IDW - Micronauts #8

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: Ander Zarate

Letters by: Tom B Long

Editor: David Hedgecock

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Oz wakes up to find himself in a giant vehicles, being driven away by Dr Dell, along with the rest of his crew and their ship sitting comfortably on the back seat. Dell speeds away from the facility to get the Micronauts to safety, but is soon attacked by the security team from the facility, who try to run her off the road.

Microtron needs the car to be kept still whilst he makes his repairs, so Acroyear and Phenolo-Phi fly off to attack the other humans, managing to cause them to crash. Unfortunately two attack helicopters appear and attempt to stop them, but the Micronauts take off in their patched up ship, thanking the doctor for her help, despite neither understanding each other.

The Heliopolis manages to easily disable the helicopters, and speeds away, looking for another space bridge to return to Microspace with. Microtron reports that he's located what seems to be traces of the Entropy Cloud in a forest nearby, so they go to investigate it, despite all of them being unnerved by the idea of re-entering the cloud.

Later, they arrive at the location, and Microtron detects signs of Microspace civilization and life below, interested, the crew decide to investigate, leaving Microtron behind to watch the ship.

The crew investigate some ancient Microspace scaled architecture, and realize that it's thousands of years old before being surrounded by a colony of winged insect-like beings, led by one of the Time Traveler's sarcophagus' on walking legs, claiming to have been waiting for them to arrive for some time now....

Characters

Micronauts

Oziron Rael

Acroyear

Phenolo-Phi

Larissa

Microtron

Biotron

Other Microspace Denizens

Time Traveler

Nepos Colony

Baron Karza (Mentioned)

Membros (Mentioned)

Avon Federation (Mentioned)

Human

Dr Dell

Holding Facility Staff

Notes

• Phen shows that she can recalibrate her space glider suit to adapt to Earth's wind, this seems to be using her helmet which I would guess has some mind reading skills
• Phen and Acroyear cause two military vehicles to crash into each other here...I wonder if any humans got hurt?
• I hope we see Dr Dell again in the future, she was fun!
• Larissa implies that she doesn't know where Acroyear gets his sword from, despite it being shown before that he pulls it from subspace...could this be a subtle hint to her true nature?
• The Micospace colony on Earth appears to be filled with Nepos, at least that's what they're called in the toy line.
• The "Time Traveler" at the end uses the black text box that is normally used for robots, implying that this is just a robot using one of their sarcophagus'

IDW - Mirconauts #7

Written by: Cullen Bunn

Art by: Max Dunbar

Colours by: Ander Zarate

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: David Hedgecock

Publisher: Ted Adams

Plot

Oz explains to Dr Dell, one of the scientists who are studying the tiny life-forms, how they arrived on Earth, but soon remembers that they don't speak the same language, so he gives up. The doctor tries to interpret what they are saying, but the head scientist tells her to not bother, and prepare them for vivisection. Dell isn't happy, but obeys and sadly electrocutes the Micronauts, knocking them out.

Later, the Micronauts are being carted away to the new lab, but Acroyear wakes up, and easily smashes through the glass cage, and attacks the human guards, who he manages to knock out. The glass case is smashed, and the other robotic Micronauts wake up too, with the organics still being too weak. Biotron points out that it's interesting that the case was made of shoddy materials and the electric shock wasn't strong enough for the job, but Acroyear is more interested in finding their ship and escaping. Microtron locates it, and leads the group towards it.

The Micronauts are chased by some more guards, including some dogs. They manage to outrun them, and find the room where the Heliopolis is being held, but find the door locked tight, however when they arrive Dr Dell opens the door and points them towards their ship.

Biotron realizes that she's trying to help them to escape...

Characters

Micronauts

Oziron Rael Unconscious

Phenolo-Phi Unconscious

Larissa Unconscious

Acroyear

Biotron

Microtron

Other Microspace Denizens

Baron Daegon (Flashback)

Baron Karza (Flashback)

Time Traveler (Flashback)

Reptos (Flashback)

Human

Dr Dell

Head Scientist

Holding Facility Staff

Snake Eyes (Flashback)

Other Macrospace Denizens

Micronus Prime (Flashback)

Dire Wraith (Flashback)

Notes

• This issue is set following the events of Revolution, and shows what happened to the Micronauts after they are captured.
• Dr Dell mentions that she things Oz is speaking a type of Egyptian Arabic, since we've previously learned that they are talking Ancient Cybertronian, this could mean that the Egyptians were influenced by the Cybertronians too...interesting!
• The head scientist here is unnamed in this issue.
• Acroyear is shown to have strength proportionate to his size, much like the Marvel character Ant-Man, likely a reference to Ant-Man's previous connection to the Micronauts during the Marvel years.