The Bridge to Nowhere!
While the Cybertronian Decepticons build a device that will allow travel between Cybertron and Earth, the Autobots make a desperate attempt to stop them.
Marvel US issue #18
(Story also appears in: Marvel UK issues #68-69, IDW Transformers: Generations #6)
Script: Bob Budiansky
Pencils: Don Perlin
Inks: Keith Williams & Vince Colletta
Lettering: Janice Chiang
Colors: Nelson Yomtov
Editor: Michael Carlin
- Major characters (in order of appearance): Straxus, Shrapnel, Bombshell, Kickback, Blaster, Powerglide, Perceptor, Cosmos, Seaspray, Warpath, Beachcomber, Soundwave, Megatron, Donny Finkleberg, Shockwave, Spanner
- Originally published: July, 1986
Synopsis
The Decepticons construct a space bridge to enable travel to Earth, but it is still not perfected. The Autobots attempt to sabotage the bridge, but Blaster hesitates to set all the necessary explosives when he discovers that the neutral scientist Spanner, who had been kidnapped by the Decepticons, has actually been reconfigured into the space bridge itself. The Decepticons discover Blaster, and stop his sabotage efforts. In the process, the bridge is activated, and Straxus' body is destroyed while battling Blaster. Blaster and his Autobot teammates travel to the other side of the space bridge to arrive on Earth, but the bridge disappears behind them, and they are trapped on a strange new world.
Errors
- Straxus' colors change extensively by comparison to the previous issue.
Items of note
- References to other Transformers continuities/issues: Donny Finkleberg was captured by the Decepticons in I, Robot-Master!.
- The full title of the previous issue was given as Return to Cybertron Part 1: The Smelting Pool!. Ostensibly, this would make The Bridge To Nowhere! Return to Cybertron Part 2, although it is not explicitly named as such.
- This issue introduces the concept of the Space Bridge, and it is radically different to how it appears in the cartoon.
- This issue was reprinted as issue 6 of IDW Publishing's Generations series.
