Gone but Not Forgotten!

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<tbody><tr style="font-size: 14px;"> <td class="tti_buttonlink"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Afterdeath%21" title="Afterdeath!">«</a> </td><td align="center"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers_%28Marvel_Comics%29" title="The Transformers (Marvel Comics)">The Transformers (US)</a> #25 </td><td class="tti_buttonlink" align="right"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Funeral_for_a_Friend%21" title="Funeral for a Friend!">»</a> </td></tr> <tr class="tt1_secondarynav"> <td class="tti_buttonlink"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Afterdeath%21" title="Afterdeath!">«</a> </td><td align="center"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Generation_1_%28Marvel_Comics%29#Marvel_UK" class="mw-redirect" title="Generation 1 (Marvel Comics)">The Transformers (UK)</a> #107–108 </td><td class="tti_buttonlink" align="right"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Funeral_for_a_Friend%21" title="Funeral for a Friend!">»</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" align="center"> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:MarvelUS-25.jpg" class="image" title="MarvelUS-25.jpg"><img alt="" src="Gone%20but%20Not%20Forgotten%21_files/230px-MarvelUS-25.jpg" border="0" height="352" width="230"></a><br>The 25th Anniversary mark is so common that it's a special occasion not to have it. </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(231, 212, 146); color: black; font-weight: bold;" align="center"> "Gone but Not Forgotten!" </td></tr> <tr> <td>Publisher </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marvel_Comics" title="Marvel Comics">Marvel Comics</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Date published </td><td> October 1986 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Cover date </td><td> February 1987 </td></tr>










<tr> <td>Writer </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Bob_Budiansky" title="Bob Budiansky">Bob Budiansky</a> </td></tr>






























<tr> <td>Penciler </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Don_Perlin" title="Don Perlin">Don Perlin</a> </td></tr>


















<tr> <td>Inkers </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Ian_Akin" title="Ian Akin">Ian Akin</a> & <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Brian_Garvey" title="Brian Garvey">Brian Garvey</a> </td></tr>









<tr> <td>Colorist </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nelson_Yomtov" title="Nelson Yomtov">Nel Yomtov</a> </td></tr>




















<tr> <td>Letterer </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Janice_Chiang" title="Janice Chiang">Janice Chiang</a> </td></tr>







<tr> <td>Editor </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Don_Daley" title="Don Daley">Don Daley</a> </td></tr>












<tr> <td>Continuity </td><td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Marvel_Comics_continuity" title="Marvel Comics continuity">Marvel Comics continuity</a> </td></tr>



</tbody></table> As the Decepticons relocate to a new base, Shockwave plays a gambit to finally destroy Megatron.

<a name="Synopsis"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Gone_but_Not_Forgotten%21&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Synopsis">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Synopsis</span></h2> The <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="United States">United States</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/United_States_Military" title="United States Military">army</a> prepares to invade the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon" title="Decepticon">Decepticon</a> base. Unknown to them, the Decepticons are already planning to abandon this base for a new one off the Florida keys, intending to make better use of the stolen <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hydrothermocline" title="Hydrothermocline">hydrothermocline</a> to meet their energy needs. Megatron has other concerns on his mind. He is preoccupied with the death of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28G1%29" title="Optimus Prime (G1)">Optimus Prime</a>, unable to fully believe that his enemy is, in fact, dead. This uncertainty drives him mad (as well as the fact that it was a human that did the actual killing, rather than himself).

As the other Decepticons abandon their base, Shockwave and Soundwave stay behind to arrange for the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Predacon_%28G1%29" title="Predacon (G1)">Predacons</a> to attack and destroy Megatron. To further Megatron's confusion, the Predacons have been fitted with <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobot</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Insignia" title="Insignia">symbols</a>, to make him think that they have been sent by Optimus Prime.

The Predacons locate and attack Megatron who, despite being outnumbered five-to-one, is able to defend himself (although not unscathed by any means). Finding Megatron too strong for them to defeat in their individual forms, the Predacons combine into Predaking. However, Predaking just proves to be a bigger target, and Megatron defeats him with one blast of his <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Fusion_cannon" title="Fusion cannon">fusion cannon</a>.

When the Decepticons arrive at their new base, a Decepticon soldier (it is unclear who) locates a laser disk inside Predaking, which Soundwave then plays back to reveal Shockwave's attempt to have Megatron killed. As Megatron threatens to destroy Shockwave, Shockwave explains that he recorded major portions of his personality on the disk he gave to the Predacons: "I controlled the Predacons. I was with them as much as I am with you now!"

This revelation causes Megatron to reflect on Optimus Prime's death. He now knows what he did not see at the time: that Optimus Prime's personality had been saved on a computer disk. This awareness drives him mad once again, and he blows up the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Space_bridge" title="Space bridge">space bridge</a> to <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a> with himself on it. Both disappear, and Shockwave reflects that it was not he himself who destroyed Megatron, but "a memory did!"


<a name="Featured_characters"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Gone_but_Not_Forgotten%21&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Featured characters">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Featured characters</span></h2> (Numbers indicate order of appearance.)


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</td></tr></tbody></table> <a name="Errors"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Gone_but_Not_Forgotten%21&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Errors">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Errors</span></h2>

  • On page 8, the caption reads that Megatron "commands Drag

Strip to carry him to their destination," and the coloring is consistent with this. The art, however, shows Megatron entering Dead End. Later on the car he's in is drawn, colored, and referred to as Dead End.

  • When Dead End finds the laser disk in Predaking, Shockwave is drawn with only one arm.

<a name="Items_of_note"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Gone_but_Not_Forgotten%21&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Items of note">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Items of note</span></h2>

  • Brawl is seemingly killed in this issue. Don't worry, though. Even though his head is crushed, he later gets better.
  • It would appear that the American army is incapable of

distinguishing between an artillery bombardment and a shower of flying debris.

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<a name="UK_printing"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Gone_but_Not_Forgotten%21&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: UK printing">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">UK printing</span></h3>

  • This story is probably the most edited of any US story printed in the UK comic.
  • The Dead End mistake mentioned in the errors section was

fixed for the UK printing. Dead End was recolored in red, and the caption box was corrected, referring to him by his actual name.

  • Page 11 of the US comic was edited to make a better

cliffhanger for UK issue #107. Megatron was given new dialog, replacing a speech bubble of Dead End questioning his leader's sanity.

  • Megatron and the Predacons had met before in UK continuity. In the story arc beginning with "<a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prey%21" title="Prey!">Prey!</a>"

Shockwave employed the Predacons to hunt down and kill Megatron. However he was so deranged (and befuddled), that he didn't remember this first encounter. To reflect this previous meeting a lot of dialog was changed for the UK version of this issue.

  • On US page 9, Shockwave gives Razorclaw his assignment on

Earth. In the UK version, Razorclaw worries that Megatron will recognize him. Shockwave quickly allays those fears.

  • On US page 12, the Predacons lament having to change into

Earth forms. In the UK version, they lament having to stay in those forms since their last visit.

  • Some caption boxes on page 12 were changed to reflect the Predacons' previous visit. In particular the caption The Predacons have arrived! on was changed to The Predacons have returned! for the UK version.
  • On US page 13, Razorclaw says Megatron doesn't know the Predacons. In the UK version, he says Megatron doesn't remember them.


<div style="border: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); margin: 0pt auto 0.2em; padding: 2px; width: 90%; background-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); text-align: left;">Note: Considering the theme of memory and its importance running through this issue, these changes to the UK story almost seem appropriate.</div>

story was not 'in continuity' for the UK comics (and wasn't printed until years later). In the US version, Shockwave suggests contacting Cobra and telling them about the Decepticons' moving base. In the UK version, Shockwave talks instead about Megatron's mental instability.

<a name="Covers_.283.29"></a><h3><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Gone_but_Not_Forgotten%21&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Covers (3)">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Covers (3)</span></h3> <table class="gallery" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0pt; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:MarvelUS-25.jpg" class="image" title="MarvelUS-25.jpg"><img alt="" src="Gone%20but%20Not%20Forgotten%21_files/78px-MarvelUS-25.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="78"></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> US issue #25 - Predacons gone wild!


</div> </div></td> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0pt; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:MarvelUK-107.jpg" class="image" title="MarvelUK-107.jpg"><img alt="" src="Gone%20but%20Not%20Forgotten%21_files/87px-MarvelUK-107.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="87"></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> UK issue #107 - Ironically, Rampage isn't on this cover.


</div> </div></td> <td><div class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px;"> <div class="thumb" style="padding: 13px 0pt; width: 150px;"><div style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; width: 120px;"><a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:MarvelUK-108.jpg" class="image" title="MarvelUK-108.jpg"><img alt="" src="Gone%20but%20Not%20Forgotten%21_files/87px-MarvelUK-108.jpg" border="0" height="120" width="87"></a></div></div> <div class="gallerytext"> UK issue #108 - Hang on, haven't we been here <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Prey" class="mw-redirect" title="Prey">before</a>?


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