Skybound - Void Rivals #1

Writer: Robert Kirkman

Artist: Lorenzo De Felici

Colourist: Matheus Lopes

Letterer: Rus Wooton

Editor: Bixie Mathieu

Plot

Two rival alien craft crash on an unnamed world, where they soon start fighting. However, realising that if they work together, despite it being illegal, they can probably escape the planet.

After a failed repair effort, both ships are rendered completely unusable, and Solila leaves Darak to die by herself. Some time afterwards Solila returns, having found another crashed, but intact, craft.

The duo arrive at the third craft, and give it some energy to power it up, when it suddenly starts changing shape, revealing the Cybertronian Jetfire, after analysing himself, he determines that he has been stuck here for a long time, and flies away, trying to reach Cybertron, not realising that the aliens needed help leaving the planet too.

Later, Darak returns to one of the crashed ships and believes that they may be able to use their flight suits to fix the ship, just enough, to leave the planet, despite it breaking their laws again. The duo remove their helmets at revealing similar looking faces, shocking them both, but Darak reveals that this is just like his vision...

Characters

Darak

Solila

Handroid 

Jetfire - Space-faring Jet 

Notes

• So funny story, pretty much right after I started talking about Astrobots, since there was no word on a new Transformers continuity, this dropped! The reveal that this was the start of the new continuity was left until the last moment, and I love it! 
• Darak is an Agorrian and Solila is Zertonian. I wonder if their species names being A-Z has any importance, since they have a similar appearance, as shown by the end of the issue.
• Jetfire being lost, buried on an alien world for seemingly millions of years is clearly a callback to his introduction in the G1 cartoon (just with a lot less ice).
• Additionally, Jetfire is missing any faction insignia, implying that he was lost before the war, again like in the G1 cartoon.
• At the end of this issue, three new series were announced; Transformers, Duke and Cobra Commander. Afterwards the main cast of the Transformers series were announced, but Jetfire is not present on either team's roster.