Sig Pub - Transformers #52

Notes

• This month's screen-cap comic is of the episode "Dark Birth"
• The free gifts this month are a disc blaster and a cardboard "Build-a-Bot" packet. The packet states that there's 3 to collect, I'm not sure if these were randomly packed with this issue, or if we get one each month. Either way, my one this month was of Bumblebee 

Features

Focus on Bumblebee - Do some Bumblebee themed puzzles

Grimlock Grid -  Grimlock-themed wordsearch puzzle

Wise and Courageous Windblade - Colour in a picture of Windblade

Optimus Prime's Mega Maze! - Lead Optimus through a maze

Bot Mix - Identify the mismatched Transformer parts.

Power of the Spark Poster - A pull-out poster of Optimus with Ark Spark Armour

So Many Starscreams! - Locate all the Starscreams in a picture

Odd Decepticons - Identify the odd-one-out in several pictures of Decepticons

Transformers Super Fan Quiz!- Take a quiz to figure out how much of a fan you are

Transformers Post - The children have sent pictures in again...

Find the Bots! - Locate the Transformers in a picture

Competition - Win some Cyberverse Ultra Class Figures (if you want them)

IDW - Rom: Dire Wraiths #1

Writer: Chris Ryall

Main Story Title: One Small Step for Dire Wraith-Kind, Part 1

Side Story Title: One Small Step for a Spaceknight, Part 1

Main Story Artist: Luca Pizzari

Main Story Colourist: Jim Boswell

Side Story Artist: Guy Dorian Sr. & Sal Buscema

Side Story Colourist: Ross Campbell

Letterer: Shawn Lee

Editor: David Mariotte

Main Story Plot

It's July of 1969, and the Apollo 11 shuttle is heading to the Moon to make it's passengers famous as the first men to walk on the Moon. The crew go into radio silence with Earth and make contact with their companion team, the crew of a orbital base designed to watch the Earth for alien threats, who they are planning to meet with on this mission. 

Unknown to either team however, there is a third faction on the Moon, some members of the evil alien species, the Dire Wraiths, who have been stranded there following a portal (from the side story). They notice the landing module and decide to make their move, they head towards the landed astronauts, whilst one of the Mystics heads to the newly arrived shuttle belonging to Adventure-One, the second Moon team.

On  Earth, NASA begin to get worried about the unexpectedly extended radio silence with Apollo 11, but chalk it down to a solar flare.

On the Moon, the Apollo Team are taking photos and making the most of their time on the Moon's surface, when they are attacked by the Dire Wraiths, who have jammed the lander's communications.

Four of the Adventure-One Team members head out to meet with the Apollo Team, unaware of the attack, and leave Hank alone in their shuttle, where he is attacked and assimilated by the Mystic Wraith, who drains Hank of his essence and takes on his appearance and memories, and uses his skills to take off and take over Adventure-One's base...

Side Story Plot

On the planet Marn-33 one of the Solstar Knights, Dhorian, has been captured by a group of Dire Wraiths, who intend to kill him, and use his life force to open a portal to Earth, so they can join in with the invasion there. Dhorian manages to kill one of the Mystics, but is killed himself by the Soldiers in revenge.

Two fellow Solstar Knights, Rom and Nikomi are flying nearby and see a signal fired by Dhorian before his death and head to the site, however they are too late as the Wraiths walk through the portal, and leave Dhorian's corpse behind them... 

Characters

NASA

Neil Armstrong

Buzz  Aldrin

Michael Collins

JoAnn Morgan

Kennedy Space Center Crew

Adventure-One

Dr Herman "Hank" Armstrong Killed, Assimilated and Replaced by a Wraith Mystic

Dr Sandra Shore

Dr James Brightside/Dodger

Colonel Anatoli Kiev/Arsenal

Dr Elmo Aubreyson/Scalpel

Dr Martin Flannery/Mixmaster

Dire Wraith

Mystic Aby'Ss

Mystic Sky'Sm

Axlar

Sulor

Third Mystic (Side Story Only) Killed by Dhorian

Third Soldier (Side Story Only)

K'Allor (Mentioned)

Solstar Order

Rom (Side Story Only)

Nikomi (Side Story Only)

Dhorian (Side Story Only) Killed by Wraith Soldiers

Other Human

Rick Ruby/Bulletman (Mentioned)

Mike Power/Atomic Man (Mentioned)

Neil Armstrong's Father (Mentioned)

Ray Bradbury (Mentioned)

Isaac Asimov (Mentioned)

Ralph Ellison (Mentioned)

"The Russians" (Mentioned)

Other

The Inhumanoids (Mentioned)

Notes

• This story marks the return to the original IDW Hasbroverse, although it's a prequel to most of the action in the series
• At this point in history, the Earth already has a load of Dire Wraiths living on it (as they arrived in the 1800's originally) and there should be only Centurion still alive on Earth of the Maximal team he was a part of, so we shouldn't likely see any robots in this series.
• Considering the brief knowledge of Cybertronians existing, it's not too shocking that this universe has an outpost near the Moon monitoring space for aliens. It's very likely that the Adventure-One we see here will eventually become the Skywatch we are introduced to in the main series time line.
• The Adventure-One team are, quite unexpectedly, based on characters from the Inhumanoids franchise. Sandra Shore's name is taken directly from her counterpart there, Herman Armstrong's counterpart went by the nickname of "Herc" instead of "Hank" in the original, and Anatoli Kiev was "Anatoly Kiev", a male character in the original.  The other characters seem to be new characters, but still sport uniforms coloured to match the original series'.
• The Inhumanoids themselves are referenced, as Kiev apparently encountered them in Russia. The Inhumanoids were originally set to appear in issues 4 and 5 of the Sitterson GI Joe series (the one with Skywarp as a team member), but they were replaced with the "Fatal Fluffies" as Hasbro didn't hold the licence to the property any more. It's currently unclear if the rights have been bought back by Hasbro, or if the human character tweaks mentioned before were to accommodate to the property ownership change.
• It's unclear which of the Mystics attacked and assimilated Hank this issue, as they look identical (trust me, I examined both of them in detail and found no visible differences in them, or their personalities)
• This is the first time we properly see a Wraith assimilation, and it confirms that they kill the humans and mimic their appearances, rather than possessing their bodies, something only really hinted at before with their ability to copy Joe Colton, despite his survival. It does bring to question how Camilla ended up fusing with a Wraith though...
• Amongst the Wraiths we see in the Side Story are 3 Soldiers, and 3 Mystics, one Mystic is killed during the story, but the third soldier isn't present in the main story...did he die on the way to the Moon, or is he still on the previous planetoid?
• We keep hearing mention of a "K'Allor" in a god-like fashion. Could this be the real name for the Wraith-God "The Presence"?

FBF - To The Death #8

Title: The End of the World as we Know it

Story: Simon Furman

Art: Geoff Senior

Letterer: Martin Baines

Design by: Amazing15

Printed in the UK by: Mixam

Plot

The White Noise guards at Essen-Six are attacked by the aircraft and run inside the building to regroup with the rest of the team, only to find them killed by Diamond Bill, who also killed the new-comers, having left the aircraft on auto-pilot. Bill enters the cell where Leo is being held and rescues him.

The main Pacifier team arrive at the bottom of the cloudscraper and launch up in jetpacks to infiltrate the building, meanwhile in the access tunnel, Dryagin and White Noise break through a seal to enter the basement of the building too.

Dryagin's team quickly find the Asphodel Extinction Weapon, and record it, and prepare to try and neutralize it, until they are attacked by the Dolmen, the alien species abducted from Asphodel, who are guarding the weapon.

Whilst the teams are busy at the Cloudscraper, Bill rescues Lena from Essen-Six, and she demands to know where Alek is, and to be brought to him.

Two of the White Noise team are killed by the Dolmen, forcing the remainder of the team to try and regroup, and try and find a way to get past them.

Up the top of the tower, the Triumvirate finally see footage of Dryagin's team infiltrating the old access tunnels, and are concerned as to how they knew of it's existence, but also know that it's of no use to them, as the evacuation of their chosen few has begun, and Earth will be destroyed in an "accident" very shortly.

Lower in the tower, the Pacifiers are trying to make their way through the floors when they are suddenly attacked by Killatoa, who immediately kills Umber. The team try to fight him off, but his reflexes are too great for them to hit. Leone however says her last goodbyes to her lover, kisses her, and closes are eyes, before propelling herself into the battle too....

Characters

Pacifiers

Aleksy Dryagin

Diamond Bill

Leone

Megan Umber Killed by Killatoa

Dolan Rekt

Hash Flynn

Bette Larssen

Jonas Huey

White Noise

Deacon Snow

Juddh King

Channon Killed by The Dolmen

Amador Possibly Killed by Dolmen (The Female Team Member is Killed)

Berenger Possibly Killed by Dolmen (The Female Team Member is Killed)

"Goatee Guy"

Forward/Tactical Bunker Staff

Essen-Six Guards All Killed by Diamond Bill

Tri-Corp

Veni

Vidi

Vici

Killatoa

Other Human

Lena Dryagin (Rescued by Bill)

Leo Dryagin (Rescued by Bill)

Other

The Asphodel Dolmen 

Lupex, the Alien Doggo

Notes

• Bill's scenes in this issue are very odd, he's often seen heavily shadowed, implying menace or that he's not who he seems to be
• We see a little more of Dryagin's "premonitions" where we see him reunite with his family, just as the Earth starts exploding, seemingly from the Asphodel Extinction Weapon, though it is still unclear why he's having these "visions" (The first coming before he ever learned about this plot, so it's not just fantasies based on what he's been told recently)
• The female White Noise member out of Berenger and Amador, name dropped last issue, is killed in this issue, but since I have no idea which is which, the character list for this issue will be a bit messy.
• The only member of the current White Noise team to not be named is the one with the goatee, so I am naming him "Goatee Guy"....for some reason....
• The alien golems from Asphodel are named here as "Dolmen"
• Killatoa's new red and yellow colour scheme is currently unexplained, but is most likely a way for him to be more fire-resistant, as he knows the team use incendiary weapons

IDW - Transformers (2019) #15

Title: The Change In Your Nature, Part Three

Written by: Brian Ruckley

Art by: Anna Malkova & Bethany McGuire-Smith

Colours by: Joana LaFuente & Josh Burcham

Letters by: Jake M. Wood

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

Megatron watches a live feed of Sentinel Prime addressing the population, denouncing the Ascenticons as liars for their promises of restoring Cybertron to it's pre-war rules etc, and accuses them of using the Rise's violence to gain sympathy for their cause, with Orion Pax behind him, but clearly disagreeing with his statements.

As he watches the feed, Jhiaxus pumps him with the emergency Energon reserves, so he can be fully energized when he goes to visit Shockwave.

Whilst being energized, Megatron thinks back to his early days as a miner and gladiator, which all came to an end when the war started. He was drafted into combat, and during one large battle, Exarchon (or some of his iterations anyway) approached him, intending to use him for his needs, but was chased off. Megatron however saw Exarchon's true worth that day, he wasn't a great evil, but someone who everyone feared due to his immovable will...

Following the war, the Ascenticon movement was formed and the mines were closed, Cybertron was brought to a halt to try and stop another Threefold Spark from occurring. Despite her early ability to rally the forces, Termagax was eventually forced into self-imposed exile, so Megatron, taking after Exarchon's ways built on his own will and took over the Ascenticons for her, refusing to be denied or defeated by anyone....

Bumblebee meets with Orion Pax and Chromia, where he explains what happened at the Titan and how he suspects that Soundwave used his staff to try and kill the Risers. The other two decide to inform Bee about their suspicions that Barricade was feeding intel to the Ascenticons, which led to the Voin Scavenger and Rubble being murdered by Quake. Bee is furious that they didn't tell him sooner, but Orion just states that he was afraid of what Bee would do, and now decides to give their findings to Sentinel Prime....

Megatron arrives at the Rise's current HQ, where everyone has been put into lock-down, as per standard precautions, and Shockwave comes to meet with the Senator. Megatron learns that Shockwave has been recruiting from the exiled bots off-world, and appears to be worried. 

Megatron requests that Shockwave summon his top "lieutenants" to join them, and once Sixshot and Slipstream arrive, Megatron beats down Shockwave in front of them, the latter being no match for Megatron due to the minimal fuel reserves they are working from in the Rise.

After Shockwave is beaten and bloodied, he orders him to not act on his own accord any more, that he is to only work on his behalf and to HIS purposes, and to not allow a situation like that at the Titan, or the recent killings to happen ever again, and makes the lieutenants agree too.

Orion and Chromia have given Sentinel their evidence, and he declares a few controversial new orders. The security forces will be allowed unrestricted amounts of Energon, and access to weaponry in the search for Shockwave, Sixshot, Frenzy, Quake and Barricade, whilst capturing them is desirable, neutralizing is acceptable. He also deputizes Hound and Novastar to run the missions to take them down, as he doesn't believe that Chromia has the ability to deal with the problem, based on recent failures. Finally he wants Chromia to liaise with Ironhide to arrest and interrogate Soundwave, and he wants him captured soon, no matter the cost...

Characters

Autobot

Sentinel Prime - Space Shuttle

Orion Pax - Truck

Security Forces

Chromia - Car

Ironhide - Van

Hound - Jeep (Mentioned)

Novastar - Car (Mentioned)

Ascenticon

Megatron - Mining Vehicle

Jhiaxus - Jet

Bumblebee - Winged Hovercraft

Termagax - Truck (Flashback Only)

Rally-Goers (Flashback Only)

Strika - Battle Tank (Mentioned)

Soundwave - Hovercraft (Mentioned)

Elita-1 - Car (Mentioned)

The Rise

Shockwave - Weapons Platform Beaten Down by Megatron

Sixshot - Tank/Jet/Beast/Tank/Gun

Slipstream - Jet

Flamewar - Motorcycle

Shadow Striker - Car

Hyperdrive - Car

Barricade - Police Vehicle

Shockwave's Failed Experiments Dead 

Quake - Tank (Mentioned)

Triggerhappy (Mentioned)

Rumble (Mentioned)

Frenzy (Mentioned)

Ruckus - Buggy (Mentioned) Either Killed or Left Comatose in Titan Explosion

Wirespike (Mentioned) Either Killed or Left Comatose in Titan Explosion

Lowload - Drill Tank (Mentioned) Either Killed or Left Comatose in Titan Explosion

Kaskade (Mentioned) Either Killed or Left Comatose in Titan Explosion

The Threefold Spark

Exarchon's Iterations (Flashback Only)

Skywarp - Jet (Flashback Only)

The Clone Swarm (Mentioned)

Other Cybertronian

Audience at Sentinel's Speech

Warpath - Tank (Flashback Only)

Flak - Multiple Missile Launcher (Flashback Only)

Blitzwing - Tank/Jet (Flashback Only)

Lugnut (Flashback Only)

Headlock (Flashback Only)

Miners (Flashback Only)

Brainstorm - Jet (Mentioned) Dead

Rubble (Mentioned) Dead

Nominus Prime (Mentioned)

Highbrow (Mentioned)

Ultra Magnus (Mentioned)

Ultra Magnus' Assault Force (Mentioned)

The Constructicons (Mentioned)

Other Species

Voin Scavenger (Mentioned) Dead

Notes

• Sorry I'm late with this again, but more ennui etc is making I hard to do reviews in decent time (but I'm getting a bit of a pile right now..sooooo......
• Malkova provides the art for the current day scenes, whilst McGuire-Smith provides the art for the flashback scenes.
• Exarchon, the leader of the Threefold Spark, is revealed to have his consciousness split between multiple bodies, which apparently happened to him somehow offworld, and seemingly drove him to evil, explaining he restriction on further colonization and exploration in the Nominus Edict.
• Headlock appears as a Gladiatorial coach in the flashback, somewhat similar to his role in the RID2015 cartoon.
• Lugnut is clearly seen as one of Megatron's opponents in the Gladiator matches, this was a role previously mentioned for him in the Aligned universe.
• Skywarp is the only legacy character to be confirmed as a part of the Threefold Spark's forces, showing that it's not just an army of clones, but also brings Skywarp's current whereabouts to question. 
• The scene where Chromia and Orion speak to Bumblebee is essentially a recap of all the evidence into who the murderers are, just in case anyone was still confused after 15 issues.
• It's mentioned that two of the four Risers seemingly killed last issue are still on life-support, but we don't get to know which ones yet.
• It's mentioned that the current Rise base is an old outpost of the Threefold Spark, and that Shockwave is trying to replicate the process that allowed him to split his mind between different bodies (which most people are assuming will somehow involve Refraktor, to give him his traditional triple-bot look)
• It's not confirmed, but Megatron's dialogue may suggest that Shockwave was also part of Exarchon's forces, which could be why he was exiled in the first place.
• The Galaxies spin-off series is directly referenced this issue, confirming that the Constructicon storyline (at least) is set concurrently with this series
• Amongst the weapons in the Rise base, are some cannons that look very similar to Megatron's traditional fusion cannon, though he uses it as a bludgeoning weapon instead of a cannon here.
• Slipstream is introduced out of nowhere are a co-field commander with Sixshot, somewhat resembling her role in Cyberverse.
• Ultra Magnus is mentioned as not being available to assist security, but it's not clear if this is because of death or something less serious.
• It's mentioned that none of the great generals will serve, implying that either they are unable to serve due to injury, or perhaps out of disapproval of Sentinel and his methods.

Sig Pub - Transformers #51

Notes

• This month's screen-cap comic is of the episode "Trials", unlike in previous issues, the episode is spread across the entire issue, rather than featuring two episodes.
• Despite last issue saying her homeworld was "Camien" it is corrected this issue to be "Caminus"
• This month's free gifts are a Shockwave action figure, a box of stickers and a packet of stickers, holding some reprints of a previous packet.

Features

Autobot Size Chart - The covers are a size chart for Bumblebee, Grimlock, Optimus and Wheeljack!

Prime Puzzles! - Do some puzzles for Optimus Prime!

Planetary Puzzle - Solve a puzzle to discover the name of Windblade's homeworld!

Colour in Bumblebee! - Add some colour to Bumbelbee!

Focus on Wheeljack - Do some Wheeljack-themed puzzles

Are you ready for Cheetor? - Do some Cheetor puzzles!

Groundbridge I.D. - Identify some characters who are partially in a groundbridge portal

Colour in Shockwave - Colour in Shockwave! (duh)

Decepticon Sudoku! - Complete a Sudoku puzzle using Decepticon images instead of numbers

Search and Find - Locate certain items in a picture

Mission to Win! - Make a game board from your comic!

Transformers Post - The children have sent in their pictures of robots again

Competitions - Enter some competitions to win some Cyberverse figures!

FBF - To The Death #7

Title: Hope for the Best...Plan for the Worst

Story: Simon Furman

Art: Geoff Senior

Letterer: Martin Baines

Design by: Amazing15

Printed in the UK by: Mixam

Plot

The Firedrake has returned to Earth, but is in hiding, with the crew keeping busy, whilst waiting for Leone and Larssen to complete their mission, to recover some security footage from the Dryagin Ranch. Whilst waiting, they start making plans to storm the Hub Tri-Corp Cloudscraper.

At the Dryagin Ranch, the team find the destroyed house, but locate a hatch to a hidden room, where the security feed is located, they stream the footage to Dryagin, where he sees Mazur and the White Noise team kidnapping Lena and Leo before the explosion.

The girls are soon noticed and attacked by "Harpy Drones", they manage to destroy them, but know more will follow soon, so they request an evac.

At the Firedrake, Dryagin confronts King about where his wife and son are, but he claims to not know where they are, but that Snow wanted them safe, he tells him that their bio-metrics are being scrambled by a device used by White Noise operatives, but he'll give him the code to find them, once they are fully committed to the mission.

Six days later, the Triumvirate are worrying that Dryagin hasn't made a move against them yet, but Vici is certain that he is still coming, but is just biding his time.

Elsewhere, the White Noise team, along with Dryagin enter the Smolensk Oblast Region, where a "back door" to the Cloudscraper is located, having been part of the construction process. They make it inside, and locate an old monorail tunnel, which will take them straight to them. King gives Dryagin the code, which he transmits to Diamond Bill on the Firedrake, and has him track his family with it, quickly finding their apparent location

Elsewhere, the rest of the Pacifiers arrive outside the Cloudscraper, with Flynn using a fake ID, as a driver, and the rest hiding in the back of a holo-limo, and head towards their targets.

At the White Noise bunker in former Japan, Snow and his crew are preparing to stream the entire attack on the Triumvirate and expose their evil plans to the world, so they can cause global unrest and ruin their plot to destroy the Earth and leave with only their chosen few to repopulate another world.

Dryagin and his team arrive at the Cloudscraper's base, and prepare to break through the walls to enter it, with Dryagin getting ready to act as the symbol of rebellion against the Triumvirate, due to his legendary status as a Pacifier, and take out the Extinction Weapon.

At Essen Six, two guards, disguised as hobos are watching over a building, when they are confronted by a shuttle and told that they are under arrest and that this is now a global federation crime scene. The two "hobos" however reveal their guns and fire on the shuttle instead!

Characters

Pacifier

Aleksy Dryagin

Diamond Bill

Hash Flynn

Megan Umber

Jonas Huey

Dolan Rekt

Leone

Bette Larssen

Tri-Corp

Veni

Vidi

Vici

Killatoa (Mentioned)

White Noise

Deacon Snow

Juddh King

Berenger

Amador

Essen Six Guards

White Noise Forward/Tactical Bunker Team

New White Noise Team

Mazur (Footage Only)

Abduction Team (Footage Only)

Other Human

Lena Dryagin (Footage Only) Abducted by White Noise

Leo Dryagin (Footage Only) Abducted by White Noise

"Stunt Bodies" (Footage Only) Dead, Used to Fake Lena and Leo's Deaths

Other

A Grizzly Bear

Lupex, the Doggo (Footage Only) Abducted by White Noise

Notes

• This issue confirms that only the Dryagin house was destroyed, not the entire ranch
• This issue also confirms that Lena and Leo were indeed kidnapped by Snow, and it isn't some sort of artificial intelligence. The bodies seen in the rubble are some random townsfolk they placed in there
• In the first "big" time skip we've had in this series since the interim between issue zero and one, we skip forward by almost a whole week!
• King now has a new team of mostly unnamed guys....wonder how long these will last?
• Grizzly Bears are mentioned as possibly being almost extinct in this series, likely implying that a lot of animal species have died out, or are close to it.
• The part of the world where Lena is being held appears to be Germany, in fact looking at a map of Germany, the area they have highlighted features a city called "Essen", likely the originator of the "Essen Six" we hear namedropped here.
• White Noise's base of operations is revealed to be in the "former nation of Japan", we've seen Snow working from the sea of Japan, but now we know the landmass still exists here

IDW - Transformers: Galaxies #3

Title: Constructicons Rising! Part 3

Written by: Tyler Bleszinski

Art by: Livio Ramondelli

Letters by: Tom B. Long

Editors: David Mariotte & Tom Waltz

Plot

Wheeljack witnesses the Constructicons in their combined form complete a building, in the aftermath of the war, but is terrified when he sees the combiner destroy that same building, and smiles as he did so, much as he was expecting from the combination of all those minds.

Termagax manages to calm the giant down and gets him to de-combine. She suggests to Scrapper that the Constructicons need to control the seventh mind that appears when they combine, by allowing him to take the reigns in that form, which they agree to try out.

Later, in Iacon, Wheeljack meets with the Senate to report his concerns about the Constructicons, and despite Termagax's pleas to allow them to work to rebuild Cybertron as they are destined to, but the leader of the Senate, Nominus Prime, disagrees, concerned with the damage they can cause to Cybertron and it's population, and more importantly to him, the extreme amount of Energon needed to power their combined form. He allows them to fix the damage they caused recently, but after that, they need to be dealt with.

Some while later, the Constructicons complete their work in Iacon, having taken Termagax's suggestion about their combined form and are proud with their work. Nominus soon arrives and congratulates them on their hard work, and presents them with badges of honour.

Soon, Nominus gives the Constructicons a new mission, to help rebuild an energy processing plant on one of their outposts, so they can use that energy to further fix Cybertron. Termagax says she agrees with Nominus, but asks them to be wary and not everyone who has left Cybertron, has been for noble reasons.

The Constructicons leave Cybertron, heading to Mayalx, for which they hope to only be a short mission...

Characters

Cybertronian

Nominus Prime - Jet

Termagax - Van

Wheeljack - Car

Scrapper - Earthmover

Bonecrusher - Bulldozer

Hook - Crane

Scavenger - Excavator

Long Haul - Dump Truck

Mixmaster - Mixing Truck

"Devastator" - Constructicon Gestalt

Nominus' Senate Members

Nominus' Guards

Iacon Workers

Primus (Mentioned)

Megatron - Armoured Vehicle (Mentioned)

"The Abomination, Abominus" - Terrorcon Gestalt (Mentioned)

Iacon Rebuilding Teams (Mentioned)

Notes

• Sorry I'm so late on this one as well, but I've been busy with the new Pokémon games etc (plus as I mentioned last time, this series/storyline is kind of repetitive and boring)
• This issue is set entirely in a flashback showing what happened between the flashbacks in issue 1, and the present day scenes
• The scene of the Constructicons in "Devastator's" head seems to be based on the similar scene of the Combaticons inside Bruticus from Till All Are One.
• To possibly explain why the Constructicons blame Wheeljack for them being stranded on Mayalx, we see that he is the one who reported their violence to the Senate here...however Termagax tells them that SHE thought them leaving was a good idea, and we never see them learning that Wheeljack said anything...so.....what happened there?
• Nominus Prime finally makes a full appearance in a piece of media!!! YAY!!!
• Nominus directly references the early scenes from Issue 6 of the main comic, where he says that Megatron, the miners and archivists are pulling their weight in rebuilding, which we saw in that issue.
• The badges of honour shown this issue appear to be very simplified Autobot insignias, either meaning this is the origin of them, or that they simply base them off of their party's insignia for some reason.
• Since Nominus doesn't have a badge in this issue and it being set RIGHT AFTER the world changing war, we can assume that the Autobot party hasn't been fully formed yet, so I'm just going to class everyone as Cybertronian in the character lists.
• I think it's being implied from Scrapper noticing the workers also having the badges that there are some sort of symbol of trouble or perhaps an inhibiter of sorts, but we never see the Constructicons wearing them in this issue, or in the present day