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{{comicstory|seriesissue=[[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|''The Transformers'' (UK)]] #253
|prev=Edge of Impact
|next=White Fire
|title="Shadow of Evil"
|image=MarvelUK-253.jpg
|caption=''You're MY WIFE now!''
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]
|date=[[January 14|14th January]] [[1990]]
|coverdate=[[January 20|20th January]] 1990
|writer=[[Simon Furman]]
|art=[[Cam Smith|Cam S]]
|letterer=[[Stuart Bartlett]]
|editor=
|chronology=[[Marvel Comics timeline#Post-Time Wars future|Post-Time Wars future (2010)]]
|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]] ([[Primax 984.20 Gamma|Marvel UK]])
}}
'''Unicron has possessed Rodimus—everyone's buggered...'''


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==Synopsis==
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[[File:ShadowofEvil siren blasted.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4]]
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The [[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]]-possessed [[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] is slaughtering the [[Autobot]]s by the dozen, and, as they are reluctant to kill him, their weapons are set to stun. [[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] has called for help from [[Autobot City (G1)|Autobot City]], but until it arrives, he feels they owe it to Rodimus to let him have a chance fighting against the real enemy...


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Rodimus Prime flees through a nightmare world, pursued by Unicron, now in the form of a walking shadow. Rodimus is running scared when he should be fighting, and he is lost.
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<td colspan="2" style="font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="center"> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:MarvelUK-253.jpg" class="image" title="MarvelUK-253.jpg"><img alt="" src="Shadow%20of%20Evil_files/230px-MarvelUK-253.jpg" border="0" height="305" width="230"></a><br>''You're MY WIFE now!''
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<td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(231, 212, 146); color: black; font-weight: bold;" align="center"> "Shadow of Evil"
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<td>'''Publisher''' </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a>
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<td>'''Date published''' </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/January_14" title="January 14">14th January</a> 1990
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<td>'''Cover date''' </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/January_20" title="January 20">20th January</a> 1990
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The possessed Rodimus Prime pauses due to this psychic battle, so as reinforcements arrive, [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] makes Kup realise they have to take this chance and shoot to kill...
{{--}}


==Featured characters==
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
{{{!}}border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background:transparent"
{{!}}-
{{!}}style="background:transparent;border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Getaway]] (1)
*[[Quickmix (G1)|Quickmix]] (2)
*[[Hot Rod (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] (3)
*[[Siren (G1)|Siren]] (5)
*[[Red Alert (G1)|Red Alert]] (6)
*[[Kup (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Kup]] (7)
*[[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] (8)
{{!}}style="background:transparent;border:0px" valign="top"{{!}}
*[[Doubleheader]] (9)
*[[Hosehead (G1)|Hosehead]] (10)
*[[Longtooth]] (11)
*[[Afterburner (G1)|Afterburner]] (12)
*[[Perceptor (G1)|Perceptor]] (13)
*[[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] (14)
*[[Strafe (G1)|Strafe]] (15)
{{!}}}
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*[[Unicron/Generation 1|Unicron]] (4)
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==Quotes==
"Ah, the taste of revenge is sweet indeed! It is somewhat fitting that your executioner is your own leader, Rodimus Prime! What is this, Autobots? Do I detect a certain reluctance? Blasters set to stun? Do you think you can save your pathetic leader? Let me set your minds at rest. You can no more save him... than you can save yourselves!"
:—'''Unicron''' having possessed Rodimus Prime, while killing various Autobots.


==Notes==
===Artwork and technical errors===
*''Transformation'' calls the story "Shadow of a Greater Evil."
*Lettering is erroneously credited to [[Annie Halfacree]]; ''Transformation'' in [[...Perchance to Dream|issue 259]] apologises for not properly crediting [[Stuart Bartlett]].


===Continuity errors===
*TBD
===Continuity notes===
*Unicron's name is not mentioned either here or in "[[White Fire]]".
*Rodimus/Unicron appears to take out a fair number of Autobots in this issue. As well as the deactivated Getaway and Quickmix, we see him blasting Siren, Doubleheader, Hosehead and Longtooth (along with some poor sod in silhouette who is pretty much ''disintegrated''). It would be the last time we would see these characters in the future timeline, leaving their fates uncertain.
*The Autobots really are in trouble; the "heavy artillery" ordered in by Kup consists of Blaster, Perceptor, Afterburner and Strafe. We could be charitable and assume the other [[Technobot (G1)|Technobots]] are just off-panel, but they're still not more heavily armed than, say, any other group of random Autobots.


===Real-life references===
*TBD


===Other trivia===
*TBD


===Back-up material===
*'''Additional ''Transformers'' story:''' "[[Yesterday's Heroes!]]"
*'''Other strips:''' ''[[Action Force (comic)|G.I. Joe the Action Force]]'' - "The Lower Depths" and ''[[Combat Colin]]''
*'''[[Transformers AtoZ|AtoZ]]:''' [[Scrapper (G1)|Scrapper]] and [[Seaspray (G1)|Seaspray]]


===Cover===
*'''Issue #253 cover:''' Rodimus Prime and Unicron fight, by [[Stephen Baskerville]].
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File:MarvelUK-253.jpg|'''Issue #253'''
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===Advertisements===
*Knorr ''Mysteries of the Deep'' soup
*''[[Punisher|The Punisher]]'' comic
*[[Micromaster]]s [[Sports Car Patrol]], [[Rescue Patrol (G1)|Rescue Patrol]] and [[Battle Patrol]] sets (back cover)


===Reprints===
*'''''[[Transformers: Aspects of Evil]]:''''' Rodimus Prime and Unicron fight, by [[Stephen Baskerville]]. Cropped version of [[White Fire|issue #254's]] cover.
*'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Vol 19: Perchance to Dream:''''' [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] (from early IDW promo art), by [[Guido Guidi]] above a retro scene of the [[Battlecharger]]s (from [[Worlds Apart!|Marvel UK #255]] cover), by Stephen Baskerville.
<gallery>
File:Titan B&W Compilation-Aspects of Evil.jpg|'''''Aspects of Evil'' TPB'''<br>(Titan Books, 2005)
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v19.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection'' Vol. 19'''<br>(IDW Publishing, 2017)
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&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;'''Writer''' &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Simon_Furman" title="Simon Furman"&gt;Simon Furman&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;'''Art''' &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Cam_Smith&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Cam Smith"&gt;Cam Smith&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;'''Letterer''' &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Annie_Halfacree" title="Annie Halfacree"&gt;Annie Halfacree&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td&gt;'''Continuity''' &lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marvel_Comics_continuity" title="Marvel Comics continuity"&gt;Marvel Comics continuity&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
 
 
 
 
 
&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
'''Unicron has possessed Rodimus - everyone's buggered...'''
 
 
&lt;a name="Synopsis"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Shadow_of_Evil&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Synopsis&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;"&gt;'''Note:''' ''This story follows on from &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Edge_of_Impact" title="Edge of Impact"&gt;Edge of Impact&lt;/a&gt;.''&lt;/div&gt;
The possessed Rodimus is slaughtering the &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot"&gt;Autobots&lt;/a&gt; by the dozen, and, as they are reluctant to kill him, their weapons are set to stun. Kup has called for help from &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot_City" title="Autobot City"&gt;Autobot City&lt;/a&gt;, and until it arrives, he feels they owe it to Rodimus to let him have a chance fighting against the real enemy...
 
Rodimus flees through a nightmare world, pursued by Unicron, now
in the form of a walking shadow. Rodimus is running scared when he
should fight, and he is lost.
 
The possessed Rodimus pauses due to this psychic battle, and as
reinforcements arrive, Arcee makes Kup realise they have to take this
chance and shoot to kill...
 
 
&lt;div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;"&gt;'''Note:''' ''This story is continued in &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/White_Fire" title="White Fire"&gt;White Fire&lt;/a&gt;.''&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;a name="Featured_characters"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Shadow_of_Evil&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Featured characters"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Featured characters&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)''
 
 
&lt;table style="border: medium none rgb(128, 0, 0);" align="center" border="5" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5"&gt;
&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;th style="background: rgb(255, 238, 238) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobots" class="mw-redirect" title="Autobots"&gt;Autobots&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style="background: rgb(255, 238, 184) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"&gt; Others
&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="background: rgb(255, 238, 238) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" valign="top"&gt;
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Getaway" title="Getaway"&gt;Getaway&lt;/a&gt; ''(deactivated)'' (1)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Quickmix_%28G1%29" title="Quickmix (G1)"&gt;Quickmix&lt;/a&gt; ''(deactivated)'' (2)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hot_Rod" title="Hot Rod"&gt;Rodimus Prime&lt;/a&gt; (3)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Siren" title="Siren"&gt;Siren&lt;/a&gt; (4)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Red_Alert_%28G1%29" title="Red Alert (G1)"&gt;Red Alert&lt;/a&gt; (5)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kup" class="mw-redirect" title="Kup"&gt;Kup&lt;/a&gt; (6)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Arcee_%28G1%29" title="Arcee (G1)"&gt;Arcee&lt;/a&gt; (7)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Doubleheader" title="Doubleheader"&gt;Doubleheader&lt;/a&gt; (8)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hosehead" title="Hosehead"&gt;Hosehead&lt;/a&gt; (9)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Longtooth" title="Longtooth"&gt;Longtooth&lt;/a&gt; (10)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Afterburner_%28G1%29" title="Afterburner (G1)"&gt;Afterburner&lt;/a&gt; (12)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Perceptor_%28G1%29" title="Perceptor (G1)"&gt;Perceptor&lt;/a&gt; (13)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Blaster_%28G1%29" title="Blaster (G1)"&gt;Blaster&lt;/a&gt; (14)
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Strafe_%28G1%29" title="Strafe (G1)"&gt;Strafe&lt;/a&gt; (15)
 
 
 
 
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style="background: rgb(255, 238, 184) none repeat scroll 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" valign="top"&gt;
* &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Unicron" title="Unicron"&gt;Unicron&lt;/a&gt; (11)
 
&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;a name="Items_of_note"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h2&gt;&lt;span class="editsection"&gt;[&lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Shadow_of_Evil&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Items of note"&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="mw-headline"&gt;Items of note&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
* Unicron's name is not mentioned either here or in "White Fire".
 
* Rodimus/Unicron appears to take out a fair number of Autobots
in this issue. As well as the deactivated Getaway and Quickmix, we see
him blasting Siren, Doubleheader, Hosehead and Longtooth (along with
some poor sod in silhouette who is pretty much ''disintegrated''). It would be the last time we would see these characters in the future timeline, leaving their eventual fates uncertain.
 
* The Autobots really are in trouble; the "heavy artillery"
ordered in by Kup consists of Blaster, Perceptor, Afterburner and
Strafe. We could be charitable and assume the other &lt;a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Technobot" title="Technobot"&gt;Technobots&lt;/a&gt; are just off-panel, but they're still not more heavily armed than, say, any other group of random Autobots.

Latest revision as of 22:07, 28 June 2023

« The Transformers (UK) #253 »

You're MY WIFE now!
"Shadow of Evil"
Publisher Marvel Comics
First published 14th January 1990
Cover date 20th January 1990
Writer Simon Furman
Art Cam S
Letterer Stuart Bartlett
Continuity Marvel Comics continuity (Marvel UK)
Chronology Post-Time Wars future (2010)

Unicron has possessed Rodimus—everyone's buggered...

Synopsis

[edit]

The Unicron-possessed Rodimus Prime is slaughtering the Autobots by the dozen, and, as they are reluctant to kill him, their weapons are set to stun. Kup has called for help from Autobot City, but until it arrives, he feels they owe it to Rodimus to let him have a chance fighting against the real enemy...

Rodimus Prime flees through a nightmare world, pursued by Unicron, now in the form of a walking shadow. Rodimus is running scared when he should be fighting, and he is lost.

The possessed Rodimus Prime pauses due to this psychic battle, so as reinforcements arrive, Arcee makes Kup realise they have to take this chance and shoot to kill...

[edit]

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Others

Quotes

[edit]

"Ah, the taste of revenge is sweet indeed! It is somewhat fitting that your executioner is your own leader, Rodimus Prime! What is this, Autobots? Do I detect a certain reluctance? Blasters set to stun? Do you think you can save your pathetic leader? Let me set your minds at rest. You can no more save him... than you can save yourselves!"

—Unicron having possessed Rodimus Prime, while killing various Autobots.

Notes

[edit]

Artwork and technical errors

[edit]
  • Transformation calls the story "Shadow of a Greater Evil."
  • Lettering is erroneously credited to Annie Halfacree; Transformation in issue 259 apologises for not properly crediting Stuart Bartlett.

Continuity errors

[edit]
  • TBD

Continuity notes

[edit]
  • Unicron's name is not mentioned either here or in "White Fire".
  • Rodimus/Unicron appears to take out a fair number of Autobots in this issue. As well as the deactivated Getaway and Quickmix, we see him blasting Siren, Doubleheader, Hosehead and Longtooth (along with some poor sod in silhouette who is pretty much disintegrated). It would be the last time we would see these characters in the future timeline, leaving their fates uncertain.
  • The Autobots really are in trouble; the "heavy artillery" ordered in by Kup consists of Blaster, Perceptor, Afterburner and Strafe. We could be charitable and assume the other Technobots are just off-panel, but they're still not more heavily armed than, say, any other group of random Autobots.

Real-life references

[edit]
  • TBD

Other trivia

[edit]
  • TBD

Back-up material

[edit]

Cover

[edit]
  • Issue #253
    Issue #253

Advertisements

[edit]

Reprints

[edit]
  • Aspects of Evil TPB (Titan Books, 2005)
    Aspects of Evil TPB
    (Titan Books, 2005)
  • The Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 19 (IDW Publishing, 2017)
    The Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 19
    (IDW Publishing, 2017)
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