Basic Information
Cover Characters: Stock Images of Starscream and Optimus Prime
Cover Date: January 2010
Price: £2.70
Poster: Optimus kills Starscream
Comic Title: Turnabout
Script: Simon Furman
Art: Jon Davis-Hunt
Colours: Hi-Fi Design
Lettering: Andrew James
Comic Plot
On the Martian moon, Phobos, the Twins are being welcomed into the Decepticon ranks, though the other Decepticons don't appear to happy with the new arrivals. Soundwave sends them out on their first mission, to locate Ransack and bring him back to them. Soundwave then sends Grindor and Sideways to follow them.
The Twins arrive on Earth and go to the place where they encountered Ransack last time, and sure enough the ancient Transformer appears again and attacks them. Elsewhere, NEST have picked up on the fight and informs the Autobots that the Twins are involved, so they start to head out to intercept.
The Twins trick Ransack into stop attacking them by telling him that The Fallen sent them, so he calms down and follows them willingly. Grindor and Sideways see this and decide to attack the Twins and Ransack to get the glory themselves.
The Twins fight the Decepticons, with Mudflap managing to cause Sideways to ram into a tree, knocking him out, but Grindor manages to escape with Ransack in tow.
The NEST team arrive in the area and sees the Twins fighting the Decepticons and continue to monitor. The Twins gets absolutely annoyed now and decide to find out what's going on once and for all!
Comic Characters
Autobots
Skids - Entry Pod, Smart Car
Mudflap - Entry Pod, Smart Car
Ironhide - Pick Up Truck
Sideswipe - Concept Corvette
Decepticons
The Fallen (mentioned)
Soundwave - Satellite/Jet
Sideways - Audi R8 (injured by Mudflap)
Grindor - Military Helicopter
Ravage - Missile
Ransack - Bi-Plane (injured by Grindor)
Comic Notes
- This is the first issue to feature an extended front cover (to advertise the giant Devastator toy up for grabs) This is however made up for by having the double cover gimmick which makes it look like Optimus is shooting Starscream
- Despite being the characters on the cover...neither Optimus NOR Starscream are in the actual comic!
- The Twins are being used by Soundwave to locate Ransack, so he can use him to locate the Matrix and the Star Harvester for himself
- Soundwave's plan is to have Ransack kill the Twins, and then Grindor and Sideways are to take Ransack.
- The Twins' entry pod modes are the same as the ones seen in issue 1 and 2 of this volume just in their proper colours rather than grey, but they don't have to rescan the smart car modes when they arrive on Earth again.
- Skids reveals that he was just pretending to defect to try and learn more about what's happening...Mudflap apparently didn't realize it was an act...yikes!
- Ransack is shown in his toy colours when in vehicle mode, but when in robot mode he takes on a mostly green robot mode...maybe he uses electronic paint?
- According to Ransack, he hasn't heard from The Fallen in a long time...assuming this isn't just him exaggerating, that means that The Fallen informed someone else on Earth to hunt down the Twins....
- It's unclear is NEST picked up Sideways after he was abandoned on Earth, though judging by the events in ROTF, it can be safely assumed that he was just left there and drove off to Shanghai to hide out with Demolishor.
Extra Features
Adverts
Competitions
More than Meets the Eye - Puzzles and Games
All Hail Megatron reprint - Part 7
Sideswipe's Armoury - Heavy Armour (armoured vehicles)
Way Past Cool! - Bumblebee's game reviews
Law & Disorder - Barricade and Ironhide talk to the fans
Starscream's Stars - Horoscope
