IDW - Transformers Valentines Day Special

Written by: Patrick Ehlers & Sara Pitre-Durocher

Art by: Jack Lawrence & Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Josh Burcham & Sara Pitre-Durocher

Letters & Design by: Jake M. Wood

Editors: David Mariotte, Tom Waltz & Riley Farmer

Main Story Plot

Following her hard work and requests, Glyph's request for an assignment to research the languages of Planet SDS-359 has been accepted. She tells her friend, the former gladiator Tap-Out, who s feeling useless in the modern world and offers him a role in her mission as a bodyguard.

The two arrive on SDS-359, where they quickly encounter the mammalian natives, but Glyph seems to offend them with her attempts to communicate, leading to them unleashing a guardian beast to attack the Cybertronians. Tap-Out, always eager for a fight, immediately attacks the monster, leading to Glyph's embarrassment, but the native's delight

Over time, more guardians are unleashed, and Tap-Out defeats them all, whilst Glyph is failing to translate their language properly. She tells Tap-Out that they need to leave the planet soon, and if she doesn't translate the language, or make any progress before then, then her mission will be deemed a failure.

Tap-Out tries to speak to the natives again, but they simply summon another monster. He goes to attack it, but s run down by Glyph, who attacks instead, gaining the respect of the natives. She realized, that she knows their language through their preliminary studies of the planet, but that she couldn't use the language properly because the species only respects violence, and she needed to respect that for her to fully comprehend and speak the language itself.

The two soon leave, speaking the native language fluently, having completed their mission...

Back-up Story Plot

Space Security Chief Cosmos is a bit bored of his job, all he ever does is collect debris and the occasional adrift Gears from orbit, to keep Cybertron safe from space-bound problems. However all this work is very lonely.

One day whilst in space, Cosmos receives a ping and assumes it is Gears adrift again, but instead it's another space-traveller, Blast Off, who is also a bit bored and alone. The two soon make friends and talk whilst on their respective jobs. One day, Cosmos realizes that he doesn't even know what his new friend looks like, so he sends him a group shot of him and several others, before appearing right behind him.

Characters

Cybertronian

Glyph - Car

Tap-Out - Car

Nautica - Submarine

Apeface - Ape/Jet

Xeno-Relations Division Employees

Cybertronian Civilians 

Cosmos - Orbiter (Back-Up Story Only)

Blast Off - Space Shuttle (Back-Up Story Only)

Gears - Van (Back-Up Story Only)

Tailgate - Car (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Onslaught - Tank (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Brawl - Tank (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Vortex - Helicopter (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Swndle - Van (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Quake - Tank (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Hardhead - Tank (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

First Aid - Ambulance (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Tow-Line - Van (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Tidal Wave - Battleship (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Giant Aileron - Space Shuttle (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

TFA Blackout - Helicopter (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

TFA Lugnut - Bomber Jet (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Armada Jetfire - Space Shuttle (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Armada Scavenger - Bulldozer (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Classics Jetfire - Jet (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Others in Photo (Back-Up Story Photo Only)

Sentinel Prime - Space Shuttle (Mentioned)

Primus (Mentioned)

Other

SDS-359 Native Mammals

SDS-359 Guardians

Notes

• Obviously, this story is a special issue released around Valentines day 2020, with both stories being set n continuity with the current IDW series, with both stories seemingly set before the events of the man series.
• Gladiatorial matches have been mentioned to be banned in the past, though this issue states that Sentinel Prime banned them, its been implied before now that Nominus was the one who banned them
• Glyph and Tap-out's story, following them being alone on an alien planet and growing close, essentially makes this an updated retelling of their backstory from the Extended Universe 3H comic days.
• It's unclear in the story itself, but the later released Transformers #17 confirms that Gears keeps ending up adrift in space because of his work on the Winged Moon, and him not adjusting for the lack of gravity when working there
• Blast Off's "class picture" that he sends to Cosmos includes a load of cameos, but a lot of them are just generics made by the artist to fill in space. A few of them are also based on toys, but don't appear to be the actual character (like the Classics Jetfire, who should be using the Siege Jetfire in this series instead)
• It's not stated, but the reveal the Blast Off and most of the Combaticons are in the Rise in Galaxies #4 could imply that he is carrying Risers or supplies for them during this story
• The solicits at the back of this issue shows how late the man series has been being released recently, with the "next issue" to be released being marketed as #19, and stating that #5 of Galaxies is available already...both of which being VERY wrong...

IDW - Till All Are One #11

Title: If I Know You

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Blast Off assures Onslaught that despite some minor memory loss, the team are fine, and he should just ask him to fill in any gaps. Starscream arrives to see how his bodyguards are doing, and offers them a rest to get over their injuries. Outside, a doctor asks him to come with him as he has an issue to discuss with him.

Starscream is immediately annoyed when he finds that the doctor wants to discuss Windblade, whom is currently comatose, and written off as dead by Stascream, however the doctor corrects him that Windblade isn't dead, but rather her body is housing two minds at the moment, which both of them determine to be Vigilem. The doctor wants to have Starscream's permission to look for another surgeon to look at her, but Starscream refuses, not wanting people to see her as the hero who saved Cybertron, when that is what he's trying to do, so he leaves.

Outside the room, the "ghost" of Bumblebee appears and snaps at Starscream for not admitting that he wants to help Windblade, since he knows it's a lie, since he keeps thinking about her. Starscream screams at Bumblebee that he's doing this because he has to be alone, because any time he's ever tried to do otherwise, life has taken it all away from him, and even demands that Bumblebee leaves too. This outburst draws the attention of the medical staff, but he ignores them, now noticing that Bumblebee has indeed now left him alone....

In her comatose mind, Windblade flies away from the manifestation of Vigilem, who is tearing through the cityscape that forms her mind, he dismisses her efforts to evade him, and points out that when the city is all gone, then so will her life. At this, Windblade fights back and attacks the Titan, growing in size and power to match him, however the Titan fights back and messes with her mind, making her believe that if they work together they can overthrow Starscream, due to his clear madness, he even brings up how Windblade has compromised her strong morals in the past, hiding Chromia's murders, bribing Starscream, manipulating Navitas, and even spying on Starscream and his crew and seems to make her think....

Back in the waking world, Starscream goes on with his life, but becomes unnerved by the lack of Bumblebee. Soon, Onslaught and Blast Off arrive, having finished their guarding jobs for him for the day, so Onslaught heads off. Blast Off is left alone with Starscream and Blast Off insists on seeing Swindle, who Starscream has kept hidden still, despite his freedom being a part of their deal. Surprisingly Starscream agrees!

In her secret lab, Airachnid is patching up a newly revived Swindle, whom she has managed to fix. This cheers up Blast Off, and he has a chat with his long lost friend. Whilst the Combaticons are talking, Starscream asks Airachnid about Windblade's case, as she has made herself familiar with it, and explains that due to Camien and Titan mind signals being similar it will require another mind to join with them to destroy the remains of Vigilem, allowing Windblade to wake up, however by doing so it will put added stress on her brain, risking all three minds in the process.

That night, Starscream is in his hab-suite telling himself that he won't do this as it is stupid, but soon realizes that he NEEDS Windblade, as she is a public figure that people like, and this will help him in the long run. He tells the nothingness around him that he hates it...to which a shadowy figure of Bumblebee replies that he knows....

Characters

Autobot

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet Comatose

Bumblebee - Car Hallucination

Chromia - Speedbike (Flashback)

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mentioned)

Metroplex - Iacon City (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Onslaught - Anti-Aircraft Tank

Blast Off - Jet

Swindle - Van

Brawl - Tank (Mentioned)

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Rattrap - Mole Rat

Windblade's Doctor

Medical Staff

Other Cybertronian/Colonist

Airachnid - Spider

Vigilem - Carcer Starship Trapped in Windblade's mind

Mistress of Flame (Flashback)

Windblade's Training Partner (Flashback)

Windblade's Teacher (Flashback)

Solus Prime (Mentioned) Dead

Liege Maximo (Mentioned)

Elita One (Mentioned)

Chromia's Victims (Mentioned) Dead

Notes

• This issue begins where the previous issue leaves off, with Onslaught and Blast Off holding hands
• The medical staff featured in this issue all share a colour scheme with Ratchet, Ambulon, First Aid and Pharma, further showing the "uniform" of the Cybertronian medical staff, though one of these guys seems to turn into a tank....YIKES!
• Windblade's confusing status since her melding with Vigilem is revealed now, she is in a comatose state due to Vigilem downloading himself into her brain just before his death.
• Bumblebee's sudden vanishing, and latter reappearance, complete with a shadow, is likely because of the recent revelation in the Transformers Annual that he is still alive in the Crystal City, stuck in the singularity in the Rust Sea.
• Though saying that, I still hope this is just Centurion coming to Cybertron to mess with Starscream's head :D
• As Windblade fights with the Vigilem construct in her mind, she gains extra adornments that somewhat resembles her Combiner Hunters version, but with extra tassels and pins.
• Similarly Vigilem changes into a darker version of Windblade, but with a flame effect instead of her headdress...I smell a repaint!!!!
• Windblade's old teacher during her flashbacks looks a little like the Animated version of Rodimus
• The cityscape in her mind looks like how Cybertron did before the reformatting of the planet...why does Windblade have this image in her mind? (From what we've seen of it, Caminus looks very different).
• Swindle sure looks perky for a guy who was shot in the chest and was braindead for like a year or two huh?
• Airachnid knows about Starscream's "hallucinations" but Starscream appears to not want her to remove him...guess he wants his little angel on the shoulder.

IDW - Till All Are One #10

Title: The Price of You

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Starscream speaks with his imaginary Bumblebee friend about his recent bad choices with the judgement on the Badgeless officer, and releasing Chromia on the condition that she killed Liege Maximo, and also bemoans that Elita One is almost finished with her repairs on her ship, and is preparing to take off again, whilst stilling milking the "sacrifices" she made during the Titans attack.

Starscream receives a message from an employee of his, whom Bumblebee urges him to ignore, but Starscream still decides to meet with the sender, his secret Mnemosurgeon employee, Airachnid.

Airachnid has been working for Starscream for some time now to try and find Swindle, by entering the minds of other Decepticons, and later worked on the Combaticons following their capture. She was forced into exile from Eukaris due to her experimenting on and torturing other Eukarians, leading to her arrival on Cybertron.

Airachnid explains that whilst altering the minds of the Combaticons is too risky, as they may notice inconsistencies between the events they remember, but since they already have shared a mind once, she can control all of them by having one of them altered, and act as a lynchpin for the story so the others don't question it....

Blast Off wakes up in his apartment with Onslaught, where the two are getting ready for another day working on protecting Starscream, and then they lean in for a kiss....Starscream intrudes, pausing Onslaught in place, revealing to Blast Off that all of this is still in his mind.

Starscream proceeds to point out how all the other Combaticons are monsters, but Blast Off wants things to be better, so he offers him to have his mind altered so that it looks like the Combaticons have been working for Starscream all along, and that Swindle was shot by accident during the riots. Blast Off is, of course angry at this idea since it goes against everything they've fought over, but Starscream offers to also make Onslaught notice him when he wakes up, and also allow Blast Off to remember the truth, but also have the new memories too, in exchange for the Combaticons protecting him as Bruticus in the future.

Starscream manipulates Blast Off and points out that Onslaught will never notice him on his own, and will just start a new coup when he wakes up, whilst the Combaticons are treated as criminals, just as Starscream leaves...Blast Off agrees....

A little later, the Combaticons, including Swindle have started coming around, and Starscream tells Ironhide that Airachnid believes that the Enigma of Combination caused Bruticus to go on his rampage. Ironhide isn't happy, but accepts Starscream's story, but is still insistent on finding out who stole the Enigma to cause them to combine in the first place.

Onslaught wakes up to find Blast Off standing over his bed, they joke about Blast Off plotting against Onslaught, until Onslaught starts to notice something new about Blast Off......

Characters

Autobot

Chromia - Speed Bike

Ironhide - Van

Bumblebee - Cybertronian Car (Hallucination-Ghost)

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Blast Off - Space Shuttle

Onslaught - Anti-Aircraft Tank

Vortex - Helicopter (Flashback)

Brawl - Tank (Flashback)

Swindle - Van (Flashback) Mind repaired by Airachnid

Bruticus - Combaticon Gestalt (Flashback)

Rioters (Flashback)

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

"Guilty" Badgeless Officer

Badgeless Officers (Flashback)

Colonists

Airachnid - Spider

Blackarachnia - Spider (Flashback)

Other Fate Spinner (Flashback)

Airachnia's Victims (Flashback) Dead

Elita One (Mentioned)

Other Cybertronian

Vigilem - Carcer Spaceship Dead

Liege Maximo (Mentioned)

Notes

• This is the first issue reviewed since the announcement that Till All Are One was cancelled after issue 12, so it's been revealed that this final story arc is essentially a wrap-up plot for the main characters
• Also along with the announcement a few abandoned plot lines were disclosed, including one where Elita One almost starts a new war from Kaon, Knock Out fat-shaming "Breakdown", and the "wedding" of Lightbright and Sparkstalker...Maaaaaaybe ending here was a good idea after all?
• It's revealed that the Mnemosurgeon who was assaulting Decepticons at the start of this series was Airachnid, who is a Eukarian who has been in Starscream's employ for some time now
• She's unnamed here, but the third Fate Spinner in Airachnid's flashback looks sort of like a brown version of Beast Wars Insecticon, who turned into a beetle.
• Airachnid is a straight transplant of the same character from Transformers: Prime, except that she appears to transform into a spider, rather than a helicopter here.
• Okay, I have a massive problem with the ending of this story, everyone seems completely fine with Onslaught having his mind altered to make him "notice" Blast Off in a romantic way, whilst it could be argued that Blast Off was forced to do this, or be stuck in a comatose state, but he wasn't, this was just an incentive offered by Starscream, Blast Off didn't need to accept having Onslaught fall for him in this forced manner. I would love to see how the audience would react if it was a character like Arcee who was forced to "notice" another Autobot to try and reign in her violent tendencies, like was done here.

IDW - Till All Are One #4

Title: The Line Between Us

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editors: John Barber & Carlos Guzman

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The Combaticons have now combined into Bruticus, but due to their anger, they wind up going on a rampage and attacking the city. Chromia, Rattrap and Wheeljack run away to avoid being killed by the combiner.

Inside his head, the Combaticons are looking for the secret that Swindle had on Starscream, when Blast Off finds the memory, the team discover that Starscream gave the Enigma to Swindle to cause havoc on Caminus with the Stunticons, but that he recorded the conversation for proof. The Combaticons, minus Blast Off want to kill Starscream now, but Blast Off just wants the tape to take down Starscream legitimately, leaving Bruticus outwardly confused and further angry.

Ironhide is informed of the Combiner attack and gathers his security forces to take him on, quickly recognizing one of the limbs as being Blast Off, he tries to reach out to him, but the other Combaticons see him as an enemy. Bruticus attacks the security forces, whilst the Council Chambers are evacuated for their safety. Starscream orders Windblade to assassinate Bruticus so his secrets can be kept safe, and threatens Chromia's safety again.

Windblade has had enough, and contacts Chromia telling her to stop Ironhide from killing Bruticus, as she has decided to break off her deal with Starscream, and take him down with Bruticus' information. She orders Chromia to return to Caminus as soon as she can for safety from persecution.

Windblade makes it to Bruticus, and Chromia manages to get Ironhide to stop his attacks on him. Windblade appeals to Bruticus and tells him that she is against Starscream too, and wants his help, but the angry combiner doesn't believe her and smacks her out of the sky. Chromia rushes to Windblade's aid, and Bruticus aims his back cannons at the two Camiens, preparing to kill them.

However Ironhide shoots Bruticus through the head, and forces the Combaticons to decombine, knocking them all unconscious in the process, stopping Windblade from getting the information from them.

Chromia and Windblade are mad as this was their only chance to take down Starscream, and now he'll use the dirt on Chromia to destroy them both. Chromia sees Circuit and Longtooth nearby and decides to protect Windblade one last time. She interrupts their live report on the Combaticons and admits to her murders and causing the Acrolight earthquake. She forces Ironhide to arrest her, to show that NO-ONE is above the law.

Starscream watches this on the news feed and is clearly angry at losing his main gambling point with Windblade, and hopes that Windblade will be fine without her, and will step into the light now...

Characters

Autobot

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Ironhide - Van

Chromia - Speedbike Arrested by Ironhide

Wheeljack - Race Car

Metroplex - Iacon City

Decepticon

Bruticus - Combaticon Gestalt Disabled by Ironhide

Onslaught - Anti-Aircraft Tank Arrested by Security Force

Blast Off - Jet Arrested by Security Force

Swindle - Van Brain-Dead, Arrested by Security Force

Vortex - Helicopter Arrested by Security Force

Brawl - Tank Arrested by Security Force

Sparkstalker - Insect Monster

Tall Tankor - Truck/Jet

Fat Tankor - Tank

Unified Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Rattrap - Mole Rat

Circuit

Longtooth

Unaligned Colonist

Strika - Battle Tank

Moonracer - Sports Car

Knock Out - Sports Car

Air Hammer - Owl-Hammerhead Shark Fuzor

Other Cybertronian

Random Civilians

The Primes (Mentioned)

Scrap Cruncher (Mentioned) Killed by Chromia

Exhaust (Mentioned) Killed by Chromia

Technimus (Mentioned) Killed by Chromia

Notes

• This issue marks the end of the first storyline in Till All Are One, resolving the mystery of Swindle's "death", the Combaticon's role in modern Cybertron, and even the plot thread of Starscream blackmailing Windblade over Chromia's crimes.
• This is the first time a combiner created by the Enigma of Combination has gone on a rampage, and has had visible problems. This is likely because of Swindle being brain-dead, but could be because of the team not really trusting each other.
• Windblade decides that her Cityspeaker role should include speaking to Combiners....that doesn't work too well....
• So Bruticus was defeated with just one shot through the head by Ironhide? Seems a bit anti-climactic for the built-up "villain" of this first story arc.
• The names scratched into Chromia's scalp are confirmed here to be the names of the Cybertronians she killed.
• The next issue to be released will be the Revolutions tie-in. So unless #5 is set during the same time as Titans Return, I'm guessing there will be a time-gap between the issues
• Despite their factions not being mentioned here, Chromia's three victims sound like Decepticon names.

IDW - Till All Are One #3

Title: Things We Said We'd Never Do

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Windblade arrives at Metroplex's brain chamber and asks him to monitor the rust corridors to look for both Onslaught and Swindle's body, Metroplex asks her why, but Windblade is unwilling to reveal that. Unfortunately for her, Chromia appears and forces her to reveal that she's doing surveillance work for Starscream because he is threatening to expose Chromia's crimes to everyone.

Windblade reveals to her that she's looking for Swindle and trying to find him before Onslaught can because Starscream thinks he can do something to him to hurt his leadership.

Chromia reveals that she has secured footage of the space bridge room during the Combiner Wars and brings it up, but finds it corrupted. Chromia starts working on de-corrupting it, which takes a long time.

Over the next two weeks, Chromia works on repairing the footage, whilst Ironhide is training up his new police force. After the montage, both Blast Off and Chromia manage to hack into the security footage, showing Rattrap and Wheeljack carrying off Swindle's body.

Chromia rushes off to find Wheeljack, and contacts Windblade to keep her informed, however Starscream wont leave her alone, since she hasn't given him any good information yet.

Chromia reaches Wheeljack's apartment and tries to speak to him, just as Blast Off and Vortex blow a hole in the wall, intending to take Wheeljack in.

After a short battle, Chromia is beaten, and Wheeljack reveals that he and Rattrap didn't try to hide Swindle's body, they were trying to save him as he claimed to have secret information on Starscream, but they were too late, and found him brain-dead.

Soon afterwards, Onslaught confronts Rattrap, but is stopped from hurting him by Blast Off, who has arrived with his own Autobot prisoners. Onslaught forces Rattrap to fetch "something" for him, whilst Wheeljack takes him to Swindle's body.

Wheeljack leads Chromia and the Combaticons to a hidden lab where they find a brain-dead Swindle lies hooked up to some machines. Onslught still seems hopeful to get the information from Swindle's mind, but Blast Off is fed up with this. They've found Swindle, but he's brain-dead, they have failed in their plans. Onslught manages to convince him to just help him once more, which Blast Off regretfully does.

Rattrap turns up and Onslaught takes the "something" from him....the Enigma of Combination! Onslaught plans to use this to combine the Combaticons with Swindle, so they can both get the information from his head, and also get revenge on Starscream....

Characters

Autobot

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Chromia - Speed Bike

Ironhide - Van

Wheeljack - Race Car

Metroplex - Iacon City

Decepticon

Onslaught - Anti-Aircraft Truck

Blast Off - Space Shuttle

Vortex - Helicopter

Brawl - Tank

Swindle - Van Brain Dead

Sparkstalker - Insect Monster

Fat Tankor - Tank

Tall Tankor - Truck/Jet

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Rattrap - Mole Rat

New Badgeless Recruits

Colonist

Obsidian - Osprey Stealth Jet

Strika - Battle Tank

Moonracer - Sports Car

Knock Out - Sports Car

Tigatron - Tiger

Airazor - Falcon

Fireshot - Part of Jet

Elita One (Mentioned)

Other

Solus Prime (Mentioned)

Notes

• Windblade reveals to Chromia that Starscream is blackmailing her because of what Chromia did in the original Windblade mini-series.
• Despite not being a City Speaker, Chromia can communicate with Metroplex using a keyboard and monitors etc.
• Metroplex has seemingly grown some streets of apartments for the Cybertronians to live in!
• How did Rattrap manage to steal the Enigma of Combination here? Last time we saw it, it was under constant guard by at least two individuals.
• Despite what it appears to be, it looks like Blast Off is willing to abandon Onslaught and the other Combaticons after this mission to try and save Swindle, most likely as a consequence of his positive police training by Ironhide.
• On the other hand, Onslaught appears to be turning a little bit possessive and wants to merge with the Combaticons for ever!!!
• This issue came with a pull-out advert for the upcoming Revolution event.

IDW - Till All Are One #2

Title: Applicable Skills

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Priscilla Tramontano

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

The riots over the death of a Decepticon by one of the Badgeless officers continues through the night, but Blast Off, who was directly involved in the incident has snuck back to the Combaticon Apartment, once there, Onslught quickly determines that Blast Off has done something and takes him to one side for a discussion.

The rioters, now being led by Onslaught and Blast Off storm towards the Council building, ready to lynch Starscream for his criminal actions.

An emergency meeting of the Council of Worlds is held, where Starscream suggests that they lock down the city and arrest everyone who has committed any crime to set an example. The Council disagree, and suggest calling on Victorion from Earth, as she could end the riots easily, however Starscream refuses since opening the space bridge could allow the rioters to take control of it.

Starscream reveals to the Council that Onslaught has a vendetta against him due to him breaking a deal with him over power in the past.

Ironhide, Windblade and Obsidian manipulate the situation, and force Starscream into naming Ironhide the new head of the Badgeless, as he's respected by the public.

Ironhide heads outside to announce his new position to the rioters and promises the find Swindle or his corpse, and also asks the rioters for volunteers to join the Badgeless and help him, regardless of past factions etc.

After a short period of silence, the Tankors and Sparkstalker volunteer, at this Onslaught snaps and attacks Ironhide, however Blast Off turns on his leader and restrains him, joining the New Badgeless himself, to Onsluaght's anger.

Up at the observation level of the Council building, the Council members decide to make a comment on the situation and leave. Windblade remains to ask Starscream if he does have Swindle's body, which Starscream finally confirms to not have. Starscream blackmails Windblade into taking down the Combaticons, before they can hurt him, or he'll expose Chromia's past crimes to the population.

In the streets of Iacon, Fat Tankor offers Blast Off to stay with him since he's fallen out with the Combaticons, which Blast Off accepts. Blast Off wanders off on his own and bumps into Onslught....who congratulates him on his good work!

Characters

Autobot

Ironhide - Van

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Chromia - Speed Bike

Bumblebee - Car (Ghost)

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mentioned)

Victorion - Torchbearer Gestalt (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Onslaught - Anti-Aircraft Truck

Blast Off - Space Shuttle

Brawl - Tank

Vortex - Helicopter

Sparkstalker - Insect Monster

Tall Tankor - Jet/Truck

Fat Tankor - Treaded Vehicle

"Drunkatron" - Car (Footage Only) Dead

Swindle - Van (Mentioned) Assumed Dead

Decepticon Justice Division (Mentioned)

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Rattrap - Mole Rat

Circuit

Badgeless Officers

Colonist

Obsidian - Osprey Stealth Bomber

Strika - Battle Tank

Airazor - Falcon

Tigatron - Tiger

Knock Out - Sports Car

Moonracer - Sports Car

Vanquish - Part of Jet

Fireshot - Part of Jet

Elita One - Car (Mentioned)

Other

Various Rioters

Primus (Mentioned)

Notes

• From the images shown in during the opening of this issue, it's very likely that Blast Off was the one to record the death of "Drunkatron" and leaked it to the press himself, just to add to the havoc.
• Obsidian claims that Elita One has kept the people from Carcer back on their ship, but last issue we clearly saw Lancer and Greenlight at the bar...it was even a major plot point!
• Onslaught and the Combaticons are revealed to have a vendetta against Starscream because he made a deal with them following the return to Cybertron, that if he managed to rise to power on Cybertron then he'd let them join him, however he reneged on the plan, causing their hatred.

IDW - Till All Are One #1

Title: 07:00:00

Written by: Mairghread Scott

Art by: Sara Pitre-Durocher

Colours by: Pricilla Tramontano

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: John Barber

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

An injured Decepticon stumbles around in the wilderness outside Iacon, and dies from his injuries, whilst Obsidian observes this from above.

In the city, the integrated populations of Cybertron and the colonies are going about their everyday routines, when Ironhide is summoned to a meeting of the Justice Committee. There, he is introduced to the arranged Council of Worlds members as a private security officer. Obsidian reveals that he wants Ironhide to investigate the mysterious death of the Decepticon, who was a supplier for Carcer, and was just the most recent, and most fatale victim of a string of attacks on Decepticons lately via Mnemosurgery.

Obsidian believes that the Mnemosurgery attacks are being caused by Starscream and his police force, because of recent rumours of Swindle still being alive, despite being a casualty of the Combiner Wars (at Starscream's own hands too). Starscream is annoyed, but agrees to consider allowing Ironhide to investigate the situation.

A little further away, the surviving Combaticons are hanging out in their apartment, discussing some work they've been offered, but Onslaught is tired from hunting for Swindle, but with no luck, he's been receiving messages from an unidentified person, who's told him that Swindle is still alive, despite all appearances. Onslaught leaves to search the sewers again, and Blast Off finds another message from the informant. The message leads him to a set of Badgeless armour, which he puts on to do his own investigations.

Ironhide leaves the meeting to head to Maccadam's where a drunk Decepticons is causing some problems for the colonist patrons, whom he escorts away, meanwhile Blast Off replaces one of the Badgeless officers with himself to infiltrate their ranks.

Ironhide and the Decepticon leave the bar, but the Decepticon is being loud and annoys the nearby Badgeless, and makes the mistake of claiming "Swindle Lives". The Badgeless attack him and threaten to take his memories away, which Ironhide overhears. The Decepticon panics and runs away down an alleyway. The Badgeless appear to shoot the Decepticon, and he is soon found dead by Ironhide, with the Badgeless standing over him with smoking guns nearby.

A riot starts to brew when some of the crowd begin to swarm the Badgeless, and one of the Badgeless (likely Blast Off) sneaks away. The crowd gets scared off when the Badgeless start shooting into the air. Windblade, Obsidian and Starscream arrive, and Ironhide directly confronts Starscream about his troops actually being responsible for the attacks.

Obsidian condemns Starscream and says he'll inform the council and Elita One of this revelation, before flying away. Starscream admits to Windblade what he's authorized to be done, but threatens her with making the incident with Chromia (from Windblade Volume 1) public, and making it seem like an attempted insurrection from Caminus to destroy Cybertron.

Circuit and Longtooth appear through the crowd to get a quote from Starscream about the Badgeless attack, Starscream tries to deny that the Badgeless attacked the Decepticon, but Circuit reveals that footage of the attack has been spreading across the city already....

Characters

Autobot

Ironhide -Van

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Chromia - Speedbike

Blurr - Race Car

Metroplex - City/Space Ship

Bumblebee - Car Ghost/Hallucination

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Onslaught - Anti-Aircraft Truck

Brawl - Tank

Vortex - Helicopter

Blast Off - Space Shuttle

Fat Tankor - Treaded Vehicle

Tall Tankor - Jet/Truck

"Drunkatron" - Car Killed by Badgeless

Carcer Supplier - Car Died from Mnemosurgery

Swindle - Van (Mentioned) Supposedly Dead

Galvatron - Tank (Mentioned)

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Rattrap - Mole Rat

Circuit

Longtooth

Badgeless Officers

Colonist

Elita One

Obsidian - Stealth-Bomber Osprey

Strika - Battle Tank

Lancer

Greenlight

Airazor - Falcon

Tigatron - Tiger

Vanquish - Part of Jet

Fireshot - Part of Jet

Moonracer - Sports Car

Knock Out - Sports Car

Prime Breakdown - Off Road Vehicle

Quicklightning

Other

Crowd in Iacon

"DC-357" (Alias of Combaticon contact)

Carcer - Space Ship (Mentioned)

Navitas (Mentioned) Getting Repaired

Exhaust (Name Written on Chromia's scalp)

Technimus (Name Written on Chromia's scalp)

Notes

• This series continues from where Windblade Volume two ended. It was originally meant to be released earlier in the year, but was pushed back (likely due to Sins of the Wreckers being delayed too)
• Chromia has a couple of names carved into her scalp, as seen when she briefly has her helmet off...I wonder if that will have a role later in the series?
• Fat Tankor is shown in vehicle mode, but without a tank turret, possibly meaning that weaponized vehicle modes on peace-time Cybertron are prohibited in some manner.
• Following the rise of the Badgeless on Cybertron, as shown in the previous two Windblade series' Ironhide has set up his own security firm, since no-one trusts them, or Starscream.
• The Combaticons didn't like Swindle, but they want to find him because they believe he's the "key" to some big secret and the process of combination. Swindle was only ever shown as part of their team during Primacy.
• Considering how he was the one to spirit Prowl away following the Combiner Wars, it is POSSIBLE that Rattrap somehow managed to fake Swindle's death. It's also very likely that he is DC-357 if this is the case, since it would be easy for him to get a Badgeless suit as well.
• It's revealed here that the Badgeless all look and sound the same because they use holographic armour and voice synthesizers
• Chromia and Strika have apparently made "friends" and now act as sparring partners for each other.
• "Drunkatron" confusing Greenlight and Lancer for Camiens is probably due to the initial belief of fans that all denizens of Caminus were female (which was later proven false during Combiner Wars of course)
• Whilst not confirmed yet, it's likely that Blast Off was the one who attacked "Drunkatron", just to work up the crowd more.
• This issue appears to take place during the early parts of "All Hail Optimus" as Circuit is still on Cybertron here. It's likely that Starscream sent Circuit to Earth, in the middle of a hostile encounter, as some sort of revenge for Circuit airing the footage of "Drunkatron" being murdered by the Badgeless.