Transformers Comic issue 1

Titan Transformers Comic #1 »
This is what comic books look like in the UK now. It makes us sad too.
Publisher	Titan Magazines
Cover date	July 2007
Editor	Steve White
Deputy editor	Andrew James & Ned Hartley
Assistant editor	Den Patrick
Designer	Robert Farmer & Martin Stiff
Publishing manager	Darryl Curtis

Optimus Prime learns that sending the All Spark into space was not a good idea...

Contents

Prelude: Optimus Prime

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Prelude: Optimus Prime
Script	Simon Furman
Art	Geoff Senior
Colours	Robin Smith
Lettering	Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft
Continuity	Main Transformers prequel

Optimus Prime makes the decision to send the All Spark into space to ensure Megatron can never find it. This is a decision that weighs heavy, as its absence could condemn Cybertron to a slow death. A Decepticon drone assassin—one in a long line of them—attacks the Autobot base in search of Optimus, who goes out to meet the threat head on, ordering his assistant Arctus to launch if he doesn't make it back. Destroying the drone by transforming and ramming into it at high speed, Optimus is left badly damaged and sees a vision of the Transformer war spread to other worlds. This causes him to question launching the All Spark. But it's too late, as it's already been launched...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots
Optimus Prime (2) Arctus (4)

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• Class Alpha drone unit (1)
• Megatron (3)

Articles & features

• Character Profile: Optimus Prime — Much-shortened version of the profile from Transformers: The Movie Guide.
• Cybertron Smackdown: Ratchet v. Barricade — Fantasy Football matchup, written by Simon Furman.
• Transformers: The Animated Movie Special - Short article on the original movie and a competition to win Metrodome's new "Ultimate Edition" DVD.
• Competition to win Beast Machines Season 1 DVD.
• Top Gear — Win Transformers clothes and roleplay toys.
• Optimus Prime Poster — Dreamworks CGI

Free Gift

• Cardboard dog tags, with Autobot or Decepticon logos on them.

Reprints

Reprinted stories are only a portion of their respective issues.

• Transformers: Movie Prequel, part 1a (7 pages)
• Beast Wars: The Gathering, part 1a (6 pages)

Errors

• The Mech Mail letters page contains letters from young children who've already seen the film... which hadn't come out by this point. Oh, Titan.

Quotes

"No matter how many times Megatron tries to kill me, no matter how many drones he sends at me... I stubbornly refuse to die. I'd give my own life in an instant if it meant an end to this carnage, but right now — for better or for worse — I am the only thing standing between Megatron and the All Spark!"

—Optimus exposits while personally slaughtering an entire platoon of Dreadwings

Items of note

• The Prelude strip ties into the Movie Prequel reprint. One panel even shows Bumblebee and his team!
• Geoff Senior coloured the first two pages of #1 for an interview at TransFans.co.uk, which — due to less grey — look quite different to the printed version. He stated in the same interview that he didn't have time to colour it himself for the issue, but is now colouring it for his own enjoyment.
• Every issue of the comic contains a "Fantastic Free" gift. Steve White has stated they are trying to come up with free gift ideas that aren't "some piece of cheap plastic", a challenge considering the small budget they are given.
• The story was reprinted as part of Saga of the Allspark #1.