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'''The Super Stunt Team escape their pursuers and meet a new ally.''' | '''The Super Stunt Team escape their pursuers and meet a new ally.''' | ||
==Synopsis== | ==Synopsis== | ||
While the battle for the [[Mini-Con]]s rages on between the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in a different part of the world, in a "West Coast city in the United States", the Super Stunt Team race down a busy street with a pair of [[Fixer Bug|mysterious machines]] chasing them. The trio manage to duck into an underground parking garage, but realize they can't run forever and need to take a stand. | While the battle for the [[Mini-Con]]s rages on between the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s in a different part of the world, in a "West Coast city in the [[United States of America|United States]]", the Super Stunt Team race down a busy street with a pair of [[Fixer Bug|mysterious machines]] chasing them. The trio manage to duck into an underground parking garage, but realize they can't run forever and need to take a stand. | ||
The three scan and begin to convert a nearby car, using Redline's [[Powerlinx]] "Evolution Protocol" ability to turn it into a turbo cannon. The machines advance, and the Mini-Cons blow them away. After they celebrate their victory, the young woman who owns the car (and saw the whole thing) wonders just how the car can be returned to something she can drive home in... | The three scan and begin to convert a nearby car, using Redline's [[Powerlinx]] "Evolution Protocol" ability to turn it into a turbo cannon. The machines advance, and the Mini-Cons blow them away. After they celebrate their victory, the young woman who owns the car (and saw the whole thing) wonders just how the car can be returned to something she can drive home in... | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
* This comic was available only with the first volume of the ''Legend of the Microns'' DVD in Japan, along with the [[exclusive]] Super Stunt Team toys. Later pressings of the DVD did not include either. | |||
===Transformers references=== | ===Transformers references=== | ||
* Optimus Prime and Megatron appear only in a single "setup" panel explaining the backstory. | * Optimus Prime and Megatron appear only in a single "setup" panel explaining the backstory. | ||
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* The actual city this episode takes place in is unnamed. However, with the location of the named US cities in later issues, it's most likely along the coast of either [[Oregon]] or Washington. | * The actual city this episode takes place in is unnamed. However, with the location of the named US cities in later issues, it's most likely along the coast of either [[Oregon]] or Washington. | ||
* The devices chasing the Mini-Cons are not named in this issue, but are later | * The devices chasing the Mini-Cons are not named in this issue, but are later revealed to be "Fixer Bugs". | ||
* The Mini-Cons' speech is punctuated with < > brackets to indicate they're speaking in the beeping "binary" language heard on the show. (The English translations shown on this wiki instead use a different font to denote binary-speak.) | * The Mini-Cons' speech is punctuated with < > brackets to indicate they're speaking in the beeping "binary" language heard on the show. (The English translations shown on this wiki instead use a different font to denote binary-speak.) | ||
* The fourth page of the mini-comic is a profile of Hirofumi Ichikawa, with a bust sketch of ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] in place of his picture. | * The fourth page of the mini-comic is a profile of Hirofumi Ichikawa, with a bust sketch of ''[[Armada (franchise)|Armada]]'' [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] in place of his picture. | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
Revision as of 15:35, 8 August 2009
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| Publisher | Columbia Music Entertainment | ||||||||||||
| First published | May 1st 2003 (with Legends of the Microns 1 DVD) | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Hirofumi Ichikawa | ||||||||||||
| Artist | Hirofumi Ichikawa | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | ??? | ||||||||||||
| Editor | ??? | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Armada cartoon | ||||||||||||
The Super Stunt Team escape their pursuers and meet a new ally.
Synopsis
While the battle for the Mini-Cons rages on between the Autobots and Decepticons in a different part of the world, in a "West Coast city in the United States", the Super Stunt Team race down a busy street with a pair of mysterious machines chasing them. The trio manage to duck into an underground parking garage, but realize they can't run forever and need to take a stand.
The three scan and begin to convert a nearby car, using Redline's Powerlinx "Evolution Protocol" ability to turn it into a turbo cannon. The machines advance, and the Mini-Cons blow them away. After they celebrate their victory, the young woman who owns the car (and saw the whole thing) wonders just how the car can be returned to something she can drive home in...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Mini-Cons | Others |
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Notes
- This comic was available only with the first volume of the Legend of the Microns DVD in Japan, along with the exclusive Super Stunt Team toys. Later pressings of the DVD did not include either.
Transformers references
- Optimus Prime and Megatron appear only in a single "setup" panel explaining the backstory.
- While scanning Stella's car, Servo does the same spinning-head thing High Wire does in the first episode of the Armada cartoon when he scans his alternate mode.
- Also during the scan, the Team mentions Power Plans. This would be considered an iffy reference at best were it not for this being written by Ichikawa, who is a confirmed huge geek for the Hasbro Transformers fiction elements. Also, they do not use the Japanese words for "power" and "plan", but the phonetic katakana パワープラン (pawāpuran).
Miscellaneous trivia
- The actual city this episode takes place in is unnamed. However, with the location of the named US cities in later issues, it's most likely along the coast of either Oregon or Washington.
- The devices chasing the Mini-Cons are not named in this issue, but are later revealed to be "Fixer Bugs".
- The Mini-Cons' speech is punctuated with < > brackets to indicate they're speaking in the beeping "binary" language heard on the show. (The English translations shown on this wiki instead use a different font to denote binary-speak.)
- The fourth page of the mini-comic is a profile of Hirofumi Ichikawa, with a bust sketch of Armada Optimus Prime in place of his picture.
