Transformers Comic issue 5.2

« Transformers: Age of Extinction #2 »
Publisher	Titan Magazines
First published	August 2014
Editor	Rona Simpson
Senior editor	Natalie Clubb
Designer	Dan Bura
Price	£3.99

Crosshairs goes it alone against the Decepticons.

Thousand Island Fight

• Script: Robin Etherington
• Pencils, inks and colour: Andres Ponce
• Lettering: Comicraft
• Continuity: Transformers: Age of Extinction (prequel)

Following the Battle of Chicago, the Autobots are hunting Earth for the last of the Decepticon resistance. This mission takes Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and new teammate Crosshairs to Jakarta in Indonesia, where they encounter a trio of their foes. Just as the Autobots resolve to move the battle away from the city's slums, the Decepticons suddenly retreat. Crosshairs, however, has planted a tracker on their leader, and asks Optimus Prime's permission to go after them alone. Optimus agrees, but sends Bumblebee to secretly monitor the situation.

Crosshairs tracks the Decepticons to Pulua Bidadari in the Thousand Islands, and successfully launches a surprise attack. Darting around the battlefield, he tricks the Decepticons into firing on one of their own, before shooting down another himself. Crosshairs is confronted by the Decepticon leader, who gloats that they knew about the tracker and were ordered to lure the Autobots to the island. The Autobot ranger is unfazed, however, and reveals the device to also be a bomb, which he promptly detonates, destroying the final Decepticon.

Shortly afterwards, Prime and Bumblebee rendezvous with Crosshairs, and the Autobot leader congratulates the ranger on a job well done. However, Optimus feels as though the Autobots may have missed something about the mission ... and right he is, as Lockdown, who was commanding the Decepticon group, watches them from afar.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Optimus Prime (2) Crosshairs (6) Bumblebee (7)	Purple Decepticon (3) Osprey Decepticon (4) Green Decepticon (5) Lockdown (8)	Indonesian children (1)

Errors

• Although the story occurs before Age of Extinction, Optimus Prime and Bumblebee sport the new bodies they acquire part-way through that film.

Contents

Articles and features

• The Beesting! Stinger VS Bumblebee – Bios and stats for Bumblebee and Stinger.
• The Lowdown on... Crosshairs – Bio and facts on Crosshairs.
• Competition – Win an Autobot insignia light and five of Paladone's blind-packed Transformers figures.
• Battle for the Beast! – Simple board game where the players race to collect or destroy CNA that could be used to create a beast greater than Grimlock!
• Poster – Pull-out poster featuring Bumblebee and Strafe
• Meet the Real Dinos! – Facts on the Tyrannosaurus rex, pterodactyl, and Triceratops.
• Crosshairs' Conundrums – Solve puzzles to prove yourself to Crosshairs.
• Competition – Win a limited edition copy of Transformers: Prime Season 2 Vol. 1, including a blind-packed Arms Micron and packet of trading cards.
• Lockdown's Letterbox – Lockdown and Crosshairs remark on readers' artwork.
• Grimlock Gridlock! – Find Cybertronian tranquilising spark darts in a maze to subdue a rampaging Grimlock.

Free Gift!

• Action figure! – Static Transformers: Prime figurine of either Arcee or Bumblebee, previously available with Colombian newspaper 'El Tiempo'.
• Topps trading cards!

Notes

Errors

• As in the previous issue, Strafe is referred to as Swoop.

Trivia

• Crosshairs is apparently friends with Team Prime. Somehow.