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|caption= | |caption=[[Blackout (Movie)|Blackout]] can sing you a song about what's about to happen. | ||
|publisher=[[Marvel Comics]] | |publisher=[[Marvel Comics]] | ||
|date=[[August 18|18th August]] [[1990]] | |date=[[August 18|18th August]] [[1990]] | ||
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|continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]/[[Earthforce]] | |continuity=[[Marvel Comics continuity]]/[[Earthforce]] | ||
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'''While Starscream faces off against some <s>freelance peacekeeping agents</s> bounty hunters, the Autobots make a terrible discovery...''' | '''While Starscream faces off against some <s>freelance peacekeeping agents</s> bounty hunters, the Autobots make a terrible discovery...''' | ||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
{{Earthforcefiction}} | {{Earthforcefiction}} | ||
In the [[Louisiana]] bayous, an alien assassin unsuccessfully fires on [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] and is shot down for his troubles. A second alien, looking like a knight on horseback, charges the [[Decepticon]] but is easily thrown aside. Then a third creature, composed of two lumps of organic matter linked cybernetically, tries to electrocute Starscream but is unsuccessful. Starscream cuts it in two and demands answers as to why they are trying to kill him. | In the [[Louisiana]] bayous, an alien assassin unsuccessfully fires on [[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] and is shot down for his troubles. A second alien, looking like a knight on horseback, charges the [[Decepticon]] but is easily thrown aside. Then a third creature, composed of two lumps of organic matter linked cybernetically, tries to electrocute Starscream but is unsuccessful. Starscream cuts it in two and demands answers as to why they are trying to kill him. | ||
In a control room elsewhere, two shadowy figures observe the situation and note that all Starscream will learn is that someone put a bounty on his head, as they wish him to find out. On the screen Starscream comes to the conclusion that [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] is behind all this. The shadowy figures change frequency and tell [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] that there is a job for him. | In a control room elsewhere, two shadowy figures observe the situation and note that all Starscream will learn is that someone put a bounty on his head, as they wish him to find out. On the screen Starscream comes to the conclusion that [[Soundwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Soundwave]] is behind all this. The shadowy figures change frequency and tell [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] that there is a job for him. | ||
Meanwhile at the [[Earthforce]] [[Earthbase|base]], [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] explains to [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] that [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] is suffering from [[Corrodia Gravis]] and that he needs a systems boost from a compatible [[Transformer]]. But the only compatible one is Starscream! | Meanwhile, at the [[Earthforce]] [[Earthbase|base]], [[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] explains to [[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] that [[Snarl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Snarl]] is suffering from [[Corrodia Gravis]] and that he needs a systems boost from a compatible [[Transformer]]. But the only compatible one is Starscream! | ||
==Featured characters== | ==Featured characters== | ||
{{featuredcharacters | {{featuredcharacters | ||
|c1= | |c1= | ||
* [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] ( | *[[Grimlock (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Grimlock]] (11) | ||
* [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] ( | *[[Snarl (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Snarl]] (12) | ||
* [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] ( | *[[Wheeljack (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Wheeljack]] (13) | ||
|c2= | |c2= | ||
* [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] (1) | *[[Starscream (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Starscream]] (1) | ||
* [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] ( | *[[Shockwave (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Shockwave]] (6) | ||
* [[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] ( | *[[Megatron (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Megatron]] (7) | ||
* [[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] ( | *[[Octopunch (G1)|Octopunch]] (8) | ||
* [[Stranglehold]] ( | *[[Stranglehold]] (9) | ||
* [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] ( | *[[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]] (10) | ||
|c4= | |c4= | ||
* [[Louisiana bounty hunters|Reptilian bounty hunter]] (2) | *[[Louisiana bounty hunters|Reptilian bounty hunter]] (2) | ||
* [[Louisiana bounty hunters|Knight bounty hunter]] (3) | *[[Louisiana bounty hunters|Knight bounty hunter]] (3) | ||
* [[Louisiana bounty hunters|Binary invertebrate bounty hunter]] (4&5) | *[[Louisiana bounty hunters|Binary invertebrate bounty hunter]] (4&5) | ||
}} | }} | ||
==Quotes== | |||
"'''One''' chance, my friend - [''Blasts his would-be assassin''] - is all you get!" | |||
:—'''Starscream''' is badass. Wait, what? | |||
"It's gonna be a '''bad day'''..!" | |||
:—'''Starscream''' after he's attacked by the second assassin in under a minute. | |||
"Ftyuh? Ni? '''Yamma!'''"<br> | |||
"Whatever you say, Jack - [''Tosses the Knight bounty hunter into a tree''] - Always ready to '''lend a hand!'''" | |||
:—'''Knight bounty hunter''' and '''Starscream''' | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
===Artwork and technical errors=== | |||
*TBD | |||
* | |||
=== | ===Continuity errors=== | ||
*TBD | |||
===Continuity notes=== | |||
*The cover shows Starscream being stalked by a strangely familiar bounty hunter who does not appear in the story itself. Dreadwind helpfully confirmed this [[Predator (alien)|predatory individual]]'s identity in the [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|letters page]] of issue [[Dark Creation|#293]].<ref>[[Letters page (Marvel UK)|Dread Tidings]], issue [[Source:Dread Tidings#Issue 293|293]]</ref> | |||
*The identity of the shadowy figures is rather easily given away by the way they are drawn. | |||
*Snarl was shown to be suffering from Corrodia Gravis in the [[Transformers Annual 1990]] story "[[Destiny of the Dinobots!]]", which was set in [[1992]], long after these events. | |||
===Real-life references=== | |||
*TBD | |||
===Other trivia=== | |||
*TBD | |||
===Back-up material=== | |||
*'''Additional ''Transformers'' story:''' "[[Kings of the Wild Frontier.]]" | |||
*'''Other strips:''' ''[[Action Force (comic)|G.I. Joe the Action Force]]'' - "Into the Breach" and ''[[Combat Colin]]'' | |||
*'''[[Transformers AtoZ|AtoZ]]:''' [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]] and [[Tracks (G1)|Tracks]] | |||
*In the box in the top left hand of the cover [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] now appears, having pushed [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Marvel Comics continuity|Optimus Prime]] out over the last two issues. His permanent cover pose and [[Hi-Test (G1)|Hi-Test]] appear from the next issue. | |||
===Cover=== | |||
*'''Issue #284 cover:''' Starscream is stalked by a Predator, by [[Kirk Etienne]]. | |||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:MarvelUK-284.jpg|'''Issue #284''' - "Want some candy?" | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
===Reprints=== | ===Reprints=== | ||
*[[ | *'''''[[Transformers: Fallen Star]]'' :''' Megatron and Shockwave fight at [[Memphis Airport]]. Cropped from the cover of issue [[Internal Affairs!|#277]], art by [[Staz|Stewart Johnson]]. | ||
*'''''[[Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection]]: Volume 20: End of the Road:''''' Bludgeon (art reused from [[Dreamwave Productions|Dreamwave]]'s ''[[Transformers: More than Meets the Eye|More than Meets the Eye]]'' profiles) above an interior scene of Grimlock punching through Fangry (from [[End of the Road! (US)|US issue #80]]), by [[Andrew Wildman]]. | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Titan B&W Compilation-Fallen Star.jpg|'''''Fallen Star'''''<br>(Titan Books, 2005) | |||
File:DefinitiveG1Collection v20.jpg|'''''The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20: End of the Road'''''<br>(Hachette Partworks, 2018) | |||
</gallery> | |||
== | ==References== | ||
{{reflist}} | |||
[[Category:Marvel UK issues]] | [[Category:Marvel UK issues]] | ||
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 Blackout can sing you a song about what's about to happen. | |||||||||||||
| "Assassins" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 18th August 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 25th August 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Jeff Anderson | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Michael Eve | ||||||||||||
| Lettering | Stuart Bartlett | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity/Earthforce | ||||||||||||
While Starscream faces off against some freelance peacekeeping agents bounty hunters, the Autobots make a terrible discovery...
Synopsis
[edit]These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.
In the Louisiana bayous, an alien assassin unsuccessfully fires on Starscream and is shot down for his troubles. A second alien, looking like a knight on horseback, charges the Decepticon but is easily thrown aside. Then a third creature, composed of two lumps of organic matter linked cybernetically, tries to electrocute Starscream but is unsuccessful. Starscream cuts it in two and demands answers as to why they are trying to kill him.
In a control room elsewhere, two shadowy figures observe the situation and note that all Starscream will learn is that someone put a bounty on his head, as they wish him to find out. On the screen Starscream comes to the conclusion that Soundwave is behind all this. The shadowy figures change frequency and tell Bludgeon that there is a job for him.
Meanwhile, at the Earthforce base, Wheeljack explains to Grimlock that Snarl is suffering from Corrodia Gravis and that he needs a systems boost from a compatible Transformer. But the only compatible one is Starscream!
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Others |
|---|---|---|
|
Quotes
[edit]"One chance, my friend - [Blasts his would-be assassin] - is all you get!"
- —Starscream is badass. Wait, what?
"It's gonna be a bad day..!"
- —Starscream after he's attacked by the second assassin in under a minute.
"Ftyuh? Ni? Yamma!"
"Whatever you say, Jack - [Tosses the Knight bounty hunter into a tree] - Always ready to lend a hand!"
- —Knight bounty hunter and Starscream
Notes
[edit]Artwork and technical errors
[edit]- TBD
Continuity errors
[edit]- TBD
Continuity notes
[edit]- The cover shows Starscream being stalked by a strangely familiar bounty hunter who does not appear in the story itself. Dreadwind helpfully confirmed this predatory individual's identity in the letters page of issue #293.[1]
- The identity of the shadowy figures is rather easily given away by the way they are drawn.
- Snarl was shown to be suffering from Corrodia Gravis in the Transformers Annual 1990 story "Destiny of the Dinobots!", which was set in 1992, long after these events.
Real-life references
[edit]- TBD
Other trivia
[edit]- TBD
Back-up material
[edit]- Additional Transformers story: "Kings of the Wild Frontier."
- Other strips: G.I. Joe the Action Force - "Into the Breach" and Combat Colin
- AtoZ: Topspin and Tracks
- In the box in the top left hand of the cover Dreadwind now appears, having pushed Optimus Prime out over the last two issues. His permanent cover pose and Hi-Test appear from the next issue.
Cover
[edit]- Issue #284 cover: Starscream is stalked by a Predator, by Kirk Etienne.
-
Issue #284 - "Want some candy?"
Reprints
[edit]- Transformers: Fallen Star : Megatron and Shockwave fight at Memphis Airport. Cropped from the cover of issue #277, art by Stewart Johnson.
- 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.
-
Fallen Star
(Titan Books, 2005) -
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20: End of the Road
(Hachette Partworks, 2018)
References
[edit]- ↑ Dread Tidings, issue 293
