IDW - Transformers (2019) #12

Title: Nautica: Home

Written by: Brian Ruckley

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

A short while ago, Sentinel Prime receives word from Cybertron about the recent murders, and cuts his colonial tour short. He orders the ship to return home, once any aliens or Colonists, who are not planning to return to Cybertron have left the ship.

Starscream tries to have a conversation with Nautica about the recent Cybertronian murders, but she is more worried about the murdered Voin, as some of their deaths matter more than others, and this could cause some future problems. Starscream isn't interested, but shows Nautica some footage about the Thraal diplomatic party, as he wants to know what they are saying. Nautica gets worried and rushes away, calling for her bodyguard, Road Rage to join her.

Road Rage meets with Nautica, and they head towards the Thraal's quarters, and Nautica explains that she heard the Thraal address each other strangely, and using odd terminology, and she just wants to look into a possible problem, but doesn't want to inform security yet, in case it's just a mis-translation.

After meeting with the Thraal, Nautica notes that one of the odd-acting Thraal is not a part of the delegation, and is therefore unaccounted for, she asks Lightbright on the ship's bridge to scan the ship for any unusual organic signatures on the vessel, just in case. She notes one in the cold storage area for food for the organic species, so Nautica decides to investigate.

In the cold storage, they find some bisected animals, that are supposed to be used for ceremonies by the Thraal, and realise that the animals must have been used for smuggling some smaller parts to create a larger weapon. The duo find a hatch and follow the Thraal's trail, eventually finding him, and a device heading through a tunnel leading to an air-hatch.

Road Rage attacks the Thraal, crushing him, but not before he can order the device, a mobile explosive to teleport outside. Road Rage calls security to warn them of the terrorist attack on the hull, and soon the duo make it outside, and try to stop the explosive, but find that it has a one-tracked A.I. to make it's way to it's destination and detonate.

Road Rage follows the explosive as it passes over an area that has been pressurized by Lightbright, causing a blow out, sending the explosive flying away from the ship, Road Rage fires on it, causing a massive explosion, leaving Road Rage floating away into space...

Later, Nautica meets with Sentinel, and confirms that Road Rage will be okay in short time, but that the Thraal is going to die following his crushing. She also insists that the Thraal Delegate did not know about the attack, but that she is upset by what happened, with Nautica comparing the Thraal to Cybertronians for having factions. 

Sentinel asks Nautica whether this will cause any future problems, and reminds her that he doesn't want any more problems on top of the current murder spree and rallies on Cybertron. Nautica simply states that they will need to take some actions to hide this attack, and to place extra security to monitor the Thraal and others, but it shouldn't be of any notice, since this was always a possibility.

And with that, the shuttle heads towards Cybertron....

Characters

Cybertronian

Sentinel Prime - Shuttle

Nautica - Submarine

Road Rage - Flying Car

Starscream - Tetrajet

Hound - Jeep

Lightbright

"Giant Woman" - Senate Shuttle

Colony Tour Staff

Thraal Delegate's Guard

Crosscut (Flashback Only)

Novastar - Car (Mentioned)

Brainstorm - Jet (Mentioned) Killed by a Rise Member

Rubble (Mentioned) Killed by Quake

Senate Shuttle Security (Mentioned)

Close-Defence Drones (Mentioned)

Two Teleporting Cybertronians (Mentioned)

Thraal

Thraal Ambassador

Thraal Ambassador's Four Secondaries

Thraal Saboteur Crushed by Road Rage

Thraal A.I. Explosive Destroyed by Road Rage

Other Alien

Voins

Voin Enslaved Organics 

Frems Dead in Cold Storage, Intended for Meals

Bioluminescent Aeglus IV Species (Memory)

The Occulted Dremdens (Flashback Only)

A'ovans (Mentioned) Mostly Culled by the Thraal

Murdered Voin (Mentioned) Killed by Quake

Notes

• So with this issue we can see a pattern in this series' format, five issue long stories, followed by a one-off side story. We know the next story is another five issue deal, but with the release of Galaxies, an anthology series, coming this week, we'll have to see if this continues as well.
• As mentioned in the issue itself this story is set before the end of issue ten, when Sentinel and his crew return to Cybertron.
• Nautica is revealed to be the Head of Xenorelations (ie dealing with aliens). Road Rage is a bodyguard, and Novastar and Hound are part of Colonial Security. I think that's everyone from the Senator's crew we saw in issue ten now identified career-wise.
• Amongst the alien species mentioned in the prelude are the "Occulted Dremdens", a species that hasn't appeared in the franchise before now, whilst the others mentioned are previously introduced species from this series, or a prior one. We even get a brief cameo from them in a flashback! I'm guessing they're going to be important down the line!
• The "Giant Woman" shuttle is still unnamed, and still unconfirmed as a Titan, so I'm keeping my name for her from issue ten.
• One of the porthole paintings looks like a speedway. My guess is that this is our first brief look at Velocitron in this universe (Let's hope this version doesn't get destroyed like it has in the old IDW and Cyberverse recently!)
• Some Voin shown on the Senate ship have crustacean organics attached to them, showing that the ape-like ones aren't the only species they enslave.
• There's a nice bit of hypocrisy in this issue, Nautica and Road Rage ignore the enslaved organics attached to a Voin, but are later horrified at the idea that the Thraal have an A.I. installed in a bomb, as it is an enslaved inorganic consciousness.
• It's unclear if Road Rage is a triple changer, or if her car mode just has pop-out wings like the original did
• It's outright implied this issue that the A'ovans on Cybertron are the only ones left in the universe following a genocide caused by the Thraal
• It's also implied that the ruling party of the Thraal are not interested in continuing the genocide of the A'ovan, and that it is a vocal minority who want it.
• Nautica mentions that she only knows of two teleporting Cybertronians, we can assume that one of Skywarp, but who is the other?

Sig Pub - Transformers #48

Notes

• This issue includes screen-shot comics of "Sleeping Giants" and "Eruption" the season finale for Season One, with the caption confirming that next issue will start showcasing Season Two.
• Like last month, this issue includes a lot of Evergreen character models, rather than Cyberverse, like you would expect for a Cyberverse based magazine.
• The free gifts this month are a spy phone blaster, a target to fire on, and another packet of stickers for you to either apply to the earlier cover, or in a folder to be kept safe (guess which one I do!)

Features

Bumblebee's The Best!- Do some Bumblebee themed puzzles and games

Optimus Sudoku - Use pictures of Optimus to complete a Sudoku board....

What's Missing, Megatron? - Complete a picture of Megatron

Cool Colouring! - Colour in a bunch of Autobots!

BotBots Advert - BotBots Season 3 is still available!!

Battle of the Bots - Shockwave vs Grimlock profiles

Mission Challenge! - Answer some questions/play games about Season One of Cyberverse!

Windblade Words - Complete a Windblade themed wordsearch

So Many Starscreams! - Count all the Starscreams in a picture!

Navigate the Decepticons - Help Bee through a maze, avoiding the Decepticons along the way

Transformers Post - Look at the scary pictures sent from the small children!

Autobot Differences - Find the differences between two pictures of the Evergreen Autobots

Competitions - Enter a contest to win some more BotBots!

FBF - To The Death #4

Title: The Kill-Zone

Story: Simon Furman

Art: Geoff Senior

Letterer: Martin Baines

Design by: Amazing15

Printed in UK by: Mixam

Plot

At the Luna-5 facility, Dryagin holds a meeting with his crew to decide what to do with the captured insurgents, either take them to Earth to be executed for trying to stand up against a corrupt system, or release them and risk being martyred themselves. They can't come to an agreement, but Bill detects a large heat signature in the prisoner's holding area. The team realise that Kraken isn't with them, and rush off towards the section.

On Earth, the Triumvirate are concerned that their new asset, Kraken, might not be able to deal with Dryagin himself, due to his war-record, so they decide to summon another asset to help him, Killatoa...

Back on Luna-5, the team confront Kraken, who admits to incinerating the insurgents and relieves Dryagin of his command, attacking him, revealing that he has been placed in charge of the team now. Leone attacks Kraken, and holds him at knife-point, giving Dryagin the chance to escape into the snowy landscape outside.

Kraken is quickly freed, and has Leone imprisoned, whilst he chases after Dryagin, managing to injure him in the process...

The White Noice Tac-team approach the Moon, where King receives a message from Snow, saying that Dryagin may be in trouble, and he begins to worry that they may to too late to rescue and recruit him to their cause...

On Earth, Deacon Snow, who is monitoring both situations activates two sleeper agents, so they can cause a distraction on Earth, giving King a little more time to rescue Dryagin

At Luna-5 again, Dryagin reaches a motorpool, but is caught by Kraken, who starts destroying the vehicles there. The rest of the team arrive, but aren't willing to intervene, they know Kraken is now technically the team leader, but they can't bring themselves to turn against Dryagin.

Larssen is having trouble figuring out what to do, even through the rest of the team appear to be willing to follow Kraken if they have to, and even imply that Leone is at risk now too for turning against Kraken earlier, to Larssen's distress.

The two "leaders" fight it out, with Dryagin managing to pin Kraken into some machinery, and getting into an exo-driller, and tries to put him down, however he gets distracted when Kraken lets it slip that the Triumvirate have had his family killed.

The remaining Cyber warriors arrive to try surround Dryagin and finish him off, however the air around them suddenly turns white, and only Dryagin can move within it!

Diamond Bill, aboard the Firedrake, uses the tractor beam on the area, freezing everyone in place, but allows Dryagin to escape, having left a quad and a med-kit outside the perimeter, and wishes Dryagin luck as he is allowed to escape from his usurper...  

Characters

Pacifiers

Aleksy Dryagin On the Run, due to Betrayal 

Josiah Kraken

Leone Imprisoned by Rest of Team, on Kraken's Orders

Diamond Bill

Bette Larssen

Dolan Rekt

Jonas Huey

Hash Flynn

Megan Umber

White Noise

Deacon Snow

Juddh King

Mazur

Other Tac-Team Members

Abducted Spaceport Flight Technician

Bar Patron Sleepwalker

Scavenger Sleepwalker

Triumvirate

Vidi

Vici

Veni

Other

Brood-Class Vyber Warrior Operator #1

Brood-Class Vyber Warrior Operator #2

Lena Dryagin (Mentioned) Believed to be Dead, Abducted by White Noise

Leo Dryagin (Mentioned) Believed to be Dead, Abducted by White Noise

Killatoa (Mentioned)

Luna-5 Insurgents (Mentioned) Most Killed by Kraken

Notes

• The start of this issue is actually the middle of the story, so rather than jumping around, I just put it in linear order in the above Plot section.
• For the first time, neither Lena or Leo Dryagin appear in an issue, though both are mentioned a couple of times.
• Larssen has joined the ground team on the Moon now, either she was with them from the start, and just stayed out of sight last issue, or she joined them after the fighting ended, leaving Bill alone on the ship.
• Killatoa finally gets a mention this issue, he is the monster-looking character who appeared on the cover to issue one, who was also announced as a main character in the pitches...nice to see him appear (or at least get mentioned anyway) after just four issues (five if you include the prequel story)
• Kraken is revealed to have killed the insurgents on the orders of the Triumvirate, not just out of his own warped sense of right and wrong.
• Leone is the only member of the team to openly defy Kraken after he takes over the team, Dryagin did mention in issue one that she was the most loyal to him. Though saying that, the rest of the team seem very reluctant to go against him either. Bill also later helps Dryagin by using a tractor beam to give him time to escape, but he does this from the ship, meaning he could technically claim a mechanical failure was to blame for it. 
• The former sea of Japan is shown to be full of waste, further showing how polluted this future Earth is.
• Despite them being in a relationship, Umber doesn't appear to be too fussed that Leone may be in trouble for pinning down Kraken, instead Larssen appears to be more worried about her!
• Larssen's dislike of Kraken was actually hinted at in issue one of the series, where she seems disgusted by him hitting on her after their Cryo-sleep.
• Based on their apparent thoughts this issue I can see Leone, Bill and Larssen joining Dryagin, or staying loyal to him at least, with the rest either following Kraken, or just turning against their former leader due to it being their orders.

IDW - Transformers vs Ghostbusters #4

Title: Ghosts of Cybertron, Part Four

Written by: Erik Burnham

Art by: Dan Schoening

Colours by: Luis Antonio Delgado

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Assistant Editor: Megan Brown

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

Following the discovery that Starscream has escaped, or released from his ghost trap, the team as well as their Autobot allies relocate to their warehouse facility in Red Hook, where they store their extra vehicles and equipment (mostly so the Autobots can have more room to walk around). 

Whilst there, Optimus fixes his graffiti, by taking on a Ghostbuster-themed colour-scheme, and admits that he still doesn't believe in ghosts fully, but does trust his Autobots in their judgements. Ray and Winston upgrade some proton packs to be "Autobot-sized" so their new allies can help them to deal with Starscream and any other similar problems, and before-long, Egon has detected Starscream's PKE signature again, so the crew head out.

The team soon arrive at Long Island, where they quickly find Starscream at a power plant, who is happy to see Optimus there, with the latter being shocked that ghosts are actually real!

The Ghostbusters fire on Starscream, intending to trap him again, but the Decepticon calls for help, and Kremzeek arrives, stopping the proton streams. Starscream tells his master that he has brought Optimus to him, but Kremzeek retorts that he didn't want Optimus, but the Allspark, and proceeds to absorb Starscream inside of himself.

Kremzeek starts to monologue, explaining that he turned the Decepticons on Cybertron into ghosts to have them aid him in finding the Allspark, the Cybertronian artefact that gives life, which he wants for himself, but all the Decepticons, bar Starscream, refused to help, so he absorbed them too.

Using the monologue against him, the Ghostbusters and Autobots fire proton streams at Krezeek, but he uses a lot of energy to break free from them, he attacks Optimus, but is too weak to simply disintegrate him, like he did to the Decepticons, so he attempts to kill him manually, so he can absorb him, and learn the location of the Allspark, once and for all.

The Ghostbusters and Kremzeek try to find out a way to help Optimus, when Ectotron reveals that they left some traps, including the one holding the electrical being they captured earlier, and some mood slime. The crew release the energy being, who is immediately attracted to Kremzeek, due to him being made of electrical energy too. As soon as the two touch, they both de-stabilize and explode...

However, with kremzeek gone, the Decepticon ghosts he stored inside his body are released, Optimus offers to still use the Allspark to grant the Decepticons new bodies, so they don't have to continue in this unnatural state, but Megatron refuses and intends to continue the war forever. Optimus disconnects the Proton pack from his Ion Blaster, and attaches it directly to his arm, unleashing a proton energy-fuelled energy axe, stating that he is tired of their long-since-over war, and declares that he is not afraid of ghosts....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck

Ectronymous Diamatron/Ectotron - Ecto-1

Decepticons

Megatron (Ghost)

Starscream - Tetrajet (Ghost)

Soundwave - Lamp Post (Ghost)

Shockwave - Ray Gun (Ghost)

Ghostbuster

Peter Venkman

Ray Stantz

Winston Zeddemore

Egon Spengler

Janine Melnitz (Mentioned)

Other

Kremzeek, the Scavenger Destroyed with Killerwatt

Killerwatt Destroyed with Kremzeek

"Kremzeek's Children" Presumably Destroyed with Kremzeek

Gozer, the Traveller (Mentioned)

Notes

• Optimus Prime takes on his crossover toy colours this issue, we even see his ectoplasm splattered trailer briefly too...guess that was a part of the paint-job too...or Optimus went on a bit of a ghost kill-spree on the way to Long Island...
• He mentions that he changes his colours by using "Nanochromatic Camouflage", which he claims could have just removed the graffiti he was marked with last issue. This is most likely the "official" name for Electronic Paint, first seen in Transformers: Animated, as it appears to have the same properties
• So...turns out, despite wearing Mara-Al-Utha's outfit, and the Quintesson themed markings in issue one, "Kremzeek" is actually...Kremzeek, an alien that acts as a scavenger following Gozer when he attacks worlds, and he creates little Kremzeeks as his "children" or minions....okay then!
• It's not mentioned, but it seems like one of Kremzeek's "Children" were the ones who broke Starscream out of his ghost trap.
• Also, we knew that Starscream was hiding something about the incident on Cybertron, but it turns out that he alone was working with Kremzeek in his mission, and the other Decepticons turned on him, and were absorbed into his being...I wasn't expecting that to be honest!
• Optimus references that the Decepticons used to monologue all the time. This is due to the series being based on the 80's Transformers cartoon, where it was commonplace for the Decepticons to monologue a lot. The Ghostbusters might not have this same experience, since this team is the one directly based on the Live Action characters, and not the Real Ghostbusters cartoon characters.
• We see some Mood Slime in a container this issue, which the team plan to keep in reserve. This was the pink goop from Ghostbusters II, the same move that Vigo came from, and we saw the painting of him last issue....HMMMMM?
• It's revealed that Killerwatt, the ghost captured last issue was actually NOT connected to Kremzeek...and was just a coincidentally energy-based, electrical ghost roaming around at about the same time as this adventure? Huh...

IDW - Transformers (2019) #11

Title: The Cracks Beneath Your Feet, Part Five

Written by: Brian Ruckley

Art by: Angel Hernandez & Anna Malkova

Colours by: Joana LaFuente & Josh Burcham

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

Now back on Cybertron, Sentinel and Starscream walk through the Council Chamber's corridors with Orion Pax and Chromia, where they discuss the Ascenticon blockade, stopping Prowl from speaking with Barricade about recent potential crimes.

Sentinel says that he wants them to just storm the Ascenticon's base and take him by force, but Orion points out that following the destruction of the war memorial, which some are blaming on Security, so he wants to talk to Megatron about all of this first. Sentinel agrees, but asserts that if Barricade isn't in custody by sunfall, then they need to storm the base.

Afterwards, Chromia speaks with Orion, telling him that Windblade managed to shield the data she was recovering during the explosion and they have forty names of Rise members, who they are going to start sifting through to find their murderers.

Elsewhere, Megatron is furious with Soundwave, now that he has learned that he passed information taken from his mole, Barricade, to Shockwave, and he used Quake to kill the Voin witness, and now he is publically denying Security access to Barricade, making them look even worse.

Knowing he cannot keep Barricade around anymore, Megatron sends a secret message to Shockwave to have Barricade whisked away, and to make it look obvious.

Bumblebee visits the still badly injured Windblade in the medical facility, where Orion Pax also arrives, telling his friend that she will get better. He also asks Bee to end his covert operation as an Ascenticon member, due to the upcoming raid on the base by Security, as he doesn't want him caught in the crossfire. Bee however refuses, as he wants to do this to get out of Orion's debt, and now also feels he needs to atone for not being there for Rubble either, when he was murdered too, or he's going to end up breaking in some way...

Later, the Ascenticons man their stations, as they know Security are planning to raid them, during the scattering however, Bee notices Barricade speaking to Soundwave, and follows him, finding him and Skytread at one of the old Gladiator gates. At that moment, the doors are blown in by Sixshot and his team, who are there to take Barricade away.

Bumblebee manages to beat away the Risers, but has problems with Sixshot, however before the Riser can take him out, Skytread uses a taser to knock out Bee. Before anything else can happen, Prowl and his security forces break in, and the Risers flee, with Barricade in their custody.

In the aftermath, Megatron looks over the damage, and sees a way to make this work for him, he starts another broadcast and declares that his people are under attack, and that Security was not only planning to attack too, but that they let the Rise attack them as well. He uses a blowtorch to modify the insignia of his group, into what will one day be known as the Decepticon insignia....declaring it to be the future of their world.... 

Characters

Autobot

Sentinel prime - Spaceship

Orion Pax - Truck

Security Forces

Chromia - Car

Prowl - Police Vehicle

Ascenticon Base Raiders

Windblade - VTOL Jet In CR Stasis, Will Recover in Time

Ascenticon

Megatron - Treaded Vehicle

Soundwave - Hovercraft

Elita-1 - Car

Bumblebee - Hovercraft

Barricade - Police Vehicle "Abducted" by Sixshot

Skytread

Refraktor - Hovercraft

Acid Storm - Tetrajet

Strika

Jhiaxus - Jet

Ratbat

Other Ascenticons

The Rise

Sixshot - Jet/Car

Storm Cloud - Jet

Visper - Jet

Shockwave - Spaceship (Mentioned)

Flamewar - Motorcycle (Mentioned)

Shadow Striker - Car (Mentioned)

Quake - Tank (Mentioned)

Mindwipe (Mentioned)

Frenzy (Mentioned)

Rumble (Mentioned)

Slipstream (Mentioned)

Blackjack (Mentioned)

Treadshot (Mentioned)

Other Cybertronian

Starscream - Tetrajet

Senate Attendant

Alpha Trion (Stained Glass Depiction Only)

Solus Prime (Stained Glass Depiction Only)

Nexus Prime (Stained Glass Depiction Only)

Solomus (Stained Glass Depiction Only)

Quintus Prime (Stained Glass Depiction Only)

Rubble (Mentioned) Killed by Quake

Glyph (Mentioned)

Other

The Voin Scavenger Witness (Mentioned) Killed by Quake

Notes

• The bots in the stained glass windows in the hallway leading to Sentinel's office were chosen to represent different branches of state. As stated here, judging from the layout of the hallway, the opposite side may feature some more.
• The stained glass bots are also all members of the Thirteen Primes, or the Guiding Hand, implying that both groups are part of the mythology of this series too.
• Solomus being shown is interesting, as we can see his "crown" that was on his true form, who went by the name of "Tyrest" in the previous IDW continuity, implying that this universe didn't have a memory wipe of the Guiding Hands' identities and appearances, however we saw a statue of Primus in issue six, which was designed after the traditional Primus design, and not after "Rung". Now this could be just due to the artist wanting to use this design over the mythical form, but this could mean that Primus DOES have his traditional form in this universe, and isn't Rung again this time (HOPEFULLY!)
• The Statues sitting outside his office are also just cheeky references to the Movie version of Sentinel Prime, but with a sword inside of his Primax Blade
• As seems to be a habit now, the front cover that I have has nothing to do with the contents. Chromia appears in the opening scene, Windblade is seen in her CR chamber, and Sideswipe is nowhere to be seen. This would have been better suited for a couple of issues ago, when the trio went into the Monument base.
• Starscream is revealed to be the Head of Intelligence here.
• Glyph gets name-dropped in this issue, and appears to be based on the character introduced in the Extended Universe Botcon lines. I wonder if Tap-out hangs out with her too?
• Rumble is mentioned as being one of the Risers, possibly ending the conspiracy theory that Rubble was actually him in disguise (simply due to his name)
• All of the characters listed on the datapad as being Risers have had a new toy in recent years, so I could assume what alternate modes they have, but I wont that that risk, until it is confirmed (especially since a few have had multiple toys)
• Barricade is revealed to have been a member of the Ascenticons for a while now, but stayed in the Security Forces to act as a mole for Soundwave, and is confirmed to be the one who passed on the Voin's identity to Shockwave, leading to him sending out Quake to kill him, and Rubble by association. Megatron was apparently not aware of this mole situation.
• So...why did Soundwave or Shockwave send Quake to kill the Voin? Quake was made a very public member of the Ascenticons, meaning that the investigation, which will link back to him, will automatically link the Ascenticons to the murder too...what was the plan here? (They could have just had Sixshot or another warrior kill them instead!) My guess would be that they are somehow acting AGAINST Megatron to take leadership for themselves, much like the Marvel counterparts.
• Orion mentions that Windblade will recover from her injuries in time. This appears to be to quell the fears of the readers, who notice the similarities to Sideswipe's condition from the previous IDW continuity, which proved to be fatal.
• It is confirmed that Bumblebee was implanted into the Ascenticons on Orion's orders to spy on them, we also learn that Chromia is aware of this plan, but is the only other person to be aware of it.
• Orion comments on how inept the attack on Megatron in issue 2 was, something that people, including me, have been assuming was a staged attack ever since it happened.
• It is alluded to that Bumblebee was "saved" by Orion in the past. This is likely related to his firing from Security, which is still unexplained to us.
• The Ascenticon base is shown to be an old Gladiator Arena. I don't think this has been revealed before now!
• Sixshot is shown to be at least a triple changer, as we see his car mode for the first time this issue, we can probably assume he is a six-changer after all!
• Sixshot also still sports the wound from Windblade's sword skewering him from the last time we saw him. It is even affecting his T-Cog when he uses his car mode! Nice continuity and implementing an existing injury there!
• Skytread appears to be aware of the Ascenticon-Rise connection as he helps Sixshot to "kidnap" Barricade. Is Bumblebee the only one who doesn't know?
• As people have noticed since the start, the Ascenticon insignia is shown to be the basis of the Decepticon insignia, with Megatron revealing the new design this issue.
• Amongst the newly revealed Ascenticon members are Acid Storm and Jhiaxus, using their Siege and Thrilling Thirty designs respectively. And Strika and Ratbat in new character models