Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 18

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All together now: "Unicron the yellow-nosed Chaos God..."
Publisher	Condor Verlag
Cover date	December 1991
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
Price	3.50 DM

Contents

The Curse of the Pyramids

On a rainy night, Goldbug reads a human book on pyramids, learning of their technical measurements and eerie powers. He is so captivated by what he learns that he sets out to study the great pyramid of Giza the next day.

Alongside Stealth, who acts as his personal transport to Egypt, he begins to explore the ancient structure and notices similarities to the way that Autobot spaceships are constructed. Going by this theory, the duo find a large chamber adorned with unusual wall paintings which show a god-like stranger arriving in a giant ship, being worshiped by the locals, and aiding the construction of the pyramids by commanding the sunlight.

The Ark's central computer informs them that the depictions can only refer to an alien using a spaceship and beam devices. Investigating further, the two Autobots find another painting which clearly shows the stranger to sport an Autobot symbol on his chest. Shortly thereafter, the Ark's computer informs them that the stranger's name is or contains "Imus". The duo immediately infers that it had to be the currently missing Optimus Prime! However, the computer points out that this would be highly unlikely and only possible via time travel.

And with that, the riddle ultimately remains unsolved...for now. (source)

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots
Goldbug (1) Stealth (2)

Articles and features

David Lynch, eat your heart out

• A very happy Divebomb presides over puzzles about elephants and electric guitars.
• Blitzwing shows us some puzzles about himself and dice.
• A Grimlock-colored Megatron towers over a Dali-eque picture of Optimus Prime playing with a yo-yo while standing next to a well.
• Another puzzle hosted by Divebomb, this time of Mirage fighting a Jhiaxus-colored Seeker. Both Mirage and Divebomb are given exactly the same color scheme.
• Sparkstalker shows us some random puzzles.
• A new character, Blackcat, has a puzzle we can cut out of a yellow and green Blurr with a truck(?) that is colored a bit like Hot Rod.

Reprints

• The Transformers (Marvel UK) #150-151 - "The Legacy of Unicron!" - Parts 5 & 6

Notes

Ich bin Jhiaxus!

• Part 1 of the comic is titled "Space Mission Unicron", part 2 is "Mission Unicron - At the Beginning of all Time", part 3 is "Mission Unicron - The Countdown is Running..." and part 4 is "Mission Unicron - A Planet on the Brink".
• The reprint of "Legacy of Unicron" suddenly shifts to the 5-6-pages-per-part format of Marvel UK issues #298-301.
• The text story seems to follow a loosely pieced-together version of the Marvel G1 continuity in which Goldbug has somehow defeated Unicron on Planet Junk while Optimus Prime is missing. Ironically, the comic is also reprinting "Legacy of Unicron", in which that blatantly didn't happen.
• The Decepticons are actually following Unicron's orders and always have! They don't know if he's dead but are going to follow his commands just in case.
• The story also makes mention of a previously unknown Autobot called "Stealth", who seems to be some kind of plane, presumably a stealth bomber.
• It might furthermore be the earliest story to pose the idea that the great pyramids were built by Transformers. A time-traveling Optimus Prime, to be precise.
• Does this also mean that Optimus Prime installed death-traps in all the pyramids and cursed them all, as the story says they cause mysterious deaths?
• Could the "Imus" who has an Autobot logo on his chest be Rodimus instead? Goldbug and Stealth do jump to the conclusion that it is Optimus, after all...
• Goldbug does not read the human book directly. Instead, he employs a scanning laser device that translates the human writing and projects the translation onto the Ark's computer screen.
• The pyramids of Egypt are built along the same principles as Autobot spaceships. Apart from the whole "spaceflight" thing of course.

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