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|}{{#switch:{{#sub:xx|2|14}}|dark cybertron=}}
Something is loose aboard the Lost Light, and the Autobots must hunt it down before it kills again!
Synopsis
[edit]Aboard the once-again-airborne Lost Light, Shock laments the passing of his fellow Duobot Ore, and sets about removing all the evidence he can that they were Prowl's agents aboard the ship: in fact, Ore was too close to the engine block that he wound up being mashed into precisely because he was following Prowl's instructions to place a tracer on it. When Shock goes looking for the tracer, he is attacked by a monstrous creature hidden in the bowels of the ship, which pulls out his brain module and consumes his spark. His dead body is found a short time later by Red Alert, who blames the death on a mythical Cybertronian creature called a Sparkeater and passes the news on to Rodimus.
Dubbing the scenario "cool", Rodimus calmly orders the assembled Autobots to their quarters without explanation, has them locked in (because of course they'd disobey orders and sneak off), and takes Chromedome, Trailbreaker, Rewind, Drift, Ultra Magnus, and Ratchet with him to investigate Shock's body. The group bickers about the potential existence or not of Sparkeaters, with Ratchet in particular loudly insisting they keep to a rational train of thought. At Rodimus's request, Chromedome reveals his hidden talents: he is a mnemosurgeon, capable of tapping into a living or dead brain and reading its memories. Doing so to Shock, Chromedome discovers that whether or not a "Sparkeater" is the proper term for it, there is definitely a spark-munching monster loose on the Lost Light. Knowing that it will seek out the "brightest spark", the Autobots split into teams to hunt it down, with Rodimus remaining on the lower decks on the cocksure belief that the Sparkeater will be coming for him.
Meanwhile, the other crew members deal with the situation in their own ways. Realizing that they know each other from millions of years past, Cyclonus helps Tailgate—stuck in mid-transformation—to a set of quarters, where he grimly relates the history of the war that Tailgate slept through, and ponders which side the little 'bot would have taken. Skids and Swerve get a little lost and wind up not in a habitation suite but a bar, where Swerve wistfully remembers the old pre-war plans he had with Blurr to open a joint of his own. Skids, on the other hand, takes a distinct dislike to being locked in, and leaves via a ceiling duct, on the justification that his lack of memories is allowing him to make up his life and personality as he goes along.
Animus, having been unable to find a unit of his own, knocks on Whirl's door to be allowed back in. While previously teasing, Whirl can no longer open the door as they are auto-locked, and Animus is set upon and killed by the vicious Sparkeater. Whirl blasts his way out of his quarters and opens fire on the Sparkeater, but at the last second, Trailbreaker appears and surrounds the creature with a forcefield to prevent the undigested sparks in its stomach from igniting. The Sparkeater flees, and the Autobots realize that since there's only one room in the direction its going, it must have found the brightest spark—Rung's! The creature bursts into the psychiatrist's office, but Skids suddenly pops out of the ceiling and drags Rung up into the ducts to relative safety.
Below decks, Rodimus and Drift discover that the Sparkeater had been trapped by the previous Neutral owners of the ship, who kept it docile by feeding it turbofoxes. Hitting upon a plan, he contacts Rung and Skids and orders them to lure the pursuing Sparkeater back down into the engine room. Skids has them take the direct route route, moving from duct to elevator shaft and into the carriage below, much to the surprise of its occupant, Brainstorm. The Sparkeater is hot on their heels, but Brainstorm finds himself lucky enough to be spared by the monster as it continues its pursuit of Rung and it probably had nothing to do with his briefcase...
Once Rung and Skids reach the engine room, Rodimus grabs hold of the therapist and uses him as live bait to lure the Sparkeater in close. At the last moment, Rodimus throws Rung to safety and grapples with the creature, ordering Perceptor to initiate a quantum jump. Manoeuvring the Sparkeater into place, Rodimus teaches it the first lesson of interstellar travel: never stand next to a quantum generator when it's about to flout the laws of nature! Like Ore before it, the Sparkeater is mashed into the generator and perishes, though the heroic act costs Rodimus his arms as well.
A little later, in the medibay, Rodimus has been outfitted with some new arms by Ratchet, and is lambasted by Ultra Magnus for his reckless risking of Rung's life: something that he feels nobody else is willing to do, and says with concern that third-in-command Drift has too much awe for Rodimus. The boss does not take kindly to this and snaps that on this ship, Magnus takes orders from him.
And across the room, as Ratchet works to unjam his stuck transformation, Tailgate announces that he has chosen a faction based on what he has learned from Cyclonus: he wants to be a Decepticon!
Featured characters
[edit](Characters in italic text appear in flashbacks.)
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- Forestock (33)
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- Soundwave (42)
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- Tailgate (8)
- Cyclonus (27)
- Nominus Prime (31)
- Proteus (40)|
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- Ore (1)
- Shock (2)
- Prowl (3)
- Red Alert (5)
- Swerve (6)
- Brawn (7)
- Grapple (9)
- Cosmos (10)
- Smokescreen (11)
- Powerglide (12)
- Hoist (13)
- Whirl (14)
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- Pointblank (15)
- Animus (16)
- Xaaron (17)
- Drift (18)
- Rodimus (19)
- Ultra Magnus (20)
- Huffer (21)
- Inferno (22)
- Rung (23)
- Skids (24)
- Chromedome (25)
- Rewind (26)
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- Trailbreaker (28)
- Ratchet (29)
- Boss (30)
- Sentinel Prime (34)
- Sideswipe (36)
- Impactor (37)
- Sunstreaker (38)
- Grimlock (41)
- Brainstorm (44)
- Perceptor (45)
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- Black Shadow (35)
- Starscream (39)
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- Forestock (33)
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Quotes
[edit]"Nickel, iron, cobalt, chrome,
He'll eat your soul,
Turn your spark to stone,
Nickel, iron, cobalt, chrome,
Run, little robot, run away home."
- —Traditional Cybertronian rhyme
"I once arrested a Decepticon who thought he was a Sparkeater. He called himself the Dark Assassin, Devourer of Souls and Propagator of Infinite Sin. His real name was Blip."
- —Ultra Magnus isn't one for superstition.
"Okay then—explain this. A brain module sitting outside a body without a head wound. Now I'm no doctor, but that strikes me as intensely wrong."
"Woah. Two questions. One: Are we saying he vomited up his own brain? And two: can I please go home now?"
- —Trailbreaker handles things a little better than Rewind does.
"Ratchet, could you put his brain back in his head? With corpses, I prefer to go through the eye sockets."
"I cannot begin to tell you what's wrong with that sentence."
- —Chromedome and Drift
"Must admit, I had you pegged as a fellow rule breaker."
"Me? No, no, no, I'm all mouth. My nickname at the academy was 'Shut the Hell Up.'"
- —Skids and Swerve
Drift: "This is a dark and troubling omen. Sparkeaters are drawn to pain and emotional trauma. I don't know what the Neutrals were up to, but horrific things must have happened on this ship. We're being punished."
Ratchet: "With all due respect, Drift, I don't think I've ever heard such a load of—"
Rewind: "Shock! I said Ore. I meant Shock. His name's Shock. Sorry everyone."
"It's Trailbreaker, the one-trick pony, here to spoil the fun."
"If your missiles had connected with an unprotected spark, you could've destroyed half the ship!"
"Which half?"
- —Whirl and Ultra Magnus
"I'm too smart to die!"
- —Brainstorm, showing that he has replaced Sunstreaker as the Autobot's resident sociopath
"I've shielded the thrusters like you asked, but this plan of yours—I want to place on record my severe reservations."
"Duly noted and ignored. Now get ready!"
- Perceptor and Rodimus set the status quo for the latter's leadership style
"If you want to put your own life at risk, go ahead. But using Rung like that..."
"Are you lecturing me? Is this a lecture?"
"No, this is me telling you something that no one else will."
- —Ultra Magnus and Rodimus face off
Notes
[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- Shock refers to several events from Cybertronian history that he and Ore survived, which have all been mentioned in one or more previous IDW works by Roberts: the Battle for Hell's Point, the Crucible, and the various horrors of Babu Yar.
- The Shimmer and the beverage Engex crop up in this issue, having put in their sole previous appearances in Roberts's earlier work Bullets. Also debuting in that story was the Autobot Animus, who made his first pictorial appearance in a crowd scene last issue, before being named and, in short order, meeting his end in this issue. Trailbreaker also mentions the Necrobot and the Seething Moon, both of which will figure into the plot further down the line.
- Back in issue #24 of the ongoing, the name of the planet Varas Centralus—originally introduced in Stormbringer—was accidentally misspelled "Veras Centralus". In this issue, that mistake is papered over when Rewind refers to the two as separate but similarly named planets that he mixes up with one another. Turns out there's also a Verus Centralus, too!
- Skids asks Swerve if he knows much about music. He does this again, to Brainstorm, two issues later. In "Who's Afraid of the DJD?", we find out Skids keeps hearing the aria "The Empyrean Suite" in his head.
- The montage panel illustrating Cyclonus's war history features a number of different scenes, many of them either seen or implied in other Roberts issues:
- Impactor fighting a Senate-employed Sideswipe and Sunstreaker, likely depicting the miner's arrest following his bar fight in "Chaos Theory Part 1".
- The wall-mounted screen smashed by Megatron's thrown datapad at the end of the same issue.
- Prowl investigating the death of Sherma, later seen in full in "Post Hoc".
- Sentinel aiming a nasty looking device at a bed-ridden Nominus Prime's chest, following on from the revelation in "Chaos Theory Part 2" that the attack on the Prime was orchestrated to allow the Senate access to the Matrix of Leadership.
- Black Shadow, who would later appear in issue #7.
- Soundwave branding a Decepticon recruit's bicep with a faction insignia. This would later be the first Decepticon symbol ever seen by Ironfist, in Last Stand of the Wreckers #4.
- Starscream executing Senator Proteus, a character expanded upon during the later "Shadowplay" story.
- The destruction of the Grand Imperium by the Decepticons, an event first mentioned in The Death of Optimus Prime, and referenced again next issue.
- Megatron aiming the 'bot who would become Vos in weapon mode at an unseen target. This is likely an artefact of James Roberts' original intention for Zeta Prime to have been assassinated by sniper rifle, mentioned in 'Bullets', but this was later overwritten by a far more up-close-and-personal defeat shown in Autocracy #7.
- An apparently indecisive Grimlock looking between Autobot and Decepticon insignia in his hands. This would never be fully explained but issue #8 would establish Grimlock to be on the Decepticon Justice Division's List, which compiles Decepticons who have betrayed the cause.
- Brainstorm thrusts his briefcase at the Sparkeater in an attempt to ward it off. It then leaves despite clearly having him cornered. Brainstorm's miraculous survival is eventually explained in "Black Planet". Meanwhile, his briefcase's purpose is explained in issue #35.
Real-life references
[edit]- Chromedome refers to a principle of Transformer biology called "Rossum's Trinity", a reference to the 1920 Czech science fiction play "Rossum's Universal Robots", which was significant for introducing the word "robot" into the English language. The principle seems an attempt by Roberts to harmonize a few elements of Transformer life, and explains how damage to a Transformers brain module can cause death, as it did in his earlier work Last Stand of the Wreckers (an idea pulled right out of the Marvel UK series), when sparks have long since surpassed the idea of the module as the seat of Transformer life. The third part of the trinity is the transformation cog, damage to which was not historically known to be fatal prior to issue #1 of this series, which saw a NAIL commit suicide by essentially burning his cog out through overuse.
- According to the TPB Rewind's comment that he has footage of a Sparkeater from the Gimlin Facility is a reference to Robert Gimlin, who with Roger Patterson claimed to have caught Bigfoot on film.
Trivia
[edit]- This issue's title was previously used by James Roberts as the title of the first chapter of his unofficial Transformers novel, Eugenesis.
- Rodimus' quote to Perceptor "Duly noted and ignored," was used at least twice before in previous Transformers media.
Crew Manifest
[edit]- Animus is killed by the Sparkeater.
- 5 deaths, 2 new arrivals since the launch.
Errors
[edit]- The story so far page is missing a space between "Cybertron" and "an".
- Despite Skids being established as never letting go of the handgun in his right hand, he's drawn without it in the panel where he reveals the grappling hook in his left hand.
- Whirl's canopy is fully repaired, even though it was still damaged at the end of the last issue.
Soundtrack
[edit]- "Love Love Love" by [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}the Mountain Goats|{{#if:||the Mountain Goats}}]]
- "Tonight We Fly" by [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Divine Comedy (band)|{{#if:The Divine Comedy|The Divine Comedy|The Divine Comedy (band)}}]]
Foreign localization
[edit]Japanese
- Title: "Usohappyaku Part 3: Ikidzuku Konton" (嘘八百 パート3：息づく混沌, "Pack of Lies Part 3: Living Chaos")
- Title: "Lögnare, från A till D Del 3: Varma sakers oordning" ("Liars, From A to D Part 3: The Disorder of Warm Things")
Covers (3)
[edit]- Cover A: Trailbreaker shields Ultra Magnus and Red Alert with his forcefield, by Alex Milne and Josh Perez.
- Cover B: Chromedome reads Shock's mind, by Nick Roche and Joana Lafuente.
- Cover RI: Black and white lineart version of Cover A.
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How often does Trailbreaker get a cover? Awesome! -
Chromedome's been dropping acid -
Cover RI
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[edit]- The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #3
- The Transformers: Autocracy
- Rocketeer Adventures 2
Reprints
[edit]- The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye Volume 1 (June 13, 2012) ISBN 1613772351 / ISBN 978-1613772355
- Collects The Death of Optimus Prime, and More than Meets the Eye issues #1–3.
- Bonus material includes art from most covers, 12 promotional images, "Meet the Crew" page, design sketches from Alex Milne for various characters and ship locations, and a 2-page editor's comment with "behind the scenes" information about the series.
- Trade paperback format.
- The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 1 (Reissue) (May 21, 2014) ISBN 1613779658 / ISBN 978-1613779651
- Collects The Death of Optimus Prime, and More than Meets the Eye issues #1–3.
- New cover art by Livio Ramondelli.
- Trade paperback format.
- The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 1 (September 3, 2014) ISBN 1631400401 / ISBN 978-1631400407
- Collects The Death of Optimus Prime, More than Meets the Eye issues #1–3 & #4–5, and Robots in Disguise issues #1–5 & #6.
- Hardcover format.
- Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Box Set (December 2, 2015) ISBN 1631404741 / ISBN 978-1631404740
- Collects More Than Meets the Eye volumes 1–5.
- Bonus material unknown at this time.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 53: Liars, A to D (December 26, 2018)
- Collects More than Meets the Eye issues #1–6, and Spotlight: Trailcutter & Hoist.
- Bonus material includes an all-new interview with James Roberts, rare archive material from the dawn of More than Meets the Eye, Alex Milne's sketchbook, a cover gallery and a forward by Simon Furman.
- Hardcover format.
- Transformers: Mer än ögat kan se (June 15, 2019)
- Collects More than Meets the Eye issues #1–8 & Annual 2012, Spotlight: Trailcutter & Hoist, and a special illustrated edition of "Bullets".
- Swedish reprint. Hardcover format.
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More than Meets the Eye Volume 1 – cover art by Alex Milne and Josh Perez -
More Than Meets the Eye Volume 1 – cover art by Livio Ramondelli -
The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 1 – cover art by Saren Stone -
More Than Meets the Eye Box Set – cover art by Marcelo Matere -
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 53: Liars, A to D – cover art by Don Figueroa (Whirl) and Alex Milne (retro) -
Mer än ögat kan se – cover art by Alex Milne and Joana Lafuente.
