Tales of the Fallen issue 1

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Alex Milne RULES.
Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	August 12, 2009
Cover date	August 2009
Written by	Chris Mowry
Pencils by	Carlos Magno
Colors by	Josh Perez
Letters by	Chris Mowry
Editor	Andy Schmidt
Associate editor	Denton J. Tipton
Continuity	Movie continuity

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Bumblebee (2)	Barricade (5)	Sam Witwicky (1) Ron Witwicky (3) Judy Witwicky (4)

Quotes

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Errors

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Items of note

• While not explicitly stated, this follows on from Bumblebee being reassigned to Sam at the end of Alliance issue 4.
• This is now the fourth time that Barricade has turned up in Revenge of the Fallen prequel fiction, despite not being in the actual film and only having a handful of spin-off toys. Neither the book nor the IDW comics take the path of killing him off to explain his ROTF absence either, as he keeps escaping to fight another day. Apparently, everyone just loves Barricade!
• Sam's parents are already aware of Bumblebee, though like in the second film it's not stated when they became aware.
• It's possible that artist Carlos Magno wasn't allowed to draw Sam Witwicky to resemble actor Shia LaBeouf. It's rather unlikely that the extra body mass was part of this requirement, however.
• Bumblebee never puts on his battle mask during the entire fight with Barricade.
• Miles totally perved on Mikaela's friend and you know it.

Covers (4)

• Cover A: Bumblebee and Sam by Alex Milne
• Cover B: Bumblebee protecting Sam by Carlos Magno and colors by Josh Perez
• Cover RI: Virgin cover of cover A
• Cover RE: Fan Expo Canada exclusive, press photo of Mikaela Banes next to one of the stone buildings. This edition came in a special polybag with a Fanexpo logo and was limited to 1000 copies. They did not sell out by the end of the convention.

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