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« The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye Annual 2012 »
"Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published September 12, 2012
Cover date August 2012
Written by James Roberts
Art by Jimbo Salgado & Emil Cabaltierra
Flashback art by Guido Guidi
Color by Juan Fernandez with Joana Lafuente
Letters by Chris Mowry
Editor John Barber
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Current era (2012)

The dead rise, Ultra Magnus smiles, and everything you know is wrong!

Synopsis

1: Signs and Portents

It's a typical day on the Lost Light: a swarm of long-dormant Nanocons, hidden inside Ultra Magnus's body for years, have suddenly become active again, and Brainstorm has shrunk Rodimus and a team of Autobots with his mass-displacement gun so they can enter Magnus's body and wipe them out. They are unable to stop the Nanocons before they reach Magnus's mouth, however, and at Ratchet's direction, Magnus is forced to smile to crush them in his mouth-pistons and prevent their escape. Unfortunately for Magnus, this makes him a laughingstock aboard the ship, and he does not take it well.

Once everyone is back at full size, preparations begin for the day's other big event: having passed his Autobot Code exam, Tailgate is getting his probationary Autobot badge. While Cyclonus silently rebuffs an invitation to the Act of Affiliation ceremony, the other attendees deal with their own problems: Rewind helps Chromedome through the shock of an inherited memory of death, Swerve goes looking for Red Alert in the bowels of the ship and is horrified with the corpse of Ore—still enmeshed with the quantum generators—begins talking to him, and Drift tries to convince Rodimus that he's saying "'Til all are one" a bit too much. As Rodimus and Drift move to discussing their impending arrival on Theophany, home of the Circle of Light, Magnus enters, threatening to leave the ship over his mockery at the hands of the crew. Rodimus calms his down, and Magnus then voices his concern about their failure to make contact with the Circle of Light, despite Drift's assurances that the Circle can take care of themselves.

2: Sacraments and Ceremonies

Tailgate's ceremony begins, with the audience members taking bets on how long it will take Rodimus to say "'Til all are one" (Brainstorm wins after five seconds). As Rodimus recounts his own Act of Affiliation, Skids notices that Ambulon is absent, and is inform by First Aid that he is in the medibay, where a group of offline Autobots have suddenly reactivated and begun clutching their ears. And that's not the only strange thing going on: as Rodimus bends to draw Tailgate's Autobot symbol onto his chest, he instead writes "Let me out" in Old Cybertronian. As he immediately has no memory of doing so, Drift suspects he was possessed by something, and Ratchet's attempts to be rational are drowned out by word coming through on the comm from Swerve of Ore's sudden return to life as well. Perceptor instructs Swerve to keep Ore calm, lest he panic and trigger the quantum generators, so the talkative little 'bot pretends to be Pipes and confesses to Ore all his hopes, fears and disappointments, particularly the guilt he carries following his accidental shooting of Rung.

As if things weren't bad enough, the Lost Light is then hailed by Captain K'Gard of the The Benign Intervention, an enforcer of the Galactic Council, who informs the Autobots that, as members of a race blacklisted from the council for their war, they are trespassing in one of their sectors. K'Gard shocks the Autobots by revealing that the Circle of Light have disappeared from Theophany, and Ultra Magnus—known and respected by the captain—is able to provide legal precedent that grants the Autobots an hour to investigate. Without discussion, K'Gard teleports Magnus to The Benign Inverntion and invites him to join the council, simultaneously sending Rodimus and a team down to the planet's surface, where they discover Crystal City in ruins. Drift, having maintained an unrelentingly positive attitude about everything up until now, finally begins to crack and furiously stabs the ground with his Great Sword... causing a subsidence that dumps the Autobots into an underground cavern below Crystal City. There, they discover the secret of the Circle of Light: all along, they have been powering their city with a Metrotitan!

3: Epiphanies

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

Autobots Decepticons The Guiding Hand Galactic Council Others

Quotes

Notes

  • This double-sized issue was released about 3 weeks late.
  • Includes sketches of the Guiding Hand by Guido Guidi.
  • This brings Ultra Magnus's lifetime smile count up to three.

Errors

Wait 'til e-HOBBY see this...
  • First Aid is erroneously colored as Swerve in the first panel on page 11.
  • Skids is drawn with no left hand on page 15.
  • Rewind appears to be flying in data slug mode at the top of page 18.[1]
  • On the same page, Drift's entire body save for his head is colored entirely gray.
  • Cyclonus sports green eyes on pages 20 and 21.
  • Swerve appears on page 24 on the Metrotitan's face despite the fact that he's supposed to be talking to Ore on the Lost Light.
  • Speaking of Swerve's appearance on page 24, the speech bubbles in that panel appear to be attributed to the wrong characters. Rodimus calls the team Crusadercons, a term Swerve came up with in issue 2 of MTMTE, and says that they're going on a Brain-Quest, which matches up with Swerve's love of quests. Swerve responds to the first of Rodimus's speech bubbles with hesitation.
  • Tailgate is shown to be in the group that gets teleported to Theophany's surface, and is seen standing with Swerve on the Metrotitan's face. However, he's later shown to be still on the Lost Light with Ultra Magnus when the Metrotitan teleports everyone away.
  • Blaster is erroneously colored pink with a purple head on page 31.
  • Ratchet's hands are colored red on page 35.

Transformers references

  • Nanocons were first mentioned in "Zero Point", where it was left ambiguous whether or not they really existed or were just figments of Roadbuster's imagination.
  • Skyfall's death by drinking Gideon's Glue took place in the prose story "Bullets", also written by James Roberts, from the The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers TPB & HC.
  • During Cyclonus's story about Primus and the Guiding Hand, he stops to ask Rewind a question when he's about to name Primus's "opposite." He never does give the name, but we can guess who it might be; a certain chaos-bringer is keeping up his track record of not being mentioned by name in IDW continuity thus far.

Real-world references

  • Drift's lengthy list of the virtues of Crystal City's denizens, and inability to give a similar list for his own crew, tailing off with "...and us with our... with our...", leading to his crewmates' put down is very similar to an exchange in the UK sci-fi comedy Red Dwarf VI episode "Legion".

Crew manifest

Covers (3)

  • Cover A: Hot Rod & co. look at the collapsed Metrotitan, by Tim Seeley
  • Cover B: A fantail of pictures showing the cast with Crystal City at the centre, by Alex Milne
  • Cover RI: Ultra Magnus, Rodimus, Ratchet and half a Metrotitan, linking with the Robots in Disguise Annual 2012 cover, by Jimbo Salgado
  • Cover A
    Cover A
  • Cover B
    Cover B
  • Cover RI
    Cover RI

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References

  1. ↑ James Roberts: I'm afraid this is a misleading panel. Rewind can't fly in giant dataslug mode.
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