Vicious Circle!

	; Galvatron completes work on Unicron's toilet.
	"Vicious Circle!"
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First published	1st August 1987
Cover date	1987
Writer	Simon Furman
Pencils	Jeff Anderson
Inks	Dave Harwood
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity

Ultra Magnus makes a last ditch attempt to stop Galvatron from activating his power siphon.

Synopsis

Rodimus Prime and Wreck-Gar's plan to return Galvatron to the future has failed. Only Ultra Magnus and Goldbug remain to stop the insane Decepticon from using the power siphon that he has built atop Mount Verona. At first, Ultra Magnus refuses to fight, tired of being beaten. Goldbug is disgusted and goes to face Galvatron alone.

Goldbug is quickly overpowered but before Galvatron can deliver the killing blow, Ultra Magnus arrives, having roused himself from his depression. During the course of the ensuing battle, Galvatron rips a piece of the siphon's control equipment loose. This results in the siphon losing control of the volcano's eruption. Ultra Magnus tells Goldbug to escape while he holds Galvatron at bay. Galvatron is too crazed to notice the danger and as Goldbug makes his way clear the volcano erupts, destroying the siphon and entombing Ultra Magnus and Galvatron within the crater.

Featured characters

(Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.)
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Others
Ultra Magnus (1) Goldbug (3) Rodimus Prime (4) Wreck-Gar (6)	Galvatron (2)	Death's Head (5)

Quotes

"You should have stayed dead, Autobot! This just means I've got to kill you all over again!"
"Thanks...but one death per day is my limit!"

—Galvatron and Ultra Magnus

Notes

Galvatron escapes from the volcano in "Enemy Action!"
Ultra Magnus is rescued from the volcano by the Sparkabots in "Salvage!"
No letterer or colourist is credited.

Errors

Forget "show-accuracy". This is *toy-accuracy* versus *Marvel-accuracy*.

Goldbug's head is coloured blue and his forearms and thighs are golden like the rest of his body (like the toy), and for whatever reason, he also sports a blue Autobot faction symbol. All of these were color-corrected to the regular Marvel colors (yellow for the head, blue for the forearms and thighs, red for the Autobot symbol, although the thighs remain golden in the last panel on the final page) for Titan's 2002 Fallen Angel trade paperback reprint. However, IDW's 2013 Classics UK Volume 4 trade paperback reprint features the original printing's colors again.
On pages 5 & 6 Galvatron is initially lacking his cannon. He appears to pick it up, mount it on his left arm, fire at Goldbug then switch it to his right arm. This accurate to the toy but not otherwise seen in the comic. On the first panel of page 7 the cannon and its attachment are both coloured the same green as the background. In occasional subsequent panels in his fight with Ultra Magnus the cannon disappears only to reappear in his next appearance.
The line "Ultra Magnus! You came!" is presumably supposed to be spoken by Goldbug but the speech bubble looks as though it's pointing at Ultra Magnus.