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<div>{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #98<br />
|prev=Prey!<br />
|next=Under Fire!<br />
|title="The Harder They Die!"<br />
|image=Marvel UK 098.JPG<br />
|caption=Megatron: Homecoming Queen<br />
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]<br />
|coverdate=[[January 31|31st January]] 1987<br />
|script=[[Simon Furman]]<br />
|art=[[Geoff Senior]]<br />
|colour=[[Steve White]]<br />
|letters=[[Annie Halfacree]]<br />
|editor=[[Ian Rimmer]]<br />
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Prime finds that Cybertron is not the home he once knew.'''<br />
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==Synopsis==<br />
Optimus Prime is on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. He wanders the desolate streets, shocked at what has become of his beloved home planet. Finding a Decepticon holding an Autobot at gunpoint, he challenges the bully, only to find that his foe is powerful. Only a stroke of luck allows Prime to triumph. The Autobot, Outback, thanks Prime for the help; when Prime heads off alone, Outback follows discreetly.<br />
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[[Image:Polyhexdecepticonstronghold.jpg|left|150px|thumb|And it was all going so well...]]<br />
Megatron is also on Cybertron, and congratulates the current Decepticon leader -- Lord Straxus, now reduced to a head in a jar -- on having pushed the Autobots back and crushed their spirit. Straxus is furious at Megatron for bringing Prime to Cybertron. Megatron explains that he had little choice: the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]] betrayed him, attacking him and leaving him vulnerable to a follow-up attack from a fighting-mad Optimus. Desperate to escape, Megatron summoned the [[Space bridge]], only to have Prime hurl them both through the portal before it was stable. <br />
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Megatron has already put out word through certain networks that the Decepticons have created a fake Optimus Prime and set him loose on Cybertron. Prime, meanwhile, despairs at the ruins of [[Iacon]]. He doesn't have long to lament, however; the misinformation campaign has done its job, and Prime soon finds himself under attack, imprisoned, and sentenced to execution by the Autobot band known as the [[Wrecker|Wreckers]].<br />
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==Featured Characters==<br />
{{featuredcharacters<br />
|c1=<br />
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] (1)<br />
*[[Outback]] (3)<br />
*[[Hoist (G1)|Hoist]] (4)<br />
*[[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] (5)<br />
*[[Gears (G1)|Gears]] (6)<br />
*[[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] (7)<br />
*[[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]] (8)<br />
*[[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] (9)<br />
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (17)<br />
*[[Rack'n'Ruin]] (18)<br />
*[[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] (20)<br />
*[[Sandstorm (G1)|Sandstorm]] (21)<br />
*[[Roadbuster]] (22)<br />
*[[Twin Twist]] (23)<br />
|c2=<br />
*[[Well-armed Decepticon bully]] (2)<br />
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (10)<br />
*[[Straxus (G1)|Straxus]] (11)<br />
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (12)<br />
*[[Rampage (G1)|Rampage]] (13)<br />
*[[Headstrong]] (14)<br />
*[[Tantrum]] (15)<br />
*[[Divebomb (G1)|Divebomb]] (16)<br />
|c4=<br />
*[[Guardian (Marvel)|Guardian]] (19)<br />
}}<br />
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==Errors==<br />
* Hoist's head is missing its colors on page 3.<br />
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==Items of note==<br />
* Straxus's body was destroyed in "[[The Bridge to Nowhere!]]". The US comics left him for dead, but the UK series uses him as a major player for quite some time to come.<br />
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==Back-Up Stories==<br />
* Spitfire and the Troubleshooters - "Counterattack" Part 4<br />
* [[Robo-Capers]]<br />
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==Reprints==<br />
* The story was reprinted in [[Collected Comics (Marvel)|Collected Comics]] 12.<br />
* It was reprinted again by [[Titan Books]] in the trade paperback "Prey".<br />
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==Covers (3)==<br />
<gallery><br />
Image:Marvel UK 098.JPG|98 cover<br />
Image:Tfcolcom12.jpg|Collected Comics 12 cover<br />
Image:TitanPrey.jpg|Prey TPB cover<br />
</gallery><br />
*'''UK issue 98 cover:''' Megatron on Cybertron, by [[Phil Gascoine]]<br />
*'''Collected Comics 12 cover:''' The Predacons surround Optimus Prime, by [[Andrew Wildman]]<br />
*'''Prey TPB cover:''' Optimus Prime staves off Razorclaw while Ultra Magnus broods, by [[Lee Sullivan]]<br />
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