IDW - Lost Light #17

Title: The Everlasting Voices Part 2: The God War

Written by: James Roberts

Art by: Jack Lawrence

Colours by: Joana LaFuente

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: David Mariotte

Publisher: Greg Goldstein

Plot

On the Afterspark, Ultra Magnus examines the area where Rodimus was struck by Primus' lightning, the group determine it wasn't normal lightning, since there would be remains. Suddenly Magnus is approached by his deceased brother, Dominus Ambus, who tells him that he has been watching over him and is proud of everything he has done. After hearing this, Magnus begins to ascend into the Matrix.

Elsewhere on the planet, Anode and Lug are pillaging the soft Ununtrium from a temple they found, as Anode isn't sure this even is the afterlife, she rations that if they are dead, then it doesn't matter, but if they are still alive, then she can get this rare alloy to set her and Lug up for life. The two thieves fly off to examine the Matrix, as Lug wants some of the blue crystals.

Nightbeat notices some crystals on the floor and starts to follow them, leaving Nautica, Brainstorm and Drift alone...that is until Drift is also struck down by divine lightning too.

Drift soon arrives by Rodimus' side in front of the Guiding Hand, soon followed by Ratchet and Ultra Magnus (who is peeved as he was about to ascend when he was scooped away). Rodimus has called his friends to help him convince the Guiding Hand to revive them, so they can get back to their real lives. At first Rodimus feels that he just wants revenge on Getaway for stealing his ship, but he quickly realizes that he really wants his friends to be happy again, and the Lost Light is where everyone was happy last. The Guiding Hand however reject this notion, since his crew are happy here in the Afterspark, and if they revived them now, they can never return. The Hand sends Rodimus and his team away, back into the Afterspark to await ascension.

Back in the Afterspark, Cyclonus and Tailgate catch up on what happened since they last saw each other. Cyclonus admits that he should never have left Necroworld without Tailgate, and the two promise to never separate again, as they travel towards the Matrix.

Rodimus and the others arrive back outside the temple, where Magnus immediately leaves to go be with Dominus some more, however, Ratchet notices some words over the archway into the temple, words that only he can see announcing "We are all trapped light".

On the other side of the temple, Nautica and Brainstorm are exploring, with Brainstorm convinced that the place is trying to distract everyone from exploring, and seems to be splitting them up. Just then, Brainstorm's crush, Quark appears and announces that he has always loved Brainstorm and wants to be his spark-mate. Brainstorm, despite knowing this is probably a trick drops his Early Early Warning Device and leaves with Quark. Nautica, now left alone notices that the device is now red hot, and also now notices a door reading "Danger. Do not enter" on it. She goes to open it, when Skids suddenly appears behind her, asking her to come walk with him...

Back with Rodimus' group, they follow a tunnel that leads them to a room bearing the markings "W0" on the door, again, with only Ratchet being able to see it. Inside the room, they all see an eclectic group of aliens hooked up to a device generating some light. The aliens all start chanting "Prepare. Confront. Repel" in unison and the group are surrounded from the shadows

Outside, Nightbeat has followed the trail of Crystals back towards the main group under the Matrix. He locates Whirl, who he asks where Rung is, because he wants to tell him his new discovery...the TRUE purpose to his alternate mode, however, upon announcing this, he rises up, and his spark is ripped from his body, re-entering the Matrix.

Inside the temple again, Nautica is unmoved by Skids' appearance, despite his best attempts to get her to come with him, she just dismisses him...causing his form to glitch out and start to distort. Nautica takes this to mean that she is doing the right thing, and opens the dangerous door, and coming face-to-face with the Scavengers, still stuck inside Grimlock's old cell on Garrus-9!!

Characters

Autobot

Rodimus - Car

Drift - Car

Ultra Magnus/Minimus Ambus - Vehicle Transport

Ratchet - Ambulance

Nautica - Submarine

Brainstorm - Jet

Nightbeat - Car Ascended into Matrix

Velocity - Race Car

Whirl - Osprey Helicopter

Swerve - Van

Tailgate - Car (After Spark?)

Pipes - Truck (After Spark)

Trailcutter - Van (After Spark)

Dominus Ambus - Turbo Fox (After Spark)

Quark - Electron Microscope (After Spark)

Skids - Van (After Spark)

Getaway - Car (Mentioned)

Kaput (Mentioned) Dead

Rung - Photonic Crystal Generator? (Mentioned)

Chromedome - Car (Mentioned)

Rewind - Data Slug (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Misfire - Jet

Spinister - Helicopter

Krok

Crankcase - Van

Fulcrum - Bomb

Nickel - Rocket-Powered Buggy

Skip - Space Shuttle (Mentioned) Dead

Other Cybertronian

Primus (After Spark)

Mortilus (After Spark)

Solomus (After Spark)

Adaptus (After Spark)

Epistemus (After Spark)

Cyclonus - Jet

Anode - Bi-Plane

Lug - Backpack Equipment

Ancient Cybertronians (Flashback)

Vector Sigma (Flashback)

Ten (Flashback) Ascended into Matrix

Beta Trion (Mentioned)

Other

Trapped Light Aliens Attached to Strange Device

Verity Carlo (Mentioned)

Notes

• Hey look, we finally see Dominus Ambus in his "true" robot mode body, we briefly saw him in a schematic file at the end of MTMTE, but this is his first proper appearance
• Okay if anyone still thinks that this is the Cybertronian afterlife, when we have non-Cybertronians being held there, the dead characters appear to be glitching out or acting out of character amongst all the other issues, then they really need to read more comics...
• Rodimus' choice of Magnus, Ratchet and Drift to help him talking with the Guiding Hand is a light mirror to what Tyrest did with himself, Pharma and Star Saber, representing the three pillars of most societies, law, science and religion. Funnily enough, according to James Roberts on Twitter, he originally planned to have Rodimus refer to them as "Rodimus' Trinity", a further reference to "Rossum's Trinity" (aka the connection of the brain, spark and T-Cog in Transformers)
• Drift's story of the Guiding Hand is a little different to the one told by Cyclonus back in the MTMTE Annual, further implying that it was just a story, or not the complete truth. 
• If you pay attention, you'll notice that the Guiding Hand do not confirm or deny Drift's story of their conflict. This makes me think that they may be, at least partially, the real deal. Perhaps they are trying to keep Cybertronians safe here to preserve them following Unicron's oncoming attack.
• Also, one of the members paraphrases Unicron from the 1986 movie, when he warns Magnus that they will "proceed directly into oblivion". We previously saw that the mysterious "Grand Architect" did the same thing with Scorponok and Flame when he rescued them and conscripted them into his faction. Also the aliens in this issue repeat the phrase "Prepare. Confront. Repel." which is known to be related to that same group. Looks like my theory on Adaptus being the Architect may be true after all!
• I also want to believe that Tailgate is the real one here, having been transported to the "Afterspark" from his isolation cage on Necroworld, neither he nor Cyclonus appear to be acting off, so it doesn't match up with Pipes and the others. (Also given the logic of this world, wouldn't Cyclonus and/or Tailgate have ascended right after they reunited)
• Nightbeat realizes in this issue that because Rung creates his photonic crystals whilst in robot mode, that means his alternate mode's purpose has not been revealed after all. Well Nightbeat claims that he knows what it is, but he ascends right as he's about to mention it. Personally I believe his purpose is my original idea from all the way back at the start of MTMTE, he's a key of some sort.
• Rung is mentioned as being with Rewind and Chromedome. None of them have appeared in this storyline (at least not outside of flashbacks) This seems a little suspect. Also, wouldn't Rewind and Chromedome have ascended straight away, they have no known unfinished business, and they are known for being happiest when together.
• In case you forgot, the reason Nautica doesn't remember why she and Skids are best friends is because she had her emotions linked to him removed earlier in the series. It left her memories and experiences with him, but none of the emotions attached.
• Huh...that ending sure asks me two questions. Were Team Rodimus sent to Garrus-9 somehow, or were the Scavengers sent to the "Afterspark". I personally believe it would be the latter, since the Magnificence gave the Scavengers the coordinates to Garrus-9, and if my theory on that being Epistemus turns out to be true as well.

Sig Pub - Robots in Disguise #31

Notes

• This issue features a screen-cap comic of "Bee Cool"

Features

Make a Transformers Mobile - Destroy the covers to make a cardstock mobile

Optimus Prime Challenge - Do a bunch of puzzles for Optimus Prime

Battle of the Bots - Drift vs Dragbreak profile

Vehicle Hunt - Find the odd vehicle out from a line-up

Stunticon Chase! - A board game where you avoid the Stunticons 

Bee's Decepticon Challenge - Answer questions about some Decepticons

Pull out Poster - Pull out the middle of the magazine to get a poster of Bee and Sideswipe

Observation Test - Play spot the difference with some screen-shots

Comic Investigator - Answer questions about the comic this month (or the episode it's based on)

Puzzling Prizes - Complete a maze, then enter a contest for some figures!

Mega Colouring! - Colour in a picture they give you to play with!

Transformers Post - Look at the pictures the Earth children have sent in!

Join the Dots - Complete the picture of Sideswipe by connecting the dots.

Sig Pub - Rescue Bots #11

Notes

• This month's screen-cap comic is of "Big Game"
• The 3D dinosaur model seems a bit unusual here, normally Sig Pub put the cut-outs on the stiff-card covers, but here they expect us to get stiff card from elsewhere, as well as destroy the middle of the magazine!

Features

Big Bot Match! - Match the Rescue Bots to their vehicle and dino modes

Machines at Work! - Learn about construction vehicles...hope there's no Constructicons lurking!

Search and Find! - Locate various things in a picture!

Chase Race - Lead Chase through a maze

Odd Dinobots Out! - Find the off Dinobot out....duh?

Prime Pairs! - Find the picture of Optimus that doesn't have a match

Rescue Bots Dinosaur Fact Book - Four pages of dinosaur information!

Make a 3D Dinosaur! - Use the templates to make a 3D dinosaur model

Rescue Bots Post - Look at the scary pictures of the Rescue Bots that will give you nightmares!

Heatwave Fun!- Do some Heatwave themed puzzles and games

Spot the Difference! - Play spot the difference....why do I explain these things?!

"Where's Servo?" - Fill in the gaps to tell a story about Servo!

Competition Time! - Enter a contest to win some Mini-Cons and Rescue Team sets!

IDW - Optimus Prime #17

Title: The Falling Part 3: The Ground

Written by: John Barber

Art by: Kei Zama

Colours by: Josh Burcham

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editor: David Mariotte

Publisher: Greg Goldstein

Plot

News about the explosion at the Spire, and the death of Alpha Trion reaches Earth, leading to Aileron deciding to head back to Cybertron to back up Optimus in this situation. Jetfire prepares the space bridge for her, as well as the Torchbearers to join in, when suddenly the city transforms, sending Aileron flying down a hole. Arcee chases after her, whilst the city flies into a space bridge portal, heading to Cybertron.

On Cybertron, Optimus denies Onyx Prime's claims that Soundwave and the Decepticons were involved in the explosion, causing arguments between the public and Optimus' allies, with Onyx planting the idea that Humans, Decepticons and the colonists have corrupted the Cybertronian race, and Optimus himself. He then adds more problems by playing a recording of Soundwave killing Horri-Bull and pinning the blame on Bumblebee, before leaving, saying they can do with Liege Maximo as they wish now, and heads back to his ship.

Needlenose, who loves Horri-Bull is furious with Soundwave for what he did, and for not telling him, further adding to the fire, and starting a riot in the city, with Marissa calling for the Dinobots to come help and the Constructicons to head off on their own mission now. Optimus contemplates what is going on, and why all this is happening, when Metrotitan appears and  begins attacking Onyx Prime's vessel, the Nemesis.

On the ground, Needlenose fires all his weapons at Soundwave, who just shrugs them off, before bitch-slapping him away, telling him there's more important things to deal with. The Constructicons appear and combine into Devastator, and attack the prison, rescuing Starscream, expecting him to lead them as the "Chosen One" again, despite his own protests.

Optimus calls out to Metrotitan to explain why he is on Cybertron, which he explains is to save Starscream. Optimus and Windblade fly to him to try and get him to calm down, but he simply attacks the "False Prime" Optimus, who he now distrusts (for some reason). Windblade loses her grip on Optimus and he falls, only to be caught by Onyx Prime, who immediately orders his Nemesis to fire on Metrotitan, who lows a hole in his chest, seemingly killing him and most likely everyone still on board the Titan.

Optimus attacks Onyx for killing his Titan, but Onyx easily defends himself, and reveals himself, by tearing off his face to reveal himself as....SHOCKWAVE!!!

Characters

Autobot

Optimus Prime - Truck Cab

Windblade - VTOL Fighter Jet

Aileron - Spaceship

Arcee - Sports Car

Jetfire - Fighter Jet

Tracks - Muscle Car

Metrotitan - Autobot City Blasted Through Chest by "The Nemesis"

Slide - Rear of Oil Tanker

Midnight Express - Bullet Train

Alpha Trion - Shuttle Dead

Bumblebee - Car ("Ghost" Only)

Pyra Magna - Fire Truck (Flashback)

Zeta Prime - Truck (Mentioned) Dead

Torchbearers (Mentioned)

The Dinobots (Mentioned)

Decepticon

Soundwave - Cassette Player

Needlenose - Fighter Jet

Swift - Helicopter

Dreadwind - Stealth Bomber Dead

Horri-Bull - Bull (Footage Only) Dead

Ratbat - Cassette (Footage Only) Dead

Skywarp - Fighter Jet (Voice in Footage Only)

Menasor - Stunticon Combiner (Flashback)

Swindle - Van (Flashback)

Galvatron - Tank (Mentioned) Dead

Colonist

Mistress of Flame

Elita One

Moonracer - Sports Car

Fireshot - Part of Jet

Sterling - Car (Flashback) Dead

Random Camiens (Flashback)

Other Cybertronian

Onyx Prime/Shockwave

Starscream - Fighter Jet Liberated from Jail Cell

Scoop - Front End Loader

Bonecrusher - Bulldozer

Long Haul - Dump Truck

Hook - Crane

Mixmaster - Mixing Truck

Scavenger - Excavator

Devastator - Constructicon Combiner

D.O.C.

Circuit

Longtooth

Tappet - Car

Cybertronian Crowds

Zetca (Footage Only)

Prima (Mentioned)

Solus Prime (Mentioned)

Megatronus (Mentioned)

Liege Maximo (Mentioned)

The Other Primes (Mentioned)

The Darklanders (Mentioned)

The Titans (Mentioned)

Human

Marissa Faireborn

Rashid Nasir (Mentioned)

Other

Black Block Consortia (Mentioned)

Notes

• This issue was released the same day as the digital releases of issue 18 and Lost Light 17. The physical copies of the latter two were released a week later.
• Oh look! The colonists are at the mines after all! (But I guess that storyline isn't important enough to really show)
• Unless you look closely, you won't notice that Dreadwind, who Tracks was trying to repair at the start, has died, he's turned grey and everything!
• Onyx claims that he got the "security footage" of Soundwave killing Horri-Bull remotely from hacking into the security network on the planet, however given the revelation of Onyx being Shockwave in disguise, this is likely actually his own memories being shown
• So Onyx flying around in a giant single eye makes sense considering he is actually Shockwave huh?
• The Dinobots were revealed to now be living in Trypticon, acting as the Earth embassy in "The Redemption"
• Small question here, Metrotitan has shoulder mounted cannons and other weapons...why does he shoot energy beams out of his fingers?
• Am I missing something? Is there a reason why Metrotitan suddenly believes Optimus to be a "False Prime"?
• Have I mentioned yet that Onyx Prime is actually Shockwave in disguise? He was last seen being willingly killed to deactivate the black-hole he created, resulting in the singularity in Crystal City.

IDW - Rom and the Micronauts #4

Title: Asymmetric Warfare

Writer: Christos Gage

Artist: Paolo Villanelli

Colourist: Alessandra Alexakis

Letterer: Shawn Lee

Editor: David Mariotte

Publisher: Gold Goldstein

Plot

Orphion, Livia, Camilla and Darby are pinned down by a small army of Wraiths, including Axiom and Reptos, being powered up by sorcerers in South Korea. Luckily Rom and the Micronauts arrive and turn the tide of the fight by taking down the sorcerers, allowing the others to fight properly again. Axiom escapes to warn Karza and the others about this turn of events, whilst the heroes take out the remaining Wraiths. During the battle Rom is pointed towards the Reptos, who have Enerchanged with others to gain a larger size, but are left unstable due to the difference in power, meaning Rom needs to Enerchange with Karza to regain his own true powers.

Following the battle, the Earth team explain that Karza and the Wraiths have set up base on a Japanese island facility, Hashima Island, and have Japan on their side due to them infiltrating their government and portraying the Solstar Knights as murderers. Whilst Orphion shares his intel on the island with the Micronauts, Rom talks with Livia about his lessons in Enerchanging, and believes that they could use it to be able to safely remove their armour and resume their pre-war lives, however Livia doesn't want to do that, as she isn't the same person she was before they joined the war.

At Hashima Island, Axiom explains what has happened, and the Wraiths are starting to panic. Karza reveals that he has a plan to speed up their plans, but it requires The Absence to be "dedicated", angering the intangible Wraith to the point that he agrees, just to show his power...

Back at the staging ground, Acroyear approaches Livia and relates to her that he is also an organic being trapped inside armour, and that he would give anything to remove it and have a normal life, indicating towards Phen again. Livia picks up on what he's saying and points out to him that one's appearance doesn't matter, and she has witnessed many very different species fall in love in her travels across the universe, even a Solstar Knight and a Dire Wraith once fell in love. Rom's true ambition with removing his armour is that he hates it because it is a constant reminder of how his family and his innocence died.

After their preparations, the team head out to Hashima Island, where they split in two teams, Rom and the Micronauts use their smaller size to sneak into the base, whilst Orphion and the others create a big distraction outside.

Things begin well, but Axiom notices that Rom isn't amongst the others fighting so he hunts him down. The Micronauts manage to fight off Axiom, but Rom finishes him off by Enerchanging with him, stealing his size and seemingly sending him to Microspace as Karza did to him earlier. Rom is glad to have a full sized body again, but can feel his body is unstable, so the group rush off to confront Karza and get Rom's true power back, however as they reach his chamber, they see Karza has already succeeded...he has awoken The Presence...

Characters

Solstar Order

Rom

Livia

Orphion

Space Knight in Love (Flashback)

Micronaut

Larissa

Phenolo-Phi

Acroyear

Biotron

Microtron (Voice Only)

Baron Karza

Dire Wraith

The Absence

The Presence 

D'rge

Axiom Shunted to Microspace by Rom

Wraith Sorcerers

Wraith Soldiers Most Killed

Wraith Hawks

Reptos Army Most Self Destruct

Wraith Sorcerer in Love (Flashback)

Human

Darby Mason

Camilla Byers

Other

Fire Alien (Flashback)

Multi-Headed Alien (Flashback)

Torchbearer (Flashback)

Blind Alien (Flashback)

Rom's Family (Flashback) Dead

Notes

• I know it's the penultimate issue, and they had to gloss over the timeline between the end of Rom and this series, but I still find it amazing how quickly Livia and Orphion accept Camilla and Darby, considering the former has partial Dire Wraith powers, and the latter is wearing the dead arm of one of their former allies...
• Oh wow! It's Axiom! He hasn't been seen in like a year, wonder if he'll do a lo- oh...he pretty much dies at the end
• It's implied by his dialogue that "The Absence" is technically "An Absence" and is a position one can attain through a hard ritual, and implies to be a conduit for The Presence to be summoned through.
• Amongst the aliens who find love appears to be a Torchbearer (Camien religious warriors and the guards for the Mistress of Flame) and a blind alien (based on her eyes being covered, yet they still have a gun out)
• Microtron, despite seeming to be on death's door last issue is HEARD on the ship a few times this issue...we don't see him, so either this was a late addition just to show people he's fine before the series ends, or it's for a reveal that he's been modified in some way on the ship (maybe even as part of the ship now?)

IDW - Transformers vs Visionaries #4

Title: Good Men

Written by: Magdalene Visaggio 

Art by: Fico Ossio

Colours by: David Garcia Cruz

Lettered by: Shawn Lee

Edited by: Sarah Gaydos & David Mariotte

Published by: Greg Goldstein

Plot

Quickswitch is recruited by Ironhide's team due to his drill alternate mode, and is outfitted with the counter-wave bomb to be taken down to Vector Sigma and detonated to stop the Talisman's effects. Leoric and Ironhide are worried about how they haven't heard from Arzon's team yet, and believe they may have been killed.

In New Prysmos, Witterquick and Mortdred are being held in a torture chamber and are hurt by Reekon, until Cryotek arrives and takes over the torture. He tries to explain himself to Witterquick, when Virulina comes in and wants to talk to her ew Darkling Lord.

Elesewhere, in his chamber, Merklynn is talking with Arzon, and explains that he wants their people to go back to their magical ways and sees the Cybertronians are blasphemous. He tells Arzon that he wants him to overthrow Virulina and rule Prysmos the proper way, even showing him a vision of the future from his scrying pool, showing Virulina broken and beaten on a floor.

Virulina takes Cryotek to her throne room, where she attacks him to goad him into fighting back, making him prove that he will fight for his people, she is able to defeat him, and explains that she has used a spell on the torture chamber that will send their life-force to the Talisman to speed up it's activation, meaning that it'll be ready today, so long as Witterquick and Mortdred are killed by Cryotek.

Back in the lab, Quickswitch is having some last minute work done before the mission, when Leoric receives a message from Cryotek, telling him about what is happening with Witterquick and the Talisman, apologizing for his betrayal . Leoric heads off alone to confront Virulina himself, leaving Galadria in charge of the bomb team.

The team, heads out, but soon encounter Talsiman energy whilst drilling. Quickswitch manages to go through the energy, shielding the others, but is killed in the process. The group wind up in a chamber near Vector Sigma and Wheeljack prepares to set off the bomb. Unfortunately the group are not alone, Arzon, now wearing Darkling Lord armour, confronts the group. The Spectral Knights are captured by the Darkling Lords, whilst Arzon tries to convince Galadria to join him, but she cannot do so, as committing genocide is wrong. Arzon slaps her away, and slashes the counterwave bomb in half....

Characters

Autobot

Ironhide - Van

Wheeljack - Race Car

Quickswitch - Drill  Killed by Talisman Energy

Windblade - VTOL Jet (Image)

Spectral Knight

Leoric 

Galadria

Ectar

Witterquick Being Drained of Life Force

Arzon Joins Darkling Lords

Darkling Lord

Virulina

Cryotek

Reekon

Cravex

Lexor

Mortdred Being Drained of Life Force

Darkstorm (Flashback)

Other Cybertronian/Colonist

Breakdown - Arnoured Van

Vector Sigma (Mentioned)

Other

Merklynn

Heskedor (Mentioned) Heart Became Arcana Vast

Notes

• Hey look it's Quickswitch! Let's hope he doesn't die within an iss-oh....he did... Funny story, I actually called this, I read the three page preview and called that he would die a "shock-death" Here's my tweet!
• Speaking of shock deaths...has anything been said of what happened with Fat Tankor? Last time we saw him he was guarding the alien city.
• Quickswitch's transformation capabilities seem a bit confused in this issue. He bemoans his drill mode, but doesn't he have 4 other alternate modes? (I would assume this was due to a change in his alternate modes for the series, except the roll call page says he's a multi-former)
• Virulina has big scary holographic versions of her head emitting from her base tower...how can the people of New Prysmos NOT see she is evil?!
• We learn a bit of the Visionaries creation story here, basically there was once a being who acted as the living universe, and over time she split apart with her heart forming the Arcana vast at the core of Prysmos, giving life to their planet and giving them their magical powers.
• So...from the dialogue here it sounds like Merklynn did intend to betray Virulina eventually, but not in the way I thought originally, he just wants someone else to take control of the city.
• Still waiting for all the air to escape New Prysmos here...it's a been a couple days at least now
• Apparently the totem shields can be used to contact other Visionaries, which emits the caller's face via magic...why didn't any of the left behind Spectral Knights use this to ask Leoric and the others what was happening rather than betraying him to Virulina?
• Oh, Arzon joined the Darkling Lords too, cool...seems like all the most loyal Spectral Knights aren't too loyal huh? I mean I guess it could just be a ruse for his ultimate plan to take down Virulina, but it seems a bit extreme to slap Galadria if that was the case.
• Also, remember how Mortdred was standing along with Virulina on top of the Thrustinator chariot last issue, implying that he was either betraying the Knights, or just getting close to her to assassinate her? Well I think Mags forgot! He's a prisoner here now!
• And yes, this issue ends with the Darkling Lords still with all the power and nothing good for the Spectral Knights, so if they have any chance of winning in the finale next issue it will be a Deus Ex Machina...yay....

Sig Pub - Robots in Disguise #30

Notes

• This month's screen-cap comic is "Sphere of Influence"
• This issue shows us a view of Stockade's vehicle mode. I do not remember seeing that in the series proper!
• For some reason Crosshairs from the Movies is the featured character on Puzzling Prizes....why?

Features

Make Blurr - Destroy the cover to make a cardstock Blurr toy!

Brainbusting Puzzles - Do some random puzzles!

Battle of the Bots - Strongarm vs Springload profiles

Colour in Zorillor! - Colour in one of the Decepticons featured in this month's comic

Capture Hammerstrike! - Lead Grimlock to Hammerstrike

Mini-Con Memory Test- Test your memory to try and remember 12 Mini-Con names

Drift Dots- Play a dot-to-dot game to complete a picture of Drift's face

Let's Rrrrumble!! - Pull out poster

Mega Auto Match! - Match the vehicle mode to the Transformers

Comic Investigator - Answer questions about the comic in this month's magazine

Puzzling Prizes - Answer some questions to enter a toy contest!

Fact or Falsehood? - Answer trivia characters about Robots in Disguise

Transformers Post - Send pictures and photos to Fixit!