Editing Transformers Comic issue 2.15

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|seriesissue=[[Transformers (Titan Magazine)|''Transformers'']] #15
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|caption="You can't hide, Furman! We'll get you writing our comic again, oh yes..."
|publisher=[[Titan Books|Titan Magazines]]
|date=[[July 15|15 July]] [[2010]]
|editor=[[Steve White]]
|deputy editor=[[Den Patrick]]
|publishing manager=[[Darryl Curtis]]
|price=£2.50
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'''The Bermuda Triangle sounds so friendly, I'm sure nothing will go wrong there...'''

==Making Waves==

* '''Script:''' [[Robin Etherington]]
* '''Art:''' [[Jon Davis-Hunt]]
* '''Colours:''' [[Hi-Fi Design]]
* '''Lettering:''' [[Den Patrick]]
* '''Continuity:''' [[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]] (sequel)

Over the past three months, a UFO has sunk five merchant vessels in the North Atlantic, slowly making its way towards Florida. Now, [[NEST]]'s [[William Lennox]] and [[Robert Epps]] have set up a fake vessel near Great Abaco, the Bahamas, to draw the Decepticon towards the guns of the USS ''Bainbridge''. A bored and frustrated Epps is wondering how they can be sure the plan will work... when the UFO appears, revealing itself to be [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]]! Soundwave takes the bait ("TO PIECES!"), at which point Lennox has the ''Bainbridge'' launch its missiles!

Soundwave is soon damaged and on the run, and Lennox wants Sea Hawks launched... but the Decepticon is flying into a heavy storm to escape them, making pursuit difficult. Luckily, the ''Bainbridge'' captain notes, he's flying towards the ''[[Bermuda Triangle]]'', where a lot of ''weird'' stuff happens.... (dun dun DUNNNNN!)

[[Image:Titan15_Soundwaveghostship.jpg|left|thumb|220px|]]

Soundwave grumbles his way through the storm, noting [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] had ordered him to personally hound the humans, and now he's ended up severely damaged and his shields are down to 20%. Luckily, he emerges from the storm to find a human ship that he can take his anger out on... only to find out his sonic cannons have been knocked offline. Then he scans the ship to find it's the [[wikipedia:USS Cyclops (AC-4)|USS ''Cyclops'']], which was lost at sea in ''1918''... and ''then'' the ship's captain declares Soundwave a [[Germany|German]] war machine and they start firing on him! 

He flees it only to run into another ship, the USS ''Nerus'' that was lost at sea in December 1941; they assume he's a [[Japan|Japanese]] vessel and start blazing away too! Now with his shields down to 10%, Soundwave flies up through the clouds to escape, trying to tell himself the storm must have caused his sensors to malfunction... and then ''planes'' turn up, Grumman Avenger bombers of [[wikipedia:Flight 19|Flight 19]], lost in the Triangle in 1945! Using standard tactics, they stay on his tail and successfully bring his shields down to ''nothing''!

Soundwave gives up and flees to the [[Moon (moon)|moon]]. He doesn't know how he'll explain it to Megatron, but at least up here he can relax: radiation and space debris have ''nothing'' on Earth! 


===Quotes===

"Still seems a long shot if you ask--"<br>
"Bogey sighted, Major Lennox."<br>
"Aw, damn. *to Lennox* Don't give me that look! You were right, okay?"
:—'''Epps''' is undone by the '''Bainbridge captain'''


"Well, I think it's safe to say that ''that'' is a visitor from outer space."
:-'''Epps''' sees Soundwave's alternate form


"I don't believe this! I'm getting pasted by a ghost ship!"
:—'''Soundwave''' really is



"''WHAT NOW!''"
:-'''Soundwave''' meets the Grummans


"'''?!?!'''"
:-'''Soundwave''' isn't having a good day

===Errors===

* Five merchant vessels in three months as a way of hounding? You lazy bum, Soundwave!

* The ''Cyclops'' captain is a middle aged man, though Soundwave refers to the ''Cyclops'' crew as being young humans. 

===Notes===

* Etherington returns for the first of several fill-ins, oddly soon after Furman had started an ongoing plotline with issue #13.

* The ''Cyclops'' and Flight 19 are real. As far as we ''know'', they aren't really [[ghost]]s hanging around the Bermuda Triangle. 

* This is the only issue so far to be free of any Autobots. 

* It's bloody fun!

==Contents==

===Articles and Features===

* [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee's]] Guide: The Solar System. Various facts about [[Earth]] by Bumblebee, and a wordsearch. Bumblebee informs us that the eruption of <strike>Eyjef</strike> <strike>Ejjafjally</strike> ''that volcano in Iceland'' prevented a number of Decepticons from flying.
* Soundwave's Synapse Strengtheners: Soundwave takes over the puzzles for Megatron, running comms-related puzzles. 
* In Memoriam: [[Jazz (Movie)|Jazz]]. A feature of Jazz, [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], and [[Jazz (Animated)|Jazz]]. 
* Total Devastation: colour in last issue's cover!
* Ratchet's Remedies: More puzzles.
* Competitions.
* Poster of the cover.

===Free gifts===

* "FREE! Fantastic '''Magnet Set!'''"


===Law and Disorder===

"Sorry I'm late, I was completing a level on TRANSFORMERS: War for Cybertron. So many missions! So much cool multiplayer action!"<br>
"I wouldn't be seen dead playing that infantile combat simulation. What a dreadful waste of time."<br>
"Heh, I think you're still smarting from being left out of the cast."
:—'''Ironhide''' and '''Barricade'''


"Who knows what happened to [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]]... I did ask Optimus if I could use him as a target marker for ranged weapons practice, but apparently 'we don't treat new Autobots that way'. Pity. I'm sure if you look for [[Mikaela Banes]] you'll find Wheelie close by, maybe even attached to one of her legs."
:—'''Ironhide'''


'''Young child:''' "Where were [[Glen Whitmann|Glen]] and [[Maggie Madsen|Maggie]] [in ROTF]?"<br>
'''Barricade:''' "Indeed, where were Glen and Maggie?"<br>
'''Ironhide:''' "Who are Glen and Maggie? Admit it, you have no idea do you, 'Cade?"


"Maggie undoubtedly runs her own department [at Rand] and has a very nice apartment. Glenn [sic] still lives with his grandma, playing Dance Dance Revolution with his cousin and eating all the doughnuts. Oh dear."
:—'''Ironhide''' makes an educated guess


Small children: "(twins - a bit like [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] and [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]])"<br>
"Apparently these humans are a bit like Mudflap and Skids. I find this deeply worrying."<br>
"I don't have a problem with Mudflap and Skids themselves, I just find it amusing Optimus insists on letting them out to play with live weapons. It'll end in tears one day. Lovely, lovely Autobot tears."
:—'''Ironhide''' and '''Barricade'''


"Well Jake, seeing as [[Camshaft (Movie)|Camshaft]] and [[Swindle (Movie)|Swindle]] have a lot of similarities I suspect they both enjoy having that massive cannon in their chests."
:—'''Ironhide'''

==Errors==

* Glen's name is "corrected" to Glenn, which is wrong. But it's Glen, so it's not important.

==Notes==

* Barricade was really excited about ''War for Cybertron'' last issue, so finding out he wasn't in the game must've really ''hurt''.
* Barricade will murder the next person to ask him about [[Grindor (ROTF)|Grindor]] and [[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]]. 
* When a letter is addressed to "Camshaft and Swindle", Ironhide wonders if there's a "velvet revolution" going on that he didn't notice. The [[wikipedia:Velvet_Revolution|Velvet Revolution]] was the non-violent removal of the Communist government of [[Ciech|Czechoslovakia]]. Ironhide knows his Earth history!


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