Sig Pub - Robots in Disguise #16

Notes

• This month features a screenshot comic of the episode "Adventures in Bumblebee-Sitting"
• Despite the opening page setting up the dual team dynamic seen in Season Two of Robots in Disguise, the screen-cap comic in this issue is from mid Season One....before the team divide, and arrival of half the cast mentioned...
• The colouring in page this month features Scuzzard...a character otherwise only appearing in the novel series so far...wow!

Features

Sideswipe Race! Tear off the cover to follow a maze of Mini-Cons to find Bumblebee

15 Incredible RID Facts! 15 amazing facts that you would learn from just watching the cartoon

Battle of the Bots Jazz vs Quillfire profiles

Fixit Fiasco! Count all the different Fixits on the page!

Observation Test Spot the difference time!

Draw Optimus Prime .....I shouldn't have to explain this one....

Bumblebee's Brainbusters Various puzzles curtesy of Bumblebee!

Pull Out Poster Bumblebee calling out "Rev up and Roll Out" to his invisible troops!

Comic Investigator Follow the comic, and answer some easy questions

Colour in Scuzzard - Guess....

Decepticon Deceiver Identify which Decepticon is different from the others in the line up.

Puzzling Prizes Solve some puzzles, then enter a contest for some Combiner Force toys!

Scrapyard Search Locate various things in the picture of the Scrapyard

Transformers Post Send pictures to Fixit!

Strongarm Search! Do a wordsearch featuring words relating to Strongarm.

IDW - Revolutionaries #1

Title: Crisis Intervention

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Fico Ossio

Colours by: Sebastian Cheng

Letters by: Tom B Long

Edited by: David Hedgecock

Assistant Edits by: David Mariotte

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

A strange pulse of energy spreads through the newly peaceful city of Verenya, which turns all the citizens into Dire Wraiths!

Half an hour later, a GI Joe team, led by Mayday, arrives to investigate what the energy pulse was, and why there has been no communications from the city for a while, but are immediately attacked by the new Dire Wraiths. The Joes fight back, and prepare to escape, but their helicopter is destroyed by the Wraiths. All seems lost, until Rom appears and uses his Neutralizer to disable them all, revealing to the Joes that they are not TRUE Dire Wraiths, but only partially converted humans and animals.

The Joes and Rom team up to investigate the pulse's origins together. They locate the dead body of a Russian soldier, who was executed, and the team identifies him as a member of the Oktober Guard. The group investigate the facility further when they come across a chamber where Action Man is fighting with Blackrock/Sovereign, whilst a strange obelisk sits in the middle of a cache of Ore-13.

Soon, it's realized that none of the groups converged had anything to do with the creation of the Wraiths in the city, leading Rom to wonder who did...

The wall crashes in, and the rest of the Oktober Guard, now led by Major Bludd, arrive and start attacking the group. The Joes and others fight off the Guard, but Blackrock is sent flying into the Obelisk, setting it off again. Rom uses his Neutralizer to shield most of the humans from it's effects, but Roadblock, Flash and Quarrel are all hit head-on, mutating them. Bludd is also hit, but only in the arm, which Daina of the Guard quickly slices off.

Whilst Mayday and the others are attacked by the mutated Joes, the Guard steal the obelisk and drive away with it, however outside the facility, the Guard crash into Kup, Action Man's new partner.

Now defeated, Rom uses his Analyzer to try and identify the obelisk, but Bludd activates a hidden device, causing himself, the Guard, and Action Man to disappear in a flash of light.

Blackrock makes it out of the facility, and he explains that the obelisk was an artefact found by the old Adventure Team (GI Joe's precursor), that was in the hands of the British Secret Intelligence Service, explaining Action Man's interest in it. Blackrock explains that he was looking into the obelisk to see if it could help him understand more about his Cybertronian past, and identifies the obelisk as something called "The Talisman"

Hours later, the Action Man programme have arrived at the city, where they take in the mutated Joes and civilians for treatment, and begin work with the "Revolutionaries" to locate Action Man, and the Talisman, hoping it can cure the mutated victims. Blackrock has a plan to save Action Man, but he needs a LITTLE help (Micronauts), and Rom leaves to deal with the real Dire Wraiths back in America.

Action Man wakes up, and finds himself in a space suit, and finds himself surrounded by several dead astronauts in Cobra-issue space suits, next to a large sign in the Moon's surface asking for help....

Characters

Autobot

Kup - Pick Up Truck

Garrison Blackrock/Sovereign - Head

GI Joe

Mayday

Heavy Duty Turned into Partial Dire Wraith

Flash Turned into Partial Dire Wraith

Quarrel Turned into Partial Dire Wraith

Joe Colton (Mentioned) Dead

Duke (Mentioned)

Scarlett (Mentioned)

Action Man Programme

Action Man/Ian Noble

Agent Bryce Chan

Agent Terrence Salmons

Medical Doctor

Oktober Guard

Major Bludd

Daina

Dragonsky

Horrorshow

Gorky

Shturmovik Dead

Other Human

Verenyan Civilians Turned into Partial Dire Wraiths

Section Sabine Staff Dead on the Moon

British Secret Intelligence Service (Mentioned)

Adventure Team (Mentioned) Defunct

Cobra (Mentioned) Defunct

Earth Defense Command (Mentioned) Defunct

Other

Rom, the Space Knight

Real Dire Wraiths (Mentioned)

Notes

• This series acts as a follow up of Revolution, which actually shows most of the Hasbro properties interacting regularly
• This series also acts as the new Action Man series, since his main series ended just before Revolution began
• Ayana Jones/Mayday is revealed to have been a member of GI Joe before joining the EDC, since the Joes were disbanded for a period of time.
• Flash mentions that he has a new outfit...this is true! Last time we saw him in IDW he looked very different!
• Quarrel is mentioned as having trained with the Oktober Guard...BEFORE it rebelled against Russia that is!
• Blackrock's robot mode, Sovereign, has been redesigned to give him a more streamlined look, allowing him to look more human-shaped than his toy counterpart. He also now features an Autobot insignia and a disguise feature that allows him to turn back into a realistic human.
• Kup's new design is based on his upcoming Titans Return toy. Making him look nothing like an Earth pick-up truck now...good disguise!
• The dead astronauts and giant "Help Us" sign on the Moon are leftovers from the long abandoned Section Sabine storyline from the GI Joe comics. It was a Cobra outpost, but was abandoned, along with the staff a few years ago.

IDW - Optimus Prime #2

Title: New Cybertron Part 2: A Lonely Pillar on the Plain

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Kei Zama

Colours by: Josh Burcham

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Four million years ago, Orion Pax escorts his prisoner, the Decepticon Jetfire, to see Prowl at his office, where he manages to convince the former cop to help him interrogate Jetfire, to help solve the mystery of Hefter's murder in police custody.

Later, Prowl holds his investigation, and manages to learn that Jetfire isn't a "real" Decepticon, but rather just an idealist, and asks him to take him to the person who told him about Orion Pax so they can talk...

In the present, the Autobots prepare for the newly arrived aliens by having the Torchbearers combine and all of them prepare for battle, however when the ship's doors open, it's revealed that the passengers are actually relatively friendly Junkions, who just want to trade their technology with the Cybertronians and Humans in exchange for some of Earth's Ore-13.

Optimus isn't sure about this, since this could be further violations to the Tyrest Accord, but Talon of GI Joe interrupts him by pointing out that the Cybertronians have no say in what happens on Earth, and interrupts their meeting, going so far as to open fire on the Junkions.

Despite the firing however, the Junkions quickly repair themselves, and the two groups decide to meet again later.

Optimus and the team return to Metrotitan, where Soundwave reveals that he knows who the Junkions are, and explains to everyone how early in the war, Prowl and Shockwave both led teams to Junkion and waged war there, but due to both being stubborn and incredibly logical, one of them caused the planet to explode, leaving the Junkion's homeless. This leads Optimus and the others to feel that they owe the Junkions some help due to their war destroying their home.

Outside the Junkion's craft, the Joes have set up a base camp, where they try to resolve the situation without Cybertronian help, especially due to Talon's hatred of them (since they DID invade Earth remember!)

Elsewhere in the city, Arcee is visiting Sideswipe again, trying to get a response from him due to his coma, but Jetfire isn't hopeful about his chances now, and his spark is heavily corroded already.

The Autobots and Colonists form a welcoming committee for Wreck-Gar and Rum-Maj of the Junkions, and they start a tour of the city, with Aileron noticing that the two Junkions aren't getting along.

During the tour, Wreck-Gar finds himself in the medi-bay, where he correctly diagnoses Sideswipe as having spark corrosion, and tells them that the Junkions have a Positron Core, the only theoretical device that can save a corroding spark, something that hasn't been seen since the days of Prima himself. Optimus begins to consider this, since he wants his team-member back, as well as any future victims of the illness.

Back at the Joe camp, Talon bemoans to Chameleon about how, despite it being a worldwide organization now, he still feels that GI Joe are too focused on the US, and not the world at large.

Inside the command tent, the Joes have realized that the Junkion ship is protected by some sort of energy field that messes with non-biological devices, meaning the Autobots are being lied to about something.

The team are stumped on how to figure out what secrets they have without Cybertronian help though, since they would have some idea on what the ship should be like, but Talon is refusing any Cybertronian help.

Despite his orders, someone contacts Thundercracker in Egypt, on his holiday with Buster and Marissa, he claims that it's a wrong number, but agrees to help, on one condition.....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime/Orion Pax - Truck Cab

Arcee - Sports Car

Jetfire - Fighter Jet

Pyra Magna - Emergency Response Truck

Jumpstream - Sports Car

Dustup - Sports Car

Skyburst - Helicopter

Stormclash - Helicopter

Rust Dust - Motorcycle

Victorion - Torchbearer Gestalt

Sky Lynx - Space Shuttle

Thundercracker - Fighter Jet

Sideswipe - Sports Car Dying of Spark Corrosion

Prowl - Cybertronian Emergency Response Vehicle (Flashback)

Hardhead - Tank (Flashback)

Delta Seeker - Jet (Flashback)

Hot Spot - Fire Suppression Truck (Flashback)

Manta Ray - Race Car (Flashback)

Greatshot (Flashback)

Silverbolt - Jet (Flashback)

Megatron - Tank (Mentioned)

Zeta Prime (Mentioned)

Sentinel Prime - Truck (Mentioned) Dead

Decepticon

Soundwave - Personnel Carrier

X-Gunner - Jet (Flashback)

Octopunch (Flashback)

Fangry (Flashback)

Weirdwolf - Wolf (Flashback)

Shockwave - Flying Artillery (Flashback)

Hefter - Fork Lift Truck (Mentioned) Dead

Senator Momus (Mentioned) Dead

Colonist

Aileron - Space Shuttle

Midnight Express - Bullet Train

Roulette - Muscle Car

Bump - Armadillo

Gimlet - Lobster

Slide - Part of Oil Tanker

Oiler - Part of Oil Tanker

Junkion

Wreck-Gar

Rum-Maj

Various Junkions

Other Cybertronian

Metrotitan - Autobot City Ship

D.O.C.

Flashback Cybertronians (Flashback)

Blackrock/Sovereign - Head (Mentioned)

Primus (Mentioned)

Prima (Mentioned)

Old Senate (Mentioned) Killed by Decepticons

GI Joe

Talon/Zilong Qian

Flint/Dashiell Faireborn

Chameleon/Erika Le Tene

Mainframe/Blaine Parker

Hi-Tech/Sanjay Bharwaney

Spike/Steven Witwicky

Human

Marissa Faireborn

Skywatch (Mentioned) Defunct

Earth Defense Command (Mentioned) Defunct

People's Liberation Army Mecha Force (Mentioned) Defunct

Other

Buster the Dog

Notes

• So, turns out the mysterious aliens in the Quintesson shuttle are actually Junkions. Last time we saw a Quintession in IDW was on the Planet of Junk...hmmm...
• Sanjay Bharwaney is shown to have joined GI Joe, like most of the previous human cast of Transformers. I wonder if Jimmy Pink will make an appearance there some time soon?
• The previous holder of Sanjay's codename was one of the Dire Wraiths killed by Rom during Revolution...they don't take long to replace Joes do they?
• It's revealed that following Megatron leaving the Planet of Junk in Monstrosity, the war returned there to recruit the Junkions to their respective armies. It didn't go well!
• Sideswipe's condition is revealed to be spark corrosion, and it is very close to killing him now. I wonder if they found a cure for that on Luna-1?
• Thundercracker's "road trip" mentioned during Revolution is revealed to have been to Egypt. He also brought Buster and Marissa with him.
• It's not mentioned here, but Marissa s Flint's illegitimate daughter. Wonder if they'll have an awkward meet-up at some point?
• Optimus recognizes the Junkion ship as being the same type as what Megatron used early in the war, after his exile to the Planet of Junk. He also saw it when he was on Lv-117, but he may have forgotten due to the weird time-field on that planet.
• Arcee mentions how she is older than most of the others on Autobot City. This isn't often mentioned, but is true since she was involved in Jhiaxus' experiments during Nova Prime's reign.
• Wreck-Gar was shown on the Planet of Junk when Megatron was there in Monstrosity, but was somewhat more feral back then, He's apparently been cured of that madness since then.

IDW - Till All Are One #6

Title: Desperate Times

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Metroplex is being overrun by the Titan Swarm, despite the united Cybertronian army fighting them off as well, he is taking too much damage. Windblade realizes that the Titans are fighting anything that moves, so she severs Metroplex's brain module, connecting it to an Energon stint, and causes him to effectively die, stopping the Titans from further attacking him.

Starscream sees this from his tower, and starts panicking further. He gets Elita One on the communicator again, but she still refuses to allow Carcer to transform and join the battle on the ground.

Following the bad exchange with Elita, Starscream calls the other Council members and allies to have them return to the Spire for an emergency meeting.

Once all gathered, Starscream explains that Elita is refusing Carcer to join the battle, and suggests that they evacuate the planet and escape from the Titans that way. No one is happy with this, but they understand what has to be done...

Ironhide starts filing civilians into the shuttles, but there's too many people trying to escape the planet. The prisoners are escorted to the shuttles, and Chromia sees Ironhide, warning him to get to Windblade, since she knows she'll do something stupid without someone to balance out her ideals.

Much to her prediction, Windblade speaks up, and suggests a mission for a team to head to Carcer, and take control of it to allow him to join the battle, despite Elita's arguments.

Windblade quickly assembles her team, which includes herself, Blurr, Tigatron, Airazor, Moonracer, Lightbright, Sparkstalker, Breakdown (the Veloctironian one) and Fireshot, who will take a ship, and hide amongst the others sent to attack Carcer from the outside. Sparkstalker gives Windblade a strange device that she asked him for, and they leave.

Elita contacts Starscream to ask him why he's sent shuttles to attack her, and he just says that she brought this on herself. Starscream has the Constructicons deployed, and combine them into Devastator to assault the hull of the Titan directly.

Obsidian tries to reason with Elita, pointing out that they are still their allies, and they should just explain the situation to them, but she ignores him, and orders her troops to open fire on the other Cybertronians.....

Characters

Autobot

Metroplex - Iacon City Deactivated by Windblade

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Blurr - Race Car

Ironhide - Van

Chromia - Speedbike

Bumblebee - Car (Ghost)

Decepticon

Sparkstalker - Insect Monster

Tall Tankor - Truck/Jet

Fat Tankor - Tank

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Constructicons - Construction Vehicles

Devastator - Constructicon Gestalt

Ironhide's Security Force

Cybertronian Civilians

Prison Warden - Truck

Prisoners

Colonist

Caminus (Mentioned)

Lightbright

Knock Out - Sports Car

Moonracer - Sports Car

Breakdown - Armoured Van

Quicklightning - Race Car

Vanquish - Part of Jet

Fireshot - Part of Jet

Tigatron - Tiger

Airazor - Falcon

Carcer - Space Shuttle

Elita One - Car

Obsidian - Osprey Stealth Bomber

Lancer

Greenlight

Other

Titan Swarm Several Killed in Battle

Notes

• Lightbright being a Cityspeaker was shown at the start of Combiner Wars, when we were introduced to Caminus itself. It just hasn't appeared too much since then...
• It's explained here that Caminus' brain was removed so that his body could be used throughout the planet
• Despite appearances, the Carcer crew appear to WANT to help Cybertron by Transforming their Titan, but Elita is just being stubborn due to the currently unknown secret of the Titan.
• The prison warden here looks a lot like Armorhide from the Live Action Movie toyline. A similar looking robot appeared in several flashbacks as the manager of the race track.
• Devastator is shown with a Decepticon insignia again now, this is most likely a mistake though, since Scoop is forming the centre of his consciousness now, and he is a Neutral/former Autobot.

IDW - Rom #6

Title: Reinforcements Part 2

Plot and Script: Christos Gage & Chris Ryall

Pencils and Inks: Paolo Villanelli

Colours: Alessandra Alexakis

Letters: Shawn Lee

Editorial Assist: David Mariotte

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The two new Space Knights, Livia and Orphion, try to get to Camilla, so they can destroy her as a Dire Wraith, but Rom refuses to allow them near her, since she is still partly Human, and his friend. This disagreement leads to a full-on battle between the Space Knights, whilst Camilla is paralyzed by Rom for safety.

Whilst the Knights are fighting, Camilla-Wraith manages to extend her fingers through the ground, and finds the unconscious soldier that the others knocked out before, and infects him, whilst leaving half of herself inside Camilla.

Camilla, now only half-infected, tells the Knights that the Wraith is escaping through the ground, and they need to stop it before it's too late, leading Livia to shoot off her still infected arm, to trap the remainder of the Wraith inside her. Rom tries to get the others to heal her, rather than kill her still, but they still deem her a threat, leading to another argument. Suddenly the other Wraith attacks, intending to take them out whilst they are weakened

Nearby, Camilla is still in pain, and knows that she needs to die, but asks Orphion to allow her to die on her feet, impressing the commander...

Elsewhere, in Rhode Island, Darby has come to stay with her grandmother, but is struggling with her PTSD, and knowing what she does about the Dire Wraith infestation of Earth, and has a massive panic attack after being asked to go to the shops...

In Northern California, Beach Head and Grunt access a weapons-locker, and take a load of Joe equipment to help in their plans to act rogue and attack Rom.

Back at Cooper's Mill, the Wraith starts to escape to reunite with the others, when Rom teams up with Livia to destroy it.

Nearby, Orphion aims his weapon at Camilla, but Rom goes to stop him from firing...too late...Orphion fires his weapon at her, and skewers the inner-Dire Wraith, sending it out of the host, killing it, but keeping Camilla alive. Rom scans her and confirms the Wraith's absence.

Orphion explains that he is not without compassion or subtle tactics, but he simply felt both were misplaced here, and still does, since Earth is still overrun by Dire Wraiths, they are still duty-bound to destroy the Earth to remove the infection, leaving Rom to apologize to his badly injured friend for failing her...

Elsewhere, Countdown meets with D'rge at his lighthouse, where he is worried about the appearance of more Space Knights, but D'rge isn't concerned, as they have been on Earth for far longer than the Knights realize, and they has secrets they don't know about....as a large multi-eyed creature stands behind him....

Characters

Solstar Order

Rom, the Space Knight

Livia

Orphion

Dire Wraith

D'rge

Countdown

"Legion" (In the Shadows)

Camilla's Inner Wraith Half enters Jem Fan Soldier, Half destroyed by Orphion

GI Joe

Beach Head/Wayne Sneeden

Grunt/Robert Graves

Human

Camilla Byers Cured by Orphion, lost left arm

Darby Mason

Gramma Gay-Lynn

Jem Fan Soldier Possessed by Inner Wraith, destroyed by Livia and Rom

Mr Mason (Mentioned) Killed by Dire Wraiths

Notes

• The new Space Knights are revealed to be Livia (the female)and Orphion (the snake)
• Orphion is shown to be a superior officer amongst the knights, whilst Livia is hinted as being a former lover of Rom's. Their backstory is due to be explored in the upcoming Annual.
• Aww, the poor Jem loving soldier was turned into a Wraith...I was hoping he'd urn into a main character :(
• Also, the fragment of Camilla's Wraith was able to create a completely new Wraith, but was still unable to completely take her over after even a long period of time? What is she made of?
• Darby is shown to have gone to stay with her relatives after all, though her PTSD has gotten worse, with her now getting into panic attacks at the thought of leaving the house (likely due to her being unsure of who's Human or not now)
• In case you forgot since the last time we saw him, the old lighthouse keeper at the end is the current host for D'rge.

TFCC #72 - Of Masters and Mayhem Part 6

Comic Title: Finale

Writers: Jesse Wittenrich & Pete Sinclair

Pencils: Dan Khanna

Inks: Jake Isenberg

Colours: Evan Gauntt

Letters: Jesse Wittenrich

Managing Editor: Pete Sinclair

Plot

Ramjet notices Megatron, and immediately engages him in battle, unimpressed with Megatron's use of black holes to give him extra fire-power. The Wreckers wonder if Megatron can handle Ramjet alone, but Impactor doesn't care, since it's Megatron. He has the Wreckers combine into Wreckage, who engages Thunder Mayhem in battle, forcing the force of destruction to drop his captive Optimus Prime.

The battle doesn't go too well for Wreckage, but the human Elisabeth, Spike's girlfriend, reveals that she has the power to use Energon to attack others, and joins the battle against Mayhem.

During the battle, a piece of Mayhem's chest armour is chipped, revealing his Matrix, giving Optimus an idea. He has everyone aim for the chest, and they manage to pierce through his chest, destroying him.

In the chaos, Ramjet gets disillusioned, and escapes, hoping to reunite with Unicron, whilst Megatron returns to his human form and sneaks away to hide once more.

Weeks later, Optimus and Skyhammer have left to hunt down Ramjet, whilst the Wreckers take the Mayhem Attack Squad into custody and leave Earth. The humans and Pretenders get ready to be at peace, when they watch the TV and notice a new wrestler named Stranglehold....

And with that, the final platform is closed off, and the Transtech Rhinox is considering a new job, due to the lack of new arrivals to their Cybertron. Optimus decides that due to the changes to their multiverse, they need to change their policies and have to stop with the separation of Transtech and Offworlders.

Rhinox is shocked when a final group of arrivals turns up, from the long destroyed Classicsverse. Optimus suggests that this is probably due to them taking the "long way round", so he goes to meet them, and introduces himself to Nightbeat and the other new arrivals....

THE END

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Pick Up Truck

Hi-Q - Jet/Gun

Metalhawk - Fighter Jet

Crossblades - Helicopter

Vroom - Sidecar Motorcycle

Springer - Personnel Carrier

Elita-1 - Speedboat

Nightbeat - Sports Car

Siren - Emergency Vehicle

Huffer - Truck Cab

Snarl

Tyrannitron

Slag - Triceratops

Sludge - Apatosaurus

Swoop - Pteranodon

Skyhammer - VTOL Jet (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Megatron - Tank Self Exiled as a Human Pretender

Spacewarp - Space Shuttle/Gun

Ramjet - Fighter Jet

Thunder Mayhem - Mayhem Attack Squad Combiner Defeated/Destroyed

Stranglehold - Rhino (On TV)

Needlenose - Fighter Jet (On TV) In Wrecker Custody

Windsweeper - Fighter Jet (On TV) In Wrecker Custody

Ruckus - Off Road Truck (On TV) In Wrecker Custody

Other Mayhems (Mentioned) In Wrecker Custody

Wrecker

Wreckage - Wrecker Combiner

Toxitron - Truck Cab

Impactor - Armoured Truck

Bluestreak - Sports Car

Counterpunch - Sports Car

Fractyl - Fighter Jet

Transtech

Optimus Prime - Truck

Megatron - Tank

Rhinox - Construction Vehicle

Human/Nebulon

Elisabeth

Spike Witwicky

Buster Witwicky

Jesse Witwicky

Galen Witwicky

Minerva (Arrived in Axiom Nexus)

Muzzle (Arrived in Axiom Nexus)

Lug (Arrived in Axiom Nexus)

RAAT Pilots

Female Wrestlers (On TV)

GB Blackrock (On Phone)

Random Humans

Neo-Knights (Mentioned)

Other

Unicron - Ringed Planet (Mentioned)

Gaea - Classicsverse Earth (Mentioned)

Notes

• Yup, this is the final issue of the TFCC Magazine! And as per tradition, it ends in a very lacklustre way!
• Since Spacewarp is shown to be sentient, it seems likely that Hi-Q is as well, so...yay?
• Also, Spacewarp is shown to house the black-hole connection in her chest, rather than it being Megatron like it tends to be.
• With her connection to GB Blackrock, and powers, it appears that Elisabeth is actually a Metahuman, and likely a new member of the Neo-Knights. Due to the powers she is using (borrowing energy from Cybertronians for attacks) she is likely in some way related to Dynamo from the original Neo-Knights, who was also able to draw on energy from other sources (though in his case it was Earth and Cybertron themselves)
• Also....THEY LITERALLY USED A HUMAN DEUS EX MACHINA TO DEFEAT THE UNSTOPPABLE ROBOT MONSTER?!? Did I mention how glad I am that this is the last ever issue?
• They don't even bring any closure to this revelation either, they just cover it up, and she pretends it never happened!
• Optimus seems shocked that Thunder Mayhem has a sixth park powering him up, but the prose stories made it clear that this was known about...odd...
• Yeah...Wreckage, the big combiner robot who was the main goal of the final Subscription Service set, and the guy who we spent several prose stories following the creation of was used as a BATTERY for a human to easily defeat the focus of the penultimate Subscription Service set.....AHHHHHHHHHH!!!
• Hey look, Stranglehold is on Earth and is a wrestler now! Considering he would have been sent with the other humans and Pretenders several years prior, it's unlikely he's up to anything bad, so the final cliffhanger is kind of pointless.
• To add more to the joke, Skyhammer is just mentioned as having left Earth with Optimus to hunt down Ramjet, without even an appearance.
• Following the main story, the final platform shuts down for the Transtechs, leaving the Multiverse completely segregated (though as we saw recently in Lost Light, multiversal travel is still happening). This is a reference to this being the final piece of media produced by Fun Publications and their way of saying goodbye,
• In a final bit of nostalgia, the final new arrivals in Axiom Nexus are revealed to be the bulk of the remaining characters we knew from the Classicsverse, which was the first original continuity worked on from the Collector's Club. So that's a nice way to bookend their franchise.

Other Features

Mini-Spies: The First Transformers In-pack Premium - Article on the Mini-Spy toys

End of Days - Pete Sinclair interviews his content creators about the end of the TFCC

Titans Return Masters Kup - Review and reveal of the upcoming Kup toy :)

IDW - Lost Light #1

Title: Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron

Written by: James Roberts

Art by: Jack Lawrence

Colours by: Joana LaFuente and John-Paul Bove

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Anode and her assistant Lug are attacked by a Cybernought whilst excavating a crystalline snowflake, and are about to be killed by their enemy when the Necrobot appears, and rescues them into the future...

A little over 450 years later, the duo wake up from their stasis pods at the Necrobot's Fortress, where they encounter Ultra Magnus giving a debriefing to several other of "The Disappeared" and explains that the Necrobot rescued them from their assumed deaths, before being killed himself.

Nearby, Rewind is introducing Roller to everyone, when the Decepticons Fangry and Rapidfire aren't buying Magnus' story about the Necrobot, and think this is all an Autobot trick. They decide to try and make themselves seem the strongest there by taking out the current strongest, then they notice Tailgate showing off his super-strength by lifting up the giant Roller to everyone's amusement.

Cyclonus warns Tailgate to not show off, but Tailgate is confident that he's fine, just as Fangry purposely knocks into the two of them, leaving them annoyed.

Elsewhere, Swerve introduces himself to Anode and Lug, and tries to pull off his "Crew-ditions" trick again, like he did following the Dark Cybertron crew reshuffle. During it however, he gets insulted when Anode suggests that he doesn't sound too grief-stricken for Skids' death, which Swerve suggests that she was being rude due to her timesickness, and mentions that Velocity should examine her. Anode is visibly unnerved when she hears that Velocity is a part of the crew.

Nearby, Rodimus is having his paintjob remade by Drift to symbolize his conversion to the Spectralist religion, like Drift, but Drift is worried bout the meaning of the colours he is using, as they imply that he intends to kill someone (Getaway), which Rodimus neither confirms or denies. Suddenly the planet shakes, causing everyone to notice!

A few moments later, the tremor stops, and Megatron wonders what it was, from his location with Terminus, at Ravage's now vacant holo-statue, but Terminus isn't too bothered, being used to tremors on Messatine. Megatron points out that the planet is hollow and shouldn't have any sort of sub-surface activity, so they decide to return to the fortress. Megatron says goodbye to Ravage and prepares to leave, just as Rung and Nightbeat emerge from the ground, like a pair of zombies!

Soon, the crew all convene in the control room, where Brainstorm shows them his new invention, a transporter, which everyone claims to look like a den. Brainstorm reveals that he tested it to rescue Nightbeat and Rung from underground (nearly anyway) which leads Nightbeat to explain that they encountered a geo-bomb underneath, but it burned out, rather than detonated, which explains the tremor from before. Rodimus announces that once the den is recharged he'll lead a team to Cybertron, acquire a ship, then return for the others, and go after Getaway.

After the meeting, Rung asks Ratchet where Skids is, leading to Ratchet having to give him the horrible news....

Rung stays at Skids' bed-side that night, but has a strange reaction and seems to vomit up something into his hand, much to his shock...

Meanwhile, Tailgate finishes his recharge at the Energon Suite, when he sees Cyclonus returning from somewhere, clearly badly beaten up. Tailgate gets angry and figures out that Fangry did this, and goes after him, leaving Cyclonus to moan at him to not kill him.

Anode and Lug arrive at the den, intending to use it to escape, before Velocity can reveal something about them to the others, but Drift appears and refuses to allow them entry, since they need all the power to get to Cybertron. Anode is intrigued by Drift's sword (not a euphemism) and tries to touch it, but Drift again refuses, and touches her chest to stop her. Suddenly he gets a shock of energy through him...

Drift, Rodimus and Grimlock are suddenly in a fiery field, facing down an army of Sparkeaters and Decepticon Insignia ships, led by Pharma, and the Lost Light flies at a strange angle. Drift looks downwards and sees an ominous warning etched into the ground....

Drift wakes up after being knocked out for 10 minutes to find Ratchet taking care of him, but declines telling him about his vision of the future, since no one believed him after his previous one.

Rodimus leaves Cyclonus in charge of the team, whilst he heads off with Drift, Chromedome, Rewind, Minimus Ambus, Roller, Terminus, Megatron and Ratchet through the den to Cybertron.

The team arrive on Cybertron, which Roller confirms on his GPS system, and Terminus looks out upon the planet, but is surprised to see it looking so good, considering how Megatron told him it was in ruins. Megatron thinks he's just being poetic about Cybertron always being beautiful, but instead finds the planet looking as it did before the war!

Everyone is confused by where they are, but are soon confronted by Twelve-of-Twelve of the Functionist Council, and a group of his enforcers, and some prisoners. Rewind, having experienced this universe through his database being encroached by it, recognizes it as being the Functionist Universe created when Perceptor tampered with the Paradox Locks on Brainstorm's Time-Case!

Characters

Autobot

Rodimus - Sports Car

Megatron - Treaded Vehicle

Minimus Ambus/Ultra Magnus - Minesweeper/Vehicle Transport

Drift - Race Car

Nightbeat - Sports Car

Rung

Ratchet - Ambulance

Tailgate - Car

Whirl - Osprey Helicopter

Chromedome - Car

Rewind - Data Slug

Velocity - Race Car

Nautica - Submarine

Swerve - Van

Brainstorm - Jet

Wavelength

Syphon

Skids - Van Dead

Pharma - Jet (Vision)

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex (Vision)

Orion Pax/Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mentioned)

Getaway - Race Car (Mentioned)

Lost Light Crew (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Rapidfire

Fangry

Most of Deathsaurus' Crew Dead

Cybernought Pilot (Flashback)

Decepticon Justice Division (Mentioned) Dead

Ravage - Cassette (Mentioned) Dead

Functionist

Twelve-of-Twelve

Sky-Spy

Functionist Enforcers

Functionist Prisoners

Other Cybertronian

Cyclonus - Jet

Anode - Jet

Lug - Backpack Equipment

Roller - Truck

Terminus - Mining Vehicle

Other "Disappeared"

Censere (Flashback) Dead

Starscream - Fighter Jet (Mentioned)

"Techy" (Mentioned)

Knights of Cybertron (Mentioned)

Other

Ten

Sparkeater Army (Vision)

Galactic Council (Mentioned)

Notes

• This is the new series continuing the story of More Than Meets The Eye, renamed and renumbered to better conform to the post Revolution IDW Hasbroverse.
• From appearances, Anode looks like she turns into a jet.
• Lug turns into a piece of back-pack equipment for Anode, and appears to use the same base design and engineering as the Titans Return Rewind toy.
• Lug refers to "Techy" being the one who hired them for their ill-fated mission. Assuming this is referring to a pre-existing character, it is likely Heretech, one of the Warriors Elite.
• Since they are apparently the last ones to wake up, it seems that Anode and Lug were the last two to be rescued by Censere.
• For some reason Velocity appears to be very dismissive to Roller in this issue, and even drags Nautica away from him.
• Also, Nautica has finally gotten away from Skids' death-bed, and appears to have cheered up again over night.
• Rodimus' new darker colour scheme is based on his Dark Rodimus colourscheme from various toys. In continuity though these colours are supposed to stand for grief (over Skids' death) and a promise for death (to Getaway for causing all of this).
• The "Time Den" even looks like a cut up version of Megatron's old cannon, albeit much larger than it was before.
• Rung has a strange reaction when he's alone with Skids' corpse, he seems to weep, then his spark shines bright, then he vomits up something into his hand (there is something solid there, it's just very obscured by his hand) which seems to shock him.
• Grimlock appearing with Drift and Rodimus in Drift's vision of the future implies that the Scavengers and Team Rodimus will meet up at some time in the near future. Also Pharma seems to be alive too!
• Twelve-of-Twelve appears to be hovering on the spot at the end of this issue...is he a wizard?
• Isn't it a bit weird that last time Brainstorm messed with time travel he aided in the creation of the Functionist Universe, and his next attempt to perform long-distance transport, he winds up sending the team to that universe.
• Also, Team Rodimus easily travelling to the Functionist Universe essentially spits in the face of the Shroud from the Fun Publications stories, which makes multi-dimensional travel near impossible now...pity....
• The reason for Drift's new colourscheme with his return to the series at the end of last season are implied to be due to his Spectralist beliefs, and them giving some sort of a message.
• Here's my theory for this season's overall plot: The Snowflake that Anode has stored in her chest caused Drift's vision, and also triggered Rung's weird "power". The snowflake is a part of Rung that explains his alternate mode, which is the key to something related to the gear-symbol faction.

IDW - Optimus Prime #1

Title: New Cybertron Part 1: To walk among the chosen

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Kei Zama

Colours by: Josh Burcham

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Just before the war really began, Orion Pax is given a complaint from Tappet about how one of his officers, Outback, killed his Conjunx Endura whilst he was in custody, just for being a Decepticon supporter. Orion promises to investigate the situation, but Outback just gloats about what happened.

Shortly afterwards, Zeta Prime appears to Orion and asks him to announce to the rioters outside that Hefter, the victim, was a violent Decepticon, and Outback simply did his job to protect people, pointing out that they both want to do the right thing, and Orion agrees, hoping that his friend was different to the past Primes...

Later, Orion finds Outback in a bar to confront him about his actions, and Outback justifies it as it being a pre-emptive strike to save himself, whilst Orion demonstrates how he could have disarmed the threat, instead of killing him. Orion is still angry though, as Outback points out that the world is dangerous, and there isn't always a third option, just like with Sentinel Prime and the Decepticon uprising.

Later still, Orion meets with Ratchet who examines Hefter's body, and discovers that he was shot from behind, leading both to be distrustful of Zeta Prime and his ulterior motives. Ratchet takes Orion to meet with his newest student, a flier-turned-scientist, Jetfire, who immediately attacks Orion, revealing himself to be a Decepticon, though not a strong one, since Orion easily knocks him down..

In the present day, the people of Mexico City on Earth are protesting the Cybertronian presence on their planet, when several new arrivals appear, to hunt down a dangerous cache of Cybertronian-derived weapons located in the city. The newly arrived colonists are very raw in their tactics, and are soon attacked by some individuals with Cybertronian guns, one shoots Midnight Express, knocking him down, prompting the other Colonists to go to attack the humans, but Aileron stops it, just as Metrotitan appears overhead, and Optimus arrives with Arcee and the rest of his command team.

They soon discover the weapons, and Arcee is worried about the Colonists all wearing face plates to emulate Optimus, but he just dismisses it as an affection of theirs.

Optimus is more concerned about the weapons on Earth, and how their misuse here is in clear disregard for the Tyrest Accord, so he decides to head to speak with the President along with Arcee and Soundwave.

The Colonists have returned to Autobot City, which is currently flying over Washington, where the Colonists all wax lyrical about how great Optimus Prime is, and Aileron is getting annoyed by all the talk, despite her being the same way not to long ago. Jetfire points out that Optimus wasn't always a revered figure, and has only started to embrace it recently, since Pyra Magna and others started to convince him that he was a true Prime, and a god himself.

As if on cue, Pyra Magna makes an appearance, and reports to Jetfire that they're detected a large space ship heading to Earth, but Jetfire decides to hold off from telling Prime about it, until after his meeting with the President.

Below them, Optimus and his team and talking to the President, with her armed GI Joe guard where he explains that the misuse of Cybertronian technology on Earth cannot continue, and pushes her to decide on a representative for Earth on the Council of Worlds, as he threatens to charge Earth's people with disregard of the Tyrest Accord, unless they join completely.

Before anything can be accomplished however, Soundwave detects the space ship as well, leading Optimus to send a team to intercept it.

Optimus, Arcee, Soundwave, Aileron and the Torchbearers arrive at the Matterhorn, where they wait for the space craft. Optimus becomes nostalgic and looks at his remaining half of the Matrix, which suddenly lights up, which is shouldn't be able to do now, bringing all the Camiens in the area to awe. Pyra however shows Optimus that the Matrix is reacting to the Ore-13 in the mountain, and cautions him to understand the Matrix better, so he doesn't become consumed with it's legends, like the Camiens are..

Then the space craft smashes into the Matterhorn and causes a massive crater in the already massive mountain....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime/Orion Pax - Truck Cab (Formerly Cybertronian Truck)

Arcee - Sports Car

Jazz - Sports Car

Jetfire - Fighter Jet

Pyra Magna - Emergency Vehicle

Rust Dust - Motorcycle

Stormclash - Helicopter

Skyburst - Helicopter

Dust Up - Sports Car

Jumpstream - Sports Car

Zeta Prime (Flashback)

Outback - Van (Flashback)

Police Force (Flashback)

Sentinel Prime - Truck (Mentioned) Believed to be Dead

Decepticon

Soundwave - Personnel Carrier

Hefter - Forklift Truck (Flashback) Killed by Police

Colonist

Aileron - Space Shuttle

Midnight Express - Bullet Train

Roulette - Muscle Car

Oiler - Front of Oil Tanker

Slide - Rear of Oil Tanker

Gimlet - Lobster

Bump - Armadillo

Other Cybertronian

Metrotitan - Autobot City Space Ship

D.O.C.

Ratchet - Ambulance (Flashback)

Tappet - Car (Flashback)

Bartender (Flashback)

Grotusque - Winged Monster (Flashback)

Repugnus - Insect Monster (Flashback)

Warpath - Tank (Flashback)

Blackout - Helicopter (Flashback)

Demolishor - Tank (Flashback)

Doublecross - Twin Headed Dragon (Flashback)

Hooligan - Jet (Flashback)

Sandstorm - Buggy/Helicopter (Flashback)

Dial (Flashback)

Ramhorn (Flashback)

Steeljaw (Flashback)

Rosanna (Flashback)

Flipsides (Flashback)

Other Protestors (Flashback)

The Old Senate (Mentioned) Destroyed by Decepticons

The Thirteen Primes (Mentioned)

Solus Prime (Mentioned)

Primus (Mentioned)

Nominus Prime (Mentioned) Dead

Human

Madame President

GI Joe Troops

Mexican Protestors

United Nations (Mentioned)

EDC (Mentioned) Disbanded

Other

Newly Arrived Aliens (Mentioned)

Dire Wraiths (Mentioned) Defeated on Earth

Council of Worlds (Mentioned)

Notes

• This is the follow-up series to Robots in Disguise/Transformers Ongoing in the wake of the Revolution event, and the start of the IDW Hasbroverse
• Outback is shown to have been a bit of a trigger-happy jerk in the past...I don't feel so bad about his horrible skewering death in the future now...
• Zeta essentially tells Optimus that he wants him to act as a symbol for his new regimes, and for him to trust him and his decisions. This seems to lead into the events of Autocracy in this regard.
• Ahem...Flipsides and Rosanna are FEMALE Transformers, there aren't supposed to be any females on Cybertron at this point in history. Unless society didn't consider females of the disposable classes to be the same as "proper" Transformers.
• The Cybertronian Colonists are now starting to perform missions along with native Cybertronians. All of the new Colonists shown in this issue are from previous Transformers franchises.
• Slide is shown with an Autobot insignia already, I don't think this is official and may just be an homage to Optimus', like his face plate, since he's the only one in the group be have an insignia, and Aileron, who has been working with Optimus since before Earth was annexed, still doesn't seem to have an insignia yet!
• Following the events of Revolution, it appears that Metrotitan is staying in his shuttle mode instead of city mode.
• The Colonists are shown to be now wearing face plates to emulate Optimus
• Jetfire is revealed to have been a Decepticon before joining the Autobots. Also, he was only allowed to train as a scientist during the Functionist eras because Ratchet, as CMO, pulled some strings to allow for it (despite Jetfire being a flier)
• Pyra Magna reveals that the Matrix reacts with Ore-13 to make it glow on occasion, and suggests that something similar happened when he came to Caminus despite the Matrix having been spent by Optimus in Chaos.
• The alien vessel is a Quintesson Cruiser, as seen in the 86 Transformers movie, and throughout Season 3.