Talk:Underworld!

Action Force mini-comic

Does anyone have the issue to hand? Joepedia lacks the full set of credits and internet searches have drawn a blank. Timrollpickering 10:16, 9 August 2009 (EDT)

I have a copy.

• • Script: Dan Abnett
  • Art: Stewart Johnson
  • Colours: Euan Peters
  • Letters: HEL

It was also called "Divided We Fall", if you need to know. --Fortress Minimus 12:37, 28 August 2010 (EDT)

Outback

"but in his previous appearances Outback was a regular soldier."

I'm not sure that's 100% accurate. There's a risk of drifting to fanon but while Outback is known to the Wreckers and Magnus in the "OP on Cybertron" arc he's clearly something of an outsider; while he describes himself as an Autobot (though was that, like, default for Cybertronians at the time?) he's pointedly drawn without an Autobrand across all of the issues. He's certainly not Regular Autobot Soldier #4. Also, in "Underworld" for a cadet he gets some qrizzled dialogue (he's the one who knows about the rite of passage being old hat and who lectured the trio on courage and foolhardiness). It strikes me as intentional? Shadow XGX-9 (talk) 17:05, 23 June 2022 (EDT)

My instinct is that Furman may have simply forgotten Outback had been used before. It would have been around this time that he wrote yet another story featuring the Triggerbots as though they were being introduced (and Budiansky also wrote two) so it's conceivable he had all three Mini-Autobots on a not previously used list. (I think this was the period when he was living in the US and so less likely to have seen the Collected Comics reprint of Outback's debut.) By this stage the sheer number of characters made it hard to keep track of them all (and continuity was starting to break down). I don't think Outback's symbol means much as many an Autobot is drawn without them, plus it would be on his Earthmode doors and they're drawn differently for Cybertron anyway. Timrollpickering (talk) 07:55, 30 January 2026 (EST)