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| |next=...For All Mankind | | |next=...For All Mankind |
| |image=AHM 16cvrRI.jpg | | |image=AHM 16cvrRI.jpg |
| |caption=Finally out of the ''AHM'' hole! | | |caption=Finally out of the AHM hole! |
| |publisher=[[IDW Publishing]] | | |publisher=[[IDW Publishing]] |
| |date=[[October 14]], [[2009]] | | |date=[[October 14]], [[2009]] |
| |coverdate=October, 2009 | | |coverdate=October 2009 |
| |written by=[[Mike Costa]] <span style=font-size:10px>"The Man of Steel"</span><br>[[Zander Cannon]] <span style=font-size:10px>"Hidden"</span>
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| |art by=[[Guido Guidi]] <span style=font-size:10px>"The Man of Steel"</span><br>[[Chee Yang Ong]] <span style=font-size:10px>"Hidden"</span>
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| |colors by=[[Josh Burcham]] <span style=font-size:10px>"The Man of Steel"</span><br>[[Moose Baumann]] <span style=font-size:10px>"Hidden"</span>
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| |letters by=[[Chris Mowry]]
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| |assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]] | | |assistant editor=[[Carlos Guzman]] |
| |associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]] | | |associate editor=[[Denton J. Tipton]] |
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| '''Finally the last of ''All Hail Megatron''. Huzzah!''' | | '''Finally the last of ''All Hail Megatron''. Huzzah!''' |
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| =="The Man of Steel"== | | ==Contents== |
| ===Synopsis===
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| [[Spike Witwicky (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Spike Witwicky]] lies in a hospital, cared for by a number of nurses who seemingly forgot some part of their clothing... He is visited by a colonel and two [[United Nations]] officials, who have an offer for him, but first want to know how he got into the miserable state he is in. Spike tells them that after the main [[Decepticon]] force was driven off, he became part of a team whose mission was to find any remaining robots, hidden or (partially) incapacitated and deactivate them. After a while, they stumbled across [[Ravage (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ravage]], who very nearly ended his life, but Spike finally made it, though badly hurt.
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| The visitors reveal that [[Skywatch]] shall become an international organization with the purpose of protecting earth from alien (read: [[Transformer]]) danger, and they want Spike to be the head of its strike force. He agrees, but is none too happy when he thereafter gets to know that [[Sparkplug Witwicky|his father]] is overall chief of Skywatch.
| | *"[[The Man of Steel]]" |
| | *"[[Hidden (G1)|Hidden]]" |
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| ===Featured characters===
| | See individual articles for details. |
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| *[[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]] (4)
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| *[[Ravage (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ravage]] (5)
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| *[[Frank Shin]] (1)
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| *[[Peter Dille]] (2)
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| *[[Spike Witwicky (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Spike Witwicky]] (3)
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| ===Quotes===
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| "Major Witwicky. A pleasure to meet you."<br>
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| "Yeah, hi guys. It's gonna be a few weeks before I can do autographs. Sorry."
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| :—'''Peter Dille''' and '''Spike Witwicky''', who's getting a wee bit full of himself.
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| ===Notes===
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| ====Continuity notes====
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| *Thrust was apparently among the Decepticon forces on Earth, despite not appearing in the main ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron|All Hail Megatron]]'' storyline. What happened to him after he is left wounded here is revealed in "[[Ride-Along]]".
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| *The rifles carried by Spike and his team appear to be modeled after Starscream's [[null-ray]] guns.
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| *Nurses don't exactly wear that kind of uniform this century. Perhaps these were... call girls? Maybe?
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| *The colonel seems to imply that the [[Joshua Red|former head of Skywatch]] was not American. American government agencies are, of course, notorious for being run by foreigners. A possible (though far fetched) interpretation might be that Spike, being informed Skywatch is now under the U.N. umbrella and its head has been changed, the colonel want to "reassure" him it is '''still''' at least under the command of a US citizen.
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| ====Trivia====
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| *The names of Frank Shin and Peter Dille are references to several individuals well known for their involvement in the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original ''Transformers'' cartoon]]: [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] voice actor [[Frank Welker]], animation director [[Nelson Shin]], [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] voice actor [[Peter Cullen]] and writer/story editor [[Flint Dille]].
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| =="Hidden"==
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| [[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] finds himself hiding out in the ruins of [[New York City]] shortly after the rout of the [[Decepticon]]s. Unable to contact base, he is forced to run when a squad of Cybertronian-hunting militia approach. However, his distinctive wheeled footprints give him away.
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| As they follow his tracks, two of the soldiers comment on a colleague's belief that there are both 'good' and 'bad' robots; however, their orders are to take down any alien machines. Bumblebee manages to elude these first trackers, and continues to attempt contact with the Autobots, broadcasting 'in the clear' in the hopes that they are listening.
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| He mentions that most of the city's inhabitants have been moved, leaving their belongings behind, and considers turning himself over to ones of the human bases. He stumbles across a severed Cybertronian arm, and questions how the humans could do such a thing.
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| Across the street from his position, another squad blows up an ordinary car, mistaking the car's alarm for alien 'chirping'. The car's owner remonstrates with the soldiers, and reveals that he, his wife, children, and their friends have holed up in one of the buildings, not trusting in the safety of the camps set up for dispossessed refugees.
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| Bumblebee detects that the car's explosion has damaged the structural integrity of the building, and with no other choice breaks into the open to hold the wall up until the inhabitants can get out. The soldiers open fire on him as he does so, and as the last of the refugees escape, he collapses.
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| Before the soldiers can finish him, they are forced away by the arrival of [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]], [[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]], [[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]], [[Hound (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hound]], and [[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]]. Bumblebee reawakens with Ratchet standing over him; the latter tells him that they found him thanks to the soldiers' radio conversations, and that Prime told them to listen in, believing that Bumblebee would eventually break cover to save someone.
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| *[[Bumblebee (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Bumblebee]] (1)
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| *[[Ironhide (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ironhide]] (5)
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| *[[Hound (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hound]] (6)
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| *[[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]] (7)
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| *[[Jazz (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jazz]] (8)
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| *[[Ratchet (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ratchet]] (9)
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| *[[Lopez]] (2)
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| *[[Daniel Klonowski]] (3)
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| *[[Karen]] (4)
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| ===Quotes===
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| "Hey, Dan-o, y'hear what [[Collins (G1)|Collins]] was sayin' back at Sat-Com?"<br>
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| "No, what?"<br>
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| "He said that the cars are the good robots, it's the planes that are bad."<br>
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| "Pff! What does Collins know? He just sits in front of a screen while we're the ones takin' these machines down. Besides, I saw that big construction one take out the Manhattan Bridge. That was no plane. It was like 60% cars - more if you include bulldozers."
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| :— '''Lopez''' and '''Klonowski''' debate the finer points of factional altmodes
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| ===Notes===
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| *Karen's husband claims the Decepticons have been attacking fleeing refugees and bombing refugee camps. He thinks this is ''still'' going on, but he's panicked and unlikely to be reliable.
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| *It seems rather odd that Bumblebee didn't consider that the severed arm was a Decepticon's. A damaged Thrust was even shown in the previous story.
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| ====Transformers references====
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| [[File:AMH16-Ratchet.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|He stole that logo from [[Ratchet (Animated)|somebody else.]]]]
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| *Bumblebee swears by the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]], its first reference in IDW continuity.
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| *Although Ratchet's design is based on an [[:File:Ratchetg1.jpg|older piece of IDW artwork]] by [[Guido Guidi]], he features ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' [[Ratchet (Animated)|Ratchet's]] electrocardiogram graphics (which in turn are based on the logos on ''[[Transformers (2007 toyline)|Movie]]'' Voyager Class [[Ratchet (Movie)|Rescue Ratchet]]) on his shoulders, rather than the red cross logo from the Guido Guidi artwork. The real-life explanation for this is that the red cross symbol is a [[trademark]] heavily enforced by the [[Red Cross]] organization, even ''within'' the context of fictional works such as video games where the symbol is not used as part of advertising for the product itself. On the other hand, the red cross symbol would be inaccurate on Ratchet to begin with, since it's actually not a standard medical symbol, but only refers to military contexts. While Ratchet is technically a military medic, his [[alternate mode]] is a civilian ambulance.
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| ====Errors====
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| *Bumblebee appears not in his IDW body, but in a design that resembles the Bumblebee Guido Guidi drew for [[:File:Infiltration 1d.jpg|one of the covers]] of [[Infiltration issue 1|''Infiltration'' #1]]. (The same mistake was made in the Avengers crossover. Perhaps Bumblebee occasionally moonlights in this design?)
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| *In fact, most of the Autobots are not in their IDW bodies. Ratchet in particular is strictly based on [[:File:Ratchetg1.jpg|this IDW lithograph art]] by [[Guido Guidi]].
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| *Devastator is said to have trashed bridges in Manhattan. [[All Hail Megatron issue 2|He didn't.]]
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| *The soldiers refer to "these cities" being evacuated, which implies multiple ones across a large area. That doesn't ''quite'' fit with what happened in ''All Hail Megatron'' proper (though it does sound cooler!).
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| *The story is followed by Decepticomments with [[Denton J. Tipton|DoubleDenton]].
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| *Also included is an IDWords section featuring the upcoming ongoing series in an interview with [[Mike Costa]] and [[Don Figueroa]].
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| ==Notes== | | ==Notes== |
Must ... reach ... my deus ex machina!
Spot the Superbad joke!
Bumblebee finds another gaping hole in the continuity that no writer will bother fixing.
Hippies never get girls.
Transformers: Best of Bumblebee – cover art by James Biggie
