Transformers Comic-Taschenbuch issue 3

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Publisher	Condor Verlag
First published	1991
Editor	Wolfgang M. Biehler
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
Price	4 DM

Contents

Transformers in Action: WE ARE ONLY STRONG AS A TEAM

Optimus Prime is holding a meeting for his Autobots, during which he breaks down the various Autobot teams and their Decepticon counterparts to help his troops quickly identify friends and opponents during battle.

Following a lengthy presentation, a distress call alerts Optimus to the fact that Cloudburst and Waverider, who were escorting a convoy of tanker trucks to San Franciso, have been ambushed by the Decepticons. Realizing that backup will never make it there in time, Optimus Prime orders the two to abort the mission, as he doesn't want to risk the lives of any of his soldiers for a few trucks of oil.

Back at the Ark, Optimus scolds them for their unprofessional behavior, and just as Cloudburst promises to not make the same mistake again, Optimus presents anothr scene that had happened a while ago: Windsweeper, pursued by Decepticons Doubleheader, Pincher and Bludgeon, performed evasive maneuvers but ended up crashing into a wall. Ruckus tried to rescue him, but froze up, so the two then had to be rescued by the Off Road Patrol and the Rescue Patrol.

Optimus continues to drive home the point that teamwork is of the essence in critical situations, even though Longtooth insists that in such a situation, his priority is survival. When a member of the Rescue Patrol and Cloudburst suggest developing strategies during training so they get to know the strengths and weaknesses of their teammates, Optimus takes his Autobots to a remote desert, where they conduct said training. However, Optimus is still unsure what will happen if the Decepticons intensify their operations. (source)

Reprints

• The Transformers (Marvel US) #27 - "King of the Hill!"
• The Transformers (Marvel US) #28 - "Mechanical Difficulties!"
• The Transformers (Marvel US) #29 - "Crater Critters"
• The Transformers (Marvel US) #30 - "The Cure!"

Notes

• This "story" is largely recycled from Comic-Magazin # 12, with the lengthy list of toys available at the time meeting copied verbatim. Even the numerous errors and the strange terminology remain unchained.
• So the Decepticons supposedly have stronger weapons than the Autobots by default? Is this another one of these "strength is a sign of superiority, therefore we deliberately choose to be weaker than our enemies" philosophies like that flying alternate mode apartheid? And how is that supposed to help in battle? How are the Autobots supposed to pay attention to the energy concentration of weapons? "If the blast that hits you didn't kill you, you can tell it was friendly fire" or what?
• The Autobot/Decepticon ID is transmitted? Does that mean the faction insignias are holograms? And is that supposed to imply that all the various animation errors in the cartoon that depicted Decepticons with Autobot insignias were actually instances of deliberate deception?
• And seriously... how dense are the Autobots that after all these briefings, they still cannot tell their comrades the've been working with for all this time apart from the enemy?
• The term "Delta-Jet" used to describe Needlenose's alternate mode is apparently referring to a delta wing airplane. (Needlenose's toy is based on a cranked-arrow delta wing F-16XL, so the term is not entirely inappropriate, just slightly weird.)

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