IDW - Dark of the Moon Adaptation

Plot

In 1969 NASA succeeds in landing a man on the moon, but secretly this is a mission by the government and Sector Seven to investigate a crashed space craft up there, where they find several dead robots. Many years later in 2011 Earth is the home to several of the robot's on the Moon's kind, the Autobots, and they have started helping the humans deal with problems on the planet, such as terrorist groups. After one such mission, the Diego Garcia NEST/Autobot base is decommissioned after an attack on the base by a Decepticon recently. Optimus, Lennox and Ratchet head out to the Ukraine for another mission.

Elsewhere, in Washington Sam now has a new girlfriend, two house-pet Autobots (Wheelie and Brains), but no job, so he's not very happy.

The team arrive in the Ukraine at the old Chernobyl facility where a report of an alien artifact was made by the Soviets of the past, when there, they are attacked by Shockwave and his Driller pet, however Shockwave escapes after the attack, and Optimus gets the artifact, and recognizes it as part of the Ark, a ship he saw destroyed years before. Unknown to the Autobots, Laserbeak kills one of the local team, who informed NEST of the artifact in the first place.

Sam manages to get a job thanks to help from Carly's own boss, and he goes to visit Carly at her work where he meets her boss, Dylan Gould. At NEST Optimus demands to know why he wasn't told about the Ark, and he's told that they didn't know until very recently,a nd he's told where it is. The team believe the Decepticons might go after the ship, so they set off to reach it first, and to check the Crash Vault for anything still on board.

In Africa Megatron is driving around and is informed about the Auotbots heading to the moon, he's glad and tells Soundwave to get rid of his human collaborators now.

On the moon Optimus finds Sentinel's near-dead body and recovers it, along with five of his pillars, however unknown to him, the Dreads hitch a ride back to Earth with them.

At his new work, Sam is accosted by Jerry Wang, who gives him a manifesto full of evidence about what's been happening on the moon and a cover-up. Sam tries to ask him about it some more, but Laserbeak appears and kills him, Sam runs away.

Later, he's picked up Carly and goes to NEST to warn them about the Decepticons being active again and gives them the manifesto before Mearing tells him to butt out of NEST business as he's a civilian. Sentinel is revived by Optimus, using the Matrix and Mearing learns that the pillars they found are parts of space bridge, which she believes could be used to mount a full scale invasion on Earth, so she refuses to give them to him again. Megatron is informed by Soundwave that Sentinel has been moved from the Moon, which make shim happy.

Sam is annoyed by Mearing's comments earlier and decides that he'll help out anyway, he gets in contact with Simmons. The next day Optimus tries to give Sentinel command of the Autobots once more, but he refuses, saying that he's no longer able to lead.

Sam teams up with Simmons and his aide Dutch to work out what's happened, and they learn that several space agency members have been dying recently, and connect the dots to realize that they worked with the Decepticons to hide something on the moon, and are now being killed to silence them. Carly comes home and is angry with Sam for not dropping this, and leaves him, going to a party of Dylan's.

Brains leads the humans to a bar where 2 former cosmonauts are hiding out and learns from them that their photos of the moon showed that there were several pillars on the moon, that have gone missing now. Sam deduces that the Decepticons stole the space bridge pillars to use on Earth, but needed Optimus to revive Sentinel with his Matrix in order to activate them.

Sam warns Mearing about it, and goes with Bumblebee to escort Sentinel back to NEST, but they're attacked by the Dreads on the way, the Dreads are defeated, but upon arriving at NEST Sentinel kills Ironhide, revealing that he is allied with the Decepticons now.

Sentinel continues his attack and kills Skids and Mudflap and steals the pillars from NEST. Optimus and his team follows Sentinel to stop him, but too late, as Sentinel activates the space bridge and allows an army of Decepticons hiding on the moon to invade Earth, the Autobots are forced to retreat.

Sam goes to Dylan's party to take Carly home, but when leaving Dylan is revealed to be working for the Decepticons too, and has Soundwave kidnap Carly and forces Sam to work for them as a spy.

The UN receive a message from Sentinel to exile the Autobots from Earth, or the Decepticons will destroy the planet, as all they want is materials to repair Cybertron. It's agreed to and the Autobots are shipped off to their ship, the Xantium, where they have to leave the planet, thanks to Sam's "spying" the Decepticons know when they are leaving, and send out Starscream to destroy the ship just as it takes off.

Shortly later, Sam, Epps and some mercenaries go to Chicago, which is where the Decepticons have their main base set up after mostly destroying the place. The humans are attacked by a Decepticon, but before he can kill them the Autobots, who faked their deaths to show the world that the Decepticons were lying, arrive and save them, and join them in their battle against the Decepticons.

Megatron and Sentinel have an argument, where Sentinel says they aren't working together, Megatron's working for him. Carly has been taken to Dylan's apartment but is rescued by Sam and Bumblebee who stole a Decepticon ship to break in and attack the apartment and kill Laserbeak.

Dylan tells his masters about the Autobots being alive, and they send out the troops to stop them from getting to the pillars. The battle escalates with several warriors dying, including Starscream, Lennox and his team make it into the city to help out too. AT some point several Autobots are captured and Mirage is executed by Soundwave, who, once distracted by Wheelie and Brains knocking out one of the ships above the city is killed by Bumblebee.

Eventually Optimus reaches Shockwave and Sentinel, the former is killed by Opitmus, and the latter is engaged in battle by the Autobot. Elsewhere, Sam finds Dylan and fights with him, but the evil human activates the space bridge for Sentinel and transports Cybertron itself into the Earth's orbit, however Sam throws Dylan into the pillar and kill him. Carly finds Megatron and convinces him that Sentinel is just using him and he'll be forgotten about when Optimus is killed.

Optimus is about to be killed by Sentinel when Megatron arrives and saves him, attacking his "partner", Megatron, and Optimus finishing him off. Megatron then proposes that he and Optimus work together, with Optimus' response going unnoticed 

Afterwards everyone is happy, and Bumblebee hints to Carly and Sam that they should get married and everyone leaves afterwards. Elsewhere however Megatron's "pet" Igor wonders where his master is.

Characters

Autobot

Opitmus Prime - Truck

Sentinel Prime - Fire Truck Killed by Optimus Prime

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Brains - Laptop

Wheelie - RC Pick Up Truck

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck Killed by Sentinel Prime

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Sideswipe - Concept Corvette

Mirage - Ferrari Killed by Soundwave

Wheeljack - Mercedez Benz

Topspin - NASCAR

Roadbuster - NASCAR

Leadfoot - NASCAR

Skids - Smart Car Killed by Sentinel Prime

Mudflap - Smart Car Killed by Sentinel Prime

Knock Out - Motorcycle Dead, in Coffin

Elita One - Motorcycle Dead, in Coffin

Dune Runner - Military Buggy Dead, in Coffin

Blazemaster - Helicopter Dead, in Coffin

Armorhide - Truck Dead, in Coffin

Jolt - Electric Car Dead, in Coffin

Ark Crew Dead

Decepticon

Megatron - Truck Maybe Killed by Optimus Prime

Starscream - Fighter Jet Killed by Sam

Soundwave - Mercedez Benz SLS Killed by Bumblebee

Shockwave Killed by Optimus Prime

Laserbeak - Radio Killed by Bumblebee

Driller Killed by Optimus

Igor

Crankcase - Chevy Suburban  Killed by Autobots

Crowbar - Chevy Suburban  Killed by Autobots

Hatchet - Chevy Suburban  Killed by Autobots

Watch-Bot - Watch

Hatchlings

Decepticon Invasion Force

Human

Sam Witwicky

Carly Spencer

Seymour Simmons

Dutch

Lennox

Epps

Charlotte Mearing

Dylan Gould Killed by Sam

Bruce Brazos

Jerry Wang Killed by Laserbeak

Voshkod Killed by Laserbeak

Hardcore Eddie

Neil Armstrong

Buzz Aldrin

Mercenaries

Former Cosmonauts 

Sector Seven

NASA

NEST

UN

Other Humans

Mikaela Banes (Mentioned)

Dog

Frankie

Mojo

Notes

• This is the adaptation of the 3rd Transformers Movie: Dark of the Moon, it was edited enough to make it fit in with the prequels etc
• At least once, Sentinel is seen in his original colours of gold from the production of the film, rather than his final red.
• Sentinel's rust cannon is located under his shield here, rather than being a separate weapon like in the actual film
• The Twin's deaths and a roles in the film were cut out for some reason, but are maintained here (YAY!)
• Rather than using actual previous generics from the earlier comics, or mimicking the ones used in the film itself, the generic Decepticons here are just new generic ones who don't seem to be based on anyone else.
• Megatron's fate in this comic isn't clear, he is last seen with Optimus at a standoff, so either it ended like in the novel (Where he leaves with his Decepticons to try and rebuild Cybertron) or like in the film (where Optimus kills him) If there are any more comics made for the movies, it will likely follow the Movie's conclusion, as they most often do in the sequels. It's not clear...but the lump on the floor on the last page COULD be him, dead on the floor.
• One of the notable differences here is that Wheeljack and Mirage swapped fates, where Mirage is killed her, Wheeljack was killed in the actual Movie...how will that be rectified now?

IDW - Rising Storm

Plot

In China, Longarm and Salvage rescue some guys from a fire at an Oil Processing Plant when suddenly Shockwave and Astrotrain appear and kill everyone at the plant, including the two Autobots, all so they can use the raw material there for a project of their's.

Later at Diego Garcia, Optimus and Ratchet are watching over the confused refugees from the Initiative whilst Galloway and a bunch of Autobots are holding a sting operation against some Decepticons under Starscream's command who are selling weapons to human terrorists. During the sting Skystalker and Divebomb are killed and Fearswoop is captured. The battle is watched by Shockwave from a distance and isn't impressed by the local Decepticons. He contacts Astrotrain at his location and asks for a progress report on his project (which seems to be to repair the Driller). The Brain Unit that was being used to help Astrotrain overhears that he's going to be destroyed after his job is done, and runs away

The Autobots and their prisoner return to Diego Garcia and Elita is a bit annoyed with Optimus after he finally asks her what it was like being resurrected and linked to her sisters.

Shockwave infiltrates Starscream's base and tells him that Megatron sent him to reintegrate Starscream's group in with his. Astrotrain contacts Shockwave about the Brain Unit (Brains) escaping, and is told to hunt him down as he holds sensitive information.

Brains arrives in Philadelphia where he runs into Sam and Bumblebee.

In the past, Shockwave picks up the signal of the Allspark, sent out when the humans found it and leaves a battle with the Auotbots to hunt it down, unfortunately, like Megatron he loses control and crashes on the planet, in Siberia in this case and is eventually found by the Soviet Union. Soundwave arrives in orbit of Earth at some point and starts manipulating humans to doing his dirty work.

Later, Megatron eventually finds and frees Shockwave from the abandoned Soviet facility he was being held in, and recruits him back into the Decepticons.

Later, Sam and Bumblebee have taken Brains down an alley, where they are properly introduced, along with Wheelie. Brains explains that he has some knowledge about the Decepticons weapons locations, but before he can divulge it, Barricade arrives and says he wants the unit. Bumblebee engages the Decepticon whilst Sam and the others run away along with some locals, but when they get away from Barricade they find a whole army of Decepticons, all after Brains as well. Brains doesn't know what the information he has is as well as the weapons locations, but everyone seems to want it.

Sam calls NEST and asks for help as Starscream and his forces are all there in Philadelphia. Most of the Autobots and several of the humans head out. Sam and the others are in major danger, but are saved when Mirage and Wheeljack suddenly appear on Earth and help to fight off the Decepticons..

At Diego Garcia the refugees are left behind with some Autobots, humans and Galloway guarding them and the base whilst the others are out for their mission to Philadelphia. On the way to Philadelphia the sisters are airdropped into a forest to act as an infiltration team, which will reunite with the Autobots in Philadelphia after setting explosives in certain locations. The battle in Philadelphia is intense, Brains is separated from Sam and runs to a woman, but is also chased by Space Case, the woman, who re-introduces herself to the newly arrived Sam as well as Carly, as she shoots at Space Case with a fallen weapon on the floor, injuring the Decepticon. The two discuss things whilst the battle continues on.

In the forest the sisters come across Astrotrain, and see him talking to Shockwave over a communicator and learn that Starscream's pursuit of Brains is just an elaborate distraction for Shockwave's real plan, and also see the Driller monster in the area too, being repaired. The sisters try to warn Optimus, but they're signals are being jammed by Soundwave, who appears with his minions and starts attacking the Autobot sisters.

Elita manages to escape and races off to warn Optimus in person, but Astrotrain chases her. The Autobots arrive in Philadelphia to Starscream's shock, as Shockwave told him they'd be occupied, which Shockwave confirms, revealing that Starscream IS the diversion. He cuts off the communication and begins his attack on Diego Garcia and proceeds to slaughter the humans and Autobots stationed there still, including Knock Out, Dune Runner and Galloway with great ease.

In Philadelphia the Autobots are winning the battle, but are unaware of the chaos back at base, Jolt manages to start a communication to Prime, but is cut off by Shockwave before he can say anything worthwhile. Shockwave kills Jolt and frees Fearswoop and leaves the base utterly destroyed. Elita arrives in Philadelphia and races to find Optimus but ends up having to engage Astrotrain in a fight as well.

The battle in Philadelphia is won, as the Autobots realize the Decepticons are trying to retreat now rather than fight some more. Elita kills Astrotrain and manages to reach Optimus to tell him that this was all just a distraction by Shockwave, who rockets into the area and crushes her to death. In the forest their sisters feel Elita's death and Chromia decides that if they're going to die too, they'll take the Decepticons with them, and sets off the explosives.

In Philadelphia Shockwave attacks Mirage and Wheeljack, causing major damage and Optimus engages him in a battle for revenge. Fearswoop arrives to help Shockwave, but is killed when he flies into a forcefield Wheeljack's erected around Shockwave and Optimus. Optimus engages his foe one-on-one. In the forest, Arcee races out of the explosion carrying Chromia and she tells her that they need to fight for life.

Opitmus is winning the fight, and even uses the forcefield to damage Shockwave by pushing him against it, but before he can take his revenge for Elita's murder the Driller monster arrives and rescues his master and the rest of the Decepticons too.

In the aftermath Ratchet says Mirage and Wheeljack can be fixed, but Elita is gone, he also reports an emergency call from the base. Chromia and Arcee send out a call for a pick-up, but it's unclear if it's answered, Epps retires after seeing what Shockwave did at the base, Sam and Carly start dating, Bumblebee is ordered to rejoin NEST and not be Sam's bodyguard anymore by the new head of NEST and Optimus mourns the death of his old friend. Meanwhile Megatron continues with his plans elsewhere, having won this round....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Wheelie - RC Pick Up Truck

Arcee - Motorcycle

Chromia - Motorcycle

Elita One - Motorcycle Killed by Shockwave

Mirage

Wheeljack

Knock Out - Motorcycle Killed by Shockwave

Jolt - Electric Car Killed by Shockwave

Dune Runner - Military Buggy Killed by Shockwave

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Sideswipe - Concept Corvette

Skids - Smart Car

Mudflap - Smart Car

Salvage - Pick Up Truck Killed by Shockwave

Longarm - Tow Truck Killed by Shockwave

Blazemaster - Helicopter Killed by Shockwave

Smokescreen - Pontiac Killed by Shockwave

Armorhide - Truck Killed by Shockwave

Brawn - Military Humvee Killed by Shockwave

Signal Flare (Flashback)

Strongarm (Flashback)

Cliffjumper (Flashback)

Sentinel Prime (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Megatron

Shockwave

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Astrotrain - Cybertronian Space Shuttle/Train Killed by Elita One

Brains (Defects to Autobots)

Soundwave - Satellite

Ratbat Killed by Arcee and Chromia

Ravage Killed by Arcee and Chromia

Beastbox Killed by Arcee and Chromia

Rumble Killed by Arcee and Chromia

Buzzsaw Killed by Arcee and Chromia

Fearswoop - Fighter Jet Killed by Wheeljack

Divebomb - Fighter Jet Killed by Ironhide

Skystalker - Stealth Bomber Killed by the Sisters

Ruination - Osprey Helicopter

Deadlift - Forklift Killed by Shockwave

Barricade - Police Car

Bludgeon - Tank Killed in Battle

Sonar - Battleship Killed by Mirage

Tankor - Tank

Brimstone - Motorcycle Killed by Bumblebee

Storm Surge - Hovercraft Killed by Bludgeon

Mindwipe - Stealth Jet

Blademaster - Helicopter Killed by Optimus Prime

Space Case - Fighter Jet

Driller

Hatchlings

Thundercracker - Cybertronian Jet (Flashback)

Dreadwing - Cybertronian Jet (Flashback)

Skywarp - Cybertronian Jet (Flashback)

Flatline (Flashback)

Human

Sam Witwicky

Carly Spencer 

Epps

Lennox

Galloway Killed by Shockwave

Chinese Guys Killed by Shockwave and Astrotrain

Philadelphia Guys

NEST

Soviets (Flashback)

Joe Danco (Flashback)

Walter Simmons (Flashback)

Mikaela Banes (Mentioned)

Dylan Gould (Mentioned)

Charlotte Mearing (Mentioned)

Initiative (Mentioned) Defunct

Notes

• This is essentially the sequel to Nefarious and mentions the events a fair few times
• Longarm and Salvage are shown as active Autobots here (for a while anyway) and were earlier shown as Allspark Mutations under S7's care, this means that these guys are likely different to those cars shown, and those cameos were just that.
• The flashback scenes here show Chromia's death, leading to her body being recovered by Flatline for the experiment shown in Tales of the Fallen. This shows that Chromia was the first sister to die, then Elita, and finally Arcee.
• Shockwave was found by the Soviets and kept inert like how S7 found Megatron.
• The Decepticons recovered from the Initiative are shown to be more comprehensive than the Autobots that were recovered.
• This story quite effectively deals with why Galloway and Jolt aren't in DOTM...Shockwave murdered them!!
• It's unclear if Chromia and Arcee are still alive after these events. Elita is definitely dead, but the others were still alive, but in a forest, however Elita's death MIGHT have lead to them dying as well eventually...maybe a future comic will tell us?
• Space Case references the events of the IDW pack-in toy comics by, placing them in continuity with the main comics too.
• The damage to Mirage, Wheeljack and Shockwave shown in this story sort of explains why they look a little different in DOTM, as they've had repairs done to them which altered them a bit.
• Soundwave keeps jumping from his satellite and Mercedes bodies in this story
• Megatron seems to already have his Truck mode, but doesn't transform here, nor does he have his half-face (which is in line with the comics as he never had his face blasted in half by Optimus, unlike in the actual movies, but by the time of the DOTM comic he does have half his face missing as well.
• Divebomb is seen alive and well on Earth here, last time we saw him he was being killed by Screamer on Cybertron.
• Mikaela's removal from the franchise is explained away here as her dumping Sam

IDW - Tales of The Fallen

Bumblebee

Plot

Bumblebee returns to Tranquility to act as Sam's guardian again and the two have fun together, however Sam's parents (who know about the Transformers by now) tell him that Bumblebee can't stay with them when Sam goes off to college. Sam's annoyed and goes to see Mikaela, be says to Bumblebee that he wants him to stay behind tonight, however on the way there Sam is abducted.

Later Mikaela calls Sam's parents to ask where he is, so Ron tells Bumblebee that Sam's missing, and he races off to find him. Bumblebee receieves a message from someone asking for the Allspark in exchange for Sam.

Elsewhere, Barricade is dangling Sam over a car compactor ordering him to give him the Allspark fragment when Bumblebee arrives and frees his human friend. The two robots fight, and Bumblebee eventually wins by dousing Barricade in gasoline and then shooting him, cauing an explosion. Bumblebee and Sam escape, but unseen to them so does Barricade.

Characters

Autobot

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Decepticon

Barricade - Police Car

Human

Sam Witwicky

Ron Witwicky

Judy Witwicky

Miles

Mikaela Banes

Trent

Other Humans

Lindsey (Mentioned)

Dog

Mojo

Notes

• This story shows what happened between Bumblebee being sent back to look after Sam and the start of ROTF

Sideswipe

Plot

Sideswipe arrives on Earth in late 2008 and immediately starts hunting down Demolishor, who caused major problems for him in the past and is tearing apart a city looking for him. NEST notices him and tells Optimus to bring him in or he'll be killed. Ironhide is sent out and soon finds him fighting with Demolishor again, he helps Sideswipe against Demolishor. The mexican army is sent in to deal with the warring robots, and chase off Denolishor, however Ironhide defends Sideswipe from one missile, injuring himself before the other Autobots and NEST arrive and stop the problem, Sideswipe probably joins the team after this.

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Sideswipe - Concept Corvette

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Sideswipe's Brigade (Flashback) Killed by Demolishor

Decepticon

Demolishor - Excavator

Human

Lennox

Epps

Admiral Morshower

Other Humans

Notes

• Sideswipe is shown to have a history with Demolishor, pity he never ended up with the kill-shot against him huh?
• This story shows Sideswipe appearing before Arcee and the Others here, which MIGHT contradict the scene in Alliance.
• Sideswipe has pop up guns in vehicle mode, which is added to his alternate mode in later toys.

Jetfire

Plot

Jetfire, in the past completes another mission for The Fallen and creates energon from a star using a harvester on a lifeless world (or so he thinks). Later the duo meet with the Dynasty of Primes in their dimension who are upset by the planet that was just destroyed in fact had life upon it and then all vow to not use the harvesters on worlds with life. The Fallen isn't happy, and Jetfire is confused as he didn't know the planet was lifeless. The Fallen begins his own faction, the Decepticons with Jetfire as a member.

Later Jetfire and The Fallen go to Earth, where they find lifeforms, but The Fallen doesn't care and starts killing the humans he finds, Jetfire is shocked and tries to stop his master before the harvester can be used there.

The rest of the Dynasty of Primes arrive on the planet to confront The Fallen for his actions, The Fallen transports Jetfire and his other Decepticons away to fight alone. Jetfire and the Decepticons fight it out, but Jetfire manages to take them all down one by one. Afterwards he starts travelling the world, searching for thousands of years.

Eventually Jetfire comes across a stealth jet that's just crashed and assumes it's form.

Characters

Decepticon

The Fallen

Jetfire - Blackbird Stealth Jet (Formerly Space Ship)

Mixmaster - Mixing Truck Killed by Jetfire

Rampage - Bulldozer Killed by Jetfire

Scrapper - Front End Loader Killed by Jetfire

Long Haul - Dump Truck Killed by Jetfire

Scavenger - Excavator Killed by Jetfire

Hightower - Crane Killed by Jetfire

Other

Dynasty of Primes

Captain E. Laska

Lt. Sheep

Ancient Humans

Notes

• This story shows Jetfire being inducted into The Fallen's original Decepticons and him leaving it too
• The Constructicons in this story aren't the same guys who appear in ROTF as well, just guys who happen to look like them
• Jetfire's travels around the world after defeating The Fallen's troops is shown in Sector Seven

The Fallen

Plot

The Fallen has been using the harvester to power up the Allspark, but uses stars that are responsible for planets with life, against the Dynasty's laws, so he starts a revolution against his brothers and actively seeks out to kill all lesser lifeforms for their star's energy. Over time he gathers up a large load arsenal of weapons.

The Fallen sets a trap for his brothers by setting up the Harvester on another planet, Earth, and asks for his brothers to come with the Matrix so he can activate it.

Jetfire turns against his master for his actions and is sent away by The Fallen along with his other Decepticons whilst The Fallen battles and slaughters his brothers. Eventually Prima arrives and defeats his brother, using his powers to launch The Fallen into his sarcophagus, trapping him in another dimension, once there, The Fallen vows vengeance.

Characters

Decepticon

The Fallen Banished away by Prima

Jetfire

Scrapper - Front End Loader Dead

Long Haul - Dump Truck Dead

Rampage - Bulldozer Dead

Overload - Articulated Dump Truck Dead

Other

Prima

Dynasty of Primes Killed by The Fallen

Aliens Killed by The Fallen and his Troops

Notes

• This story shows The Fallen betraying his brothers and killing most of them off
• One of the Primes use Optimus Prime's protoform toy from the first toyline, this is Prima
• The Fallen defeated his brothers by using a secret cache of weapons he's been collecting for ages, whilst they just tried to reason with him by talking.
• This story is set during the same time-frame as the previous story

Ravage

Plot

Ravage's dead body was recovered at some point, and is revived by a mysterious group who send him missions to complete. The first mission is to recover the dead Allspark Mutations that attacked Sam in his house and then evade capture, he manages this after a long chase, and ends up hiding under a building that was just air-striked on presidential orders. Soundwave witnesses this from orbit and wonders what's happening

Characters

Autobot

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Decepticon

Soundwave - Satellite

Ravage - Aquatic Vehicle

Reedman - Ball Bearings

Rampage - Bulldozer

Human

Sam Witwicky

President Barrack Obama

NEST

Military

Ravage's New Masters

Other

Appliance Bots Dead

Notes

• This story shows that Ravage's death as seen in the movie itself, but not in the comic DID happen in the comic too, but just off-screen
• This story sets up a main plot point of Ravage being revived by a mysterious organization which is continued in Nefarious
• This is the only "Tales" story to be set AFTER the movie, with all the others being background for the characters included

Arcee

Plot

Arcee's ship is attacked by Thundercracker and all aboard are killed, later Arcee wakes up in Flatline's lab in a new body, next to her sister's in new bodies as well and he plans to use her and her sisters as an experiment in creating a new type of warrior, after his failed experiment using Skids and Mudflap.

The three sisters are reactivated and now share a mind to some extent, unfortunately for Flatline, the sisters are still Autobots, break free and start attacking the Decepticons in the base after freeing the twins.

After a quick battle, the 5 Auotbots escape after avoiding the lab's self destruction, and the Decepticon's own escape. The 5 Autobots later leave on the Twin's ship and head towards Earth, to answer Optimus' call for reinforcements.

Characters

Autobot

Arcee

Chromia

Elita One

Skids

Mudflap

Breakaway Killed by Thundercracker

Clocker Killed by Thundercracker

Optimus Prime (Flashback)

Decepticon

Thundercracker - Cybertronian Jet

Flatline

Dreadwing Drones - Cybertronian Jets

Payload Drones

Starscream (Flashback)

Notes

• This story shows what happened after Reign of Starscream, and shows why Arcee has a new tripartate body, as well as why Elita is alive again. Chromia's past life is explored later.
• This story shows that Skids and Mudflap are a bit dim-witted because Flatline experimented on them
• Wow Flatline is dumb, he upgraded Arcee and her sisters with greater abilities and DIDN'T make sure that she was mind-wiped or something first?!?

IDW - Revenge of the Fallen Adaptation

Plot

Thousands of years ago on Earth, The Fallen wages a war against his brothers, The Primes over the Star Harvester on the planet, as The Fallen plans to use it to destroy the sun and take it's energy for himself. (wonder who won?)

Back in the present day NEST and their Autobot allies chase two Decepticons, Sideways and Demolishor across Shanghai Optimus takes down Demolishor, who then warns Optimus that the Fallen shall rise again before dying, meanwhile Sideways is killed by Sideswipe. The incident in Shanghai is covered up, which Sam watches on TV.

Sam is packing his bags for college when he finds a shard of the Allspark in the clothes he wore during the Mission City battle and is infused with some energy whilst on the phone with Mikaela. The shard falls through his floor and into the kitchen which brings all the appliances to life, and they attack. Bumblebee, who lives in the garage attacks them, and ends up blowing the house up, leaving Judy furious (as the parents know about the Autobots now). Later Mikaela arrives and Sam gives her the shard, which the Decepticon Wheelie sees and reports. Sam and Bumblebee say goodbye, as he cant take a car to college as a freshman.

Galloway meets with Lennox and his team at the NEST base on Diego Garcia and tells them that the government isn't happy about the damage caused in Shanghai, and Optimus says that if the government asks them to leave then they will, but remind them that the Decepticons still exist on the planet and will go after humans, whether the Autobots are around or not. Soundwave, in orbit, launches Ravage to Diego Garcia, which he learned to be where the Allspark shard is, and also learns where Megatron was dumped in the ocean. Elsewhere, Sam moves into his college dorm and starts meeting his new classmates including Leo and Alice.

Ravage infiltrates NEST and steals the Allspark shard, later Sam goes to a party with his new friends when he called out by Bumblebee, who takes him to see Optimus. He tells Sam that the government believes the Decepticon attacks are the Autobot's fault and that the Allspark shard has been stolen and they need his help for realations.

Elsewhere Ravage and some other Decepticons, including Scalpel use the Allspark Shard to revive Megatron.

Megatron flies off to the crashed Nemesis on another planet where he meets with Starscream and talks with The Fallen in his dimension. Megatron is told that Sam now holds the power of the Allspark within him, and they need him for their ultimate plan to find the Matrix to power the harvester.

In school, Sam starts feeling the effects of the Allspark by assimilating knowledge too fast and starts overloading. Sam calls Mikaela about this and during the call Wheelie tries to steal her shard from the safe, but she stops him and tells Sam that she's coming to his school.

NEST detect multiple Decepticon attacks in America and send out some troops to deal with them. At Princeton Alice tries to seduce Sam and is revealed to be a Decepticon, Mikaela and Leo arrive just as Alice is trying to strangle him with her tongue, and the three of them escape in a car they steal after a short chase through the school. Alice chases the car, but Mikaela drives into her, knocking her away, however Grindor appears from nowhere and catches the car, hauling it away with him.

Sam is taken to a warehouse where Scalpel prepares to cut out his brain for them to use when  Bumblebee and Optimus appear and kill the doctor and fight off the Decepticons. Optimus drives off with Sam whilst Bumblebee takes Leo and Mikaela. Optimus ends up in a forest where he fights off Megatron, Starscream and Grindor whilst trying to protect Sam but ends up being killed by Megatron. Before Megatron can get to Sam though the other Autobots arrive and Bumblebee takes the Humans away with the Twins into hiding.

Megatron hacks the satellite feeds and addresses the Earth and orders them to find Sam for him, or he'll start destroying the world. Sam's parents in France (on their world tour) are kidnapped by some Decepticons.

Whilst on the run Sam decides he needs help, Leo suggests they go see someone who hacked his website and seems to know all about the symbols he keeps seeing in his head. The person they go to see turns out to the former Agent Simmons, who tells them that the Transformers have been on Earth for some time now, and shows them pictures of those symbols found across the planet, and even photos of some vehicles who they believe to be Transformers too.

The humans tell Wheelie (whom Mikaela had stuffed in a toll box after their fight) to help them find one of these old Transformers, and he directs them to the Smithsonian, where their Allspark shard launches itself towards a blackbird jet, which reconfigures into the now elderly Jetfire, a Decepticon who decided to defect some time ago. Sam shows Jetfire the symbols, which Jetfire interprets as clues to finding the Matrix, he then transports himself, the Autobots and Humans to Egypt via a space bridge, once there he explains who The Fallen is and that he planned to destroy Earth, so his former brothers turned their bodies into a tomb to hide the Matrix, the only thing that can reactivate the harvester, from The Fallen. He sends Sam and the others on a mission to find it, as it's power can also be used to revive Optimus.

Elsewhere, NEST is disbanded after recent events and Galloway prepares to escort them back to Diego Garcia. In Egypt Sam is noticed by the local intelligence agencies, and Soundwave learns he's there. Sam works out where Jetfire's clues for the Matrix's location lead to and calls Lennox's wife to get a secret message to her husband to ask for military assistance.

Sam and the others arrive at Petra and find the Tomb of the Primes and Sam grabs the Matrix, which turns to dust, Sam refuses to give up and gathers the dust up into a sock as they hear the military jets arriving nearby. NEST hijack the plane their on, and force Galloway out of the plane elsewhere as the team airdrops to the location Sam sent to them.

Megatron and the Decepticons arrive in Egypt as well and start attacking Sam and his group, and the NEST guys too. Soundwave is in orbit hacking the surveillance images and edits them to remove the Decepticons. Sam and Mikaela run off through the ruins with the Matrix dust whilst Bumblebee and the others create diversions. Nearby, The Fallen arrives from his dimension and lands on top of a pyramid

The Fallen order Megatron and the Decepticons to find the Matrix before Optimus can be revived with it. Sam and Mikaela and found by Rampage, who reveals that he has Sam's parents hostage. Elsewhere the Twins, Simmons and Leo see Devastator begin his attack on a pyramid. Sam's parents are rescued by Bumblebee who kills Rampage in the process and takes them away to safety.

Devastator's attack on the pyramid reveals that the harvester was hidden beneath it, Simmons manages to contact a US ship that holds a rail gun weapon on board and helps them to target it towards Devastator, whilst the Twins fight the giant monster, elsewhere Sam and Mikaela meet up with the army guys and Jetfire arrives at the battle, taking out some Decepticons easily, but eventually gets mortally wounded by Scorponok. Sam makes a run for it and tries to use the Matrix on Optimus, but he's caught in a blast and killed.

Whilst dead, Sam sees the Dynasty of Primes who tell him that he has proven himself as a true leader, and is worthy of the Matrix, so they revive him. The Matrix reforms and Sam uses it on Optimus, reviving him as well. The Fallen teleports nearby and steals the Matrix from Sam, and returns to the harvester, Jetfire offers his body to create an upgrade for Opitmus to allow him to fly, so Ratchet gets to work.

The Rail Gun weapon kills Devastator as Optimus arrives and destroys the harvester. Optimus reveals to Megatron that a Prime cannot be created (as The Fallen promised Megatron) but has to be born. Megatron is disillusioned and turns against The Fallen, and leaves through one of The Fallen's own space bridges as Optimus kills The Fallen himself.

In the aftermath the humans and Autobots return home and wonder about the future, as Megatron, on the Nemesis looks over his newly born army of hatchlings, and begins his preparations....

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee

Sideswipe - Concept Corvette

Skids - Smart Car (Formerly Front of Ice Cream Truck)

Mudflap - Smart Car (Formerly Rear of Ice Cream Truck)

Arcee - Motorcycle

Chromia - Motorcycle

Elita One - Motorcycle

Decepticon

The Fallen Killed by Optimus Prime

Megatron - Cybertronian Jet/Cybertronian Tank

Soundwave - Satellite

Starscream - Fighter Jet

Wheelie - RC Pick Up Truck (Defected to Autobots)

Jetfire - Blackbird Stealth Jet (Defected to Autobots) Killed by Scorponok, Parts given to Optimus

Sideways - Audi R8 Killed by Sideswipe

Grindor - Military Helicopter Killed by Optimus Prime

Scalpel - Microscope Killed by Optimus Prime

Ravage - Missile

Reedman - Ball Bearings

Alice - Animatronic Woman

Demolishor - Excavator Killed by Optimus Prime

Scrapmetal - Bulldozer

Scavenger - Excavator

Long Haul - Dump Truck Killed by Jetfire

Overload - Articulated Dump Truck

Scrapper - Front End Loader

Mixmaster - Mixing Truck

Rampage - Bulldozer

Devastator - Construction Vehicles Killed by Rail Gun

Scorponok - Part of Helicopter

Frenzy (Head Only) Dead

Hatchlings

Other Decepticon Attackers

Human

Sam Witwicky

Mikaela Banes

Lennox

Epps

Galloway

Leo Spitz

Seymour Simmons

Ron Witwicky

Judy Witwicky

Sarah Lennox

Monica Epps

Admiral Morshower

Professor Colan

Fassbinder

Sharsky

NEST

Other Humans

POTUS (Mentioned)

Other

The Dynasty of Primes Dead

Ejector - Toaster Killed by Bumblebee

Appliance-Bots - Kitchen Appliances Killed by Bumblebee

Notes

• This is the adaptation of the ROTF Movie (duh)
• Again, some details have been changed for speed/ease of reading/add older details from the script etc
• Megatron knowing where The Fallen's ship is, is explained in Defiance where he visits him during the Allspark hunt.
• The vine thingies that attack The Fallen at the end are very random...no one seems to know what they are...(I blame Quintessons)
• The end of this story shows the Hatchlings being born, which were omitted from the movie version, but are a plot point in DOTM.
• The scene where Arcee and her sisters were injured in Egypt was omitted here, but is referenced in later stories
• Likewise Ravage's death wasn't shown here, but was shown in a later story as happening here

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 - ROTF Volume 2 #19

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Ironhide and Bumblebee

Cover Art: Neill Cameron

Cover Date: January/February 2011

Price: £3.99

Poster: Bumblebee and Ironhide play in the snow!!

Comic Title: The Nightmare Bee-4 Christmas

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Jon Davis-Hunt

Colours: Kirsty Swan

Lettering: Den Patrick

Comic Plot

Sam is home for the Christmas holidays with Bumblebee, though Bumblebee isn't supposed to have come with him, so he's hiding from his parents as he wanted to see what Christmas was all about.

Later, Dead End appears in the are looking for Bumblebee, Sam sees him in the back garden and assumes that it's Bumblebee (as they have slightly similar silhouettes) so he runs out to tell him to get back in the garage...then Sam realizes that it's the zombie Decepticon.

Bumblebee appears and stops Dead End, and the two have a fight (with Bumblebee trying to be as quiet as possible). Dead End has Bumblebee pinned down, but Bumblebee shoots off his laser cannon, knocking him out, but waking up Sam's mother as well.

The next morning everyone wakes up and opens their presents, with Judy receiving a bottle of car wax from Bumblebee. Sam gives Bumblebee his present, a replacement part.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Ratchet - Emergency Humvee (mentioned)

Decepticons

Dead End - Audi R8 (injured by Bumblebee)

Other

Sam Witwicky

Ron Witwicky

Judy Witwicky

Mojo

Comic Notes

• Bumblebee's in this comic! (Ironhide's not though)...no snow either....
• This is the first Transformers Christmas story in a long, LONG time...We need more....
• Following issue 21 of Volume 2, which shows Dead End becoming a zombie again, it seems most likely that this was meant to be set after that issue originally (which would have fit in nicely enough without the bi-monthly switch up)
• The title is a reference to "The Night before Christmas" and "The Nightmare before Christmas"
• The Witwicky's have at least three Christmas trees in their dining room
• Bumblebee give Judy a bottle of Car Wax for Christmas to try and win her over
• It can be assumed that Dead End was picked up by NEST that night since there's no word of a Decepticon on the lawn by Ron.

Extra Features

Adverts

Competitions

Bumblebee's Guide: The Solar System - Uranus (tee hee)

How to Draw - Optimus Prime grid style

Megatron's Mind Maulers! - Puzzles

Megatron - Jet Mode - Info on his jet mode

Optimum Route - Optimus themed maze puzzle

Law & Disorder - Barricade and Ironhide's letter page

Titan - ROTF Volume 2 #6

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Stock Image of Starscream

Cover Date: December 2009

Price: £2.70

Poster: G1 Kup, Blurr and Springer

Comic Title: Outlaw Blues

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Jon Davis-Hunt

Colours: Hi-Fi Design

Lettering: Andrew James

Comic Plot

The Twins have been detained and are currently on route to a secured location when they are rescued by Wheelie (on Soundwave's orders).

Optimus at Diego Garcia is informed of the Twin's escape and deems that their recapture is a priority now. The Twins are then immediately attacked, forcing them to go on the run again.

2 Days later, the Twins are in Tranquility and pick up Sam to speak with him and try to explain what's happened to him so he can relay it to the Autobots (though it looks like he's abducting them really)

Bumblebee sees this and goes after the Twins. The Twins quickly give up Sam and try to surrender to Bumblebee, when suddenly Soundwave arrives and shoots the Autobot, and offers the Twins sanctuary, which they accept.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Ironhide - Pick Up Truck

Sideswipe - Concept Corvette

Skids - Smart Car

Mudflap - Smart Car

Decepticons

The Fallen (mentioned)

Starscream - F22 Jet

Soundwave - Satellite/Jet

Wheelie - RC Pick Up Truck

Human

Sam Witwicky

Mikaela Banes (mentioned)

Judy Witwicky (mentioned)

Comic Notes

• Starscream actually appears in this issue, albeit as a very brief cameo as the one who drops off Wheelie to free the Twins. This also confirms that his mission on Cybertron must be over
• Starscream and Wheelie almost definitely kill some humans in this issue when rescuing the Twins.
• Mikaela being mentioned here is about the only time we hear from Mikaela in this series!
• This marked the first time Soundwave was seen to set foot on Earth.
• Sam doesn't want to get involved with the war any more (as also shown in ROTF)
• It's not said here, but Soundwave is likely the one who sent the message to NEST telling them that Sam has been abducted by the Twins
• The Twins finally tell someone about the army forming on Cybertron by Starscream, but not Optimus, they tell Sam, and judging by the later issues, Sam told him later himself.
• A human getting abducted by an Autobot is very similar to what happened in Man of Iron, and coincidentally the human in that story was called Sammy Harker!!

Extra Features

Adverts

Competitions

More than Meets the Eye - Games and Puzzles

All Hail Megatron reprint - Part 6

Mudflap - Profile for the other twin!

War Paint - Do a Grid Copy of Megatron

Law & Disorder - Barricade and Ironhide talk about things!

Starscream's Stars - Horrible Horoscopes

Titan - ROTF Volume 2 #2

Basic Information

Cover Characters: Stock Image of Megatron

Cover Date: August 2009

Price: £2.70

Poster: G1 Soundwave with Frenzy in his eyes

Comic Title: Dogfight!

Script: Simon Furman

Art: Jon Davis-Hunt

Lettering: Andrew James

Comic Plot

Skids and Mudflap arrive on Earth in Canada and take on their Smart Car modes. Starscream informs The Fallen about the Twins spying on them, and he tells him that he has an agent to deal with them on Earth. The Twins are attacked by Ransack.

In New York State Sam is looking at colleges still and Bumblebee picks up on the Twin's distress signal from being attacked by Ransack so he drives off to save him.

The Twins begin to fight back against Ransack, but he prepares to make a comeback when Bumblebee arrives on the scene and chases off the ancient Seeker, and he vows revenge.

Comic Characters

Autobots

Skids - Entry Pod, Smart Car

Mudflap - Entry Pod, Smart Car

Bumblebee - Concept Camaro

Decepticons

The Fallen

Ransack - Bi-Plane

Starscream - F22 Jet

Humans

Sam Witwicky

Judy Witwicky

Ron Witwicky

Comic Notes

• The Twins arrive on Earth after Arcee and Sideswipe, unlike in the IDW comics, and they take on their Smart Car modes as soon as they arrive on the planet, rather than taking on an Ice Cream Truck mode, and Ransack seems fine rather than being under Initiative control, so it's safe to say that this is a totally different continuity to IDW (duh)
• Starscream is to stay on Cybertron for now.
• Ransack works for The Fallen still
• Sam finally appears in the UK comics after being dead for most of Volume 1
• Bumblebee's radio gimmick also debuts here, since he had a normal voice throughout Volume 1
• Mikaela doesn't appear here or any other issue in this Volume, despite being the main character in Volume 1

Extra Features

Adverts

Competitions

Sideswipe - Sideswipe Profile

All Hail Megatron reprint - Part 2

More than Meets the Eye - Transformers Puzzles

Why Jetfire likes being an SR-71 Blackbird - What the title says...

Top Gear - Stuff to look at and buy

Law & Disorder - Barricade and Ironhide chat to the fans

Starscream's Stars - Horoscope