Goin' South

2009-09-10T05:48:43Z

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{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[Generation 2 (Marvel Comics)|''G.I. Joe Starring Snake-Eyes, Featuring Transformers: Generation 2'']] #140
|prev=Realignments
|next=Sucker Punch
|title=Goin' South
|image=Marvel_GIJoe-140.jpg
|caption=Look Megatron, there's Starscream, and he just made fun of your color scheme!
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=
|coverdate=September, 1993
|script=[[Larry Hama]]
|pencils=[[Chris Batista]]
|inks=[[Chip Wallace]]
|colors=[[Bob Sharen]]
|letters=[[Rick Parker]]
|editor=[[David Wohl]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]
}}

'''Megatron and Cobra Commander fetch the ''Ark'', and land it in Anytown, USA.'''

==Synopsis==
{{picsneeded|a shot of the airborne ''Ark}}''
Somewhere over [[Canada]], Megatron leads [[Cobra]] to the location of the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]'' as part of their technology exchange. Megatron had disguised it as a hillock while it was self-repairing. Now, he remotely orders it into the sky. It impresses the heck out of most of Cobra, especially Doctor Biggles-Jones, who is nearly orgasmic over the chance to play with plasma impellers, photon accelerators, and anti-gravity.

[[Image:Drmindbendernaked.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Wow, [[Wikipedia:Lord Kitchener Wants You|Lord Kitchener]] REALLY wants you.]]

They head south into the [[United States of America|USA]], and Cobra Commander has them set down in [[Milleville]]. It turns out Cobra has everyone in the town brainwashed. Cobra Commander orders the citizens out to unload the Cobra helicopters and the ''Ark''. During the process, the containment capsule holding Doctor Mindbender breaks, and he stands up, mostly recovered from being dead.

Meanwhile, [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] has managed to notice a ginormous spaceship drifting into middle America and is sneaking into Milleville. Tunnel Rat gets a visual on Megatron and radios his findings to Mainframe (via Hawk). Mainframe and Professor Mott use some technological gifts left behind by the [[Autobot]]s to radio [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]: "Megatron is back, and he's on [[Earth]]." Bumblebee and Optimus Prime receive this message and prepare to head back to Earth.

''Several of the ongoing ''G.I. Joe'' plots are also visited in this issue, but are not relevant to the [[Transformers brand|Transformers]]-related storyline.''

===Featured characters===
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (29)
* [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] (30)
|c2=
* [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (1)
|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|Joes]]|c3=
* [[Scarlett]] (10)
* [[Spirit]] (11)
* [[Mutt]] (12)
* [[Dialtone]] (13)
* [[Hawk (G.I. Joe)|Hawk]] (14)
* [[Flint (G.I. Joe)|Flint]] (15)
* [[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] (16)
* [[Rock 'n' Roll]] (17)
* [[Tunnel Rat]] (18)
* [[Airtight]] (19)
* [[Storm Shadow]] (20)
* [[Snake-Eyes]] (21)
* [[T'jbang]] (22)
* [[Nunchuk]] (23)
* [[Dojo]] (24)
* [[Jinx]] (25)
* [[Chuckles]] (26)
* [[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]] (27)
|h4=[[Cobra]]s|c4=
* [[Cobra Commander]] (2)
* [[Zarana]] (3)
* [[Slice]] (4)
* [[Dice (Cobra)|Dice]] (5)
* [[Sidney Biggles-Jones|Dr. Sidney Biggles-Jones]] (6)
* [[Destro]] (7)
* [[Baroness]] (8)
* [[Zartan]] (9)
* [[Dr. Mindbender]] (28)
}}

==Errors==
* On the last page reveal, Optimus Prime is somewhat miscolored (too much red in his hips and waist) for the traditional Sunbow-inspired design he is clearly drawn to resemble.

==Items of note==
* The cover title of the series for this issue is ''G.I. Joe Starring Snake-Eyes and Transformers Generation 2''. However, the title in the indicia (and hence the legal title) is ''G.I. Joe A Real American Hero''.
* Our first exposure to Milleville is a sign reading, "WELCOME TO MILLEVILLE! ...A NICE PLACE TO LIVE..." This makes it the only town in America to put [[Wikipedia:ellipsis|ellipses]] on its welcome signs.
* Cobra Commander asks Megatron to switch to tank mode so he'll be less conspicuous to passing aircraft. One assumes they found someplace to hide the aircraft carrier-sized ''Ark''.
* Cobra Commander refers to Zarana as "steatopygous". This is a medical condition that can loosely be described as "fat-assed".
* He also refers to Milleville as "uliginous", meaning "marshy".
* When Doctor Biggles-Jones comments unfavorably on all the brainwashing, Cobra Commander tells her to spare him from her "cacophemisms", meaning "bad words". He likes to show off his vocabulary, he does.
* Mindbender gives us a 3-line rundown on early 1990s culture, mentioning a [[President of the United States|Democrat in the White House]], the cancellation of ''[[television|Cheers]]'', and the hideous changes wrought upon the face of [[Michael Jackson]].

===Covers (1)===
* '''Cover A:''' Megatron and Cobra Commander by [[Chris Batista]]

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