Titan - Prime #16

Comic Title: Fury From the Deep

Writer: Chris Cooper

Art: Dario Brizuela

Lettering: Comicraft

Cover Price: £3.99

Cover Date: August 2013

Poster: Optimus and Ratchet try to kill you

Characters

Autobot

Bumblebee - Urbana 500 Sports Car

Decepticon

Piranacon - Seacon Gestalt Fatally wounded by a rock

Snaptrap Dead

Other Seacons (Mentioned)

Human

Jack

Miko

Raf

Al

Diner Owner

Crew of the Mary Jane (Flashback) Killed by Piranacon

Plot

Al, a retired sailor recalls an incident from about 10 years ago to the kids, who are on vacation, where he was attacked by a giant sea monster, who destroyed his ship, and killed his crew. They don't believe him at first, but when Miko notices a metal tooth arouns his neck, they start to think it could be the Decepticons.

Raf looks into the matter and discovers that a ship was sunk with only one survivor, with the same name as Al said, and they think the Decepticons could be involved, so they decide to go to the ocean to check it out (well they don't actually take it that seriously and just plan to have fun there).

The kids reach "Devil's Cove" with Bumblebee and go into the water on a small boat, Bumblebee starts to get agitated and suddenly the kids are dragged under water. Bumblebee dives underneath to save them, but he comes face to face with the giant sea monster.

Inside a nearby cavern, the kids wake up and find several torn apart wrecks, seemingly used for repairs, and they also find a dead Decepticon, who Raf identifies (using TFWiki on his laptop or something, they call it the "Autobot Archive" though) that it's Snaptrap and tells the others that he's normally found with the 5 other Seacons, who can combine into Piranacon. They figure out that this must be the sea monster who's attacking boats, but Raf also says that Snaptrap works as Piranacon's main mind, so without him Piranacon is basically a mindless monster.

Outside Piranacon and Bumblebee have their underwater fight (FINALLY) with Piranacon's sole consious thought being to kill the Autobots with maximum force. Inside the cave the kids have no luck in finding a way to escape, until Jack finds some old WWII Sea Mines still active. The kids place them near the blocked entrance and it explodes shooting rocks outwards with one fatally wounding Piranacon. The kids are sucked out of the cave to their doom, however Bumblebee rescues them before it's too late and takes them back to shore, where they warm up next to a fire, and decide that next year they'll have a "staycation" instead.

Notes

• This issue is clearly the one meant to be put in issue 12, but for some reason was held back. Having read the issue it seems most likely because it's set during the kid's summer holidays (ie, NOW!)
• The comic also announces that the next issue is out on the 10th of October, with a giant issue and with it being Beast Hunters related, so from the sounds of that we ARE getting the Beast Hunters rebrand for the comic, and it is becoming a more regular comic too, but they just wanted to get this older comic story done with before that
• Oh there's a lot of "stronger" language at the start of this comic than we tend to see in kid's comics, "hell" and "god's sake" are both used by the doomed sailors, whilst appropriate in the situation, it seems a bit out of place here
• The boat, the Mary Jane, or MJ, is probably a reference to the Spider-Man character for some reason
• Piranacon looks like he's just a slightly altered version of his G1 self...still we could use the G1 Seacons as him on our Prime toy shelves now of course!
• Yeah...Piranacon has survived for at least 10 years of attacking ships etc, yet gets killed by a single rock to the face? I think they just wanted to end his storyline rather than have to return to it again!
• I like how when Raf is drowning he still holds onto his laptop...and it's probably okay too!!

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TFCC - Beast Wars Shattered Glass Chapter One: Shattered Time

Plot

The Shattered Glass Ultra Magnus destroys the Classicsverse with the Terminus Blade, however an Autobot and Decepticon ship escaped through a hole in space and both crashland on a planet, with their engines blown out.

After waking up from the crash, Girmlock goes out to investigate, but immediately seizes up due to the intense Energon in the area, elsewhere Megatron sends Nautilator and Tentakil out to investigate, and they too are seized up due to the Energon radiation, however they also get trampled and smashed apart by some local bisons.

Back at the Graviton (Autobot ship) the Autobots use Pretender and Powermaster technology to graft some organic modes based on some local lifeforms, and head out. Meanwhile at the Talon (Decepticon ship) Megatron has decided to use an experimental Energon-Absorbing armor instead so they can retain some mechanical dignity and has his remaining crew get ready for battle.

Characters

Autobot

Ultra Magnus - Mammoth (Former Truck Cab)

Grimlock - Raptor (Former Tyrannosaurus Rex)

Ironhide - Elephant (Former Van)

Prowl - Lion (Former Police Car)

Silverbolt - Eagle (Former Concorde Jet)

Decepticon

Megatron - Tank (Former Gun)

Dirge - Fighter Jet

Snaptrap - Snapping Turtle

Overbite - Shark

Seawing - Manta Ray

Skalor - Coelacanth

Nautilator - Lobster Killed by Bison Herd

Tentakil - Squid Killed by Bison Herd

SG Autobot

Ultra Magnus - Truck Cab

Notes

• This story follows the final scenes of Invasion, showing 2 of the surviving ships from that universe (it's not clear yet if they know they just narrowly escaped an exploding universe)
• The Decepticon ship, the Talon, looks like a creepy evil face...Now I won't sleep tonight!
• The Ultra Mammoth toy revealed for the 2013 Sub Service from the TFCC is confirmed here as being just a beast mode for G1 Ultra Magnus here
• The other Autobot alternate modes are based on some toys from the Beast Wars toyline who shared the same character names
• Dirge and the surviving Seacon's character model is based on their counterparts from Beast Wars II, and Megatron uses the body from his purple tank G2 toy, who sometimes came sold as Archforce. 
• The Lobster and Squid Seacons were "killed off" here because there was no Lobster counetrpart in BWII, and the Squid one was female.
• It's weird to me that Prowl, Ironhide and Silverbolt, who were from the Classicsverse, weren't in their Universe toy models...since some other characters were....
• Wonder where the rest of the Graviton crew are....
• Judging by the beast modes available this planet is likely an alternate Earth where that Matrix thingie was shipped off to.
• The floating computer that works on Megatron seems to be a NAVI of some sort

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