IDW - Transformers/Back To The Future #3

Written by: Cavan Scott

Art by: Juan Samu

Colours by: David Garcia Cruz & Candice Han

Letters by: Neil Uyetake

Editors: David Mariotte & Chase Marotz

Plot

The Constructions find Scrapper's deactivated body and blame Biff for it, forcing the human to run. Bonecrusher goes after him, but the Construction gets blasted by Doc Brown's nullifier, just like Scrapper.

Doc explains his plan to try make contact with the Autobots using a nearby communications tower to get them to help Emmet recover his time machine to fix the timeline. When they reach their destination, Doc manages to get out a signal, but Biff, who has taken his nullifier, shoots the tower, shutting it down, and escorts his new prisoners back to the Constructions, and their newly arrived boss, Starscream.

Having picked up the signal, Rodimus and his small band of remaining Autobots head to Hill Valley, where they see Biff about to execute Doc and Marty's parents, Marty however grabs some piping and smashes Biff's exosuit gun, saving them.

The Autobots join in and attack the Decepticons, stealing the nullifier back from Biff and uses it to knock down Biff and the remaining Constructicons, using Skilz's new hoverboard mode to do so. Starscream gets knocked out by a powerful punch from Rodimus, and the Decepticons in the area are all defeated...

Suddenly, the Hill Valley Courthouse transforms into a giant robot, looming over them all....

Characters

Autobot

Rodimus Prime - Caravan

Bumblebee - VW Beetle

Gigawatt - Modified DeLorean

Skilz - Hoverboard (Formerly Skateboard)

Decepticon

Starscream - Fighter Jet Punched out by Rodimus

Hook - Crane Shot by Rodimus

Bonecrusher - Bulldozer Blasted by Doc Brown

Scavenger - Excavator Blasted by Marty

Long Haul - Dump Truck Blasted by Marty

Mixmaster - Mixing Truck Blasted by Marty

Scrapper - Front End Loader Deactivated

Human

Marty McFly

Doc Emmett Brown

George McFly

Lorraine Baines-McFly

Biff Tannen Exosuit Blasted by Marty

"Goldie" Wilson (Image on Billboard Only)

Other

Courthouse Bot - Hill Valley Courthouse

Einstein, the Dog

Notes

• It's unclear yet if Doc's Alpha-Wave Ionic Nullifier is fatal to Cybertronians, Scrapper is mentioned as being "deactivated" and it does damage the communications tower, but he never says it has killed any of them. It's likely it's designed to just shut down their systems, putting them in stasis lock.
• Biff's new Exosuit is based on the ones used by the humans in season three and four of the G1 cartoon, but more heavily armoured than theirs were.
• Despite scanning a Skysled for his new alternate mode, Skilz takes on a hoverboard design, reminiscent of Marty's one from the future scenes of the Back To The Future movies, possibly meaning he just scanned the engine parts to upgrade his existing skateboard mode
• The giant Courthouse robot at the end of the issue isn't identified, or even hinted at by any of the Decepticons during this issue, baking me believe it's possible it's not a Decepticon, and couild be anyone really (my hopes are for a Vector Prime type character)