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* Given that Turmoil's time-travelling ship matches the craft piloted by the Reflectors that crashed on [[LV-117]] in ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]'', and their talk of being "fated" to carry out this mission, it looks like author John Barber is poised to resolve one of the most notable longstanding continuity errors in the IDW timeline: the fact that the Reflectors have been appearing alive despite their deaths in ''Spotlight: Wheelie''. Time travel fixes all ills!
* Given that Turmoil's time-travelling ship matches the craft piloted by the Reflectors that crashed on [[LV-117]] in ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]'', and their talk of being "fated" to carry out this mission, it looks like author John Barber is poised to resolve one of the most notable longstanding continuity errors in the IDW timeline: the fact that the Reflectors have been appearing alive despite their deaths in ''Spotlight: Wheelie''. Time travel fixes all ills!
* Superion is the first time an ''Autobot'' Combiner has shown up in IDW continuity.
* Superion is the first time an ''Autobot'' Combiner has shown up in IDW continuity.
* So the Aerialbots fought each other for a while, then combined into a giant robot. The Dinobots are currently fighting each other. It's a good thing Grimlock's not around, [[Beast (G1)| or Ironhide would be ''really'' slagged]]...


===Errors===
===Errors===
* In between pages 11 and 12, Circuit is suddenly colored like [[Rumbler (G1)|Rumbler]].  
* In between pages 11 and 12, Circuit is suddenly colored like [[Rumbler (G1)|Rumbler]].
* On the first panel of Page 19, Ironhide calls Silverbolt "Silverbot".


===Covers (3)===
===Covers (3)===

Revision as of 14:13, 8 September 2012

« The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #9
"Night and the City"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published September 5, 2012
Cover date September 2012
Story by John Barber
Art by Andrew Griffith
Colors by Joana Lafuente
Letters by Shawn Lee
Editor Carlos Guzman
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Current era (2012)

As Bumblebee continues to struggle with the burden of leadership, the Dinobots stalk Ironhide through the Cybertronian wilderness.

Synopsis

The demands of planetary governing weighing heavily upon him, Bumblebee takes a brief moment of peace to perch on the hull of Turmoil's captured spaceship, stare up at the stars, and wonder about using the time machine in the ship to undo past mistakes. His reverie is abruptly ended by the crash-landing of Sky Lynx, who has just barely made it back to the city after the disorienting effects he felt while transporting Ironhide and the Dinobots into the wilderness. His report gives Bumblebee pause to wonder if some external force could be controlling the Autobots, Decepticons and NAILs, causing their conflicts, but Wheeljack debunks the theory when he scans Sky Lynx and confirms that the mind-altering effects are not occurring within Iacon. Wheeljack offers three possibily reasons why: simple luck, some still-active mechanism in the heart of Kimia is protecting them, or... the planet itself is responsible, wanting to keep the Transformers together. As if on cue, Metalhawk and Starscream arrive to offer their help finding Ironhide's team, but Bumblebee turns them down; Starscream thinks he is attempting to prevent him from currying favour with the populous in the face of upcoming elections, and although Metalhawk disputes so outlandish a claim, Bumblebee remains silent...

Out in the wilderness, the wounded Ironhide awakens to the sight of Slag and Swoop in battle, and attempts to sneak away, only to be stopped by the still-living Sludge—largely unaffected by the destruction of his dino-mode head—who has also come under the same uncontrollable rage that has seized the others. Snarl, too, proves to still be alive, and his entry into the fray gives Ironhide a chance to get to safety. Activating his comm device, Ironhide picks up a recording from the missing Silverbolt, locks onto its source, and begins heading toward it.

Bumblebee visits Maccadam's Old Oil House to speak with Blurr, hoping his disaffected comrade will rejoin the fold to help search for the missing Ironhide. Blurr is reluctant, seeing in Prowl the same unemotional, black-and-white views on life and death as those held by Zeta Prime—whose life Blurr saved upon joining the Autobots—but Bumblebee is able to talk him into helping. Their conversation is observed by Ravage and Reflector at the behest of Shockwave, who has charged them with a special mission... although unbeknownst to the Decepticons, they are also being observed by the gun-toting Arcee.

Making his way through the wilds, Ironhide listens as Silverbolt's recording explains that the madness also took hold of the other four Aerialbots, but that over time, they all began working together to hunt their leader down. Ironhide soon learns that the same has happened to the Dinobots as they catch up to him and attack, but he is able to push them back and breaks into a run, covering the last of the distance to the source of Silverbolt's signal. What he finds, however, is anything but expected: somehow, the five Aerialbots have become merged into one single being: a titan that scoops Ironhide up into the safety of his grip, and turn on the Dinobots, introducing himself as The Superion!

Bumblebee returns to Turmoil's ship to try and clear his head, and finds Wheeljack there, still working on the time machine. Bumblebee half-joking proposes several uses for the device, but Wheeljack explains that it does not allow for travel back and forth through time, only sideways, meaning that there will be no easy answers. Unfortunately, the ship chooses that moment to vanish: whether stolen by enemies or departed of its own volition, no-one can say, but it's just one more problem for Bumblebee's list... as the weight of leadership grows ever greater...

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons NAILs

Quotes

Starscream: "We figured you guys could use a couple of fliers to help find Ironhide and the Monsterbots."
Bumblebee: "Dinobots."
Starscream: "Whatever. I figure four morons and a 'bot who's already crazy are probably going to be worse off than Lynx."
Bumblebee: "You—what? Ironhide's not crazy—"
Starscream: "Bumblebee, he thinks he can't die because he saw a vision of the future."
Metalhawk: "You do know what "crazy" means...?"


"I... ron... hide... You... you have... found we... Us... am... were... Aerialbots. Now... Dinobots... you answer to the Superion."

—Superion is obviously a little mixed-up

Notes

  • This issue is named after the 1938 Gerald Kirsh novel, Night and the City.
  • Wheeljack has a panel welded to his chest, covering the hole blown in him by Turmoil back in issue #7.
  • Blurr refers back to his saving Zeta Prime's life, the setup for which occurred in Spotlight: Blurr. The unfortunate ramifications of this, as Zeta descended into zealotry, were chronicled in Autocracy.
  • Given that Turmoil's time-travelling ship matches the craft piloted by the Reflectors that crashed on LV-117 in Spotlight: Wheelie, and their talk of being "fated" to carry out this mission, it looks like author John Barber is poised to resolve one of the most notable longstanding continuity errors in the IDW timeline: the fact that the Reflectors have been appearing alive despite their deaths in Spotlight: Wheelie. Time travel fixes all ills!
  • Superion is the first time an Autobot Combiner has shown up in IDW continuity.
  • So the Aerialbots fought each other for a while, then combined into a giant robot. The Dinobots are currently fighting each other. It's a good thing Grimlock's not around, or Ironhide would be really slagged...

Errors

  • In between pages 11 and 12, Circuit is suddenly colored like Rumbler.
  • On the first panel of Page 19, Ironhide calls Silverbolt "Silverbot".

Covers (3)

  • "NOTHING, LITTLE ONE? WHAT WOULD YOU SAY... ABOUT ME?"
    "NOTHING, LITTLE ONE? WHAT WOULD YOU SAY... ABOUT ME?"

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