IDW - Transformers Galaxies #5

Title: Wanabee, Part One

Written by: Kate Leth & Cohen Edenfield

Art by: Alex Milne

Colours by: Josh Perez

Letters & Design by: Jake M. Wood

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

Ambassador Deathsaurus arrives on the planet Probat with Cliffjumper brought along for "security". However, Cliff soon discovers that he was brought along because the planets population are blind, and use echolocation to see, and Cliff looks similar to Bumblebee, who is very popular on the planet.
Whilst Cliff is giving an unkowing distraction to the population, Deathsaurus goes to an Energon facility with the foreman Natalia to "inspect" their progress.

Cliff, not wanting to be rude, and being used to everyone mistaking him for Bumblebee, goes along with it, and goes off with a couple of locals, who take him to their homespire, where they light a fire with with some "substance" which he soon learns is a natural byproduct of their bodies, stored in the homespires, and when it is burned...it changes form....

At the facility, Natalus apologizes for the lower output recently, and claims it is due to environmental problems, bit Deathsaurus tears into a wall and finds a hidden stash. Natalus tries to explain that they needed to store some away for a possible upcoming disaster, to which Deathsaurus simply incinerated him.
Cliffjumper arrives as he is killing Natalus and thinks he was attacked, leading to Deathsaurus laughing at the thought. Cliff shows him the substance, revealed to be hyper refined Energon after burning.

Given this new information, Deathsaurus plans to harvest the substance from the homespires and hyper refine it for his own use.
Cliff tries to stop him, but is quickly knocked out, as Cliff stalks off towards the homespires...

Characters

Cybertronian

Deathsaurus - Winged Dragon
Cliffjumper - Car
Orion Pax - Truck (Flashback Only)
Windblade - VTOL Jet (Flashback Only)
Starscream - Tetrajet (Flashback Only)
Random Cybertronians (Flashback Only)
Bumblebee - Winged Hovercraft (Mentioned)
Nominus Prime - Jet (Mentioned)

Probat

Foreman Natalus Killed by Deathsaurus
Probat Denizens

Notes

• This issue marks the start of the second story arc of the Galaxies line. At least this one is currently paced better than the first one!
• The ongoing joke this issue is twofold, it refers to Bumblebee's over-popularity following the original Live Action Movie, and how Cliffjumper is usually a repaint/remould of Bumblebee.
• Deathsaurus is notable this issue for not using the Deszarus character model from Combiner Wars, since that would be technically his most recent toy design.
• In the Cybertronian flashbacks we see Cliffjumper working mostly in the Security Forces HQ, implying that he works for them, but he appears to be more of a custodian rather than a fighter.
• At the end of the issue, on the cliffhanger, Deathsaurus misnames Cliffjumper as "Cliffhanger" very meta :)