IDW - Transformers: King Grimlock #2

Title: Grimlock the Defender

Written by: Steve Orlando

Art by: Augustin Padilla

Colours by: Jeremy Colwell

Letters by: Jake M. Wood

Editor: David Mariotte

Assistant Editor: Riley Farmer

Supervising Editor: Tom Waltz

Plot

Grimlock continues to fight his way through the fantasy setting of Menonia, until he becomes ensnared into a Ridge Worm. Arko appears and helps him get free, and leads him out of the giant creature.

Arko tries to persuade Grimlock to help her defeat the Golden One, but he doesn't see the fight as his. Arko attempts to fight Grimlock to force him to help her, or just to take him out as a new threat, but the Dinobot just ignores her attacks.

Grimlock simply says that she is weak, but agrees to teach her how to be stronger, so long as she doesn't question him, which she agrees to.

Soon the duo come across a fishing village called Angloria, which is under attack by Wood-bots sent by the Red Wizard. Arko initially doesn't want to help them, seeing the villagers as weak, but Grimlock intervenes, after seeing the attacking creatures.

After a quick fight, Grimlock looks over one of the dead Wood-bots, and recognises it as similar to a Cybertronian, so he decides to go after the Red Wizard to get revenge for him creating these spark-less monstrosities.

Arko thinks this is suicide, since the Red Wizard is so powerful, even the Golden One avoids him, but Grimlock intends to head off regardless, leaving Arko to now consider Grimlock weak himself...

Elsewhere, at his castle, the Golden One comments to his assistant Clatta, that everything is going to plan, he knew that given Grimlocks personality he would want to go after the Red Wizard, and could potentially remove the one real threat to his reign...

Characters

Autobot

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Other Dinobots (Mentioned)

Other Cybertronian

The Necrobot (Mentioned)

Menonian

The Golden One

Clatta

Arko

Anglorian Villagers

Ridge Worm

Cyclops Leader Killed by The Golden One

Cyclopes Some Killed by Grimlock

Wood-bots Destroyed by Grimlock

The Red Wizard (Mentioned)

Arnak (Mentioned)

Other

Soltron (Mentioned)

Notes

• This issue reveals that "Soltron" is a figure who represents the "First Face", aka the Autobot insignia, which is why it appears on the weapons on the cyclopes. So it's very likely that Soltron is actually a Cybertronian that somehow influenced Menonia in the past.
• The Wood-bots are shown to be primitive versions of Cybertonians, created by the "Red Wizard", who in the cartoon counterpart to this story was an exiled Quintesson, who in turn were (in the cartoon anyway) created the Transformers, likely meaning this wizard will be a Quintesson too.
• Grimlock mentions that Dinobots worship the Necrobot, who chronicles the dead,and keep fighting to try to force the god to run out of data storage.