Transformers Comic issue 2

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Megatron loves playing Blind Man's Bluff!
Publisher	Titan Magazines
First published	16 August 2007
Cover date	September 2007
Editor	Steve White
Deputy editor	Andrew James & Ned Hartley
Assistant editor	Den Patrick
Designer	Martin Stiff
Publishing manager	Darryl Curtis

Three Autobots are all that stand between Megatron and the AllSpark.

Contents

Prelude: Megatron

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Prelude: Megatron
Script	Simon Furman
Art	Nick Roche
Colours	Liam Shalloo
Lettering	Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft
Continuity	Main Transformers prequel

Having just dispatched Bumblebee, Megatron learns that this was all a distraction to launch the AllSpark into space. He takes flight, intent on intercepting the cube before it reaches its destination - the Alkaris Anomaly, a wormhole that would transport it to any one of an infinite number of potential locations throughout the universe.

Passing by Cybertron's moon, however, Megatron finds himself ensnared by a powerful tractor beam that pulls him down to the moon's surface. Freeing himself by destroying the beam projector with a reverse particle stream, Megatron turns his weapons on the Autobots responsible - Jazz, Ratchet and Ironhide - but soon realises that this is what they want, as it will delay him from his pursuit of the AllSpark.

Better Call Brawl.

Instead, Megatron summons Devastator from Cybertron to fight in his place as he goes after the cube, but Megatron proves unable to stop the AllSpark from entering the anomaly, and decides to enter it himself. The battle on the moon comes to an explosive end when Devastator unleashed a foldspace warhead - while he himself is at ground zero - and the combatants all vanish in a flash of light.

Meanwhile, Megatron is disgorged from the wormhole in some far-off region of space, with no trace of the AllSpark...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons
Bumblebee (2) Ironhide (3) Jazz (4) Ratchet (5)	Megatron (1) Devastator (6)

Articles & features

• Character Profile: Megatron — Shortened version of the profile from Transformers: The Movie Guide.
• Cybertron Smackdown: Jazz v. Blackout — Write-ups of the skills and weaknesses of the two 'bots in question, leaving the reader to decide who would win in a head-to-head. Written by Simon Furman.
• War Games - Interview with Andrew Burrows on Transformers: The Game
• Top Gear — Win Transformers posters, USB keys and Ultimate Bumblebee.
• Mech Mail - Letters and art from readers

Free Gift

• Non-permanent Transformers tattoos (or "stickers" to you and me)

Reprints

Reprinted stories are only a portion of their respective issues.

• Transformers: Movie Prequel, part 1b (8 pages)
• Beast Wars: The Gathering, part 1b (6 pages)

Errors

• The stock image shows Meggie in his early design, with the eye-covering head... when, whoops, his profile inside uses the finished design.

Quotes

"Suddenly it all makes sense. The diversions, the distractions, the false trails. Optimus Prime's intention was to keep me from the AllSpark just long enough to lose it in the vastness of the cosmos. I'm so very nearly impressed."

—Megatron

"Yah! As if my bodywork hadn't taken enough hits today!"
"That's it, Jazz... see the bigger picture."

—Jazz and Ironhide

"It's not every day you go up against Megatron and his pet weapon of mass destruction!"
"Heh. Dat's me."

—Ratchet exposits about Devastator

"Devastator... don't! At this range... you'll take us all out of the game!"
"Eh. So?"

—Ratchet discovers the flaw in reasoning with Devastator

Production notes

• As in the film itself, Brawl is here named "Devastator"; next issue, the editor will refer to Devastator as being a different character to Brawl. Amusingly, to amp up his "heavily-armed" appearance even more, he's decorated with a pair of bandoleers. These straps are colored purple, which combine well with his normal green coloration to bring to mind the classic Devastator green-purple color scheme.
• The foldspace warhead scatters the characters throughout space, setting up the plot for the next four issues.
• The story was reprinted as part of Saga of the Allspark #1.

Continuity notes

• The events of Prelude: Megatron take place after his scene with Bumblebee in the first issue of Movie Prequel and lead into the second issue. As the reprinting of #1 won't be finished until the next edition of Transformers Comic, readers are getting a glimpse into the future with this issue. (They're actually seeing Megatron run into Bumblebee before the reprint where it happens at all!)
• The first two pages of Prelude actually copy, in abridged form, two of the pages from Movie Prequel. Neither of those pages is the page where Megatron sees the AllSpark though (whereas he's looking at it on page 1 here), which is either an accidental error or a deliberate decision to condence things.
• Jazz is annoyed about his bodywork getting dinged up. His own dedicated prequel would reveal he has a habit of protecting the bodywork over his more important imternal workings and spark.
• In the Previously section for the Movie Prequel reprint, the Autobot team is said to be under Arcee's command rather than Bumblebee's. (And yet Optimus told Bumblebee they were a diversion and not her, what a git!)