Way of the Warrior

This article is about the original Marvel UK comic. For the Titan Books trade paperback, see Transformers: Way of the Warrior.

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"Way of the Warrior"
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First published	23rd September 1989
Cover date	30th September 1989
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Simon Coleby
Letterer	Glib
Cover	Andrew Wildman
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity

Carnivac learns that following the Autobots' ways has its ups and downs...

Synopsis

In Dallas, Texas Carnivac is angry with Springer and strikes out. When he agreed to join the Survivors, he had hoped for some fights and is unhappy with working as a disaster relief service handling train crashes, burning oil rigs, hijacks and the like. Springer declares that if Carnivac walks off the group won't look out for him, even though Catilla makes a plea to understand Carnivac has been going through private tensions since leaving the Decepticons.

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Carnivac runs off alone, thinking how the high profile role in saving humans that the Survivors have taken on is likely to attract the Decepticons who will want their renegades dead. Suddenly, a human car crashes into Carnivac and the driver, recognising the ex-Decepticon from television, pleads for help in dealing with a giant mechanical dog that is terrorising the area. Carnivac is initially dismissive but then realises he has to make a stand sometime and charges the dog, rapidly dispatching it.

However, the dog is not alone. The new Mayhem Attack Squad declare their presence and Snarler is surprised that the dog lured out Carnivac alone rather than the Autobots with him. They offer Carnivac a clean death but he declares he is a warrior who will fight to the death if need be. Bludgeon responds that he is only too happy to oblige and charges...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans	Others
Springer (2) Skids (3) Broadside (4) Inferno (5) Catilla (6)	Carnivac (1) Spinister (9) Needlenose (10) Octopunch (11) Stranglehold (12) Snarler (13) Bludgeon (14)	Texan man (7)	Hellhound (8)

Notes

Continuity notes

• The Survivors storyline would eventually tie into the alternate continuity of the Earthforce storyline. It's not clear where one draws the line between the main storyline and this portion of the Earthforce branch.

Back-up material

• Additional Transformers story: "The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!"
• Other strips: Action Force - "Beginnings... and Endings" and Combat Colin
• Classic Covers Calendar: October #153

Covers (4)

• 
  Issue #237 - It's dog eat dog out there!
• 
  Transformers Annual 1992 - Dinobots are on the move, Dinobots are loose...
• 
  Winter Special 1994
• 
  Way of the Warrior TPB

• Issue #237 cover: Carnivac and the Hellhound wrestle, by Geoff Senior.
• Transformers Annual 1992 cover: the Dinobots on the rampage, by Jeff Anderson.
• Winter Special 1994 cover: Optimus Prime mourns the dying Scorponok, reuse of the cover to issue #321, by Stewart Johnson.
• Way of the Warrior TPB cover: Carnivac and Springer stand victorious over a Limbo nightmare creature, cropped from the cover of issue #222 by Simon Coleby.

Reprints

• 1992 — Transformers Annual 1992 (coloured by Steve White)
• 1994 — Transformers Winter Special (coloured by Steve White)
• 2005 — Transformers: Way of the Warrior