IDW - Angry Birds: Transformers #4

Title: Hard Boiled

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Marcelo Ferreira

Colours by: Nikos Koutsis

Guest Art by: Livio Ramondelli

Letters by: Chris Mowry

Barely Hanging On (Editor): David Hedgecock

Plot

The Autobirds and Deceptihogs begin their counterattack against the Eggbots, when they start to notice that the Eggspark is drawing it's power from the island itself, as is their new forms, which explains why Optimus Prime Bird is starting to run out of his inspirational speeches. The factions set up a plan to either allow the Eggspark to take Piggie Island, and run out of power to steal, or to send the Eggspark away somewhere.

The group manages to fight their way through the Eggbots to the building the Eggspark has spanwed around itself when Galvatron Pig breaks free from his binds, and starts fighting the others (the voices in his head told him to). Bluestreak Bird and the Minion Pigs join the group as well, having grabbed their secret weapon, Heatwave Pig's slingshot from the previous issue.

Galvatron Pig manages to smash through the rest of the Birds and Pigs, until Starscream Pig challenges him, having grabbed the Eggspark for himself, and growing to a massive size. Soundwave Pig manages to grab Galvatron Pig and hold him off, whilst Bumblebee Bird manages to rig up the slingshot, to send Starscream Pig, still wielding the Eggspark into space.

Now that the Eggspark is off the planet, the Autobirds and Deceptihogs, along with the island itself return to their original forms, and return to their regular routines.

In space, the Autobots begin their mission to look for the missing Allspark, when suddenly it, and a depowered Minion Pig smash through the window of the ship, asking for a lift...

Back on Piggie Island, the Pigs have gone back to their old roles, and the Birds start joking around with eachother, not noticing that one of their eggs is still powered by the Eggspark, and starts to Cyberform the area around it again....

Characters

Autobird/Angry Birds

Optimus Prime Pig/Red - Truck Cab

Bumblebee Bird/Chuck - Car

Arcee Bird/Stella - Car

Bluestreak Bird/The Blues - Sidecar Motorcycle

Heatwave Bird/Terence - Fire Truck

Drift Bird/Bomb - Car

Jazz Bird/Bubbles - Car

Grimlock Bird/Hal - Motorcycle

Deceptihog/Pigs

Megatron Pig/King Pig - Tank

Starscream Pig/Minion Pig - Jet Launched into Space, found by Autobots

Lockdown Pig/Foreman Pig - Car

Galvatron Pig/Corporal Pig - Truck Cab

Soundwave Pig/Chef Pig - Van

Minion Pigs

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck

Arcee - Car

Jazz - Car

Bumblebee - Car

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Heatwave - Fire Truck

Other

Eggbots Neutralized

Notes

• The idea that the Eggspark is draining Piggie Island for its own power is similar to how the Allspark was used in the alternate timeline of the Live Action Movies.
• Also, why would the Eggspark sstop with just Piggie Island? Wouldn't it's energy draining power continue all the way down to the Earth's core eventually? Or is Piggie Island literally a floating piece of land, unconnected to the rest of the world?
• The non-mutated Minion Pigs have taken on the armour shown of the Pigs in the game. Though unlike in the games, they are not against the Autobirds and Deceptihogs, but on their side.
• The Eggspark has become a lot tidier and smoother since it's last appearance in this series
• Starscream Pig gets turned over-sized with the power of the Eggspark, much like his counterparts did with the Underbase in the G1 Marvel comics, and the Omega Lock in Cybertron. This also adds to the numerous links between the Allspark and the Underbase.
• How did the Allspark/Eggspark and Minion Pig reach the Autobot's shuttle at such a speed that it shattered the window too?
• Evidentially the Autobots won the battle with the Decepticons from issue one.
• Hal implies that he doesn't remember some of what happened when he was in his Grimlock form...yet everyone else seems to remember everything that happened....
• I know it was done for a cliffhanger conclusion, but how did one of the Eggbots remain on the Island? The Eggspark is gone!

IDW - Angry Birds Transformers #3

Title: Revenge of the Fowlin'!

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Marcelo Ferreira

Colours by: Nikos Koutsis

Flats by: Mike Toris

Letters by: Chris Mowry

Edits by: David Hedgecock

Plot

The Autobirds and Deceptihogs join forces to fight the invading Eggbots, during the initial fight however Starscream Pig is captured by the Eggbots and taken inside one of their towers. After a brief argument between the two leaders, the group splits up into smaller teams to handle multiple missions. Heatwave Bird's team are sent to capture one of the eggs so they can study it and discover what happened to them, whilst Arcee Bird's team are sent to rescue Starscream, and everyone else are to continue fighting the Eggbots.

Arcee's team reaches the tower, but within a few seconds Bluestreak Bird is captured, though Lockdown Pig is glad as the Autobird was annoying him.

Elsewhere, Galvatron Pig is goin full out to kill the Eggbots, despite their mission to capture one. Heatwave tries to stop him, but is easily sent flying by the Deceptihog.

Inside the tower, Bluestreak Bird manages to break out of his binds, and drags Starscream Pig away with him through the tower, trying to escape.

Outside, Arcee Bird's team are trying to smash into the tower, but are suddenly surrounded by Eggbots. Meanwhile, Galvatron is still on a rampage until Heatwave comes flying through the sky in vehicle mode (having slingshotted himself from 10 miles away) and knocks out Galvatron Pig. Before anything else can happpen though, the group are surrounded by Eggbots too.

Back inside the tower, the captives find a room filled with Eggbots, without their mechanical shells (and with terrifying mouths and tongues). Blustreak Bird abandons his companion and manages to get himself out of the tower, followed by a hoard of Eggs, who encounter the other Egggbots outside, scaring both sides, forcing them to run away from each other, much to the confusion of the Autobirds and Deceptihogs.

Arcee Bird's team returns to the rest of the group, and Bluestreak Bird just realizes that he abandoned Starscream Pig, despite that being their mission.

Heatwave arrives, carrying Galvatron, the Minion Pigs and Soundwave (despite him not being in stasis lock) and a still living small Eggbot for the group to study.

Starscream Pig, on top of the tower starts screaming at the others that the Eggspark has taken root, and has begun Cyberforming Piggie Island.....

Characters

Autobirds

Optimus Prime Bird - Truck Cab

Arcee Bird - Car

Bluestreak Bird - Sidecar Motorcycle

Heatwave Bird - Fire Truck

Drift Bird - Car

Jazz Bird - Car

Bumblebee Bird - Car

Grimlock Bird - Motorcycle

Deceptihogs

Megatron Pig - Tank

Galvatron Pig - Truck Cab

Soundwave Pig - Van

Lockdown Pig - Car

Starscream Pig - Jet

Minion Pigs

Other

Eggbots

Notes

• The title is of course a reference to Revenge of the Fallen
• Heatwave, the big silent muscle-bot of the group turning into a dancing flower at one point is of course a reference to Groot in the 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
• The slingshot that Heatwave is shown to use to launch at Galvatron is based on the ones used in the regular Angry Birds games
• For some reason the eggs with mouths and the ones with mechanical suits are afraid of each other...
• The Eggspark seems to be Cyberforming Piggie Island (and likely further in the world later) into a replica Cybertron. The Allspark was shown using that same ability in the Titan UK alternate universe comics.
• Optimus Prime Bird and Megatron Pig momentarily call eachother by their Cybertronian counterpart's names, and even seem to act out of character...maybe they should change back before long huh?
• Bumblebee Bird STILL has a damaged vocal processor....UGH!

IDW - Angry Birds Transformers #2

Title: Age of Eggstinction!

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Marcelo Ferreira

Colours by: Nikos Koutsis

Flats by: Mike Toris

Letters by: Shawn Lee

Edits by: David Hedgecock

Plot

The rest of the Angry Birds arrive at the Eggspark's location where they learn about it's ability to change them into Autobirds, and about the Deceptihog's existence, so they decide, despite the obvious mind-altering side effects, to also expose themselves to the egg, so they can fight back, and head off to the Deceptihog's location.

The Deceptihogs find themselves on top of a tower, when Galvatron Pig gets into a strop and smashes a hole at the top, causing them all to fall to the bottom (although Starscream Pig flies off to his own safety). Grimlock Bird finds himself at the tower as well, and decides to investigate it.

Very soon, Grimlock Bird smashes his way into the tower and starts fighting the Deceptihogs, but is taken down by their sheer force, luckily however, the rest of the Autobirds arrive to rescue their friend,a nd two factions fight it out.

After a short while though, the eggs start to transform themselves, and begin to run off with newly grown legs and weapons, which they soon find out is bad, as they have gained the ability to multiply and have overtaken Piggie Island (as reported by Starscream Pig).

Characters

Autobirds/The Flock

Optimus Prime Bird/Red - Truck Cab

Bumblebee Pig/Chuck - Car Vocal Processor Damaged by Megatron Pig

Grimlock Bird/Hal - Motorcycle/Wheel Barrel

Arcee Bird/Stella - Car

Heatwave Bird/Terence - Fire Truck

Jazz Bird/Bubbles - Car

Bluestreak Bird/Blues - Car

Drift Bird/Bomb - Car

Matilda (Mentioned)

Deceptihogs/Piggies

Megatron Pig - Tank

Galvatron Pig - Truck Cab

Soundwave Pig - Van

Starscream Pig - Jet

Lockdown Pig - Toilet/Car

Minion Pigs

Other

Eggbots

Notes

• The title of this issue is of course based on "Age of Extinction"
• Matilda, the only Angry Bird who isn't in Transformers/Angry Birds is mentioned today as being back home, somewhat explaining her absence
• It's implied here that the Angry Birds lose their previous personalities etc upon being turned into Autobirds (though the Deceptihogs seem to still have the same personalities etc)
• Bumblebee Bird's vocal processor is damaged here, much like his Movie and Aligned counterparts.
• The Eggbots have the ability to multiply
• Megatron Pig has a phone in his chest...he doesn't even need to yell out "Go Go Gadgetphone!", how privileged!

IDW - Angry Birds Transformers #1

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Livio Ramondelli (Pages 01-05) and Marcelo Ferreira (Pages 05-20)

Colours by: Livio Ramondelli (Pages 01-05) and Nikos Koutsis (Pages 05-20)

Letters by: Chris Mowry

Edits by: David Hedgecock

Plot

The Autobots, leaded by Optimus Prime are travelling through space, intending to hide the Allspark, the source of their war with the Decepticons, but before they are able to, the ship is under attack by the Decepticons. Optimus gives the Allspark to Bumblebee to take care of, whilst the rest of the crew handle the Decepticon invaders.

Starscream, taking advantage of the chaos of the battle, hunts down Bumblebee and tries to get the Allspark from him, but during their encounter, the Quantum Engines are damaged, and the Allspark is hurled away.

Meanwhile, on Piggy Island the Angry Birds are getting ready to rescue their stolen eggs from the Pigs, barely even noticing the Allspark, now in an egg shape, land nearby.

The Birds attack the Pig's fortress and cause massive damage, forcing the Pigs to run. The Birds regroup and prepare to go after the Pigs and their stolen eggs again.

Elsewhere, the Pigs have set up camp, ready to build a new base, when they find the Allspark egg, unsure of what it is, they send one of the Minion Pigs to investigate the egg (they threw him at it) and he is mutated into Starscream Pig, with knowledge of the Allspark embedded in his mind, and with the ability to transform into a jet!

Hal and the Blues are in the area, and see the Starscream jet, but before long they also encounter all of the Pigs turned into Deceptihogs, thanks to the Allspark. The Blues head out to seek help from the rest of the Angry Birds, and they send Chuck out ahead, thanks to his speed. Unfortunately though, Chuck is TOO fast and smacks right into Hal, sending both hurtling into the Allspark egg, mutating them into Bumblebee Bird and Grimlock Bird, allowing them to overwhelm the Deceptihogs, and force them to run away, with the eggs.

Unknown, seemingly by all, the stolen eggs are also affected by the Allspark too, and start to hatch into Eggbots....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck

Bumblebee - Car

Arcee - Car

Heatwave - Fire Engine

Jazz - Car

Drift - Car

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Decepticon

Megatron - Gun

Soundwave - Cassette Player

Starscream - Jet

Thundercracker - Jet

Skywarp - Jet

Ramjet - Jet

Shockwave - Ray Gun

Lockdown - Car

Laserbeak - Cassette

Angry Birds/Autobirds

Red

Chuck/Bumblebee Bird - Car

Hal/Grimlock Bird - Cycle

Blues

Stella

Bomb

Terence

Bubbles

Pigs/Deceptihogs

King Pig/Megatron Pig - Tank

Minion Pig/Starscream Pig - Jack-in-the-Box/Jet

Corporal Pig/Galvatron Pig - Truck Cab

Chef Pig/Soundwave Pig - Van

Foreman Pig/Lockdown Pig - Toilet

Other Minion Pigs

Notes

• The Transformers section of this story uses mostly G1 style character models, but with some outsiders included (like Movie Drift, and a G1 version of Rescue Bots Heatwave)
• The Allspark initially looks like a combination of the Movie and Animated versions, being a shape-shifting cube, but with handles on the sides.
• The Pigs appear to have trouble figuring out transformations, as both Starscream Pig and Lockdown Pig both mis-transform themselves into some other object
• It's a bit of a weird coincidence that the first Pig, and the first Bird who touch the Allspark egg turned into the Starscream and Bumblebee counterparts, considering those two were the reason the Allspark was lost in the first place...