Energon Volume 1
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| Publisher | Hasbro | ||||||||||||
| First published | 2003 | ||||||||||||
| Story | ??? | ||||||||||||
| Art | ??? | ||||||||||||
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Hot Shot and Strongarm find some yellow liquid.
Synopsis
[edit]Somewhere on Earth, Hot Shot and Strongarm find a big yellow puddle of energon lying around in the desert. Before they can radio its location in, a pack of Battle Ravage drones attack the pair. But the battle is just a diversion; while the Autobots fight, other drones have been absorbing the energon.
Scorponok arrives to harass the pair further, ordering the drones to fashion an energon weapon for him. Strongarm soaks up enough of the energon to create a weapon for Hot Shot, which he uses to bash Scorponok aside. But with the energon secured, Scorponok simply calls a retreat. Hot Shot and Strongarm take some solace that they have faced "the toughest Decepticon" and survived.
But somewhere, deep inside Unicron, from a fiery portal steps the reborn form of...Megatron!
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Notes
[edit]- This comic is uncredited, though Hasbro designer Aaron Archer believes Marcelo Matere drew the artwork.[1] However, Matere himself doesn't remember doing so.[2] The front cover has a notably different art style, which we observe looks more like that of Don Figueroa. Unlike the other comics, it's totally unknown who wrote this one; Simon Furman doesn't remember doing it,[3] and it's possible Chris Sarracini did instead.[4]
- The flip half of the booklet features a catalog of the first waves of Energon toys.
- Megatron appears in classic Galvatron colors decided by the colorist, as his colors were either not yet finalized or had not been made available to the artists.
- Instead of a cannon, Battle Ravage summons an energon mace, similar to its mace tail.
- In the last panel on Page 6, Hot Shot's speech bubble is erroneously pointed at Scorponok.
- At least one international market's print variant of this volume shows Unicron behind the image of Optimus Prime on the product catalog half's cover as if the change to feature Optimus was made later but the image of Unicron wasn't removed first.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Asked online, who drew these? And... I'm not entirely sure, but it looks like Marcelo. Pretty sure Marcelo drew at least this one."—Aaron Archer, The Toy Armada, "Toy Armada Friday Night LIVE: Transformers printed goods (promotional and published)", 2023/02/04
- ↑ "I worked mostly on the cross sell artwork and rhebpackage ar they reused ( omega supreme)"—Marcelo Matere, Twitter, 2023/01/30
- ↑ "I definitely did Energon minis vols 2 & 3"—Simon Furman, Twitter, 2023/01/28
- ↑ "Scripting, I think Simon Furman did some, and possibly Chris Sarracini did one. Chris had done the Armada mini comics before."—Matt Moylan, Twitter, 2023/01/31
