Transformers Comic issue 6: Difference between revisions
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*Jazz externalises his spark core forcefield to keep his bodywork all buff and shiny, a dark reason given for why he dies so easily in [[Transformers ( | *Jazz externalises his spark core forcefield to keep his bodywork all buff and shiny, a dark reason given for why he dies so easily in [[Transformers (film)|the film]]. He also referred to his bodywork getting dinged back in [[Prelude: Megatron]]. | ||
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 "Hey, whose grave is that, Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come?" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Titan Magazines | ||||||||||||
| First published | 6 December 2007 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | January 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Steve White | ||||||||||||
| Deputy editor | Andrew James & Den Patrick | ||||||||||||
| Designer | Danny Preston | ||||||||||||
| Publishing manager | Darryl Curtis | ||||||||||||
Jazz finds an incredible world and decides to quit the war. He should know that things are never that simple.
Contents
Lost In Space Part 4: Jazz
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| Lost In Space Part 4: Jazz | |||||||||||||
| Script | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Marcelo Matere | ||||||||||||
| Colours | Liam Shalloo | ||||||||||||
| Lettering | Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Main Transformers prequel | ||||||||||||
Jazz ignores Ratchet's emergency homing beacon, as he's landed on a planet he calls the Information Highway, a constantly-morphing world with "the accumulated knowledge of countless alien cultures, condensed into some kind of sensory precipitation." He decides he's done with the war and is going to remain here, where he is overwhelmed by all the data, the new ways of thinking, "of being!"
Jazz merrily decides to examine new, mushroom-like towers that appear on the planet surface—and upon touching them, he is covered in a swarm of green balls of light. Whereas before the planet was giving him information, now it starts to take...
It plays back a memory from Jazz's past: Having externalized his Spark Core forcefield to keep his bodywork "buff", he had almost had his spark ripped out by Bonecrusher, who'd deliberately wanted to cripple, destroy and eventually kill Jazz for looking nice "when I look like this!" Fellow Autobot Clocker had saved him and then tried to get him to safety. When Bonecrusher caught up, Clocker had ordered Jazz to run away to get help while he fought the Decepticon, as Jazz had been too injured to be anything but a hindrance. By the time help had arrived, "there wasn't much left of Clocker to salvage"...
Jazz emerges from this memory to find he's being absorbed into the planet's surface, and so much of his system capacity is focused on data storage, he has no power to resist. Everything about his mind is being stripped and invaded, and his last action is to launch a warning buoy into orbit so others would know to stay away. Time passes, and in brief periods of lucidity, Jazz realises the planet is alive and all that data had come from countless other victims...
Eventually, Ratchet and Ironhide arrive, having picked up the signal from the buoy. Ratchet quickly realises the planet is alive, and Ironhide starts shooting at it to make it give Jazz back. Jazz is rescued and, having found out where Cybertron is, they go home.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Quotes
"By the time I reached the surface and called in reinforcements, there wasn't much left of Clocker to salvage. Not my finest hour."
- —Jazz
Articles & features
- Character Profile: Starscream
- Short interviews with Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox about their experiences on the movie.
- Top Gear — Advertising The Transformers: The Best of Don Figueroa, and a chance to win a The Transformers: The Best of Simon Furman trade, an Autobot logo watch, Autobot & Decepticon logo throw cushions and a Cyberstompin' Bumblebee toy.
- Competition to win the movie's DVD.
- Advert for an online Transformers shop, with a competition to win store vouchers worth £20.
- Mech Mail - Letters and art from readers
Free Gift
- "Free! Target Game!"/"Tactical Target Shooter" - a small plastic ball, which you throw at cardboard cutouts of the Transformers (which come with stands).
Reprints
Reprinted stories are only a portion of their respective issues.
- Transformers: Movie Prequel, part 2c (7 pages)
- Beast Wars: The Gathering, part 2c (7 pages)
Continuity notes
- Jazz externalises his spark core forcefield to keep his bodywork all buff and shiny, a dark reason given for why he dies so easily in the film. He also referred to his bodywork getting dinged back in Prelude: Megatron.
Readership notes
- More and more small children are sending in their own Transformers fan-characters—the next generation of fanfic writers are coming up.
- The question for the Best of Furman competition is which "bounty hunter" he created. The answer, of course, is Death's Head, although we doubt he would appreciate the competition's terminology. Notably, although trade paperbacks of Death's Head's series have been released into UK bookstores in 2007, it is likely only the older fans would know this; this could be the first time Titan has done a competition specifically for the older readers. (The "wrong" answers to choose from were Rick Deckard and Durham Red, from Blade Runner and the 2000AD comic Strontium Dog respectively)
