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'''Initiation rituals turn out to be more than meets the eye...''' | '''Initiation rituals turn out to be more than meets the eye...''' | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
===Artwork and technical errors=== | ===Artwork and technical errors=== | ||
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===Back-up | ===Back-up material=== | ||
*'''Additional | *'''Additional ''Transformers'' story:''' "[[The Resurrection Gambit!]]" | ||
*'''Other strips:''' ''[[Action Force (comic)|Action Force]]'' - "Evasion" and ''[[G.I. Joe (comic)|GI Joe]] the Action Force'' - "Divided We Fall!" | *'''Other strips:''' ''[[Action Force (comic)|Action Force]]'' - "Evasion" and ''[[G.I. Joe (comic)|GI Joe]] the Action Force'' - "Divided We Fall!" | ||
*"Divided We Fall!" was a mini-comic detailing how the European ''[[Action Force (team)|Action Force]]'' and its American counterpart ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'' have merged to form ''G.I. Joe the Action Force'', a name change that would be carried over to the back-up comic strips from issue [[Fallen Star!|#248]] and the cover from issue [[Whose Lifeforce Is It Anyway?|#249]], as well as the toyline. The mini-comic was also given away free in some toy shops. | **"Divided We Fall!" was a mini-comic detailing how the European ''[[Action Force (team)|Action Force]]'' and its American counterpart ''[[G.I. Joe (team)|G.I. Joe]]'' have merged to form ''G.I. Joe the Action Force'', a name change that would be carried over to the back-up comic strips from issue [[Fallen Star!|#248]] and the cover from issue [[Whose Lifeforce Is It Anyway?|#249]], as well as the toyline. The mini-comic was also given away free in some toy shops. | ||
===Covers (2)=== | ===Covers (2)=== | ||
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File:MarvelUK-245.jpg|'''Issue #245''' | File:MarvelUK-245.jpg|'''Issue #245''' | ||
File:Titan B&W Compilation-Aspects of Evil.jpg|'''''Aspects of Evil'' | File:Titan B&W Compilation-Aspects of Evil.jpg|'''''Aspects of Evil''''' | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
*'''Issue #245 cover:''' Tailgate hides from a Mutant, by [[Andrew Wildman|Andy Wildman]]. | *'''Issue #245 cover:''' Tailgate hides from a Mutant, by [[Andrew Wildman|Andy Wildman]]. | ||
*'''''Aspects of Evil'' | *'''''Aspects of Evil'' cover:''' [[Hot Rod/Marvel Comics continuity|Rodimus Prime]] and [[Unicron]] fight, by [[Stephen Baskerville]]. Cropped version of issue [[White Fire|#254]]'s cover. | ||
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*[[2005]] — ''[[Transformers: Aspects of Evil]]'' | *[[2005]] — ''[[Transformers: Aspects of Evil]]'' | ||
[[Category:Marvel UK issues]] | [[Category:Marvel UK issues]] | ||
Revision as of 15:34, 23 January 2016
| This article is about the Marvel issue. For other uses of "Underworld", see Underworld (disambiguation) |
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| "Underworld!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 18th November 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 25th November 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Jeff Anderson | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Helen Stone | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity (Marvel UK) | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Unclear, possibly in far past | ||||||||||||
Initiation rituals turn out to be more than meets the eye...
Synopsis
In caverns deep underground on Cybertron, three Autobot Military Academy cadets—Subsea, Tailgate, and Flattop—hide as a group of mutant Transformers hunt for them. Once the mutants have passed them, the three Autobots move off, though Flattop is frozen with fear.
Up on the surface, Pipes and Outback comment that initiations in the Underworld went out with the Ark but Flattop was headstrong and talked the others going in. Outback and Pipes agree to go in to rescue their fellows.
Down below, the mutants find the Autobots and kill first Subsea then Flattop. Before they can kill Tailgate, he blasts Smeltdown's furnace, triggering an explosion which kills all the mutants bar Rotgut. Tailgate throws the survivor into the pyre as Outback and Pipes arrive to find their help is not needed.
But the explosion has released something else, something that has not fed in countless years...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Mutants | Others |
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Quotes
Notes
Artwork and technical errors
Continuity errors
Continuity notes
- This is the first appearance of Tailgate (bar a one panel cameo in "Resurrection!") and Pipes.
- It's not at all clear when the story is set. All three Mini-Autobots are cadets at the academy, but in his previous appearances Outback was a regular soldier. It's possible this story is set some years in the past but there is nothing for definite.
Real-life references
Other trivia
Back-up material
- Additional Transformers story: "The Resurrection Gambit!"
- Other strips: Action Force - "Evasion" and GI Joe the Action Force - "Divided We Fall!"
- "Divided We Fall!" was a mini-comic detailing how the European Action Force and its American counterpart G.I. Joe have merged to form G.I. Joe the Action Force, a name change that would be carried over to the back-up comic strips from issue #248 and the cover from issue #249, as well as the toyline. The mini-comic was also given away free in some toy shops.
Covers (2)
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Issue #245 -
Aspects of Evil
- Issue #245 cover: Tailgate hides from a Mutant, by Andy Wildman.
- Aspects of Evil cover: Rodimus Prime and Unicron fight, by Stephen Baskerville. Cropped version of issue #254's cover.
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