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Revision as of 12:53, 6 May 2012

« The Transformers: Regeneration One #80.5
File:Regeneration One 80-5.jpg
"Counterpoint"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published May 5, 2012
Cover date May 2012
Writer Simon Furman
Penciler Andrew Wildman
Inker Stephen Baskerville
Colorist Jean-Paul Bove
Letterer Chris Mowry
Editor John Barber
Continuity Marvel Comics continuity

Everything old is new again!

Synopsis

From the realm of Zero Space, at the end of all existence where all of time and space has collapsed into a perfect singularity, the history of the Transformers is examined, from the battle between Primus and Unicron to the birth of the Transformers and the outbreak of the Autobot/Decepticon civil war... from the arrival of their war on Earth, through the rise of Shockwave, the fall of Megatron, and the creation of combiners and Headmasters, to devastation of the Underbase Saga... from Thunderwing and the tainting of the Creation Matrix through the return of Unicron and his herald Galvatron to the death of Optimus Prime... and to Prime's resurrection at the hands of the Last Autobot, who then restores Cybertron to glory once again!

Twenty-one years have passed since Cybertron's restoration. The world is at peace, populated by Autobots and Decepticons alike, and is presided over by the Last Autobot, perpetually standing sentinel atop a tower in Iacon. But history has a habit of repeating itself, and once again, malcontents rally under the mantra of "Peace through tyranny", as Soundwave gathers several Decepticons at Fort Scyk and inspires them to retake for themselves the destiny Megatron had always envisioned.

Catching wind of this dissident activity, Kup and Ultra Magnus travel to Nova Point, where a brooding Optimus Prime has sequestered himself to mentor Hot Rod, and petition their leader for permission to send the Wreckers in to stop the uprising before it begins. Believing that such an action would only galvanize support for the Decepticons, Prime forbids it, brusquely dismissing both Kup and Magnus, and their concerns that the threat is real.

Unfortunately, Prime could not be more wrong. Soundwave leads a Decepticon strike team in a raid on the Kalis-Baird beaming transmitter, killing the Autobots manning the facility and hijacking control of one of Cybertron's orbital defense satellites. Normally used to destroy asteroids, Soundwave redirects the satellite to face the planet, and fires upon Iacon and the Last Autobot!

(Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.)
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans Others

Quotes

"No kidding! "It's over--finished!" He really said that?"

—A passing Cybertronian is introduced to the concept of the Furmanism

Notes

  • This issue was released as part of Free Comic Book Day 2012.
  • The inside front cover contains an introduction from author Simon Furman, explaining the premise of the series for new readers.
  • While the sections of the story set in the present day draw and colour characters with their more "standard" recognizable designs, flashbacks do their best to accurately represent the characters as they appeared in the Marvel Comics series by replicating the color layouts and limited palette of the comic at the time. The most prominent example is Soundwave, whois coloured purple in the flashbacks, as he was in the comics, but appears in his more familiar blue in present day scenes. Flashbacks Megatron with a black helmet, and use various shades of blue to represent black, while in the present day, Kup is actually teal, instead of the various blues the original comics required him to be. By contrast, though, Hot Rod is still using his Marvel color layout even in the present day, though he's a much lighter magenta, as opposed to his Marvel purple.
  • Twenty-one years have passed both in the real world and in-story between the publication of this issue and issue #80 of the original series.
  • Optimus Prime sequestering himself at Nova Point and brooding about the future was also how the original continuation of issue #80, the UK-exclusive story "Another Time & Place]", began.

Errors

  • Fort Scyk, which originally appeared in "The Magnificent Six!", is said to be in Polyhex, when that story placed it in Stanix. This issue does present it as an isolated location, consistent with the original tale, and we're sure that it's use as a meeting place for the neo-Decepticons is not coincidental, given the original story's description of it as a dumping ground for undesirables.

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