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|date=[[July 10]], [[2002]]
|script=[[Chris Sarracini]]
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'''The Decepticons begin their conquest of Cybertron by rounding up Mini-Cons.'''
'''The Decepticons begin their conquest of Cybertron by rounding up Mini-Cons.'''


== Synopsis ==
==Synopsis==
Hot Shot speeds through [[Cyber City]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with urgent news for Optimus Prime. He shows him a video disc of a [[Mini-Con]] distress call in which Leader-1 speaks of an evil race of [[Transformer]]s, called [[Decepticon]]s, that has been attacking Mini-Con villages and taking them captive. The video ends with an enormous hand closing around him, and Prime says that this is indeed a problem.
A million years ago, [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] is found speeding through [[Cyber City]] on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] with urgent news for [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]]. He shows the Autobot leader a video disc of a [[Mini-Con]] distress call from [[Leader-1 (Armada)|Leader-1]], leader of [[Village D10]] in the [[Mini-Con Sector]]. He speaks of an evil race of [[Transformer]]s, the [[Decepticon]]s led by [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]], that has been attacking Mini-Con villages and taking them captive. He requests the aid of the "guardians of Cyber City", just as a massive hand reaches down to grab the Mini-Con and ending the video. Optimus decides this is quite the problem.


Meanwhile, another Mini-Con village is attempting to defend themselves. Longarm relates a story told to him by a friend of his who escaped from the Decepticons: he said that the Decepticons were experimenting on the Mini-Cons, retooling them and rewiring them so that they could extract their power and use it for themselves. Soon after, the village is attacked by Cyclonus and Demolishor, who take them all captive {{m-}} save Sparkplug, who was buried under the wreckage. They contact Megatron to tell him they're finished, and Megatron responds that it is time to declare war...
In the Mini-Con Sector, [[Village C52]] is preparing their defense against the Decepticons: an [[energon dome]] to envelop the village and keep the villains out. [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] is sent to watch out for any Decepticons by [[Rollbar (Armada)|Rollbar]], and [[Incinerator (Armada)|Incinerator]] reports to Rollbar of their progress. While working on the defense, [[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]] relates to [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] a story told to him by a friend from [[Village B13]], who escaped from the Decepticons. The friend informed Longarm that the Decepticons were experimenting on the Mini-Cons, retooling them and rewiring them so that they could extract their power and use it for themselves. Just as Longarm and Jolt are finished, Sparkplug crashes into the village and warns of the Decepticons before passing out. The Mini-Cons manage to activate the energon dome, but they do not anticipate [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] emerging from the ground. The Decepticon destroys the energon dome and takes Mini-Cons prisoner. He is soon joined by [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]], who leaves Sparkplug lying in wreckage. The two Decepticons contact Megatron to tell him they're finished, and Megatron responds that it is time to declare war...


==Credits==
==Featured characters==
'''Script:''' [[Chris Sarracini]] <br>
{{featuredcharacters
'''Pencils:''' [[James Raiz]]<br>
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'''Inks:''' [[Rob Armstrong]], [[Erik Sander]]<br>
'''Colors:''' [[Alan Wang]], [[Gary Yeung]], [[Ramil Sunga]]<br>
'''Lettering:''' [[Dreamer Design]]<br>
'''Editor:''' [[Roger Lee]]<br>
* ''Originally published:'' July 10, 2002
* ''Continuity:'' [[Dreamwave Armada continuity]]
 
===Featured characters===
(''Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
{|border=5 cellpadding=5 cellspacing=5 align=center style="border:#800000"
! style="background:#FFEEEE" | [[Autobot]]s
! style="background:#EEEEFE" | [[Decepticon]]s
! style="background:#D8BFD8" | [[Mini-con]]s
<!-- ! style="background:#FFEEB8" | Others -->
|-
| style="background:#FFEEEE" valign="top" |
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (1)
* [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] (1)
* [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] (2)
* [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] (2)
* [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] (3)
* [[Scavenger (Armada)|Scavenger]] (3)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
* [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] (8)
 
| style="background:#EEEEFE" valign="top" |
|c2=
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (12)
* [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] (20)
* [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (13)
* [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] (21)
* [[Demolishor]] (14)
* [[Demolishor (Armada)|Demolishor]] (22)


| style="background:#D8BFD8" valign="top" |
|h4=[[Mini-Con]]s|c4=
* [[Leader-1]] (4)
* [[Leader-1 (Armada)|Leader-1]] (4)
* [[Rollbar (Armada)|Rollbar]] (6)
*[[Payload (Armada)|Payload]] (5)
* [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] (7)
*[[Sky Blast (Armada)|Sky Blast]] (6)
* [[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] (8)
*[[Astroscope]] (7)
* [[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]] (9)
*[[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]] (9)
* [[Incinerator]] (10)
*[[Rollbar (Armada)|Rollbar]] (10)
* [[Dirt Boss (Armada)|Dirt Boss]] (11)
*[[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]] (11)
*[[Crumplezone (Armada)|Crumplezone]] (12)
*[[Jolt (Armada)|Jolt]] (13)
*[[Longarm (Armada)|Longarm]] (14)
*[[Incinerator (Armada)|Incinerator]] (15)
*[[Blackout (Armada)|Blackout]] (16)
*[[Downshift (Armada)|Downshift]] (17)
*[[Dirt Boss (Armada)|Dirt Boss]] (18)
*[[Mirage (Armada)|Mirage]] (19)
}}


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==Notes==
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===Transformers references===
|}
* Bots somewhat resembling [[The Transformers (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] appear as extras in Cyber City.


== Quotes ==
===Real-world references===
* None yet identified
* In Prime's first appearance, there's a screen behind him with tiny, but legible, text. The text reads "{{w|All your base are belong to us}}" over and over, and "if you can read this you are obsessed". It makes a fair point.


== Errors ==
===Errors===
* Longarm yells, "We're finished" to some other Mini-Cons... including himself!
* The signs outside Cyber City refer to it as... Cybercity.


==Items of note==
===Other trivia===
* Bots somewhat resembling [[Generation 1]] [[Hound (G1)|Hound]], [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]], and [[Cliffjumper (G1)|Cliffjumper]] appear as extras in Cyber City.
* With 135,930 copies ordered, this issue ranked #1 in Diamond Comic Distributors' sales charts for July 2002, beating [[Prime Directive issue 4|''Generation 1'' #4]] to the top spot.<ref name="diamondjuly">[http://www.icv2.com/articles/home/1555.html ICv2 reporting on Diamond's charts for July 2002]</ref>
* Rollbar watches a weird butterfly flying away — it's purpose is unclear.
* In a weird and slightly-confusing sequence of panels, Rollbar watches some kind of [[Cybertronian butterfly]] fly away. The scene is probably meant as symbolic foreshadowing for the Mini-Cons that are about to be regarded as "bugs" by the much larger Decepticons soon thereafter.
* '''Cameos:''' [[Sky Blast]], [[Astroscope]], [[Swindle (Armada)|Swindle]], [[Crumplezone (Armada)|Crumplezone]], [[Blackout (Armada)|Blackout]], [[Downshift (Armada)|Downshift]] and [[Mirage (Armada)|Mirage]].


===Covers (2)===
===Covers (2)===
[[Image:DW_Armada_1Don.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''Braveheart'' with 'bots]]
* '''Gatefold cover''': 3-panel foldout of main characters posing by [[James Raiz]]
* '''Gatefold cover''': 3-panel foldout of main characters posing by [[James Raiz]]
* '''Foil cover''': 2-panel of main characters in a battle standoff by [[Don Figueroa]]
* '''Foil cover''': 2-panel of main characters in a battle standoff by [[Don Figueroa]]
<gallery>
File:DW_Armada_1Raiz.jpg|[[Dull surprise|Dull Surprise]] will return!
File:DW_Armada_1Don.jpg|''Braveheart'' with 'bots
</gallery>


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===Reprints===
* '''''Transformers Armada: Volume 1: First Contact''''' <small>([[April 2]], [[2003]]) ISBN 0973278617 / ISBN 978-0973278613</small>
:*Collects the [[Armada Preview]] and issues #1–5.
:*Bonus material includes the Preview issue, a cover gallery and the [[Armada Volume 1|''Armada'' mini-comic #1]]
 
* '''''Transformers Armada'' Vol. 1 (Japan ed.)''' <small>(November, 2003) ISBN 4902314061 / ISBN 978-4902314069</small>
:*Same content as Dreamwave's volume 1, translated to Japanese.
 
* '''''Transformers Armada'' Vol. 1 (Spain ed.)''' <small>(January, [[2007]]) ISBN 978-8498147407</small>
:* Reprints issues 1–3, translated to Spanish.
:* Includes cover gallery.
 
* '''''Transformers Armada: Volume 1'' (IDW reprint)''' <small>(October 29, [[2008]]) ISBN 1600102670 / ISBN 978-1600102677</small>
:* Straight reprint of the Dreamwave trade with same contents.
 
* '''''Transformers Armada: Omnibus''''' <small>([[August 18]], [[2010]]) ISBN 160010715X / ISBN 978-1600107153</small>
:*Contains issues 1–18.
:*Bonus material includes the Preview issue.
:*Reissued in 2016 with a new cover.
 
<gallery>
File:DW Armada V1.jpg|'''''Transformers Armada:<br>Volume 1: First Contact'''''
File:DW Armada V1-Japan.jpg|'''''Transformers Armada:''<br>Volume 1 (Japan ed.)'''
File:DW Armada V1-Spain.jpg|'''''Transformers Armada:''<br>Volume 1 (Spain ed.)'''
File:DW Armada V1-IDW.jpg|'''''Transformers Armada:''<br>Volume 1 (IDW reprint)'''
File:Armada Omnibus-2010.jpg|'''''Transformers Armada: Omnibus'''''
File:Armada Omnibus-2016.jpg|'''''Transformers Armada: Omnibus'' (reissue)'''
</gallery>
 
==References==
{{reflist}}
 
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[[Category:Dreamwave Armada issues]]

Latest revision as of 15:02, 4 September 2024

« Transformers: Armada #1 »

Perspective, or scale issues? You decide!
Publisher Dreamwave
First published July 10, 2002
Script Chris Sarracini
Pencils James Raiz
Inks Rob Armstrong, Erik Sander
Colors Alan Wang, Gary Yeung, Ramil Sunga
Lettering Dreamer Design
Continuity Dreamwave Armada continuity

The Decepticons begin their conquest of Cybertron by rounding up Mini-Cons.

Synopsis

[edit]

A million years ago, Hot Shot is found speeding through Cyber City on Cybertron with urgent news for Optimus Prime. He shows the Autobot leader a video disc of a Mini-Con distress call from Leader-1, leader of Village D10 in the Mini-Con Sector. He speaks of an evil race of Transformers, the Decepticons led by Megatron, that has been attacking Mini-Con villages and taking them captive. He requests the aid of the "guardians of Cyber City", just as a massive hand reaches down to grab the Mini-Con and ending the video. Optimus decides this is quite the problem.

In the Mini-Con Sector, Village C52 is preparing their defense against the Decepticons: an energon dome to envelop the village and keep the villains out. Sparkplug is sent to watch out for any Decepticons by Rollbar, and Incinerator reports to Rollbar of their progress. While working on the defense, Longarm relates to Jolt a story told to him by a friend from Village B13, who escaped from the Decepticons. The friend informed Longarm that the Decepticons were experimenting on the Mini-Cons, retooling them and rewiring them so that they could extract their power and use it for themselves. Just as Longarm and Jolt are finished, Sparkplug crashes into the village and warns of the Decepticons before passing out. The Mini-Cons manage to activate the energon dome, but they do not anticipate Cyclonus emerging from the ground. The Decepticon destroys the energon dome and takes Mini-Cons prisoner. He is soon joined by Demolishor, who leaves Sparkplug lying in wreckage. The two Decepticons contact Megatron to tell him they're finished, and Megatron responds that it is time to declare war...

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(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Mini-Cons

Notes

[edit]

Transformers references

[edit]

Real-world references

[edit]
  • In Prime's first appearance, there's a screen behind him with tiny, but legible, text. The text reads "All your base are belong to us" over and over, and "if you can read this you are obsessed". It makes a fair point.

Errors

[edit]
  • The signs outside Cyber City refer to it as... Cybercity.

Other trivia

[edit]
  • With 135,930 copies ordered, this issue ranked #1 in Diamond Comic Distributors' sales charts for July 2002, beating Generation 1 #4 to the top spot.[1]
  • In a weird and slightly-confusing sequence of panels, Rollbar watches some kind of Cybertronian butterfly fly away. The scene is probably meant as symbolic foreshadowing for the Mini-Cons that are about to be regarded as "bugs" by the much larger Decepticons soon thereafter.

Covers (2)

[edit]
  • Gatefold cover: 3-panel foldout of main characters posing by James Raiz
  • Foil cover: 2-panel of main characters in a battle standoff by Don Figueroa

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[edit]

Reprints

[edit]
  • Transformers Armada: Volume 1: First Contact (April 2, 2003) ISBN 0973278617 / ISBN 978-0973278613
  • Transformers Armada Vol. 1 (Japan ed.) (November, 2003) ISBN 4902314061 / ISBN 978-4902314069
  • Same content as Dreamwave's volume 1, translated to Japanese.
  • Transformers Armada Vol. 1 (Spain ed.) (January, 2007) ISBN 978-8498147407
  • Reprints issues 1–3, translated to Spanish.
  • Includes cover gallery.
  • Transformers Armada: Volume 1 (IDW reprint) (October 29, 2008) ISBN 1600102670 / ISBN 978-1600102677
  • Straight reprint of the Dreamwave trade with same contents.
  • Transformers Armada: Omnibus (August 18, 2010) ISBN 160010715X / ISBN 978-1600107153
  • Contains issues 1–18.
  • Bonus material includes the Preview issue.
  • Reissued in 2016 with a new cover.
  • Transformers Armada: Volume 1: First Contact
    Transformers Armada:
    Volume 1: First Contact
  • Transformers Armada: Volume 1 (Japan ed.)
    Transformers Armada:
    Volume 1 (Japan ed.)
  • Transformers Armada: Volume 1 (Spain ed.)
    Transformers Armada:
    Volume 1 (Spain ed.)
  • Transformers Armada: Volume 1 (IDW reprint)
    Transformers Armada:
    Volume 1 (IDW reprint)
  • Transformers Armada: Omnibus
    Transformers Armada: Omnibus
  • Transformers Armada: Omnibus (reissue)
    Transformers Armada: Omnibus (reissue)

References

[edit]
  1. ↑ ICv2 reporting on Diamond's charts for July 2002
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