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1898: by order of the President, an investigation is undertaken of a blind mental patient's claims of a thirty-six feet tall steel man...

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Decepticons	Humans	Others
Megatron (10) Jetfire (11)	Joseph Wells (1) Walter Simmons I (2) Billy North (4) Archibald Witwicky (5) Reginald Danco (6) Jack Arden (7) Phillp Bowen (8) Theodore Grant (9)	Creatures (3)

While the art keeps our heroes Joseph and Walter consistent (Joseph has dark hair and mutton chops, silver-haired Walter has a mustache), the script does not do them such favors. On page four, North refers to them as "Joseph Simmons" and "Walter Wells", and on the following page, Joseph mispronounces "Witwicky" as "Wickety", just as Seymour Simmons did in the first movie, a joke to seemingly prove the two characters' relation. From page eight onward, however, the pair's surnames are switched, and the whole story becomes framed by excerpts from the journal of "Walter Simmons", indicating that he is actually supposed to be the Simmons in this story.
Compounding the problem, on page fourteen, Arden refers to "Wells" as "the fat one", but Walter is the plumper of the two (yet not so noticeably as to be a defining feature).
John Barber's continuity notes at the end of the issue confirm that Walter is Simmons, but give Wells's name as "Theodore"!

Joseph, Walter and Danco all previously appeared, unnamed, in the second issue of the Movie Prequel comic. A building containing mysterious objects that appeared to be Sector Seven's headquarters appeared in that comic, at a time before the movie itself claimed the organization was supposed to have been founded, but is here retconned away as being Walter and Joseph's trophy collection from the various strange adventures and treasure-hunts they've been on.
Walter evidently passes his name on to his son, since another Walter Simmons appears in the first movie prequel novel, "Ghosts of Yesterday".
The ship's manifest seen on page nine is the list of the "Original Seven" released on the internet during the Sector Seven alternate reality game promotion for the first movie. The names are here established to be aliases for the real men.
Jetfire's appearance in this issue comes during the time he was wandering the Earth, previously glossed over in the final pages of Tales of the Fallen #3.
The ship Jetfire accidentally destroys, the USS Maine, was a real-life ship, the sinking of which started the Spanish-American War. Nice goin' there, Jetfire.
On page fourteen, Bowen is reading The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (for whom Joseph is named).
Early online solicitations for this issue accidentally claimed it was being written and drawn by the creative team of IDW's True Blood comic. Copy-paste cock-up!

Cover A: Archibald discovers Megatron, sepia version by Brian Rood of art originally by Josh Nizzi.
Cover B: Sector 7 flotsam and jetsam by Joe Suitor.
Cover RI: An incentive cover of the flotsam and jetsam in lovely black borders.

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 *The ship's manifest seen on page nine is the list of the "Original Seven" released on the internet during the [[Sector Seven (game)|Sector Seven alternate reality game]] promotion for the first movie. The names are here established to be aliases for the real men.
 *Jetfire's appearance in this issue comes during the time he was wandering the Earth, previously glossed over in the final pages of [[Tales of the Fallen issue 3|''Tales of the Fallen'' #3]].
-*The ship Jetfire accidentally destroys, the ''U.S.S. Maine'', was a real-life ship, the sinking of which started the Spanish-American War. Nice goin' there, Jetfire.
+*The ship Jetfire accidentally destroys, the [[wikipedia:USS Maine (ACR-1)|USS ''Maine'']], was a real-life ship, the sinking of which started the Spanish-American War. Nice goin' there, Jetfire.
 *On page fourteen, Bowen is reading ''The War of the Worlds'' by H.G. Wells (for whom Joseph is named).
 *Early online solicitations for this issue accidentally claimed it was being written and drawn by the creative team of IDW's ''True Blood'' comic. Copy-paste cock-up!