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Night and the City

2012-09-06T10:08:37Z

31.52.98.123: Undo revision 749091 by Bobpiecheese (Talk)

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|title="Night and the City"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[September 5]], [[2012]]
|coverdate=September 2012
|story by=[[John Barber]]
|art by=[[Andrew Griffith]]
|colors by=[[Joana Lafuente]]
|letters by=[[Shawn Lee]]
|editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2012)]]
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'''As Bumblebee continues to struggle with the burden of leadership, the Dinobots stalk Ironhide through the Cybertronian wilderness.'''

==Synopsis==

The demands of planetary governing weighing heavily upon him, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] takes a brief moment of peace to perch on the hull of [[Turmoil]]'s captured spaceship, stare up at the stars, and wonder about using the time machine in the ship to undo past mistakes. His reverie is abruptly ended by the crash-landing of [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], who has just barely made it back to the city after the disorienting effects he felt while transporting [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] and the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]] into the wilderness. His report gives Bumblebee pause to wonder if some external force could be controlling the [[Autobot]]s, [[Decepticon]]s and [[NAIL]]s, causing their conflicts, but [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] debunks the theory when he scans Sky Lynx and confirms that the mind-altering effects are not occurring within [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]]. Wheeljack offers three possibily reasons why: simple luck, some still-active mechanism in the heart of [[Kimia Facility|Kimia]] is protecting them, or... the planet itself is responsible, wanting to keep the Transformers together. As if on cue, [[Metalhawk]] and [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] arrive to offer their help finding Ironhide's team, but Bumblebee turns them down; Starscream thinks he is attempting to prevent him from currying favour with the populous in the face of upcoming elections, and although Metalhawk disputes so outlandish a claim, Bumblebee remains silent...

Out in the wilderness, the wounded Ironhide awakens to the sight of [[Slag (G1)|Slag]] and [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] in battle, and attempts to sneak away, only to be stopped by the still-living [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]]—largely unaffected by the destruction of his dino-mode head—who has also come under the same uncontrollable rage that has seized the others. [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]], too, proves to still be alive, and his entry into the fray gives Ironhide a chance to get to safety. Activating his comm device, Ironhide picks up a recording from the missing [[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]], locks onto its source, and begins heading toward it.

Bumblebee visits [[Maccadam's Old Oil House]] to speak with [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], hoping his disaffected comrade will rejoin the fold to help search for the missing Ironhide. Blurr is reluctant, seeing in [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] the same unemotional, black-and-white views on life and death as those held by [[Zeta Prime]]—whose life Blurr saved upon joining the Autobots—but Bumblebee is able to talk him into helping. Their conversation is observed by [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] and [[Reflector (G1)|Reflector]] at the behest of [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], who has charged them with a special mission... although unbeknownst to the Decepticons, ''they'' are also being observed by the gun-toting [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]].

Making his way through the wilds, Ironhide listens as Silverbolt's recording explains that the madness also took hold of the other four [[Aerialbot (G1)|Aerialbots]], but that over time, they all began working together to hunt their leader down. Ironhide soon learns that the same has happened to the Dinobots as they catch up to him and attack, but he is able to push them back and breaks into a run, covering the last of the distance to the source of Silverbolt's signal. What he finds, however, is anything but expected: somehow, the five Aerialbots have become merged into one single being: a titan that scoops Ironhide up into the safety of his grip, and turn on the Dinobots, introducing himself as [[Superion (G1)|The Superion]]!

Bumblebee returns to Turmoil's ship to try and clear his head, and finds Wheeljack there, still working on the time machine. Bumblebee half-joking proposes several uses for the device, but Wheeljack explains that it does not allow for travel back and forth through time, only sideways, meaning that there will be no easy answers. Unfortunately, the ship chooses that moment to ''vanish'': whether stolen by enemies or departed of its own volition, no-one can say, but it's just one more problem for Bumblebee's list... as the weight of leadership grows ever greater...

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*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]] (2)
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (3)
*[[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] (4)
*[[Slag (G1)|Slag]] (5)
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (6)
*[[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] (7)
*[[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] (8)
*[[Silverbolt (G1)|Silverbolt]] (9)
*[[Bluestreak (G1)|Bluestreak]] (12)
*[[Warpath (G1)|Warpath]] (13)
*[[Doublecross]] (14)
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*[[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]] (15)
* [[Joyride (G1)|Joyride]] (16)
* [[Circuit (G1)|Circuit]] (17)
* [[Fastlane]] & [[Cloudraker (G1)|Cloudraker]] (18 & 20)
* [[Catilla (G1)|Catilla]] (19)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (26)
*[[Superion (G1)|Superion]] (27)
*[[Streetwise (G1)|Streetwise]] (28)
*[[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (29)
*[[Fixit (G1)|Fixit]] (30)
*[[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]] (31)
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*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (11)
*[[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] (21)
*[[Spectro]] (22)
*[[Spyglass]] (23)
*[[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (24)
*[[Viewfinder]] (25)

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==Quotes==

'''Starscream:''' "We figured you guys could use a couple of fliers to help find '''Ironhide''' and the '''Monsterbots'''." 
'''Bumblebee:''' "Dinobots." 
'''Starscream:''' "Whatever. I figure four '''morons''' and a 'bot who's '''already crazy''' are probably going to be worse off than '''Lynx'''." 
'''Bumblebee:''' "You—'''what?''' Ironhide's not crazy—" 
'''Starscream:''' "Bumblebee, he thinks Obama is a good choice for president!." 
'''Metalhawk:''' "You '''do''' know what '''"crazy"''' means...?"

"'''I... ron... hide... You... you have... found we...''' Us... am... were... '''Aerialbots.''' Now... Dinobots... you answer to the '''Superion.'''"
:—'''Superion''' is obviously a little mixed-up

==Notes==
*This issue is named after the 1938 Gerald Kirsh novel, ''[[wikipedia:Night and the City (novel)|Night and the City]]''.
*Wheeljack has a panel welded to his chest, covering the hole blown in him by Turmoil back in [[Interference Patterns|issue #7]].
*Blurr refers back to his saving Zeta Prime's life, the setup for which occurred in ''[[Spotlight: Blurr]]''. The unfortunate ramifications of this, as Zeta descended into zealotry, were chronicled in ''[[The Transformers: Autocracy|Autocracy]]''.
*Given that Turmoil's time-travelling ship matches the craft piloted by the Reflectors that crashed on [[LV-117]] in ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]'', and their talk of being "fated" to carry out this mission, it looks like author John Barber is poised to resolve one of the most notable longstanding continuity errors in the IDW timeline: the fact that the Reflectors have been appearing alive despite their deaths in ''Spotlight: Wheelie''. Time travel fixes all ills!

===Errors===
* In between pages 11 and 12, Circuit is suddenly colored like [[Rumbler (G1)|Rumbler]].

===Covers (3)===
* '''Cover A:''' The shadow of Superion looms over Ironhide, by [[Andrew Griffith]] and [[Josh Perez]].
* '''Cover B:''' A model city made of glass crumbles in Bumblebee's hand, with Ironhide, Starscream, Silverbolt and Blurr reflected in its shards, by [[Casey Coller]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Swoop breathes fire at a jet, by [[Marcelo Matere]] and [[Joana Lafuente]].

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Night and the City

2012-09-06T10:04:49Z

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