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Time passes and the farm is now thriving. While Cliffjumper and Kita discuss flowers, a [[Decepticon]] ship flies overhead and lands near the farm where Coll is playing. They rush back to the farm, where the Decepticons are threatening Coll (who mistakes them for "Autosmots"). As they try to pry info out of Kita, Cliffjumper kills three of the landing party. They finally use her as bait to lure out Cliffjumper, and are surprised to learn he is but one Autobot. To humiliate him, they tell Kita that Cliffjumper is a killer who sabotaged a Decepticon ship. She is saddened and wishes to leave. They let her go but only to shoot her in the back and then toss a bomb toward her and her brother. Cliffjumper uses his body to protect his friends and then rushes them to the barn. | Time passes and the farm is now thriving. While Cliffjumper and Kita discuss flowers, a [[Decepticon]] ship flies overhead and lands near the farm where Coll is playing. They rush back to the farm, where the Decepticons are threatening Coll (who mistakes them for "Autosmots"). As they try to pry info out of Kita, Cliffjumper kills three of the landing party. They finally use her as bait to lure out Cliffjumper, and are surprised to learn he is but one Autobot. To humiliate him, they tell Kita that Cliffjumper is a killer who sabotaged a Decepticon ship. She is saddened and wishes to leave. They let her go but only to shoot her in the back and then toss a bomb toward her and her brother. Cliffjumper uses his body to protect his friends and then rushes them to the barn. | ||
In the present, Cliffjumper consoles the dying Kita and tells Coll to stay with the body while he tends to his enemies. The Decepticons | In the present, Cliffjumper consoles the dying Kita and tells Coll to stay with the body while he tends to his enemies. The Decepticons have called for backup, the leader of which chastises them when he finds out it was but one Autobot. However, when he figures out the "runt" is Cliffjumper, he quickly tells the team to arm themselves, but it is too late, as the furious Autobot unleashes on the Decepticons and destroys them all. | ||
Cliffjumper later plants a memorial for Kita, banging it down with the head of the Decepticon who threatened Kita. He places her favorite flowers on the gravestone and sees to it that Coll is raised by a new family. | Cliffjumper later plants a memorial for Kita, banging it down with the head of the Decepticon who threatened Kita. He places her favorite flowers on the gravestone and sees to it that Coll is raised by a new family. He then takes off in the Decepticons' ship to rejoin his own family, the Autobots. | ||
==Featured characters== | ==Featured characters== | ||
{{featuredcharacters | {{featuredcharacters | ||
|c1= | |c1= | ||
*[[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (1) | * [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] (1) | ||
|c2= | |c2= | ||
* various unnamed Decepticons (4) | * various unnamed Decepticons (4) | ||
|c4= | |c4= | ||
*[[Kita]] (2) | * [[Kita]] (2) | ||
*[[Coll]] (3) | * [[Coll]] (3) | ||
* Coll's new parents (5) | * Coll's new parents (5) | ||
}} | }} | ||
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===Reprints=== | ===Reprints=== | ||
*'''''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron | * '''''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron]] Volume 3''''' <small>([[October 28]], [[2009]]) ISBN 1600105416 / ISBN 978-1600105418</small> | ||
** Collects ''Spotlight: [[Spotlight: Blurr|Blurr]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Jazz|Jazz]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Drift|Drift]]'', ''Cliffjumper'' and ''[[Spotlight: Metroplex|Metroplex]]''. | |||
** Bonus material includes the alternate covers of each issue, as well as art of each [[Throttlebot]] by [[Marcelo Matere]] and new cover art by [[Trevor Hutchison]]. | |||
** Trade paperback format. Instead of being Volume 5 of the Spotlights, the TPB is labeled as part of the ''All Hail Megatron'' series. For some reason, the Drift and Cliffjumper issues were swapped from their original order. | |||
* '''''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume One]]''''' <small>([[May 26]], [[2010]]) | * '''''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume One]]''''' <small>([[May 26]], [[2010]]) ISBN 978-1600106675</small> | ||
** Collects ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'' issues [[Megatron Origin issue 1|#1]]–[[Megatron Origin issue 4|4]], ''Spotlight: Blurr'', ''Cliffjumper'', ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave|Shockwave]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Nightbeat|Nightbeat]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Hot Rod|Hot Rod]]'' & ''[[Spotlight: Soundwave|Soundwave]]'', and ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration|Infiltration]]'' issues [[Infiltration issue 0|#0]]–[[Infiltration issue 6|6]]. | |||
** Hardcover format. | |||
* ''''' | * '''''The Transformers: The Complete All Hail Megatron''''' <small>([[July 27]], [[2011]]) ISBN 1600109551 / ISBN 978-1600109553</small> | ||
** Collects ''All Hail Megatron'' issues [[All Hail Megatron issue 1|#1]]–[[All Hail Megatron issue 16|16]], and ''Spotlight: Blurr'', ''Jazz'', ''Drift'', ''Cliffjumper'' & ''Metroplex''. | |||
** Bonus material includes a cover gallery and the art sketches from previous collections. | |||
** Hardcover format. | |||
* ''''' | * '''''The Transformers: Spotlight Omnibus Volume 2''''' <small>([[September 9]], [[2015]]) ISBN 1613779429 / ISBN 978-1613779422</small> | ||
** Collects ''Spotlight: [[Spotlight: Mirage|Mirage]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie|Wheelie]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Cyclonus|Cyclonus]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Hardhead|Hardhead]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Doubledealer|Doubledealer]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Sideswipe|Sideswipe]]'', ''Blurr'', ''Jazz'', ''Drift'', ''Cliffjumper'', ''Metroplex'' and ''[[Ride-Along|Prowl]]''. | |||
** Trade paperback format. | |||
* '''''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1]]''''' <small>([[July 6]], [[2016]]) ISBN 163140637X / ISBN 978-1631406379</small> | * '''''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1]]''''' <small>([[July 6]], [[2016]]) ISBN 163140637X / ISBN 978-1631406379</small> | ||
** Collects ''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection|The IDW Collection]] One'' and ''[[The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Two|Two]]''. | |||
** Trade paperback format. | |||
* '''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 38: Devastation''''' <small>([[August 7]], | * '''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 38: Devastation''''' <small>([[August 7]], 2019)</small> | ||
** Collects ''[[The Transformers: Devastation|Devastation]]'' issues [[Devastation issue 1|#1]]–[[Devastation issue 6|6]], and ''Spotlight: [[Spotlight: Kup|Kup]]'', ''[[Spotlight: Ramjet|Ramjet]]'' & ''Cliffjumper''. | |||
** Bonus material includes a cover gallery and an introduction by Simon Furman. | |||
** Hardcover format. | |||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:AHM v3.jpg|'''''All Hail Megatron'' | File:AHM v3.jpg|'''''All Hail Megatron Volume 3''''' – cover art by [[Trevor Hutchison]] | ||
File:IDWCollection1.jpg|'''''IDW Collection | File:IDWCollection1.jpg|'''''The IDW Collection Volume One''''' – cover art by [[E. J. Su]] | ||
File:Allhailmegatronhc.jpg|'''''Complete All Hail Megatron''''' | File:Allhailmegatronhc.jpg|'''''The Complete All Hail Megatron''''' – cover art by Trevor Hutchison | ||
File:TF Spotlight Omnibus v2.jpg|'''''Spotlight Omnibus'' | File:TF Spotlight Omnibus v2.jpg|'''''Spotlight Omnibus Volume 2''''' – cover art by [[Jeffrey Veregge]] | ||
File:IDWCollectionCompendiumV1.jpg|'''''IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1''''' | File:IDWCollectionCompendiumV1.jpg|'''''The IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1''''' – cover art by Jeffrey Veregge | ||
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v38.jpg|'''''Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 38: Devastation''''' | File:DefinitiveG1Collection v38.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 38: Devastation''''' – cover art by [[Don Figueroa]] and [[Robby Musso]] | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
[[Category:Spotlight issues|Cliffjumper]] | [[Category:Spotlight issues|Cliffjumper]] | ||
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| "The Transformers: Spotlight: Cliffjumper" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | June 17, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | June 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Shane McCarthy | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Robby Musso | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Joana Lafuente | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Edits by | Denton J. Tipton | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | 2005 IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 8390 BCE | ||||||||||||
Synopsis
[edit]In the darkness, Cliffjumper speaks to an unknown being.
Some time earlier, he crash landed on a planet and was attempting to make a transmitter to contact the Autobots when he was greeted by two natives. Kita and her younger brother Coll were orphaned when their parents died and struggle to maintain their family's farm. Others of their kind help out from a nearby settlement. After some introductions, Kita doesn't believe that Cliffjumper would hurt a fly, as hurting others is a great evil in her peoples' eyes. Cliffjumper hurriedly changes the subject and they later head to the farmhouse where Cliffjumper refuels on synthetic energon. He believes he will be there for a while and suggests he help with Kita's farm.
Time passes and the farm is now thriving. While Cliffjumper and Kita discuss flowers, a Decepticon ship flies overhead and lands near the farm where Coll is playing. They rush back to the farm, where the Decepticons are threatening Coll (who mistakes them for "Autosmots"). As they try to pry info out of Kita, Cliffjumper kills three of the landing party. They finally use her as bait to lure out Cliffjumper, and are surprised to learn he is but one Autobot. To humiliate him, they tell Kita that Cliffjumper is a killer who sabotaged a Decepticon ship. She is saddened and wishes to leave. They let her go but only to shoot her in the back and then toss a bomb toward her and her brother. Cliffjumper uses his body to protect his friends and then rushes them to the barn.
In the present, Cliffjumper consoles the dying Kita and tells Coll to stay with the body while he tends to his enemies. The Decepticons have called for backup, the leader of which chastises them when he finds out it was but one Autobot. However, when he figures out the "runt" is Cliffjumper, he quickly tells the team to arm themselves, but it is too late, as the furious Autobot unleashes on the Decepticons and destroys them all.
Cliffjumper later plants a memorial for Kita, banging it down with the head of the Decepticon who threatened Kita. He places her favorite flowers on the gravestone and sees to it that Coll is raised by a new family. He then takes off in the Decepticons' ship to rejoin his own family, the Autobots.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Others |
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Quotes
[edit]Decepticon 1: Did you say "little red runt"?
Decepticon 2: Yeah, little red-
Decepticon 1: Small?
Decepticon 2: Yeah.
Decepticon 1: About so high?
Decepticon 2: Yeah.
Decepticon 1: Horns?
Decepticon 2: Yeah, but-
Decepticon 1: Arm yourselves!
- —The nameless Decepticons realize they're not dealing with any 'one' Autobot
Notes
[edit]Other trivia
[edit]- The art style applied in Kita and Coll's seem to borrow some elements from Japanese manga, namely the big eyes that emphasize Kita's emotions throughout the story.
- Lafuente's colours have reverted to her pre-"Spotlight: Drift" style, which is shown in "Spotlight: Blurr".
- Once again there is a criticism to the planetary cold war between Autobots and Decepticons, as the unnamed Decepticon threatens Kita's life. The themes of the Autobots protocol of waiting, watching and rarely acting against the Decepticons ("hide under a rock") and the fact that they were willing to let other races deal with the Decepticons on their own ("acceptable losses") are once again played out.
Covers (3)
[edit]- Cover A: Cliffjumper, superimposed over an image of Decepticons, Kita and Coll; art by Robby Musso and colors by Priscilla Tramontano.
- Cover B: Cliffjumper jumping... off a cliff; art by Don Figueroa and colors by Josh Perez.
- Cover RI: Cliffjumper engaged in an intense firefight; art by Casey Coller and colors by Joana Lafuente.
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I'm here to kick ass and chew energon, and I'm all out of energon!
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[edit]- "Spotlight: Metroplex"
- Transformers TPBs
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- Barack Obama comic miniseries
- Astro Boy: The Movie Official Movie Prequel comic
- The Arrival TPB
- Dynamic Forces exclusive variants
- Comic Books 101 book
- Revenge of the Fallen (back cover)
Reprints
[edit]- The Transformers: All Hail Megatron Volume 3 (October 28, 2009) ISBN 1600105416 / ISBN 978-1600105418
- Collects Spotlight: Blurr, Jazz, Drift, Cliffjumper and Metroplex.
- Bonus material includes the alternate covers of each issue, as well as art of each Throttlebot by Marcelo Matere and new cover art by Trevor Hutchison.
- Trade paperback format. Instead of being Volume 5 of the Spotlights, the TPB is labeled as part of the All Hail Megatron series. For some reason, the Drift and Cliffjumper issues were swapped from their original order.
- The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume One (May 26, 2010) ISBN 978-1600106675
- Collects Megatron Origin issues #1–4, Spotlight: Blurr, Cliffjumper, Shockwave, Nightbeat, Hot Rod & Soundwave, and Infiltration issues #0–6.
- Hardcover format.
- The Transformers: The Complete All Hail Megatron (July 27, 2011) ISBN 1600109551 / ISBN 978-1600109553
- The Transformers: Spotlight Omnibus Volume 2 (September 9, 2015) ISBN 1613779429 / ISBN 978-1613779422
- The Transformers: The IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1 (July 6, 2016) ISBN 163140637X / ISBN 978-1631406379
- Collects The IDW Collection One and Two.
- Trade paperback format.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 38: Devastation (August 7, 2019)
- Collects Devastation issues #1–6, and Spotlight: Kup, Ramjet & Cliffjumper.
- Bonus material includes a cover gallery and an introduction by Simon Furman.
- Hardcover format.
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All Hail Megatron Volume 3 – cover art by Trevor Hutchison -
The IDW Collection Volume One – cover art by E. J. Su -
The Complete All Hail Megatron – cover art by Trevor Hutchison -
Spotlight Omnibus Volume 2 – cover art by Jeffrey Veregge -
The IDW Collection Compendium, Vol. 1 – cover art by Jeffrey Veregge -
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 38: Devastation – cover art by Don Figueroa and Robby Musso
