IDW - Revolution: Action Man

Title: The Modern World

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Paolo Villanelli

Colours by: John-Paul Bove

Letters by: Neil Uyetake

Edited by: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Following the attacks on the White House and Bikini Atoll, and the other strange events of the past few days, the British Action Man program decide to send Action Man himself in to investigate what GI Joe are up to. Action Man breaches Governor's Island's defences, and plows his Orca Sea Jet into the wall, making a hole large enough for him to enter through.

The Joes and MASK team on the site mobilize to confront the intruder, whilst Miles Mayhem, still trying to hide true motives, sends Sly and Vanessa to make sure no-one finds out about their new prisoner, the Autobot Kup.

Action Man manages to fight his way through to Kup's holding cell, where he frees the Autobot, and teams up with him to help him escape.

Kup fights off the humans with non-lethal force, but recognizes Mayday as Ayana Jones, someone who captured him in the past. Action Man keeps in contact with Mainframe and explains what is happening, and when coupled with Matt Trakker having doubts about the Autobots being the enemy, he decides to help Kup to escape by having one of their orbital laser satellites fire on the facility, but at a low pulse that cannot hurt Kup.

In the confusion of the attack, Kup and Action Man manage to escape, and Miles blames Mainframe for letting him escape, which Helix and Mainframe claim to have been done to take Kup in alive.

Kup and Action Man drive along the waterbed towards America so they can join the upcoming battle with the other Autobots, whilst the Joes recover from their attack, and Mainframe vowing to change how GI Joe keeps secrets from their own troops, and Miles begins plans for him to make his final move, whilst the Action Man program worry about losing contact with Action Man...

Characters

Autobot

Kup - Pick Up Truck

Orion Pax - Truck (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Blitzwing - Tank/Jet (Mentioned) In GI Joe Captivity

GI Joe

Mainframe/Blaine Parker

Agent Helix

Spike/Steven Witwicky

Talon/Zilong Qian

Mayday/Ayana Jones

Heavy Duty/Hershel Dalton

Flash/Anthony Gambello

Random Joe Troops

Joe Colton (Mentioned) Dead

MASK Program

Miles Mayhem

Matt Trakker

Sly Rax

Vanessa Warfield

Gloria Baker (Mentioned)

Brad Turner (Mentioned)

Roger Moore (Mentioned)

The Adventure Team (Mentioned)

EDC (Mentioned) Absorbed into GI Joe

Action Man Program

Action Man/Ian Noble

Pauline Bestley

Terrence Salmons

Bryce Chan

Other Human

Doctor X (Mentioned)

Other

Dire Wraiths (Mentioned)

Notes

• This story is set the night of the events of the GI Joe and Transformers one-shots. The former of which has not been released yet.
• Matt Trakker's new distrust of Miles' actions is due to him keeping the sentience of the Transformers a secret from him and his team
• It seems appropriate that the Action Man one-shot would heavily feature both GI Joe and MASK, since Action Man is the UK counterpart to GI Joe, and MASK being a sub-division of GI Joe in past media, making them family...Kup is just there because he's a grumpy old uncle...
• Action Man wanting to have a robot best friend is likely due to the film "The Iron Giant" from his childhood.
• This issue acts somewhat like a "backdoor" pilot for the Revolutionaries comic series, which is set to star Kup, Action Man, Mayday and others
• Kup and Action Man both find each other's names amusing.
• Kup begins to compare Action Man discovering his friend was his arch-enemy to Orion Pax (Optimus) being betrayed by his friend Megatron.
• Spike's name is revealed to be Steven here, before his mother named him as "Stevie" this is his full first name however.