown universe to save this planet. Windblade stops him however when she points out to both him and Optimus that sacrificing anyone for their own mission is just wrong.

Rom surrenders, and shuts down the spacebridge, and allows himself to be restrained by the Cybertronians, and agrees that they must fight to protect both Earth and Microspace.

Unnoticed by anyone else, the Heliopolis flies through the portal and the Micronauts find themselves in a large metallic maze, unaware that they are tiny in this universe. They look for a way out of the metallic world they're in when they run into what they believe to be a giant version of Baron Karza, but is actually a human in a black ninja suit...Snake-Eyes...who is preparing for battle....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Aileron - Space Shuttle

Kup - Pick Up Truck In MASK Captivity

Victorion - Torchbearer Gestalt

Arcee - Sports Car

Jazz - Sports Car

Decepticon

Soundwave - Personnel Carrier

Other Cybertronian

Micronus Prime Maybe Dead in Microspace

Metrotitan - Autobot City

GI Joe

Scarlett

Mainframe

Doc

Snake-Eyes

M.A.S.K.

Miles Manheim

Matt Trakker

Vanessa Warfield

Sly Rax

Other Human

Madame President (Mentioned)

EDC (Mentioned) Absorbed into GI Joe

Matt Trakker's Dad (Mentioned) Dead

Dire Wraith

Example Wraith (Projection Only)

Joe Colton (Mentioned) Dead

Other Dead GI Joes (Mentioned) Dead

Micronaut

Oz Rael

Phenolo-Phi

Larissa

Biotron

Acroyear

Microtron

Other Microspace Denizens

Baron Karza

Time Traveler

Other Biotron Units Dead

Other

Rom, the Space Knight

Karza's Ally

Notes

• The start of this issue retells and continues on from the end of the Micronauts Revolution one-shot
• Despite Micronus being believed to be dead, his optics are still lit up, indicating that he is probably still alive in some manner
• It's explained that Ore-13 is being used by Karza to suppress the effects of the Entropy Cloud
• Rom resolved his issues with Optimus and the others pretty quickly huh? Last we saw them they were still fighting
• Windblade reveals that she learned about Micronus creating Microspace and now lays there "dead" during the Till All Are One Revolution one-shot...this issue hasn't been released yet...SPOILERS!!!!
• Aileron is identified as "Autobot Idealist" here, marking the first official point where she is identified as an Autobot...then again she could just be idealistic towards the Autobot cause without being one of them yet.
• Why does Scarlett have Snake-Eyes on her phone as "classified"? Is it just for the end of the issue cliffhanger? That's dumb...
• The identity of Karza's ally is unidentifiable here, but I would guess it's Miles Mayhem, as he contacts Karza right after his agents learn about the Ore-13 detonating when being transported elsewhere, and he is pretty much one of the only other villains in the series so far...
• Micronus' spacebridge ejects from his body from his chest, out of the detailing that resembles a Mini-Con powerlinx port.
• Rom mentions that spacebridges were thought to be lost. Before the resurgence of the Titans in modern issues, the only spacebridges being used were Nova Prime's ones from the Dead Universe, and the ones created by Bombshell and Shockwave in All Hail Megatron and the Costa Ongoing.
• Rom's armour has an affinity with both Ore-13 and the Titan spacebridges, implying that his armour could have connections with Cybertron.
• Rom confirms his dislike for Cybertronians is due to the galactic opinions of the species, but also appears to accept that they are trying to make up for their "crimes" now.
• Despite their smaller size, the Micronauts ship appears to be visible to Snake-Eyes.

IDW - Revolution #2

Title: The Divine Source of Liberty

Written by: John Barber & Cullen Bunn

Art by: Fico Ossio

Colours by: Sebastian Cheng

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Edited by: David Hedgecock

Editor-in-Chief: Chris Ryall

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The Joes are clearing up in Portland following their attack on the Autobots, and Rom's subsequent attack on them, and Helix points out how only the newcomer opened fire on any of the Joes, and only targeted specific Joes, which annoys Scarlett as she is still angry over Colton's murder.

Rom lands in a nearby forest, and is quickly attacked by Optimus, who demands an explanation as to why he killed those humans. Rom refuses to discuss it with him, beyond that he has killed no humans, and attacks the Autobot leader. Rom starts to leave, but the rest of Optimus' team arrives and join the battle. Before long Rom is pinned down by Optimus and is ordered to explain himself...

Scarlett returns to Governor's Island, location of GI Joe's HQ, where Doc makes a crude joke about there not being enough left of the dead Joes to examine properly, further annoying Scarlett. She goes to see Manheim in a secret lab, where his engineers are taking apart and examining a still living Blitzwing for his experiments. Scarlett is disgusted that Blitzwing is still alive and being tested on, but remembers that she hates the Transformers for killing Colton, so allows him to continue.

Manheim takes Scarlett to visit his new MASK team, and he asks her to keep Blitzwing a secret from them, which she does.

Kup and Aileron are examining the explosion site at Mount Olympus and find that there is some of the Ore remaining, and Kup recognizes the area as having been affected by a space bridge recently, which must have caused the explosion.

The two Transformers drive and fly away from the mountain to report this to Optimus, but are soon surrounded by the MASK team, and Aileron's communications are failing. The MASK team and the Transformers fight it out, resulting in Aileron flying away to warn Optimus, and Kup being captured by the humans, though Matt and the others learn during this battle that the Transformers are more than just simple machines, they are actually alive.

Manheim intends to have Kup interrogated to find out about what is happening to the Ore-13, unaware that someone is watching this entire situation....Baron Karza in Microspace, who is preparing to collect MORE Ore-13 to save Microspace with!

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Arcee - Sports Car

Jazz - Sports Car

Kup - Pick Up Truck Captured by MASK

Decepticon

Soundwave - Personnel Carrier

Blitzwing - Tank/Jet In GI Joe Custody

Other Cybertronian/Colonist

Aileron - Space Shuttle

Primus (Mentioned)

GI Joe

Scarlett

Mainframe

Agent Helix

Roadblock

Rock 'n Roll

Doc/Carla Greer

GI Joe Troops

Joe Colton (Mentioned) Dead

MASK Team

Miles Manheim/Mayhem

Matt Trakker/Spectrum

Brad Turner/Eclipse

Gloria Baker/Aura

Julio Lopez/Gulliver

Sly Rax/Stiletto

Bruno Sheppard/Thunderflame

Vanessa Warfield/Ice Queen

Other

Rom the Space Knight

Baron Karza

Random Human Civilians

Dire Wraith (On Monitor Only)

Action Man (On Monitor Only)

EDC (Mentioned) Merged with GI Joe

Notes

• So Scarlett asks Helix for her opinion on why Rom attacked them, then gets pissed off when she points out that he only killed four of them, and never returned fire or attacked anyone but them...
• Rom's attitude towards Optimus and the Cybertronians is likely due to the Cybertronian's position in galactic society, with their war and the destruction they've caused in the past.
• Optimus re-enacts a scene from the animated Transformers Movie, when he runs down Rom, with him reflected in his grill.
• Doc is a female GI Joe medic here rather than male like the character normally is. This Doc is the male one's daughter.
• The MASK team are unaware that their technology is based at least partly on a captured Transformer. They are also unaware that the Cybertronians are a sentient species, thinking they are just machines.
• It's revealed that the Ore-13 explosion featured in issue one, was caused by Baron Karza transporting some into the Microverse by Baron Karza. Kup recognizes this due to his history dealing with trans-dimensional travel (he was sent to the Dead Universe remember)
• One of the Spectrum mask abilities is to jam transmissions.

IDW - Transformers #57

Title: White Heat

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Livio Ramondelli

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Following the forced spacebridge journey, Optimus wakes up to find Soundwave standing next to him, opposite Sentinel Prime and Sovereign, who is now using Alpha Trion's decapitated body as his own. Sentinel informs them that they are in the shadow of the now dead Titan, Prion, who was abandoned by Micronus Prime, and offers Optimus to join him and prepare for his master, Onyx Prime's return.

On Earth. the newly reformed GI Joe attack the Cybertronians in the Indian Ocean, and go under water to try and secure the downed ship. Sky Lynx and the others fight them off and begin collecting up the injured, before the humans can capture any of them.

Back on Prion, Sentinel explains that the population of the planet were descendants of Micronus Prime that the Black Block Consortia razed, and the one survivor (Nickle) was corrupted by the Decepticons and joined them. Sentinel explains that he wants Optimus to use his power as a Prime to conquer Earth, to "protect" it from a similar fate to what happened here.

Sentinel asks Soundwave why he is now allied with Optimus, and the Decepticon explains that when he witnessed him raising the Titan on Earth, he realized that he was a true Prime. Sentinel is happy with this, and have Sovereign slash Soundwave with his energy blade, glad that he can die a believer now.

Back on Earth, Blitzwing has escaped the Autobots and plans to go off on his own, however Zilong Qian, now going by Talon, skewers him on mecha and plans to fly him back to Governor's Island (their new HQ) much to Spike's disgust,

The Torchbearers form into Victorion and use her gravitational powers to mess up the GI Joe jet's targeting systems, and Jetfire worries that this will all cause more problems.

On Prion again, Optimus flat out refuses Sentinel's offer and knocks him down. Soundwave removes the blade from his body and smacks Sovereign off of Alpha Trion's body. Soundwave then confronts the Titan Master and reactivates the "Blackrock" program within him, reverting him to his human personality.

Before the freed Titan Master can do anything, Sentinel grabs him and sends both of them through the spacebridge towards their next target. Soundwave cannot find the target location on the spacebridge's records, but Optimus doesn't care, he has Soundwave set the bridge to Cybertron so they cab get Alpha Trion medical attention.

On Earth, the Autobots retreat, with Vitcorion levitating the injured with her gravitation powers. The Joes leave as well, glad that they have a Decepticon prisoner and the remains of the ship as well.

Shortly later, Alpha Trion has had his head reattached on Cybertron, and Fixit is confident that he'll recover. Optimus and Soundwave head back to the spacebrodge to return to Earth, and Soundwave confirms his belief that Optimus is right in his actions on Earth now, and now feels confident in the belief that all life is equal, not just Cybertronian life. He believes that they need to work together to deal with the upcoming dangers of Onyx Prime and his followers, as warned by Galvatron and Sentinel alike....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Sentinel Prime/Infinitus - Truck/Jet (and Head)

Alpha Trion - Space Shuttle Under Repairs by Fixit

Arcee - Sports Car

Sky Lynx - Space Shuttle

Jetfire - Fighter Jet

Kup - Pick Up Truck

Tracks - Sports Car

Jazz - Sports Car

Sunstreaker - Sports Car

Thundercracker - Fighter Jet

Pyra Magna - Emergency Truck

Stormclash - Helicopter

Dust Up - Sports Car

Rust Dust - Motorcycle

Skyburst - Helicopter (Part of Victorion Only)

Jumpstream - Sports Car (Part of Victorion Only)

Victorion - Torchbearer Gestalt

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Ironhide - Van

Wheeljack - Race Car

Fixit - Ambulance

Megatron - Tank (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Soundwave - Personnel Carrier

Blitzwing - Tank/Jet Captured by GI Joe

Rumble - Motorcycle

Frenzy - Motorcycle

Swift - Helicopter

Needlenose - Fighter Jet

Dreadwing - Stealth Bomber

Mindwipe - Bat

Slugslinger - Twin Nosed Jet

Decepticon Ghetto Victims Dead

Galvatron - Tank (Footage) Dead

Nickel (Mentioned)

Ravage - Cassette (Mentioned) Dead

Other Cybertronian/Colonist

Sovereign/Garrison Blackrock - Head Reverted to Blackrock Persona by Soundwave

Aileron - Space Shuttle

Lightbright

Bob the Insecticon

D.O.C.

Prion - City/Space Ship Dead

Mini-Cons Dead

Nexus Prime (Footage) Killed by Galvatron

Metrotitan - Autobot City (Mentioned)

The Thirteen Primes (Mentioned)

Liege Maximo (Mentioned)

Micronus Prime (Mentioned)

Onyx Prime (Mentioned)

GI Joe/EDC

Spike Witwicky

Zilong Qian/Talon

Deep Six

Wild Bill

GI Joe/EDC Troops

Joe Colton (Mentioned)

Other

Buster the Dog

Black Block Consortia (Mentioned)

Notes

• This issue marks the end of the Transformers Ongoing, which will be rebranded as "Optimus Prime" at the end of the year, except for one issue of Transformers Ongoing to tie in with Revolution.
• Hey look! we get to see Prion...but he's dead...and a load of Mini-Cons! They're dead too...I don't like this planet....
• Sovereign taking on Alpha Trion's head is a clear reference to his toy counterpart forming the ancient Autobot's head.
• This issue shows us that the EDC members have started taking on GI Joe codenames (this was shown in Revolution #1 with Ayana Jones now being Mayday, but that is set after this event).
• Sentinel/Infinitus talks about what happened to Prion, the Mini-cons and Micronus Prime leaving their planet as if he was present for it, if I'm remembering correctly, he has only just finished recovering from his assassination attempt...where is he getting his information from?
• Micronus' location is revealed in Revolution: Micronauts, where it is shown that he has formed the core of the Miroverse
• Blitzwing is captured here, allowing for him to be experimented on by GI Joe and Mile Manheim
• Soundwave grabs an energy sword by the blade and uses that to knock Sovereign off of Trion's head....badass...
• Sovereign is revealed to use Perception Filters to make him resemble a human
• Sentinel and Sovereign end up on Luna-1 following their departure on the spacebridge, leading to the events of the More Than Meets The Eye portion of this event.
• It looks like Fixit's medical bay is located on the top of a spindly tower....HOW IS THAT REASONABLE!??!
• Optimus' plan to send his troops to Cybertron to aid in the relief following Sentinel's attack on the Decepticon Ghetto is to explain why only a few Transformers are on Earth during Revolution. Optimus' comments that he hopes to see Windblade again soon also connects to her role on Earth during the crossover too.
• Soundwave reveals that Ravage died to Optimus, which we saw him feeling in MTTME #55

IDW - More Than Meets The Eye #57

Title: Last Light

Written by: James Roberts

Art by: Priscilla Tramontano

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Chris Mowry

Editor: John Barber & Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Earlier, Red Alert is performing security checks on the crew of the ready-to-launch Lost Light, and gets annoyed by Swerve, however, Swerve suddenly tells him to look at his datapad, which now reads "This never happened".

In the present, Sentinel Prime has awoken an army of Titans using Sovereign's abilities, and boasts about it as Red Alert, now under his control is fighting Fortress Maximus, and a nearby Cerebros is cradling the seemingly dead body of Prowl. Cerebros manages to get Sentinel to explain that he faked his own decapitation and went into hiding, waiting for his time to strike back, and attuned his skills with the Titans so he can control them for this very moment.

Sentinel goes to kill Cerebros, but is stopped when the "dead" Prowl attacks him from behind, allowing the Autobots to escape in the confusion. Sentinel lets them leave, as he "has a world to save".

Earlier, Red Alert is searching Rewind's quarters on the Lost Light and locates the snuff-films that Rewind has been hiding, but Rewind grabs them and rearranges them into a pattern that resembles a mnemosurgery scar, and begs Red to not give in to him...

Back on Luna-1, Prowl wakes up after being fixed up, and Cerebros reveals that he used his prototype cranial implant to control his unconscious body allowing them to escape. Prowl is angry about this due to his past issues with people messing with his mind, but accepts it due to the situation. Prowl goes to see Fort Max and discusses how they aren't sure that Red Alert is himself right now. Prowl wanders around and finds a giant transformation cog, which Max confirms, explaining that Tyrest built the base using the remains of Titans, and it even has a robot mode, however the cog has malfunctioned and manual release is jammed. Prowl uses his patented table-flip attack and manages to flip the lever...

Elsewhere, Sentinel uses some quantum foam from Luna-1's thrusters to create a Spacebridge to Cybertron, and orders his Titan army to go through to raze Cybertron and get rid of all the impurities, as Sentinel sees them as. However, before they can reach it, a new Titan, controlled by Fort Max blocks the portal and fights the other Titans.

Prowl and Cerebros attack Sentinel directly, but Prowl is jumped by Red Alert, who laces his gun to the back of his head...

Earlier, Red Alert meets with Rung on the Lost Light, and Red admits to Rung that he thinks that he was converted into a sleeper agent in the past by someone, and worries that he could lose himself in the future. Rung doesn't believe him, but does teach him to alter his own memories using his brain, and create "continuity errors" to give him clues about his mind being tampered with. Red isn't sure if he can do it, but then notices that all of Rung's model ships have been replaced by model Titans, and his porthole windows are in the shape of a mnemosurgery scar as well...

Back in the present, Fort Max isn't doing so well, and Sentinel orders Red Alert to kill Prowl, however Red has regained control of his own mind, and turns his gun on Sentinel, knocking the head portion off of his body. Infinitus admits that he did turn him into a sleeper agent, along with many others, and begins to take control of the Autobot again. He tries to force Red to kill himself, but the Roboid Beak attacks Infinitus, knocking him down one of the thrusters, screaming.

Afterwards, Sovereign notices that the portal has closed, implying that Sentinel is now dead, due to him being the one who was controlling it. Fort Max apologizes, as some of the Titans made it through the portal, but Sovereign reveals that he redirected the portal to deep space but was unable to stop the Titan's ultimate destination, meaning they are still heading back to Cybertron...

Three days later, the Titan has been returned to base mode, Red Alert has recovered from his ordeal, and even reports that he's feeling less paranoid. Cerebros is cleaning some of the Titan's parts, so they can transform it easier if it's needed again. Prowl returned Sovereign to Earth, but has come back to Luna-1 for a sabbatical, so he can relax for the first time in centuries.

Cerebros has completed his repairs on the Roboids, using the now approved cranial implant, and they have all leaved for Cybertron, along with Outrigger, who was asked to leave with Beak.

The Autobots all work together to clean the Titan parts, whilst discussing how they miss the Lost Light and it's crew, and how they all hate endings...

Suddenly Red Alert's scanner starts buzzing, indicating that it's located the missing Lost Light, but finds that it's just background noise. He refuses to indulge his old tendencies and doesn't try to decipher the gibberish being transmitted through the noise, and returns to his work....

Characters

Autobot

Sentinel Prime/Infinitus - Truck Knocked into Thruster, Presumed Dead

Prowl - Police Car

Fortress Maximus - Tank

Cerebros - Car

Red Alert - Car

Rung (False Memory Only)

Rewind - Data Slug (False Memory Only)

Swerve - Van (False Memory Only)

Brainstorm - Jet (False Memory Only)

Perceptor - Tank (False Memory Only)

Impactor - Tank (False Memory Only)

Trailbreaker - Van (False Memory Only)

Ratchet - Ambulance (False Memory Only)

Ambulon - Leg (False Memory Only)

First Aid - Ambulance (False Memory Only)

Bumblebee - Car (False Memory Only)

Ironfist - Van (False Memory Only)

Other Lost Lighters (False Memory Only)

Megatron - Tank (Mentioned)

Ultra Magnus - Vehicle Transport (Mentioned)

Chromedome - Car (Mentioned)

Other Cybertronian

Sovereign/Garrison Blackrock - Head Returned to Earth

Base Titan - Luna-1 Base

Luna-1 Titans - Cities/Ships Most sent to Deep-Space

Outrigger - Crane Repaired, Returned to Cybertron

Beak - Bird Repaired, Returned to Cybertron

Roboids (Mentioned) All Repaired, Returned to Cybertron

Chief Justice Tyrest (Mentioned)

The Senate (Mentioned)

Notes

• Excluding the Revolution One-shot issue, this is the final issue of More Than Meets The Eye :(
• Don't be too sad though, the series is being rebranded as "Lost Light" in December, and will continue the series as normal. This is mostly just due to the other series' being rebranded and to help fit in with IDW's new united universe.
• If you look through the scenes set in Red Alert's memories, you will notice small details that are indeed continuity errors, including popular characters who shouldn't be in the crowds, either due to their locations at the time, Ambulon and First Aid are at Delphi, Impactor is traveling space with Guzzle, Bumblebee is opposed to Rodimus' mission, so was no where near the ship, Ironfist is dead, and Ratchet is with Rewind and the others finding Tailgate and watching Whirl and Cyclonus' fight.
• Sentinel confirms in this issue that he has been a Titan Master his entire life, and "decapitated" himself at his own internment.
• Due to Tyrest and the Titan Hunter's salvaging from the Titans to create his base and space bridge, most of the Titans on Luna-1 are unable to teleport or do other Titan things.
• The Autobots use the abbreviation "T-Cog" here, which has only previously been used in the Aligned continuity to describe a "Transformation Cog"
• The manual transformation lever for the T-Cog of the Titan is designed like a table, and requires a hard flip to activate it...this is of course a reference to Prowl's recurring table-flips throughout the post-Costa Transformers series'
• Fortress Maximus is traditionally a City-former with Cerebros forming his head, and Spike/Emissary forming Cerebros' head in turn. Here, Fortress Maximus controls the base Titan using a device created by Cerebros.
• It sure is a good think that Tyrest built the base Titan with a Fortress Maximus looking face huh?
• It's revealed here that Red Alert was once an informer for the Senate, and was selected to become a sleeper agent for Sentinel Prime, so he could work for him if he should ever be needed, as he was here. This process left him somewhat paranoid, explaining his erratic behaviour over the franchise history.
• The whole ending scene with the Autobots hanging out around a soapy washing-up sink, cleaning the Titan's "bits" is quite adorable :)
• Prowl finally gets his eyes fixed, which have been broken since Combiner Wars.
• The "gibberish" message at the end includes the message "MTMTE 2012-2016" Marking an end to the series and giving us the years it lasted between.
• It's mentioned that Sovereign is returned to Earth, but under whose protection? The Joes? The Autobots? Other?