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| Enemy Action! | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | February 13, 1988 - February 20, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Jeff Anderson | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Stephen Baskerville | ||||||||||||
| Colours | Steve White | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Glib | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
Shockwave hastily attacks Galvatron and plays right into the future Decepticon's hands.
Synopsis
Having recently escaped from his entombment in Mount Verona, Galvatron approaches the Decepticons' island base, causing Shockwave to fear for his position as leader. Against Soundwave’s recommendation he unleashes the Seacons who have recently arrived on Earth to fortify the base. They attack Galvatron, much to the future Decepticon’s amusement.
Meanwhile on the surface the Sparkabots, on Springer’s orders, have been tracking Galvatron since his escape from the volcano. As they plan what action to take they are attacked by the Firecons who have been sent to Earth to forge an alliance between Galvatron and the Decepticons on Cybertron.
Galvatron makes short work of the Seacons even when they combine to form Piranacon. Shockwave begins to fear that he has made a terrible mistake by attacking Galvatron so hastily and he gathers the Decepticons together, ready to fight Galvatron. Much to Shockwave’s horror and surprise when Galvatron enters the base he informs the Decepticons that he had come in peace to form an alliance. But now because Shockwave chose to attack him he is now their enemy.
Galvatron then leaves Shockwave to deal with his angry troops. His plan had always been to undermine Shockwave’s leadership so that the Decepticons would ultimately welcome him when he later takes control.
As he comes out of the ocean Galvatron is approached by the Firecons with an offer of an alliance. He laughs the suggestion off and leaves the Firecons and Sparkabots alone on the beach. Shockwave decides that what he needs is an expendable weapon and begins his search for Megatron.
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Quotes
"What is this? Shockwave sends fish against me? Does he expect me to laugh myself to death?"
"Laugh this off, Galvatron! No-one badmouths Skalor and lives!"
Galvatron slugs Skalor
"Sadly, that is no longer the case!"
- —Galvatron makes Skalor look like a tool.
Errors
- Flamefeather's chest gains a feathered pattern between parts 1 and 2.
- Sizzle says that the Sparkabots did not have their guns while fighting the Firecons but somehow manages to threaten Galvatron with a gun later.
Items of note
- First appearance of the Seacons.
- First appearance of the Sparkabots.
- First appearance of the Firecons. Did Hasbro UK order all this product placement at once?
- There are several notable variances between the new characters and their toys, possibly due to Marvel UK receiving early and/or incomplete information about toys that were not yet on sale when the story was produced. Variances include:
- The Seacon known as Jawbreaker in the comic was released as a toy under the name of Overbite. A letters page later clarified that Shockwave arbitrarily renamed Jawbreaker "Overbite" when he arrived on Earth, but that everyone still called him Jawbreaker.
- Fizzle and Sizzle's colour schemes were reversed so that Fizzle appeared in red and Sizzle in blue. This was consistently followed for all their future appearances in robot mode in the UK comic, though Fizzle's car mode would be coloured blue from "City of Fear!" onwards. However in the US story "Ca$h and Car-nage!" they would appear in their toy colours.
- The Sparkabots are here referred to as the Sparkler Mini-Bots.
- Snaptrap's name is consistently spelt as two words—Snap Trap.
- Shockwave is a jerk.
- Following the demise of the UK Action Force (G.I. Joe) comic after 50 issues, Transformers issue #153 saw the comic start to reprint US G.I. Joe stories as the regular back-up strip. The comic's name was changed to The Transformers and Action Force.
- Additionally the Robo-Capers strip was replaced by Action Force's Combat Colin.
Back-Up Stories
Issue #152:
- Iron Man - "Stratosfire" Part 7
- Robo-Capers
Issue #153:
- Action Force - "Slaughter" Part 1
- Combat Colin
Reprints
- This story was reprinted in Collected Comics #14. A printing error resulted in the inversion of the colours on page five of part two.
- It was reprinted again by Titan Books in 2003 as part of their "Legacy of Unicron" trade paperback. The colours were correct this time.
Covers
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Issue #152 cover -
Issue #153 cover -
Collected Comics #14 -
Transformers Comic-Magazin issue #19 -
Legacy of Unicron TPB cover
- Issue #152 cover: Galvatron battles the Seacons, by Lee Sullivan.
- Issue #153 cover: Action Force burst into the comic, by Lee Sullivan.
- Collected Comics #14 cover: Re-use of issue #152 cover, by Lee Sullivan.
- Transformers Comic-Magazin issue #19 cover: Galvatron and some interesting attempts at Firecons.
- Legacy of Unicron TPB cover: Unicron's head vs. Death's Head, Wreck-Gar & Rodimus Prime, by Geoff Senior & Oliver Harud.
