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 - Transformers #44

Title: The Transgressors 

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Andrew Griffith

Colours by: Josh Perez

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Plot

Before the war, Tracks is admiring some of his new "Chic Chips" that his brother, Needlenose has designed for him, but they have an argument about Needlenose's friends, and interest in Megatron's rebellious writings. Needlenose leaves, and tells Tracks to not be on the wrong side of history...

On Cybertron, today, some Camiens are picketing their religion to the Cybertronians, but are interrupted by Needlenose and Brawl, who have just returned from Earth, along with Dreadwing. They denounce the words of the Primes, and destroy some of their pamphlets.

Nearby, Starscream is looking over the city from his office in Metroplex, claiming he has everything under control to someone unseen, whilst Arcee is sneaking around on the walls of the city.

Elsewhere, Optimus and Tracks (who is the spacceport manager now) say goodbye to Mirage and the Protectobots, who are returning to the Lost Light, and Tracks moans about how the Camiens don't use standard ship codes, since they haven't flown for centuries (due to a lack of fuel).

The two of them end up in an alley with Arcee, who reports to Prime that she's located Brawl and Needlenose on Cybertron, trying to recruit for Galvatron's forces on Earth. Prime says he'll tell Starscream. Tracks gets annoyed, and decides to deal with his brother himself, whilst also telling Arcee that she doesn't know what it's like to lose someone, like he has with Needlenose.

Arcee leaves, and heads to a point she used to like to watch the city on before she left for Earth, and thinks things over.

Elsewhere, one of the ships has been reformatted into a Decepticon bar, where Needlenose and the others are tallking about their plans to recruit Decepticons to the Jupiter Commune, Brawl gets annoyed with Needlenose when he realizes that this really just for a peaceful Commune, and not a secret army. An argument begins, and Needlenose sneaks away to get some more drinks from the bar.

At the bar though, Needlenose is confronted by Tracks, and starts telling him off, but Needlenose wont give in, resulting in Tracks punching his brother. Before he can do anything else though, all the Decepticons have their weapons trained on the Autobot.

Luckily though, one of the Badgeless comes through the door and threatens to arrest the entire bar for illegal gatherings, engex sales etc, unless they hand over Needlenose and the others to him for Starscream to deal with. Before the Decepticons have to make a decision though Arcee apepars behind him, and "disarms" the Badgeless Officer, and drags him away. Tracks goes with her, at her request. Needlenose asks Tracks to tell Optimus that they don't want to fight the Autobots anymore, they just don't want to be ruled by them either.

In Starscream's throne room, he's having an argument on his current political situation and power with the image of Bumblebee in his mind. Suddenly Arcee appears with the Badgeless Officer in tow, she kills the Badgeless and engages in a short fight with Starscream. She however stops fighting, and tells him that even though she doesn't like him, she knows the planet can't survive another war and divide, so she asks him to try and keep it all together for them.

Later, and elsewhere, Needlenose and the others get together and present their sales-pitch for the Decepticon Commune to a large crowd....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Tracks - Car

Arcee - Car

Metroplex - City/Space Ship

Mirage - Race Car

First Aid - Ambulance

Groove - Motorcycle

Streetwise - Emergency Car

Hot Spot - Fire Truck

Blades - Helicopter

Bumblebee - Car (Hallucination) Dead

Prowl - Police Vehicle (Wanted Poster)

Megatron - Tank (Mentioned)

Optimus Maximus - Autobot Gestalt (Mentioned)

Broadside - Battleship/Jet (Mentioned)

Hardhead - Personnel Carrier (Mentioned) Dead

Decepticon

Needlenose - Fighter Jet

Brawl - Tank

Dreadwing - Stealth Bomber

Acid Storm - Fighter Jet

Submaruader - Submarine

Sinnertwin - Two Headed Dragon

Squeezeplay - Crab Monster

Onslaught - Anti Aircraft Truck

Cindersaur - Lizard Monster

Sparkstalker - Insect Monster

Dauros - Tank

Bartender - Motorcycle

Decepticon Populous 

Horri-Bull - Bull (Flashback) Killed by Bumblebee

Galvatron - Tank (Mentioned)

Soundwave - Personnel Carrier (Mentioned)

Ratbat - Cassette (Mentioned) Killed by Arcee

United Cybertron

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Badgeless Officer - Car Killed by Arcee

Civilians

Camien

Lady Cohrada - Helicopter

Aileron - Hovercraft

Other Picketer

Other

Quark - Photon Microscope (Flashback)

Pre-War Civilians (Flashback)

Solus Prime (Mentioned)

Primus (Mentioned)

Council of Worlds (Mentioned)

Notes

• This story establishes that Tracks and Needlenose are "brothers"...I guess they do have a couple of similar features right?
• It is also established that Needlenose and Horri-Bull were involved with each other (it's unclear if they were actually in a relationship) so Bumblebee's murder of Horri-Bull in front of him is a bit more disturbing now...
• One of the Camien Picketers is designed after the Beast Wars Neo character Cohrada, but with helicopter parts, whilst Aileron seems to be based on Go-Bots Crasher, but a lot more stout that her counterpart.
• Seriously...where did Arcee get her large cleaver from?!
• Mirage and the Protectobots (having de-combined) head back to the Lost Light this issue.
• Dreadwing was abandoned by Galvatron and the others before they headed to Earth.
• A few of the Decepticons in the bar are generics, based on other characters such as G2 Ramjet, Action Master Thundercracker, an inverted Rung and Whirl and other comic homages.
• The inverted Decepticon Rung appears to have kibble from a motorcycle, despite Rung's lack of a real alternate mode.
• The Badgeless Officer's design looks a bit different to what we've seen in the past. He also appears to have car kibble, meaning there may be 2 different versions.
• Starscream is revealed to be seeing Bumblebee (in his pre-Dark Cybertron body) as a hallucination. He was earlier shown to be "talking to himself" when he was communicating with Scoop on Earth. Is this just a hallucination, or a ghostie made from the Shockwave Black Hole?
• It can be assumed that this issue is either set just before or after Combiner Hunters, due to Arcee's presence and appearance.
• The very last page is based on the scene in MTMTE where Rodimus recruits the Lost Light crew.

IDW - Transformers #43

Title: South of Heaven

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Andrew Griffith

Colours by: Josh Perez

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: Carlos Guzman

Plot

Cosmos spies on the Decepticon's Jupiter station, just as Astrotrain arrives with Soundwave, Laserbeak, Buzzsaw, Brawl, Blackrock, Faireborn and Jones in tow for a tour of the station. Inside they find several pieces of comfort such as recharge slabs, bars, theatres, and even a park.

Soundwave goes off to explore by himself, but ends up outside after hearing Cosmos, using his superior ears, and tries to talk to the spying Autobot, who gets scared and flies off towards Jupiter's ring of asteroids. Despite being evasive, Cosmos is quickly caught by Soundwave, who just wishes to talk to him.

Soundwave tells Cosmos that the war is over, and all the Decepticons want is to live in peace now, away from the Autobots, and blames the Decepticon's past evil-ness was due to Megatron, who is now an Autobot. On the station, unknown by anyone else, Blackrock watches the conversation in secret. Soundwave implies that he wants to use the Autobot's spacebridge for peaceful reasons (most likely to get Cybertronians to this system from Cybertron) and pushes Cosmos' buttons about his inferiority complex, by bringing up his "master" the Prime, and asking if he is an equal with the rest of his crew.

Soundwave goes to leave and tells Cosmos that if he ever wants to join them on the station, or just wishes to talk, he can contact him any time. Cosmos tells Soundwave that Blackrock's Onyx system uses Old Cybertronian codings, which Soundwave reacts uninterestedly, and leaves.

Soundwave returns to the station, where he sneakily asks Blackrock about the Onyx system, which Blackrock immediately admits uses some Cybertronian code he found from some leftover systems, which seems to trouble Soundwave in some way.

Cosmos returns to Ark-7, where he tells Arcee that the Jupiter base seems to be peaceful, and he'll give her a full report after a recharge. He returns to his quarters with D.O.C. who curls up next to his feet and rests as well.

Characters

Autobot

Cosmos - Orbiter

Arcee - Sports Car

Megatron - Tank (Memory Image)

Prowl - Police Vehicle (Mentioned)

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Soundwave - Personnel Carrier

Brawl - Tank

Buzzsaw - Cassette

Laserbeak - Cassette

Astrotrain - Space Shuttle/Train

Human

Marissa Faireborn

Ayana Jones

Garrison Blackrock

Stockbridge and his co-worker

E.D.C. (Mentioned)

John Backus (Mentioned)

Rasmus Lerdorf (Mentioned)

Gilgamesh (Mentioned)

Cybertronian

D.O.C.

Primus (Mentioned)

Notes

• Buzzsaw and Laserbeak are given personalities like Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show, by mocking the others from the "rafters" and just being insulting
• Soundwave refuses to share Anti-gravity technology with the Humans, possibly due to the Tyrest Accord that prevents Cybertronians from sharing potentially harmful technology with other races
• There has been no records of Blackrock until 3 years before the present day...about the same time that the Ongoing began..I think he might be a facsimile of some sort....
• Despite their alliance, Soundwave considers Humans to be only equal to other Earth animals, and other insignificant creatures, like drones.
• I get the feeling that D.O.C. might be a little more than meets the eye....with the tendrils and energy beams keeping him afloat, he sort of reminds me of a Quintesson construct...
• Agent Jones has finally been given a first name!

IDW - Official Movie Prequel Special

Written by: Simon Furman & Chris Ryall

Art by: Don Figueroa & Andrew Wildman

Colours by: Josh Burcham

Letters by: Robbie Robbins

Edits by: Ted Adams

Plot

On Cybertron, in the past, the planet is at war over the Allspark, Megatron believes he's found it, and sends Blackout to join Starscream's troops. Brawl and Starscream's other troops are taking care of some Autobots elsewhere, and Brawl reports that Megatron thinks he knows where the Allspark is, Starscream gets worried, as he wants it's power of himself, but is stopped from continuing by a newly arrived Blackout.

Before they know it, they see the Allspark being launched into space, Starscream attempts to follow it, but Blackout stops him, the team of Decepticons witness Megatron launching off into space after the cube, and they decide to follow him.

Much later, the Decepticon team arrive in Afghanistan and crash in the desert, they're attacked by some military personnel, but Wreckage destroys their personnel carrier, and takes on it's form as his alternate mode.

Before long, the Decepticons attack the nearby Bargam Airbase, looking for local alternate modes of their own, they slaughter the humans there and take on their new forms, but Wreckage is rendered disabled and abandoned in the battle.

Later, Bumblebee arrives on Earth, and starts searching for information on where the Allspark is, he learns of Captain Witwicky's incident in 1897 and decides to track down his descendants as a clue to it's location. When he looks up the captain externally, Sector Seven detect his presence and send out teams to find and capture him.

Bumblebee continues his mission, and evades the Sector Seven agents along the way, as well as also evading Barricade a couple of times, as he continues his search for Captain Witwicky's ancestors, who may know where the Allspark is kept (via the map on his glasses)

Characters

Autobot

Bumblebee - Classic Camaro

Optimus Prime (Flashback)

Autobot Soldiers

Decepticon

Megatron - Cybertronian Jet Frozen Off-Screen

Starscream - Fighter Jet (Former Comet)

Blackout - Military Helicopter (Former Comet)

Scorponok - Scorpion Drone

Barricade - Police Car (Former Comet)

Brawl - Tank (Former Comet)

Bonecrusher - Mine Clearing Vehicle (Former Comet)

Wreckage - Personnel Carrier (Former Comet) Disabled by Sector Seven, Abandoned 

Decepticon Soldiers

Human

Sector Seven Guys

Archibald Witwicky (Flashback)

Clarence Witwicky (Mentioned)

Herbert Witwicky (Mentioned)

Ben Witwicky (Mentioned)

Witwicky's Ancestors (Mentioned)

Agent Simmons (Mentioned)

Notes

• This comic was originally 2 smaller comics sold at Target
• This story is meant to also be able to fit in with the existing IDW Movie Prequel comics (though some parts are contradictory)
• Scorponok is shown in his toy's robot mode a couple of times here
• The truck Bumblebee passes seems to be advertising All Hail Megatron
• Megatron's tip on where the Allspark is, is likely when he arrives at the trap at Tyger Pax

IDW - Movie Adaptation

Plot

Megatron is found in the Arctic Circle by Captian Witwicky, and he shoots a laser at the human, which scorches his glasses and blinds him. Decades later an unidentified helicopter lands in the Qatar base and turns into a giant robot, destroying the faciltiy, leaving a small group to escape with an image of him. The robot, Blackout sends out Scorponok to hunt down the survivors.

Elsewhere, in Tranquility Sam Witwicky buys an old Camaro, with a strange insignia on the steering wheel. In Qatar, the army guys look at the image and head out to find some way to warn the US about this attack, not knowing Scorponok is behind them. In Tranquility, Sam goes to the lake in his car, and starts bonding with Mikaela.

Frenzy, on Air Force One hacks into the military database and manages to get most of the data whilst also planting a virus and learns of the name Archibald Witwicky, all whilst killing some secret service guys. Sam's car goes out for a drive on it's own, which Sam follows, assuming it's being stolen, which leads him to find the car turning into a robot (Bumblebee), which is sending out a signal into the sky. Sam is attacked by some dogs, but Bumblebee rescues him, and goes into hiding before the police arrive, who believe Sam broke into the area.

Air Force One lands and Frenzy meets up with Barricade, telling him about Witwicky, and they track down Sam Witwicky, his descendant, whom has just been released from the police. In Qatar the team approaches a town when they are attacked by Scorponok, who kills some of the team, they make it to the town where they call in for help with an airstrike which blasts Scorponok, tearing off his tail, whilst he escapes.

Later, Barricade arrives in Tranquility, having tracked down Sam, whom is being followed by Bumblebee, freaking him out, Mikaela see's this and goes to see what's going on. Barricade catches Sam in a building and transforms, beginning to ask him where the glasses are (which he learned of through Sam's sales page on Ebay). San runs away and runs into Mikaela, both of them are rescued by Bumblebee who fights off the Decepticon in robot mode. Barricade sends out Frenzy to deal with the humans, afte a short battle, Frenzy is decapitated by Mikaela, whilst Barricade is thrown down a hole by Bumblebee.

Frenzy's head wakes up and it scans Mikaela's phone, taking it's place, whilst Bumblebee takes Sam and Mikaela  with him. On the way, Bumblebee updates his alternate mode to a more modern version of a Camaro, when they see the other Autobots arrive on the planet in their comet forms. The Autobots take on their local alternate modes and meet up with Bumblebee and his human friends.

Optimus introduces the Autobots to the humans, and gives them a quick history lesson about Megatron and the Allspark, and tell Sam that his glasses hold the location to the Allspark that Megatron engraved on them. On the way home from Qatar, the survivors of the base attack realize that the sabot rounds are the only thing able to damage these things, and send that info to home base.

Sam returns home with the Autobots hiding around outside his house, causing some havoc, like damaging power lines etc, he finds the glasses, but Sector Seven appear and arrest him and his family. Frenzy's virus kicks in, and causes an information blackout on Earth, Sam and Mikaela are rescued by the Autobots from Sector Seven, but during the escape, Sam, Mikaela and Bumblebee are captured again, the Autobots find the glasses on the floor and Optimus decides to unite the Allspark with his spark if he cannot get it away from the Decepticons otherwise.

At the Pentagon, Keller is told all about S7 and the Transformers and has everyone involved in these events sent to Hoover Dam. Frenzy arrives at the dam in Mikaela's bag and escapes, sending out a call to the other Decepticons to come to his location. Everyone taken to Hoover Dam are brought to see Megatron's frozen body, where it's revealed that he's the source of all modern technology is derived from Megatron, and they learn that the Allspark is also there.

After a short while, the Decepticons arrive at the dam and attacks it. Megatron wakes up and goes looking for the Allspark. Bumblebee is freed from captivity, and he contracts the Allspark to a smaller form, and takes it with several Humans for safety into a city nearby. Megatron meest up with his Decepticons and has them chase Bumblebee. Barricade is knocked out on the highway, and Bonecrusher is killed by Optimus on the way. In the city, Lennox calls in for help in extracting the cube whilst a huge battle begins. 

Bumblebee's legs are blasted off by Starscream and Megatron kills Jazz, before engaging Optimus in battle, Sam is given the Allspark to take to a high building for extraction, but is chased by Decepticons, Megatron fends off Optimus and then goes after Sam, smashing through buildings to get to him. Elsewhere, Bumblebee and Mikaela team up and manage to kill Brawl whilst Lennox uses a rocket launcher to kill Blackout.

Megatron corners Sam and the Allspark and smashes them off a building. Optimus catches him, but Megatron approaches them again, thinking fast though Sam thrusts the Allspark into Megatron's spark, killing him.

In the aftermath everyone is happy, despite Jazz's death, and Sam and Mikaela start to date. Sector 7 is decided to be disbanded at some point later, and the dead Transformers are dropped into the ocean. Optimus then sends out a message to the stars for any remaining Autobots out there to come to Earth.

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab (Formerly Comet)

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro (Formerly Classic Camaro)

Ratchet - Emergency Humver (Formerly Comet)

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck (Formerly Comet)

Jazz - Pontiac (Formerly Comet) Killed by Megatron

Decepticon

Megatron - Cybertronian Jet Killed by Sam and Allspark

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Blackout - Military Helicopter Killed by Lennox

Scorponok - Part of Helicopter Injured in Qatar Airstrike

Barricade - Police Car Injured by Optimus Prime

Frenzy - Mikaela's Phone (Formerly CD Player)

Bonecrusher - Mine Clearing Vehicle Killed by Opitmus Prime

Brawl - Tank Killed by Bumblebee

Human

Sam Witwicky

Mikaela Banes

Seymour Simmons

Lennox

Epps

General Keller

Tom Banachek

Ron Witwicky

Judy Witwicky

Miles

Fig

Donnelly Killed by Scorponok

Bobby Bolivia

Trent

Maggie Madsen

Lennox's Wife (Mentioned)

Lennox's Daughter (Mentioned)

Sector Seven

SOCCENT Base Staff Killed by Blackout

Captain Witwicky Died of Old Age

Captain Witwicky's Crew

Tranquility Police Force

POTUS

Air Force One Staff

Notes

• Being an adaptation, this comic basically follows the plot of the 2007 movie, but edits it to work better as a comic, some plot lines and characters were removed, like Glenn and Maggie's parts.
• As well as this, some scenes are edited to speed them up, or seem to be based on earlier concepts etc.
• Frenzy's fate is shown in Reign of Starscream

Titan - Movie Volume 1 #7

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Stock Image of Starscream

Cover Date: Winter 2008

Price: £2.60

Poster: Zombie Blackout, Barricade and Brawl

Comic Title: Starscream's Militia!

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Boo

Colours: Robin Smith

Letters: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

Just after the events of Mission City Starscream is flying above the city and finds the Allspark Mutations, he starts killing them and stealing their sparks, putting them into the dead bodies of his fellow Decepticons, turning them into zombies. The zombies attack the remaining Autobots who are still tired from the big battle.

Ratchet soon discovers that the Decepticons have been reanimated by the smaller sparks and works out how to kill them with energy blasts. The Autobots win the fight, but Optimus wonders if it's truly all over as he watches an F-22 take off with some more sparks inside it.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Decepticons

Starscream - F22 Jet

Zombie Blackout - Military Helicopter (Destroyed by Ratchet)

Zombie Barricade - Police Car (Destroyed by Optimus Prime)

Zombie Devastator - Tank (Destroyed by Ironhide and Ratchet)

Other

Allspark Mutations (Killed by Starscream)

Comics Notes

• The colourful, bulbous artwork in this issue was likely used so it doesn't scare the younger readers (it is a zombie story after all)
• This story is set right after the events of the first movie
• Bumblebee isn't in this issue, most likely because of his missing legs
• Barricade is shown as dead in this issue, this is because they used an earlier version of the film script where he was killed on the Motorway
• Starscream's jet mode colours are very similar to his G1 ones...hmmm...
• Sparks in this issue are shown as tiny Allspark replicas with cords coming out of them
• The whole point in this story is that Starscream recovers the sparks from the Mutations to put into his own forces, but we never see this storyline picked up ever again...oh well, Zombies are cool none-the-less
• Jazz has of course been killed off by this point in the story
• This comic is DEFINITELY out of continuity with IDW!!!
• ZOMBIES!!!!!
• This is the first issue with a poster featuring new artwork exclusive to Titan.

Extra Features

Adverts - As always...

Competitions - Throughout the comic

Character Profile - Frenzy!

Movie Prequel reprint - It's about half done now!!!

Beast Wars: The Gathering reprint - So many animals!!!!

How to Draw... - Megatron this time!

Top Gear - More new stuff to look at and win!

Star Screams - Fan Mail read by Starscream

Titan - Movie Volume 1 #4

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Stock Image of Optimus Prime and Megatron

Cover Date: November 2007

Price: £2.60

Poster: Movie 1 Poster

Comic Title: Lost in Space Part 2: Devastator

Script: Simon Furman

Artwork: Don Figueroa

Colours: Robin Smith

Letters: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

Devastator lands on a destroyed world and begins to go mad, so he starts to attack the empty buildings, he finds an abandoned tank and tacks on it's shape for an alternate mode.

Whilst driving around he comes across a warning hologram which warns him about a contagion on the planet that causes hatred, but Devastator ignores it.

Devastator starts to hallucinate and sees his fellow Decepticons mocking him so he attacks and kills them. Devastator arrives at the power source that caused the Contagion, destroys it, then flies off into space again to get as far away from it as possible.

Comic Characters

Decepticons

Devastator - Alien Tank (discarded alt mode)

Starscream (Hallucination, Killed by Devastator)

Barricade (Hallucination, Killed by Devastator)

Bonecrusher (Hallucination, Killed by Devastator)

Megatron (Mentioned)

Other

Big Head (Hologram)

Comics Notes

• Devastator discards his new alt mode by literally removing the outer layer of his armour.
• A hologram warning visitors of a plague of sorts is similar to what happened in Cosmic Rust
• The Decepticons that have been hallucinated up are all in pre-Earth modes :)

Extra Features

Adverts - Lots of them!

Competitions - Many, many things to win

Head-to-Head - Optimus vs Megatron smackdown!!!

Movie Prequel reprint - Continued reprint of the comic

Character Profile - Blackout's profile

Top Gear - New toys and the such are shown off and made available to win

Beast Wars: The Gathering reprint - Continued reprint

How to Draw... - How to draw Optimus Prime

Mech Mail - Fan Mail

Titan - Movie Volume 1 #2

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Stock Image of Megatron

Cover Date: September 2007

Price: £2.60

Poster: Megatron

Comic Title: Prelude: Megatron

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Nick Roche

Colours: Liam Shalloo

Letters: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

Megatron is holding Bumblebee, after tearing out his voice box and sees the Allspark launching off into space. He discards Bumblebee and begins to chase the Allspark, when the Autobots launch a tractor beam that stops him in place.

Megatron fights back, but is urgent to get to the Allspark, so he calls for Devastator to take care of the Autobots. Megatron chases after the Allspark himself now. Devastator launches a Foldspace Warhead that blasts himself, Ratchet, Ironhide and Jazz to different parts of the galaxy.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Bumblebee (injured by Megatron)

Ironhide

Jazz

Ratchet

Optimus Prime (mentioned)

Decepticons

Megatron - Cybertronian Jet

Devastator

Comics Notes

• Liam Shalloo's name is misspelled "Laim" on the comic credits
• This comic has now been made incompatible with the IDW comics
• The Devastator character should be seen as separate from Brawl from the movie
• The Foldspace Warhead is later mentioned in the Allspark Almanac
• This story leads right into the "Lost in Space" story arc that lasts for the next four issues
• Megatron's appearance on the cover and poster are using his outdated early design, whilst he appears in his actual appearance in the comic proper
• This comic continues directly from the end of the previous issue.
• The Autobot's designs are similar to their ones from the movies, but simplified and misisng some notable vehicle parts.
• This was one of Nick Roche's first Transformers gigs.

Extra Features

Adverts - Many, many adverts

Competitions - Throughout the book

Transformers 101 - Basic information for the new fans

Character Profile - Megatron Profile

Head-to-Head - Jazz vs Blackout showdown

Movie Prequel reprint - Part two of the reprinting

War Games - Reviews of the Movie-verse games

Beast Wars: The Gathering reprint - Part 2 of this reprint

Top Gear - New Transformers merchandise

Mech Mail - Fan Mail