Titan - Movie Volume 1 #20

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Arcee and Ironhide

Cover Artist: Nick Roche & Jason Cardy

Cover Date: February 2009

Price: £2.70

Poster: Arcee and Ironhide get attacked by bats

Comic Title: Return to Cybertron Part 4

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Jon Davis-Hunt

Colours: Kris Carter

Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

Unicron prepares to eat Earth, whilst the Transformers on his body attack him to no avail. Optimus appears and says he has a plan. Stockade agrees to work with the Autobots to save Cybertron. The Transformers head under the surface of the planet.

On Earth Starscream and his Decepticons have begun their attack on America again, causing a lot of damage. Back on Cybertron the Transformers begin attacking him from the inside and causes his internal Nucleon deposits to explode, banishing the Chaos Bringer away and returning Cybertron to normal.

In the aftermath, Optimus invites Stockade to join them on Earth, but he declines for the moment. He gives Optimus all the remaining Nucleon to use it to save Earth, and they leave.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Arcee - Motorcycle

Armorhide - Truck Cab

Elita One - Motorcycle

Strongarm - Jeep

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

"New Decepticons"

Stockade - SUV

Fracture - Race Car

Incinerator - Osprey Helicopter

Overcast - Jet

Divebomb - Jet (killed by Unicron)

Decepticons

Starscream - F22 Jet

Dreadwing - Fighter Jet

Wreckage - Personnel Carrier

Other

Unicron - Planet Cybertron (banished)

Comic Notes

• Divebomb is killed here...poor thing
• This is the first time an artist has been used in the same arc twice in Titan
• Optimus and his team survived the blast from Unicron by abandoning ship in escape pods
• There seem to be gears and joints inside Cybertron
• The Decepticons have invaded a part of America once again
• The bat creatures inside Unicron seem to be based on his Anti-bodies and the Lipoles
• After being released from Unicron's grasp, Cybertron looks like it's old self again
• The New Decepticons are seen again in the final story arc of this series.
• Cybertron stays near Earth in the Sol System

Extra Features

Adverts

Competitions

Beast Wars Battlefield - Grimlock vs a T. Rex

Megatron Origin reprint - Part 7

Way Past Cool! - Bumblebee reviews new games

Character Profile - Razorbeast (Beast Era)

Beast Wars: The Ascending - Part 7

Artobots - Fan Art

Star Screams - Starscream reads fanmail

Arcee's Soulmates - Arcee runs a lonely hearts column

Titan - Movie Volume 1 #19

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Optimus Prime and Unicron

Cover Artist: Gary Erskine & Jason Cardy

Cover Date: January 2009

Price: £2.60

Poster: Unicron approaches Earth, "The Many Faces of Megatron Part 2"

Comic Title: Return to Cybertron Part 3

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Cosmo White

Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft

Comic Plot

Unicron has inhabited Cybertron's empty shell and is now slowly reforming it, with the Transformers still on it. On Earth, the Autobots have picked up on these events and decide to head there to help Ironhide and the others out, leaving Mikaela in charge of the base whilst they're gone.

On Cybertron Stockade tries to reason with Unicron, but the Chaos Bringer doesn't care, Unicron detects the Autobot's ship (The Straxus) and destroys it on sight, and then sets his sights on Earth to replenish his depleted Energon supplies.

On Earth, the mind controlled Mikaela willingly allows Starscream to enter the Autobot base, and allows the Decepticons to re-invade parts of America.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Arcee - Motorcycle

Armorhide - Truck Cab

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Elita One - Motorcycle

Skyblast - Jet

Longarm - Tow Truck

Strongarm - Jeep

Evac - Rescue Helicopter (mentioned)

"New Decepticons"

Stockade - SUV

Incinerator - Osprey Helicopter

Overcast - Jet

Divebomb - Jet

Fracture - Race Car

Storm Surge - Hovercraft

Decepticons

Starscream - F22 Jet

Thundercracker - F22 Jet

Wreckage - Personnel Carrier

Barricade - Police Car

Dreadwing - Fighter Jet

Humans

Mikaela Banes

Other

Unicron - Planet Cybertron

Comic Notes

• The Array dish was finally destroyed!
• The Autobot's ship, The Straxus is named after the G1 Decepticon
• Evac and his team are staying on Earth for this mission...why do they not stop the Decepticons in their invasion?!?!
• Starscream and his Decepticons have been missing for the last few issues because they've been biding their time for a moment where the Autobots are gone/weak..like now
• Unicron remolded Cybertron to resemble his G1 appearance
• Unicron plans to eat Earth, like he planned to in GI Joe vs the Transformers: Black Horizon, this time because it's overflowing with yummy Energon.
• Armorhide is finally in his proper colours in this story arc!!
• Stockade emulates Galvatron from the G1 Movie when he stands on Unicron's maw and tries to bargain with him
• I'm sorry...how was MIKAELA, a small HUMAN supposed to guard the Autobot base from Decepticons ALONE?!?!

Extra Features

Adverts

Competitions

Megatron Origin reprint - Part 6

Beast Wars: The Ascending reprint - Part 6

How to Draw... - Bonecrusher

Top Gear - New stuff to win and look at

Star Screams - Screamer is getting impatient now...

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

Adverts

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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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