IDW - Micronauts #10

Written by: Cullen Bunn & Jimmy Johnston

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: Ander Zarate

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: David Hedgecock

Assistant Editor: David Mariotte

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The Micronauts are flying around inside the Heliopolis, when Oz falls asleep, and dreams about the human soldier who almost captured him, when he suddenly finds that he can understand the "giants" language, and realises that he plans to go after the scientist who helped them out.

Oz wakes up, and is confused at first, but soon realizes that the Time Mask is somehow responsible for this, and, whilst surprised that Oz can already understand the human language, but also confirms that the scientist is indeed in trouble.

Oz calls a meeting of the crew, and tells them about the scientist's danger, and they all agree to help her. Biotron manages to Enerchange with the internet, and locates her, also identifying her as Rhonda Conway. The ship sets off in her direction.

Soon, the ship arrives at Rhonda's house, where they manage to break in, by smashing down the door, once inside, they find that Rhonda isn't there, and they assume that she has already gone into hiding.

Before long however, some human soldiers appear, and also break into the house, intending to capture Rhonda themselves, but they also don't find her. The Micronauts prepare to attack the humans, when suddenly some OTHER Acroyear unites from Microspace appear, and kill the humans. They soon go after the Micronauts, but our heroes manage to fend them off, until a Giant Acroyear appears and opens up a huge payload of weapons on them. Acroyear manages to stop him however using one of Rhonda's son, Billy's toys.

The Micronauts return to the Heliopolis to escape the Acroyear Swarm, and Acroyear recovers his new weapon from the Giant Acroyear's corpse.

The crew escape, with the other Acroyears following, but the Time Mask is concerned, since these Acroyears weren't supposed to arrive this fast, and is now fearful that the Earthwar is already here, but it is too early!

Characters

Micronaut

Oziron Rael

Phenolo-Phi

Larissa

Acroyear

Microtron

Biotron

Time Mask

Other Microspace Denizen

Acroyear II Swarm

Giant Acroyear Destroyed by Acroyear with Dog Weeble

The Ospella Species (Mentioned)

Human

Soldiers Killed by Acroyear Swarm

Lady at Donut Shop

Commander Klain (Dream Only)

Rhonda Conway (Photo Only)

Billy Conway (Photo Only)

Other

Racoon "Sentry Beast"

Notes

• We learned in Revolutionaries #2 that the Micronauts have learned to speak English. It seems here that they have learned through the Time Mask's influence, and Biotron Enerchanging with the Internet.
• Oz appears to be the only one who can hear the Time Mask...the crew are getting concerned....
• The scientist who helped the Micronauts escape from their captivity is finally named here: Rhonda Conway. She seems to like shoes...
• It's revealed that the people of Microspace stopped using hinges on doors eons ago.
• Amongst the board games in Billy's bedroom are several Hasbro properties, like Battleship, Connect 4 and Operation, he also have a Jenga game set up on his desk.
• On his wall he also has posters of parody musicians, like "Sweetload" from "Meatloaf"
• The new Acroyear units were shown arriving on Earth at the end of the Annual story, set between issues 9 and 10.
• It's revealed that the pain felt by Biotron is also passed onto Oz when he is riding inside him...that is disturbing...
• The Time Mask seems unusually worried about the Acroyears and the Earthwar coming early. He was the one who revealed to the Micronauts that time was able to be changed, so why does this worry him? Hmm....