Editing The New Colossus

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|seriesissue=''[[Revolution]]'' #4
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|next=Revolution issue 5
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|title=Revolution Chapter 4:<br>"The New Colossus"
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|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 2]], 2016
|coverdate=October 2016
|written by=[[John Barber]] and [[Cullen Bunn]]
|art by=[[Fico Ossio]]
|colors by=[[Sebastian Cheng]]
|letters by=[[Tom B. Long]]
|editor=[[David Hedgecock]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era]]
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'''When Miles Mayhem makes his move, Optimus Prime's team must unite with Snake-Eyes, Rom, and the Micronauts to fight off attack from the combined forces of M.A.S.K. and the Dire Wraiths!'''

==Synopsis==
[[Snake-Eyes]] silently sneaks past [[Victorion]] and [[Jazz (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Jazz]] to infiltrate [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], then distracts [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] by tossing a coin to create a noise for her to investigate. After slipping by her, though, he suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the [[Micronauts]] in their tiny spaceship ''[[Heliopolis]]'', and, thinking he is under attack, slings a few shuriken at them. Micronaut warrior [[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] flies out of the ship to counter-attack, whereupon [[Arcee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Arcee]], having detected Snake-Eyes, arrives to join the battle. The three stab at one another in a brief scuffle that draws the attention of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]], Windblade, and [[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]], which is quickly brought to an end when Soundwave knocks the fight out of all of them with a sonic shockwave. Peering closely at the ''Heliopolis'', Windblade sees the Micronauts inside, and she and [[Rom]]—who finds that his armor resonates with Acroyear's just as it did the [[Space bridge|spacebridge]]—realize that they are lifeforms from [[Micronus Prime]]'s realm of [[Microspace]]. With the Transformers' attention diverted for a moment, the injured Snake-Eyes is able to activate a distress call...

...which is summarily ignored by [[Miles Mayhem]] when he receives it at [[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]] headquarters on [[Governor's Island]]. Mayhem has more pressing matters to deal with, like the growing impatience of his allies... the [[Dire Wraith]]s! Mayhem is revealed to have been conspiring with the alien shape-shifters, helping them and [[Baron Karza]] obtain Ore-13 in return for gaining dominion over [[Earth]]. In contact with the Wraith leader [[Caleb Awan]], Mayhem informs his alien allies that Karza has discovered a massive cache of Ore-13 beneath Autobot City, and the time has come to drop all pretense and take it for their own. [[Matt Trakker]] walks in on the last second of the conversation and is immediately confused by what he has heard, but Mayhem merely tells him to get ready for the attack. The Wraiths, too, ready themselves; in their own base of operations, Awan assumes his true Wraith form and infuses himself with the power of the last of the Wraiths' supply of Ore-13.

Back in Autobot City, Rom apologizes to the Micronauts for the recent actions he undertook that put their universe in danger. The little visitors don't understand a word he says, since they don't speak English, but take a shine to the Space Knight nonetheless. Arcee, on the other hand, is still spoiling for a fight with Snake-Eyes, but Optimus orders them all to set their conflicts aside, and requests that Snake-Eyes contact his team so that they may all work together against the threat of the Dire Wraiths. After a moment, Snake-Eyes indicates his wrist-communicator in silent agreement.

[[Scarlett]] and her team arrive back on Governor's Island following their attack on the Wraiths at the [[Earth Defense Command]]'s old [[Bikini Atoll]] facility, only to discover that [[Action Man]] broke in and liberated [[Kup (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Kup]] during their absence. The revelation that they were secretly holding an [[Autobot]] prisoner led Joes [[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]] and [[Agent Helix]] to develop serious doubts about Miles Mayhem and his motivations—doubts that Scarlett is now informed have been borne out, as Mainframe and the whole [[M.A.S.K.]] team have vanished with their vehicles...

The forces of M.A.S.K. arrive on the doorstep of Autobot City, where the conflicted Trakker is pressured by Mayhem into attacking Victorion. The combiner is prepared to take them all out quickly and easily with her gravity powers, until the sky opens and a massive swarm of Dire Wraiths joins M.A.S.K. in tearing into her. Victorion falls before their combined power, but as they penetrate the city and head straight for the Ore-13 chamber, Prime's forces, Snake-Eyes, Rom, and the Micronauts all bar their way. Unfortunately, things look bad for the heroes as the Wraiths are able to channel the power of the city's ore to make themselves stronger; Mayhem is even confident enough in their victory that he reveals the full extent of his evil intention to rule Earth to the rest of M.A.S.K. No sooner has he announced his plans, however, than the smirking Awan-Wraith has his minions turn on M.A.S.K., tearing Mayhem's [[Switchblade (M.A.S.K.)|Switchblade]] vehicle out of the sky. Furious, Mayhem activates his own counter-measures, using the Cybertronian technology built into the vehicle to activate Autobot City's space bridge, opening the way for Baron Karza to emerge from Microspace and aid him. The Awan-Wraith scoffs at the inches-high figure of the Baron, but soon finds himself laughing out of the other side of his face when Karza uses his "Enerchange" ability to merge himself and the Wraith together into a frightful, final-boss fusion of Microspace, Wraith, and Cybertronian powers that looms over all our heroes!

Back on Governor's Island, Agent Helix laments the Joes' lack of any useful equipment, thinking that, with all the M.A.S.K. tech gone, all they have left is the gear that the Cybertronians have already shown they can easily shut down. But Mainframe has the answer: all their high-tech, networked gear might be off-limits... but the base is full of mothballed ''classic'' G.I. Joe vehicles and weaponry that they can use to join the fight!

==Featured characters==
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*[[Victorion]] (1)
*[[Jazz (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Jazz]] (2)
*[[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] (4)
*[[Arcee (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Arcee]] (11)
*[[Optimus Prime (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Optimus Prime]] (12)

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*[[Soundwave (G1)/IDW Generation 1 continuity|Soundwave]] (13)

|h3=[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]|c3=
*[[Snake-Eyes]] (3)
*[[Scarlett]] (20)
*[[Roadblock (G.I. Joe)|Roadblock]] (21)
*[[Mainframe (G.I. Joe)|Mainframe]] (22)
*[[Agent Helix]] (23)

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*[[Acroyear (Micronaut)|Acroyear]] (5)
*[[Space Glider|Phenolo-Phi]] (6)
*[[Pharoid|Oziron Rael]] (7)
*[[Microtron]] (8)
*[[Orbital Defender|Larissa]] (9)
*[[Biotron]] (10)
*[[Rom]] (14)
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*[[Miles Mayhem]] (15)
*[[Caleb Awan]] (16)
*[[Matt Trakker]] (17)
*[[Axiom (G1)|Axiom]] (18)
*Other [[Dire Wraith]]s (19)
*[[Brad Turner]] (24)
*[[Sly Rax]] (25)
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*[[Vanessa Warfield]] (26)
*[[Gloria Baker]] (27)
*[[Julio Lopez]] (28)
*[[Bruno Sheppard]] (29)
*[[Baron Karza]] (30)
{{!}}}
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==Quotes==
"I wish I could '''understand''' him... but I '''do''' like his outfit."
:—'''Acroyear''' on Rom, while giving the Space Knight a thumbs-up



"Cry me a river, Trakker! But make sure it is a river of our enemies' blood."
:—'''Miles Mayhem''' is as subtle as the average episode of ''M.A.S.K.''

==Notes==
===IDW continuity notes===
*Several references are made to various ''Revolution'' tie-in one-shots that take place between the previous issue and this one:
**Following on from the Joes' discovery of the Dire Wraiths' existence last issue, the ''G.I. Joe: Revolution'' one-shot details their attack on the Wraith-held [[Bikini Atoll]] base, which Scarlett's team is shown returning from in this issue. The one-shot was naturally intended to come out between these two issues, but due to scheduling problems, it was not released until later in November, after this issue.
**Concurrent with that battle, the events of [[Thundercracker & Buster Save the World|''The Transformers: Revolution'' one-shot]] also took place, in which the Dire Wraiths attacked the White House.
**While most of the Joes were away from their base on the Bikini Atoll mission, Action Man broke in and rescued Kup in ''[[The Modern World|Action Man: Revolution]]''. That story took place at night on the same day as the ''Joe'' and ''Transformers'' issues; this issue of ''Revolution'' is set at dawn the next morning.
*As hinted at by their holographic conversation last issue, Baron Karza's ally on Earth is Miles Mayhem, who is also in league with the Dire Wraiths.
*Caleb Awan and Axiom were both introduced in the ''Rom: Revolution'' tie-in one-shot, and their brief history is covered in Axiom's profile in the back of this issue. It is noted that, in addition to representing a fusion of Ore-13 and Wraith magic, Axiom also incorporates the bio-mech combination technology of "Micromeld" from the Microverse.

===Transformers references===
*When Karza emerges from the space bridge, his alien language is represented using [[Cyberglyphics]]. His response to the Awan-Wraith's mocking of his stature translates as "Yo mamma"!

===Other franchise references===
*For the best part of its first three pages, the issue goes without any speech bubbles or captions (other than the title), in homage to the famously silent issue #21 of the [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] [[G.I. Joe (comic)|''G.I. Joe'' comic]], which also saw Snake Eyes infiltrating an enemy fortress.
*The "Enerchange" ability Baron Karza uses to fuse with the Awan Wraith has been featured before in IDW's ''Micronauts'' comic. It is the series's way of adapting the ''Micronauts'' action figures' interchangeable parts and armor into an in-story super-power.

===Real-life references===
*Like all chapters of ''Revolution'', this issue takes its title from a poem: in this case, "{{w|The New Colossus}}" by {{w|Emma Lazarus}}.

===Other trivia===
*This issue was originally solicited for release in October, but it arrived a little late, slipping into the first week of November. 
*Backmatter for this issue consists of more full-page character profiles, this time for Soundwave (written by [[John Barber]], art by [[Guido Guidi]]), Baron Karza and Oziron Rael (both written by [[Cullen Bunn]], art by [[Jack Lawrence]] and [[Ander Zarate]]), Snake-Eyes (written by [[Aubrey Sitterson]], art by [[Robert Atkins]] and [[Simon Gough]]), and Axiom (written by [[Chris Ryall]], art by [[Ron Joseph]] and [[Jay Fotos]]).

===Covers (8)===
*'''Regular cover:''' Jazz, Arcee, and Snake-Eyes, by [[Tradd Moore]] and [[Felipe Subreiro]]
*'''Subscription cover A:''' Baron Karza and the Dire Wraiths, by [[Brandon Peterson]]
*'''Subscription cover B:''' Wraparound cover of [[Metrotitan (Zone)|Metrotitan]], [[Shipwreck]], [[Major Bludd]], [[Agent Helix]], [[Ironhide (G1)|Ironhide]], [[Gloria Baker]], Jazz, [[Rock 'n Roll]], [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]], Snake-Eyes, Miles Mayhem, and Baron Daigon charging into action, by [[John Byrne]] and [[Len O'Grady]]; part of a series of interlinking covers that homage Byrne's original covers to the ''{{w|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe|Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Deluxe Edition}}'' from the late 1980s.
*'''Subscription cover C:''' Propaganda poster of Acroyear by [[James Biggie]] 

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*'''Subscription cover D:''' Arcee and Snake-Eyes action figures by [[Adam Riches]]; part of a series of "action figure" variant covers by Riches. Arcee is based on the ''[[Transformers: Generations|Generations]]'' figure with a variety of tweaks to make her look more like her IDW self.
*'''Retailer incentive cover A:''' Snake Eyes versus the Micronauts, by [[Ken Christiansen]]
*'''Retailer incentive cover B:''' Optimus Prime by [[Guido Guidi]]; part of a series of "retro" covers by Guidi.
*'''Retailer incentive cover C:''' Matt Trakker and his Thunderhawk, Space Glider, and Acroyear, by [[Art Baltazar]]; part of a series of interlinking covers.

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==External links==
*[http://www.newsarama.com/31773-snake-eyes-goes-for-arcee-s-eyes-in-revolution-4.html#s1 Preview]

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