Editing Heart Like a Wheel

{{Comicstory|
|seriesissue=''[[The Transformers (IDW)|The Transformers]]'' #13
|prev=International Incident Part 4: "All My Sins Remembered"
|next=The Transformers issue 14
|title="Heart Like a Wheel"
|image=Transformers 13B.jpg
|caption=
|publisher=[[IDW Publishing]]
|date=[[November 10]], [[2010]]
|coverdate=November 2010
|written by=[[Mike Costa]]
|art by=[[Nick Roche]]
|colors by=[[James Brown|J. Brown]]
|letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
|assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]]
|editor=[[Andy Schmidt]]
|continuity=[[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW continuity]]
|chronology=[[IDW timeline|Current era (2010)]]
}}
'''Rodimus goes after the Matrix and gets slagged.'''

==Synopsis==
[[Image:Ongoing Issue 13 - Megatron.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Megatron's back, now in new [[Megatron (Animated)#Toys|Shadow Blade]] flavor!]]

Still piloting the shuttle he stole from [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]] for his getaway on [[Earth]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Rodimus]] begins his daring assault on the [[Decepticon]]s' asteroid base. On the ground, [[Acid Storm]] notices the incoming [[Autobot]] craft. Too late to call it in, [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] makes the decision to blow it out of the sky, inadvertently destroying the Decepticon defense grid when the debris of Ultra Magnus's shuttle crashes into the base. [[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] reports the incident to a withdrawn and disinterested [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], who is still wearing the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] around his neck. The Matrix catches Bombshell's eye, but when he reaches out for it, Starscream snaps at him and orders him away. 

Back outside, Rodimus emerges from the [[osmium-alloy]] safe he hid in to survive the ship's destruction. Bombshell, Acid Storm and Shrapnel show up, looking for useful items to scavenge from the wreckage. Rodimus ambushes them and takes them out in short order, including using part of the safe as armor to block Bombshell's [[cerebro-shell]] attack. Thinking himself safe, Rodimus is then ambushed in turn by [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]. Before Razorclaw can eviscerate him, Rodimus grabs the cerebro-shell and stuffs it down Razorclaw's throat, temporarily mind controlling him. 

Inside the base, Rodimus sends Razorclaw to attack Starscream. Starscream easily defeats the mind-weakened Razorclaw, and then is confronted by Rodimus. Starscream is unimpressed, noting that his new position as Decepticon leader has led him to armor himself beyond anything Rodimus could damage him with. Without missing a beat, Rodimus shoots the Matrix instead, causing an discharge of energy which sends Starscream to the ground in a crumpled heap. Rodimus grabs the Matrix, feeling the pieces are falling into place for his destined escape...

...When he runs into a fully-rebuilt [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]. Rodimus holds up the Matrix threateningly, but Megatron blasts him through the torso, then blasts him into space with the Matrix. With Starscream having lost possession of the Matrix, Megatron orders [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] to gather the Decepticons, as they have work to do. Rodimus floats adrift in space, Matrix still chained around his neck...
{{--}}

==Featured Characters==
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod/"Rodimus Prime"]] (1)
|c2=
*[[Acid Storm]] (2)
*[[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]] (3)
*[[Bombshell (G1)|Bombshell]] (4)
*[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (5)
*[[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]] (6)
*[[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]] (7)
*[[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (8)
*[[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] (9)
|c3=
}}

==Quotes==
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==Errors==
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==Items of note==
* The issue is likely either named after Linda Ronstadt's #1 hit 1974 album of the same name (or Human League song, or the Steve Miller song, or the Black Sabbath song, or the 1983 movie, or the McGarrigle sisters song, or...)
* Nick Roche uses [[Don Figueroa]]'s designs for Hot Rod and Magnus's ship, but adapts them to his own cartoonish style.
* For some reason, Razorclaw has been redesigned as his familiar mechanical lion alt-mode.
* Even though, according to ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'', the Matrix was one of Megatron's main motivations for starting the war and then, after he went to so much trouble to take it from Optimus Prime, it is now apparently just a "bauble" of Starscream's.
* Cover A mimics IDW's cover for "[[Matrix Quest!]]", itself naturally based on an iconic frame from ''[[Transformers: The Movie]]''.

===Covers(3)===
* '''Cover A:''' [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]], wearing the [[Matrix of Leadership]], throttles Hot Rod; art by [[Don Figueroa]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
* '''Cover B:''' Hot Rod dives off a rock; art by [[Nick Roche]], colors by [[James Brown|J.Brown]].
* '''Cover RI:''' Concept drawing of [[Kup (G1)|Kup]]; art by Don Figueroa.

<gallery>
Image:Transformers 13A.jpg|This is [[:Image:TFTM-strangle.jpg|bad comedy]].
Image:Transformers 13B.jpg|Here I come to save the daaaayyyyyy!
Image:Transformers 13RI.jpg|He used to be [[Nicholas Fury|Nick Fury]], now he's Mr. Magoo.
</gallery>

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