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Hearts of Steel issue 1

2010-11-05T14:36:41Z

67.174.138.234:

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[Hearts of Steel|Evolutions Hearts of Steel]] #1
|prev=
|next=Hearts of Steel issue 2
|title=
|image=Hearts_of_Steel_1a.jpg
|caption=When John Henry was about three days old, Sittin' on his pappy's knee, He gave a loud and lonesome cry, Said "I won't die in this continuity! Lord, lord! I won't die in this continuity!"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[July 5]], 2006
|coverdate=June 2006
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|colors by=[[Jay Fotos]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor]] (& [[Justin Eisinger]] for the collection)
|continuity=[[Hearts of Steel]]
}}

'''A group of sentient warring robots land on Earth. When they reawake, their battle begins anew... 117 years too early!'''

==Synopsis==
The story opens on prehistoric [[Earth]], in the opening years of an ice age. The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s fight their war here, using dinosaur and insect [[alternate mode]]s (most of them distinctively spiky). These "Ice Age Wars" draw to a close as the cold gets worse. Some of the Autobots retreat into a cave, and place themselves in [[stasis lock]], to wait for external conditions to improve.

Millions of years pass. The glaciers that forced the Transformers into stasis lock recede, and humans gradually take over the Earth's surface...

Bumblebee is woken by the sound of hammering. He investigates, and spies on a crew of humans, including John Henry, laying track. The year is around 1867; the Autobots have slept for a ''long'' time.

[[Image:Marktwain.jpg|left|150px|thumb|"I'll risk forty dollars that Kickback can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."]]
Meanwhile, aboard the paddle-wheeled steamship ''[[Enterprise]]'' in [[San Francisco]] Bay, Mark Twain and Jules Verne prepare to witness a "marvelous exhibition". The ''[[S.S. Vicuna]]'', a primitive submarine, rises from the waters, crewed by its inventor, Tobias Muldoon. He stands atop it, extolling its virtues, until it suddenly sinks under him. (Why it sinks is unclear.) It falls to the bottom of the bay, where we see Skywarp, apparently just emerging from [[stasis lock]], inside a glass-domed underwater base. (Possibly the impact of the ''Vicuna'' is what wakes Skywarp.) Muldoon is financially ruined; Verne is inspired.

That night, as Henry and his crew eat dinner, he states his dislike of job-stealing machines, and swears to go to his grave a'hammering. Bumblebee, Ratchet, and Prowl observe this. Ratchet and Prowl believe they should go back to sleep, and wait a century before making contact with humans, but Bumblebee instead approaches the camp, to inspect one of the locomotives. Henry and his crewmate Cletus investigate, and find a mysterious little yellow locomotive on a siding. It has no driver's cab, and they conclude it's some new job from back East. Henry takes an immediate dislike to it.

That same night, Muldoon is forced to report his failure to one of his investors, Stanford Merriweather. Merriweather is upset, and puts Muldoon to work in the kitchen of one of his hotels. We see that Muldoon has a (reciprocated) romantic interest in Stanford's daughter, Kitty Merriweather. Later, he wanders the docks, musing out loud about how his prospects (both romantic and financial) look bleak. A bellowing voice asks him if he would truly give up so easily. Suddenly, the ironclad ship next to him transforms, and Shockwave tells Muldoon that he will assist him in reshaping the future of the Earth.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (1)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (9)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (10)
|c2=
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (8)
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (13)
|c3=
* [[John Henry]] (2)
* [[Brawley]] (3)
* [[Cletus]] (4)
* [[Mark Twain]] (5)
* [[Jules Verne]] (6)
* [[Tobias Muldoon]] (7)
* [[Stanford Merriweather]] (11)
* [[Kitty Merriweather]] (12)
}}

==Quotes==
"Stand ''aside,'' y'all. My hammer's fixin' to ''fall,'' and all God's Earth is my ''anvil.''"
:'''—John Henry'''

"[Machines] driven by the contained pressure of heated ''water.'' Simple but ''effective.''"
:'''—Prowl'''

"I am the end result of a science ''beyond'' your understanding. I am here to ''serve'' you in the exploration of all that is possible on your world. I am a living ''machine.'' I am an ''automated'' lifeform. I am called ''Shockwave.''"
:'''—Shockwave'''

==Errors==
* Merriweather tells Muldoon to do $40 worth of work in the kitchen. Adjusting for inflation from 1867 to 2007, this is about $530. It's unclear if Merriweather is expecting him to work off the debt for the meal he just ate, or for the investment in the submarine, but $530 is either far too much or far too little, respectively. It's also an awful lot of dishes to wash.
* An actual unmanned steam locomotive like the one Bumblebee scans (in addition to not existing) would be very, ''very'' dangerous to those working around it.

==Items of note==
* '''Cameos:''' Green [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]](?) and unknown Decepticon, a large battle scene with many unknowns: some recognizables include Prowl, [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], Bumblebee and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]; more Autobots in cave, including, [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], Ratchet, [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], [[Bluestreak]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]; Captain of the ''Enterprise'' (no, not ''that'' one).
* The initial credits didn't list, the inker, additional artists or additional colorists.
* The first few pages of this story were reprinted as part of a [[Free Comic Book Day]] issue by [[IDW Publishing]] on [[May 6]]th, [[2006]].

===Covers (3)===
— all by Guido Guidi
* '''Cover A:''' Montage of John Henry and Bumblebee
* '''Cover B:''' Bumblebee wraparound sketch
* '''Retailer Incentive:''' Shockwave wraparound sketch
<gallery>
Image:Hearts of Steel 1a.jpg
Image:Hearts of Steel 1b.jpg|Take the B-Train
Image:Hearts of Steel 1ri.jpg|Is this Shockwave or Tidal Wave?
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* Optimus Prime [[Alternators (toyline)|Alternators]] toy
* Transformers posters
* ''[[Generations (comic reprints)|Generations]]'' series
* [[Stormbringer (comics)|''Stormbringer'' #1]], including a 6-page preview (also on back cover)

[[Category:IDW issues]]

Hearts of Steel issue 1

2010-11-05T14:34:27Z

67.174.138.234:

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[Hearts of Steel|Evolutions Hearts of Steel]] #1
|prev=
|next=Hearts of Steel issue 2
|title=
|image=Hearts_of_Steel_1a.jpg
|caption=When John Henry was a little baby... Sittin' on his pappy's knee... He picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel... Said "I won't die in this continuity! Lord, lord I won't die in this continuity!"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[July 5]], 2006
|coverdate=June 2006
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|colors by=[[Jay Fotos]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor]] (& [[Justin Eisinger]] for the collection)
|continuity=[[Hearts of Steel]]
}}

'''A group of sentient warring robots land on Earth. When they reawake, their battle begins anew... 117 years too early!'''

==Synopsis==
The story opens on prehistoric [[Earth]], in the opening years of an ice age. The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s fight their war here, using dinosaur and insect [[alternate mode]]s (most of them distinctively spiky). These "Ice Age Wars" draw to a close as the cold gets worse. Some of the Autobots retreat into a cave, and place themselves in [[stasis lock]], to wait for external conditions to improve.

Millions of years pass. The glaciers that forced the Transformers into stasis lock recede, and humans gradually take over the Earth's surface...

Bumblebee is woken by the sound of hammering. He investigates, and spies on a crew of humans, including John Henry, laying track. The year is around 1867; the Autobots have slept for a ''long'' time.

[[Image:Marktwain.jpg|left|150px|thumb|"I'll risk forty dollars that Kickback can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."]]
Meanwhile, aboard the paddle-wheeled steamship ''[[Enterprise]]'' in [[San Francisco]] Bay, Mark Twain and Jules Verne prepare to witness a "marvelous exhibition". The ''[[S.S. Vicuna]]'', a primitive submarine, rises from the waters, crewed by its inventor, Tobias Muldoon. He stands atop it, extolling its virtues, until it suddenly sinks under him. (Why it sinks is unclear.) It falls to the bottom of the bay, where we see Skywarp, apparently just emerging from [[stasis lock]], inside a glass-domed underwater base. (Possibly the impact of the ''Vicuna'' is what wakes Skywarp.) Muldoon is financially ruined; Verne is inspired.

That night, as Henry and his crew eat dinner, he states his dislike of job-stealing machines, and swears to go to his grave a'hammering. Bumblebee, Ratchet, and Prowl observe this. Ratchet and Prowl believe they should go back to sleep, and wait a century before making contact with humans, but Bumblebee instead approaches the camp, to inspect one of the locomotives. Henry and his crewmate Cletus investigate, and find a mysterious little yellow locomotive on a siding. It has no driver's cab, and they conclude it's some new job from back East. Henry takes an immediate dislike to it.

That same night, Muldoon is forced to report his failure to one of his investors, Stanford Merriweather. Merriweather is upset, and puts Muldoon to work in the kitchen of one of his hotels. We see that Muldoon has a (reciprocated) romantic interest in Stanford's daughter, Kitty Merriweather. Later, he wanders the docks, musing out loud about how his prospects (both romantic and financial) look bleak. A bellowing voice asks him if he would truly give up so easily. Suddenly, the ironclad ship next to him transforms, and Shockwave tells Muldoon that he will assist him in reshaping the future of the Earth.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (1)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (9)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (10)
|c2=
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (8)
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (13)
|c3=
* [[John Henry]] (2)
* [[Brawley]] (3)
* [[Cletus]] (4)
* [[Mark Twain]] (5)
* [[Jules Verne]] (6)
* [[Tobias Muldoon]] (7)
* [[Stanford Merriweather]] (11)
* [[Kitty Merriweather]] (12)
}}

==Quotes==
"Stand ''aside,'' y'all. My hammer's fixin' to ''fall,'' and all God's Earth is my ''anvil.''"
:'''—John Henry'''

"[Machines] driven by the contained pressure of heated ''water.'' Simple but ''effective.''"
:'''—Prowl'''

"I am the end result of a science ''beyond'' your understanding. I am here to ''serve'' you in the exploration of all that is possible on your world. I am a living ''machine.'' I am an ''automated'' lifeform. I am called ''Shockwave.''"
:'''—Shockwave'''

==Errors==
* Merriweather tells Muldoon to do $40 worth of work in the kitchen. Adjusting for inflation from 1867 to 2007, this is about $530. It's unclear if Merriweather is expecting him to work off the debt for the meal he just ate, or for the investment in the submarine, but $530 is either far too much or far too little, respectively. It's also an awful lot of dishes to wash.
* An actual unmanned steam locomotive like the one Bumblebee scans (in addition to not existing) would be very, ''very'' dangerous to those working around it.

==Items of note==
* '''Cameos:''' Green [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]](?) and unknown Decepticon, a large battle scene with many unknowns: some recognizables include Prowl, [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], Bumblebee and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]; more Autobots in cave, including, [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], Ratchet, [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], [[Bluestreak]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]; Captain of the ''Enterprise'' (no, not ''that'' one).
* The initial credits didn't list, the inker, additional artists or additional colorists.
* The first few pages of this story were reprinted as part of a [[Free Comic Book Day]] issue by [[IDW Publishing]] on [[May 6]]th, [[2006]].

===Covers (3)===
— all by Guido Guidi
* '''Cover A:''' Montage of John Henry and Bumblebee
* '''Cover B:''' Bumblebee wraparound sketch
* '''Retailer Incentive:''' Shockwave wraparound sketch
<gallery>
Image:Hearts of Steel 1a.jpg
Image:Hearts of Steel 1b.jpg|Take the B-Train
Image:Hearts of Steel 1ri.jpg|Is this Shockwave or Tidal Wave?
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* Optimus Prime [[Alternators (toyline)|Alternators]] toy
* Transformers posters
* ''[[Generations (comic reprints)|Generations]]'' series
* [[Stormbringer (comics)|''Stormbringer'' #1]], including a 6-page preview (also on back cover)

[[Category:IDW issues]]

Hearts of Steel issue 1

2010-11-05T14:30:08Z

67.174.138.234:

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=[[Hearts of Steel|Evolutions Hearts of Steel]] #1
|prev=
|next=Hearts of Steel issue 2
|title=
|image=Hearts_of_Steel_1a.jpg
|caption=When John Henry was a little baby... Sittin' on his pappy's knee... He picked up a hammer and a little piece of steel.../Said "I don't die in this continuity!"
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[July 5]], 2006
|coverdate=June 2006
|written by=[[Chuck Dixon]]
|art by=[[Guido Guidi]]
|colors by=[[Jay Fotos]]
|letters by=[[Robbie Robbins]]
|edits by=[[Chris Ryall]] & [[Dan Taylor]] (& [[Justin Eisinger]] for the collection)
|continuity=[[Hearts of Steel]]
}}

'''A group of sentient warring robots land on Earth. When they reawake, their battle begins anew... 117 years too early!'''

==Synopsis==
The story opens on prehistoric [[Earth]], in the opening years of an ice age. The [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s fight their war here, using dinosaur and insect [[alternate mode]]s (most of them distinctively spiky). These "Ice Age Wars" draw to a close as the cold gets worse. Some of the Autobots retreat into a cave, and place themselves in [[stasis lock]], to wait for external conditions to improve.

Millions of years pass. The glaciers that forced the Transformers into stasis lock recede, and humans gradually take over the Earth's surface...

Bumblebee is woken by the sound of hammering. He investigates, and spies on a crew of humans, including John Henry, laying track. The year is around 1867; the Autobots have slept for a ''long'' time.

[[Image:Marktwain.jpg|left|150px|thumb|"I'll risk forty dollars that Kickback can outjump any frog in Calaveras county."]]
Meanwhile, aboard the paddle-wheeled steamship ''[[Enterprise]]'' in [[San Francisco]] Bay, Mark Twain and Jules Verne prepare to witness a "marvelous exhibition". The ''[[S.S. Vicuna]]'', a primitive submarine, rises from the waters, crewed by its inventor, Tobias Muldoon. He stands atop it, extolling its virtues, until it suddenly sinks under him. (Why it sinks is unclear.) It falls to the bottom of the bay, where we see Skywarp, apparently just emerging from [[stasis lock]], inside a glass-domed underwater base. (Possibly the impact of the ''Vicuna'' is what wakes Skywarp.) Muldoon is financially ruined; Verne is inspired.

That night, as Henry and his crew eat dinner, he states his dislike of job-stealing machines, and swears to go to his grave a'hammering. Bumblebee, Ratchet, and Prowl observe this. Ratchet and Prowl believe they should go back to sleep, and wait a century before making contact with humans, but Bumblebee instead approaches the camp, to inspect one of the locomotives. Henry and his crewmate Cletus investigate, and find a mysterious little yellow locomotive on a siding. It has no driver's cab, and they conclude it's some new job from back East. Henry takes an immediate dislike to it.

That same night, Muldoon is forced to report his failure to one of his investors, Stanford Merriweather. Merriweather is upset, and puts Muldoon to work in the kitchen of one of his hotels. We see that Muldoon has a (reciprocated) romantic interest in Stanford's daughter, Kitty Merriweather. Later, he wanders the docks, musing out loud about how his prospects (both romantic and financial) look bleak. A bellowing voice asks him if he would truly give up so easily. Suddenly, the ironclad ship next to him transforms, and Shockwave tells Muldoon that he will assist him in reshaping the future of the Earth.
{{--}}

==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
* [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (1)
* [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (9)
* [[Prowl (G1)|Prowl]] (10)
|c2=
* [[Skywarp (G1)|Skywarp]] (8)
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] (13)
|c3=
* [[John Henry]] (2)
* [[Brawley]] (3)
* [[Cletus]] (4)
* [[Mark Twain]] (5)
* [[Jules Verne]] (6)
* [[Tobias Muldoon]] (7)
* [[Stanford Merriweather]] (11)
* [[Kitty Merriweather]] (12)
}}

==Quotes==
"Stand ''aside,'' y'all. My hammer's fixin' to ''fall,'' and all God's Earth is my ''anvil.''"
:'''—John Henry'''

"[Machines] driven by the contained pressure of heated ''water.'' Simple but ''effective.''"
:'''—Prowl'''

"I am the end result of a science ''beyond'' your understanding. I am here to ''serve'' you in the exploration of all that is possible on your world. I am a living ''machine.'' I am an ''automated'' lifeform. I am called ''Shockwave.''"
:'''—Shockwave'''

==Errors==
* Merriweather tells Muldoon to do $40 worth of work in the kitchen. Adjusting for inflation from 1867 to 2007, this is about $530. It's unclear if Merriweather is expecting him to work off the debt for the meal he just ate, or for the investment in the submarine, but $530 is either far too much or far too little, respectively. It's also an awful lot of dishes to wash.
* An actual unmanned steam locomotive like the one Bumblebee scans (in addition to not existing) would be very, ''very'' dangerous to those working around it.

==Items of note==
* '''Cameos:''' Green [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]](?) and unknown Decepticon, a large battle scene with many unknowns: some recognizables include Prowl, [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]], Bumblebee and [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]]; more Autobots in cave, including, [[Huffer (G1)|Huffer]], Ratchet, [[Gears (G1)|Gears]], [[Bluestreak]] and [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]]; Captain of the ''Enterprise'' (no, not ''that'' one).
* The initial credits didn't list, the inker, additional artists or additional colorists.
* The first few pages of this story were reprinted as part of a [[Free Comic Book Day]] issue by [[IDW Publishing]] on [[May 6]]th, [[2006]].

===Covers (3)===
— all by Guido Guidi
* '''Cover A:''' Montage of John Henry and Bumblebee
* '''Cover B:''' Bumblebee wraparound sketch
* '''Retailer Incentive:''' Shockwave wraparound sketch
<gallery>
Image:Hearts of Steel 1a.jpg
Image:Hearts of Steel 1b.jpg|Take the B-Train
Image:Hearts of Steel 1ri.jpg|Is this Shockwave or Tidal Wave?
</gallery>

===Advertisements===
* Optimus Prime [[Alternators (toyline)|Alternators]] toy
* Transformers posters
* ''[[Generations (comic reprints)|Generations]]'' series
* [[Stormbringer (comics)|''Stormbringer'' #1]], including a 6-page preview (also on back cover)

[[Category:IDW issues]]