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*While the art keeps our heroes Joseph and Walter consistent (Joseph has dark hair and mutton chops, silver-haired Walter has a mustache), the script does not do them such favors. On page four, North refers to them as "Joseph Simmons" and "Walter Wells", and on the following page, Joseph mispronounces "Witwicky" as "Wickety", just as [[Seymour Simmons]] did in [[Transformers (2007)|the first movie]], a joke to seemingly prove the two characters' relation. From page eight onward, however, the pair's surnames are switched, and the whole story becomes framed by excerpts from the journal of "Walter Simmons", indicating that ''he'' is actually supposed to be the Simmons in this story. | *While the art keeps our heroes Joseph and Walter consistent (Joseph has dark hair and mutton chops, silver-haired Walter has a mustache), the script does not do them such favors. On page four, North refers to them as "Joseph Simmons" and "Walter Wells", and on the following page, Joseph mispronounces "Witwicky" as "Wickety", just as [[Seymour Simmons]] did in [[Transformers (2007)|the first movie]], a joke to seemingly prove the two characters' relation. From page eight onward, however, the pair's surnames are switched, and the whole story becomes framed by excerpts from the journal of "Walter Simmons", indicating that ''he'' is actually supposed to be the Simmons in this story. | ||
*Despite the correct design of Megatron being used on the cover, the inside pages depict Megatron | *Despite the correct design of Megatron being used on the cover, the inside pages depict Megatron as he appeared in [[Revenge of the Fallen]]. | ||
*John Barber's continuity notes at the end of the issue confirm that Walter is Simmons, but give Wells's name as "Theodore"! | *John Barber's continuity notes at the end of the issue confirm that Walter is Simmons, but give Wells's name as "Theodore"! | ||
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | September 29, 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | September 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Art | Joe Suitor | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| Cover | Brian Rood Joe Suitor | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Live-action film series | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 32 | ||||||||||||
| Price | $3.99 | ||||||||||||
1898: by order of the President, an investigation is undertaken of a blind mental patient's claims of a thirty-six feet tall steel man...
Synopsis
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Quotes
"Maintaining a scientific demeanor might have proved the better part of valor, Joseph."
"They made the first move."
"They growled at you."
"That's a first move, Walter."
- -Walter Simmons and Joseph Wells
"I am but a humble servant of progress. Or at least that's what I tell myself when I lie awake at night."
- -Simmons
"Who piloted this--or, good god, man! What if this is the creature itself?"
- -Simmons is stunned by Megatron
"We killed a space-robot! Do you know what a metallurgist usually does? Lemme tell ya, it ain't as fulfilling as you musta heard!"
- -Arden is having fun
Errors
- While the art keeps our heroes Joseph and Walter consistent (Joseph has dark hair and mutton chops, silver-haired Walter has a mustache), the script does not do them such favors. On page four, North refers to them as "Joseph Simmons" and "Walter Wells", and on the following page, Joseph mispronounces "Witwicky" as "Wickety", just as Seymour Simmons did in the first movie, a joke to seemingly prove the two characters' relation. From page eight onward, however, the pair's surnames are switched, and the whole story becomes framed by excerpts from the journal of "Walter Simmons", indicating that he is actually supposed to be the Simmons in this story.
- Despite the correct design of Megatron being used on the cover, the inside pages depict Megatron as he appeared in Revenge of the Fallen.
- John Barber's continuity notes at the end of the issue confirm that Walter is Simmons, but give Wells's name as "Theodore"!
Items of note
- The issue has "FIELD NOTES From Agent John Barber": continuity notes and behind-the-scenes info about how the issue was created. Barber says this was editor Andy Schmidt's idea.
- Joseph, Walter and Danco all previously appeared, unnamed, in the second issue of the Movie Prequel comic. A building containing mysterious objects that appeared to be Sector Seven's headquarters appeared in that comic, at a time before the movie itself claimed the organization was supposed to have been founded, but is here retconned away as being Walter and Joseph's trophy collection from the various strange adventures and treasure-hunts they've been on (in his notes, Barber says these guys were presented as adventurers in the Prequel, which is a bit of a fudge). Barber also says that since the Prequel says Seymour Simmons' great-grandfather was part of the original Seven, he had to be one of those guys.
- The yet-to-be-named Danco appears in Witwicky's crew and a guy quite like him is seen with Sector Seven's crew later in the Prequel; Barber decided to make them both the same character.
- The human cast are meant to represent "disparate parts" of the era, according to Barber: Simmons and Wells are "Jules Verne/HG Wells gentlemen scientist-adventurers", North is a "cowboy", Bowen is "basically... Oscar Wilde as an explosives expert", Grant is a "rugged hero in the mold [sic] of... fictional colonialist Allan Quatermain", and Arden is a throwback to the vanishing "pre-Industrial Revolution master-apprentice era".
- Walter evidently passes his name on to his son, since another Walter Simmons appears in the first movie prequel novel, "Ghosts of Yesterday".
- The ship's manifest seen on page nine is the list of the "First Seven" released on the internet during the Sector Seven alternate reality game promotion for the first movie. The names are here established to be aliases for the real men.
- Jetfire's appearance in this issue comes during the time he was wandering the Earth, previously glossed over in the final pages of Tales of the Fallen #3.
- Jetfire's maritime accident is a little unclear. It's based around the real-life sinking of the USS Maine, which started the Spanish-American War. Barber's notes at the end of the issues claim that Jetfire was responsible for accidentally sinking it, but the art itself actually appears to suggest that Jetfire was the Maine (observe the anchor chains, masts and gunnery cannons that decorate his robot mode), and that him transforming was mistaken for the ship breaking up and sinking.
- On page fourteen, Bowen is reading The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (for whom Joseph is named).
- Early online solicitations for this issue accidentally claimed it was being written and drawn by the creative team of IDW's True Blood comic. Copy-paste cock-up!
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Archibald discovers Megatron, sepia version by Brian Rood of art originally by Josh Nizzi.
- Cover B: Sector 7 flotsam and jetsam by Joe Suitor.
- Cover RI: An incentive cover of the flotsam and jetsam in lovely black borders.
