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'''[[Tarantulas]]''' is the scheming mad scientist of the Predacon crew.  He's the type of mad scientist who experiments on living beings, cackling in his [[Trademark|trademarked]] laugh all the while, and then if things go wrong, happily eats what's left as his midday snack.  The eating is what he was really looking forward to, anyway.  It's this focused perversity that turns off even his fellow Predacons.  Tarantulas's emotional detachment from their war also rubs his peers the wrong way.  Fighting Maximals and following orders is just a required chore; his real passion is the unmentionable projects stashed in [[Tarantulas's lair|his "secret" lair]].   
'''[[April Fools' Day|Prime Directive]]''' is the critically-acclaimed six-part miniseries published by [[Dreamwave Productions]] in 2002, and set in the main G1 [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave continuity]].  Centering on the revival of the Transformers after a catastrophe several years prior, it is a ''tour de force'' of war, love, and pathos which has been hailed as the greatest Transformers fiction to ever be written and illustrated.   


Nominally, Tarantulas was one of the Predacons to join [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] during his theft of the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] and the search for [[Earth]].  In addition to being an utterly psychotic, sadistic sociopath, Tarantulas has a record for treachery rivaled by few other Transformers.  Tarantulas is actually an agent of the [[Tripredacus Council]], which is trying to coax the Beast Wars toward an unspecified goal, where neither Autobot or Decepticon won the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]].  Who knows what other [[Unicron|dark secrets]] lie in his past.
Four of the six individual issues topped Diamond Comic Distributors' sales charts for the month they were released in (with one issue losing to another Dreamwave ''Transformers'' title and the other one to a special publicity stunt by [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]), an accomplishment no other ''Transformers'' comic title has achieved before or afterwards.


If anything upsets Tarantulas, other than losing a potential meal, it's those pompous aliens who call themselves the [[Vok]]. He harbors a hatred for them strong enough to make him work to eliminate them by any means.
Highlights include the gripping appearance of a [[Larry|time-lost sage]], a hand-written note that forecast doom for the story's protagonist, unbelievably adult situations, and a [[:Image:Devastator-dullsurprise.jpg|cliffhanger]] so massive in scale that it kept readers guessing for nearly two whole months!  


{{bigquote|You're ''insane.''|[[Tigerhawk]]}}
At three-o'clock, will ''you'' be ready?
{{bigquote|So they ''saa''-aay!  Wbrrwbrrbbppth!|Tarantulas|"[[Other Victories]]"}}


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Revision as of 04:20, 1 April 2010

Prime Directive is the critically-acclaimed six-part miniseries published by Dreamwave Productions in 2002, and set in the main G1 Dreamwave continuity. Centering on the revival of the Transformers after a catastrophe several years prior, it is a tour de force of war, love, and pathos which has been hailed as the greatest Transformers fiction to ever be written and illustrated.

Four of the six individual issues topped Diamond Comic Distributors' sales charts for the month they were released in (with one issue losing to another Dreamwave Transformers title and the other one to a special publicity stunt by Marvel), an accomplishment no other Transformers comic title has achieved before or afterwards.

Highlights include the gripping appearance of a time-lost sage, a hand-written note that forecast doom for the story's protagonist, unbelievably adult situations, and a cliffhanger so massive in scale that it kept readers guessing for nearly two whole months!

At three-o'clock, will you be ready?

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