Titan - Movie Volume 1 #18

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Optimus Prime

Cover Artist: John Watson

Cover Date: December 2008

Price: £2.60

Poster: Optimus Prime Want's YOU!

Comic Title: Return to Cybertron Part 2

Script: Simon Furman

Pencils: Dan Khanna

Inks: Frank Milkovich

Colours: Hi-Fi Designs

Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

On Cybertron, Ironhide and his team are helpless to stop Stockade and his team from going about their business thanks to the Nucleon, and they explain that they summoned the Entity to Cybertron as it seems to be related to the Allspark in some way.

On Earth Camshaft reports how the situation is getting worse and how they can't handle it all. Back on Cybertron the Autobots decide to distract the Decepticons and disrupt the array from transferring Nucleon into the entity, before the entity can enter Cybertron. Ironhide rams into Divebomb and the others go for a ride around, getting the Decepticons to follow them, whilst Bumblebee heads to the control panel to stop the Nucleon flow in the entity.

Back on Earth, Mikaela is taken to meet with President Allen under the guise of helping to identify something, but instead he has her restrained, and implants a Cerebro-Shell onto her, so she can spy on the Autobots for the Decepticons

Back on Cybertron, the Decepticons manage to end the Autobot's distraction, but the Nucleon transfer already ended, though enough was transferred and the entity, Unicron is now inside Cybertron.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Armorhide - Truck Cab

Arcee - Motorcycle

Camshaft - Sports Car

Salvage - Pick Up Truck

Grindcore - Front End Loader

Evac - Rescue Helicopter

"New Decepticons"

Stockade - SUV

Fracture - Race Car

Storm Surge - Hovercraft

Incinerator - Helicopter

Overcast - Jet

Divebomb - Jet

Decepticons

Megatron (mentioned)

Human

President Allen

Mikaela Banes

Other

Unicron - Planet Cybertron

Comic Notes

• Armorhide's blue now! (based on his Cybertron toy, rather than his movie repaint)
• Stockade reveals that he and his team aren't affiliated with Megatron
• Stockade and his team created an import valve into Cybertron for the entity to enter through
• The Entity is supposedly related to the Allspark in some way (Unicron is Primus' brother)
• Stockade's alternate mode doesn't look like his toy's, meaning that it is a Cybertronian mode

Extra Features

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Competitions

Megatron Origin reprint - Part 5

Team Titan! - Comic News

Top Gear - New TFA toys get advertised and are up for grabs

Beast Wars: The Ascending reprint - Part 5

Way Past Cool! - Bumblebee reviews new games

Artobots - Fan arts

Star Screams - Starscream moans about life

Titan - Movie Volume 1 #17

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Ironhide and Bumblebee

Cover Artist: Cosmo White

Cover Date: November 2008

Price: £2.99

Poster: "The Many Faces of Optimus Prime Part 1", Ironhide and Bumblebee vs Zombies

Comic Title: Return to Cybertron Part 1

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Jon Davis-Hunt

Colours: Hi-Fi Designs

Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

Having finally arrived on Earth, the Specialist team are put to work on trying to calm down the planet's eruptions of Energon, but aren't doing so well, with the town of Sylacauga being destroyed from an eruption.

Optimus informs President Allen that Earth's problems are running core deep now, but doesn't tell him that he has a plan to use Nucleon from Cybertron to calm down the planet.

Ironhide and his team head to Cybertron on a ship and begin searching for Nucleon, unaware that there are other Transformers already on the planet. Whilst searching, the Autobots find a dish array that looks out of place and start investigating it, when suddenly Stockade and his "New Decepticons" appear and attack them.

Stockade easily beats Ironhide in a hand to hand fight, and explains that he and his team are all powered up by Nucleon. Bumblebee realises that that's what they're there to recover when suddenly an anomaly appears in the sky, attracted by the dish array, in hopes that it can re-energise Cybertron for them.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Camshaft - Sports Car

Evac - Rescue Helicopter

Salvage - Pick Up Truck

Grindcore - Front End Loader

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Arcee - Motorcycle

Armorhide - Truck Cab

"New Decepticons"

Stockade - SUV

Storm Surge - Hovercraft

Fracture - Race Car

Incinerator - Helicopter

Overcast - Jet

Divebomb - Jet

Decepticons

Megatron (mentioned)

Other

President Allen

"The Entity"

Comic Notes

• The front cover lies to us. There are no zombies involved in this story...though since this was released near Halloween, it's totally possible that that's why they had a zombie cover.
• The specialist team mentioned in the previous issue is made up of Camshaft, Evac, Salvage and Grindcore...that's right, a team of repaints!
• Wasn't it a bit obvious that just capping an exploding source of Energon would just cause a back-log and explosion? Some "specialists"!!
• The Allspark has been revealed to have infected the core of the planet
• Nucleon is different here from other continuities...it seems more like the Plasma Energy from Exodus than the G1 version
• The Autobot's ship looks a bit phallic....
• Cybertron is shown as being abandoned, bar a few Decepticons, yet in IDW and Volume 2 of Titan it's shown that others live on the planet by this point
• Armorhide is shown in Strongarm's colours here, even when in vehicle mode
• On the last page of the comic, there is one EXTREMELY big tower building
• This is the first Titan UK comic to be drawn by Jon Davis-Hunt, who later becomes the full time artist in Volume 2
• The ship that the Autobots suddenly have is likely to have been what brought Evac and the others to Earth

TFA Comic Title: Dino-Might!

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Lee Bradley

Colours: Kris Carter

Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

Starscream and his clones have attacked and defeated the Autobots and taken on their base. Sari goes to Dinobot Island and enlists the Dinobots' help.

Back in Detroit, the Dinobots attack Starscream's clones whilst Sari rescues the Autobots, Starscream gets scared and flies off, leaving the Autobots to act as hosts to the Dinobots who agreed to help on the condition that they could stay at the base whilst it rains, which is now.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Bumblebee - Hatchback

Ratchet - Ambulance

Bulkhead - SWAT Van

Prowl - Police Motorcycle

Grimlock - Tyrannosaurus Rex

Swoop - Pteranodon

Snarl - Triceratops

Decepticons

Starscream - Harrier Jet

Starscream Clones - Harrier Jets

Megatron - Osprey Helicopter (mentioned)

Other

Sari Sumdac

Sparkplug (robot dog)

Comic Notes

• This comic is to advertise the upcoming TFA comic series by Titan
• Starscream's clones are in his own colours rather than different ones like in the series
• This comic is set in Season Two
• The first page is based on a cover involving Galvatron from Marvel UK
• Sparkplug being with Sari seems a bit out of continuity
• Snarl and Swoop can talk here
• Snarl shouldn't be named until Season Three when Scrapper names him that.

Extra Features

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Competitions

Megatron Origin reprint - Part four

Starscream's 10 rules on ruling - Starscream gives his advice for future tyrants

How to Draw... - Scorponok

Way Past Cool! - Bumblebee reviews some new video games

Beast Wars: The Ascending reprint - Part four

Character Profile - Lio Convoy

Top Gear - New stuff to look at and win

Artobots - Artwork

Star Screams - Screamer is an angry host

Titan - Movie Volume 1 #14

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Starscream

Cover Artist: Jon Davis-Hunt & Kris Carter

Cover Date: August 2008

Price: £2.60

Poster: Starscream attacks a factory, TFA Bumblebee

Comic Title: Aftermath Part 1

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Gary Erskine

Colours: Kris Carter

Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

After the destruction of the Allspark and Megatron's death the Autobots and Humans are slowly trying to work together, but after a lengthy occupation the Humans aren't quite so willing to accept their alien "friends", especially with Starscream and his troops attacking Humans everywhere.

The new governments aren't too happy with the Autobots still being on Earth, whilst Mikaela is looking into an illness that's causing people to rapidly loose their energy. At the old site of the Allspark energy distribution hub, Skyblast finds a shard of the Allspark that is placed in Ratchet's care (in case it was corrupted by Megatron).

That night, the Decepticons make another attack, which the Autobots roll out to try and stop, and to protect the nearby human shelter, but end up frightening the humans again.

Near Marathon Starscream begins one of his new plans, where he activates a Cerebro Shell, that takes control of one of the human commanders and sends him to attack the Autobots.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Skyblast - Jet

Strongarm - Jeep

Arcee - Motorcycle

Armorhide - Truck Cab

Elita One - Motorcycle

Decepticons

Starscream - F22 Jet

Dreadwing - Fighter Jet

Dreadwing Drones - Fighter Jets

Megatron (dead, flashback)

Humans

Mikaela Banes

Tom Banachek

Comic Notes

• The reinforcement Autobots have now taken on Earth modes
• Starscream is now the Decepticon commander
• Earth is slowly rebuilding a government and bases again
• The Allspark's effect on Earth is still continuing despite it's destruction. This will continue until a later issue
• The corrupted Allspark shard will be used at a later date.
• Elita One moans about Armorhide's "bitching"
• The Cerebro Shells are a reference to Bombshell's signature weapons in G1.

Extra Features

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Competitions

Megatron Origin reprint - Part of a new reprint

Character Profile - Grimlock (Beast Era)

Beast Wars: The Ascending - Part of a new reprint

Team Titan - Comic News

Top Gear - New Transformers items to win and buy

Artobots - Fan art

Star Screams - Starscream talks to the fans