IDW - Micronauts: Wrath of Karza #2

Written by: Cullen Bunn and Jimmy Johnston

Art by: Andrew Griffith and Ron Joseph

Colours by: David Garcia Cruz

Letters by: Tom B Long

Assistant Editor: David Mariotte

Editor: David Hedgecock

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Baron Karza and Shazraella have set up their base of operations on Earth, and take a look at the progress of their plan to take out all of Earth's defenders before they begin their invasion properly, and note that the only likely threats are from Oz's Micronaut team....

The Heliopolis is chased by a spacecraft manned by Membros and his new crew, and are soon disabled by them. Biotron goes onto the hull to try and repair the damages whilst they fly away from their pursuers, but they inevitably crash, with Biotron being seemingly injured in the crash (since it landed on him with fire and explosions)

Membros' crew approach the crashed ship to take their prisoners, and find Acroyear carrying Oz and Phen out of the ship, before he is able to go back in for the others however, he is attacked by Membros and his team, he puts up a good fight, but is ultimately overwhelmed, and is knocked out, whilst beloved Weeble "weapon" is sliced in half, seemingly out of grief for the loss of the greatest weapon in it's crew member's arsenal, the Heliopolis explodes (more likely due to the crash making the engines explode, but whatever). Membros' team capture the surviving Micronauts and leave.

Soon, Repto reports the destruction of the Heliopolis to Karza, and announces that they assume that Larissa and Microtron were killed in the explosion. Shazraella and Karza take this news badly, despite Karza having seen this during his time in the Entropy Storm, but he is still devastated over the death of his daughter. Out of anger he kills Repto and vows to do everything to succeed in this invasion mission.

Meanwhile, at the Heliopolis' remains, Larissa manages to break out of the rubble with her force field generators, and correctly assumes that the enemy assumes that they are dead, but she just begins to plan against them with Microtron, whilst holding the Time Mask....

Characters

Micronauts

Oziron Rael Captured by Ministry of War

Phenolo-Phi Captured by Ministry of War

Acroyear Captured by Ministry of War

Biotron Possibly killed in Heliopolis Crash

Larissa

Microtron

Time Mask

Ministry of War

Baron Karza

Shazraella

Membros

Green Acroyear

Antron

Repto Killed by Karza

Centaurus

Lobros

Kronos

Karza's Army

Other Microspace

Baron Daegon (Flashback) Defeated by Karza

Red Falcon (Flashback) Killed by Karza

Time Travelers (Flashback)

Human

Scarlett (Picture Only)

Snake Eyes (Picture Only)

Agent Helix (Picture Only)

Rock 'n Roll (Picture Only)

Brad Turner (Picture Only)

Matt Trakker (Picture Only)

Gloria Baker (Picture Only)

Julio Lopez (Picture Only)

Others on Karza's Hit List (Pictures Only)

Other Macrospace

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Picture Only)

Arcee - Sports Car (Picture Only)

Jazz - Sports Car (Picture Only)

Skywarp - Fighter Jet (Picture Only)

Rom, the Space Knight (Picture Only)

Notes

• Baron Karza's screen filled with targets of the Earth's defenders mostly consists of the guys he defeated last issue, the Micronauts, some guys I can't identify (probably some Joes?) and the noticeably absent Rom from the previous issue, with a giant question mark over his head, implying that he is missing.
• Considering the news that following the "First Strike" event starting in August that Rom and Micronauts will be relaunching with a joint comic, this is probably leading up to some plot points for that comic, with him possibly teaming up with the remaining Micronauts here.
• The Ministry of Defense has seemingly been renamed as "The Ministry of War", and considering Membros being part if his forces, it's likely that the Ministry of Science was also absorbed into the new Ministry too.
• The Heliopolis, the home and ship of the Micronauts is utterly destroyed in this issue :(
• Membros' team is made up of various Micronaut toy line characters, showing off several more of the alien species from Microspace. This also shows that not all of Karza's troops are purely mechanical as it would have been assumed last issue.
• From the Statue of Liberty in the background, we can assume that Karza's base in in New York.
• Repto destroys Acroyear's beloved Dog Weeble weapon....now I'm glad that he gets killed by the end of the issue!
• Though Karza's flashback makes it look like he kills Daegon here, the Hasbro Sourcebook explicitly states that he was defeated and captured, so that answers my longest lasting Micronauts questions!
• It's confirmed fully here that one of the Time Travelers actually BECAME the Entropy Storm, and since they are all connected, that makes all of them a part of it too
• Also, Shazraella out-right states that Larissa is the daughter of her and Karza..awwww
• We don't see what's happened to Biotron...last time he was shown, he was crushed by the ship crashing on top of him....I wonder if they actually killed a main character in this thing?!
• On a side note, where are Dr Conway and her family during this?!