Shut Up!

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Nice demons. Where are they in this issue?
"Shut Up!"
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First published	4th August 1990
Cover date	11th August 1990
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Staz
Lettering	Gary Gilbert
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity/Earthforce

Inferno believes Earthforce's prisoners are quiet. Too quiet.

Synopsis

These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.

Inferno is guarding the surviving members of the Mayhem Attack Squad, and he's deeply uneasy, as they are all absolutely silent. He looks at each of them and believes they are thinking dark thoughts, but none can do anything in a cell with ten-foot-thick metal walls and energy bars. They are also weaponless.

However, in the confiscated weapons store, Bludgeon's blade suddenly levitates.

Suddenly, Stranglehold starts tearing up the floor of the cell. Inferno reacts quickly and grabs a Pacifier freeze ray weapon. He ponders if it could be a trap, but reckons he has all three covered. He deactivates the bars and freezes Stranglehold. Still the others are silent, so he steps forward. Suddenly, he realises he's messed up badly...and Bludgeon's sword impales him!

Inferno staggers to the alarm but collapses before he can trigger it, and the Decepticons escape. Later, Prowl reports to Grimlock that Inferno will live, and all he says is that "They did it by being quiet!"

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Inferno (1) Grimlock (5) Prowl (6)	Stranglehold (2) Octopunch (3) Bludgeon (4)

Quotes

"Well? What happened?"
"It's okay, Grimlock, Inferno will live."
"Pah!"
"As for how they did it, Inferno said something funny. He said they did it by keeping quiet!"

—Grimlock and Prowl

Notes

Artwork and technical errors

• TBD

Continuity errors

• TBD

Continuity notes

• The Mayhems were captured in "Where Wolf?".
• Bludgeon's powers of levitation are not seen again until issue #1 of the UK Generation 2 comic.

Real-life references

• TBD

Other trivia

• Aside from a scream from Inferno when he's stabbed, the only piece of dialogue spoken aloud in this issue is Prowl and Grimlock's conversation at the end. Everything else is in thought captions.

Back-up Material

• Additional Transformers Story: Kings of the Wild Frontier.
• Other strips: G.I. Joe the Action Force - "Into the Breach" and Combat Colin
• AtoZ: Tailgate and Tantrum
• In the box at the top left-hand corner of the cover, an unknown Transformer is attacking Optimus Prime. The attacker's identity will be revealed in subsequent issues.

Cover

• Issue #282 cover: Inferno has some weird dreams about Bludgeon, by John Marshall and Pete Venters.

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  Issue #282

Reprints

• Transformers: Way of the Warrior: Carnivac and Springer stand victorious over a Limbo nightmare creature, by Simon Coleby.
• Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20: End of the Road: Bludgeon (art reused from Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profiles) above an interior scene of Grimlock punching through Fangry (from US issue #80) by Andrew Wildman.

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  Way of the Warrior (Titan Books, 2005)
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  The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20 (Hachette Partworks, Ltd., 2018)