The Ascending issue 2

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I think they fought the Gargoyles.
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published October 17, 2007
Cover date September 2007
Written by Simon Furman
Art by Don Figueroa
Colors by Josh Burcham
Colors assist by Andrew Elder & Jeong Joo Park
Letters by Robbie Robbins
Edits by Dan Taylor
Continuity Beast Wars cartoon continuity

The secret battle between Ravage's Predacons and Razorbeast's Pack must cease in order to prevent Shokaract's ascension...

Synopsis

A disembodied Unicron commands his loyal servants to eliminate an rogue element in the timestream and to not tell the "vessel". He orders Rartorata to travel to prehistoric Earth to stop anyone from alerting of his coming.

On Earth, even with Torca and Grimlock, Ravage's Predacons have the advantage in the battle. Snarl calls Razorbeast outside to help fight, leaving Ravage inside the cave base, unaware that the Predacon is still functional. Using the Maximals' hardware, Ravage shifts his chronal placement to interact with the primary Beast Wars. But before arriving in the same existence as Optimus Primal and Megatron's war, Ravage finds himself drawn out of time to Magmatron. Having seen the future, Magmatron explains to Ravage that a truce is in order to save Cybertron's future, which convinces the Predacon to consider the option.

On Cybertron, the Maximal Imperium, finding their society destabilized and unaware of the effects that Angolmois energy is having on the populace of Cybertron, call for help from Big Convoy. Big Convoy, however is too busy investigating a murder—one Angolmois junkie being killed so the Angolmois could be stolen. Unknown to him, the theft of Angolmois was perpetrated by Drancron, Elephorca, and Rarotata so they could feed the energy to Shokaract.

Back on Earth, Lio Convoy's Pack arrives through transwarp after having received Razorbeast's distress signal (thanks to Magmatron), ready to assist the group on Earth. They descend, changing the tide of battle with their heavy weaponry. But before the battle is over, Ravage shifts himself into their time and relays the news from Magmatron: the two sides must join forces. But before he can finish explaining, Rartorata swoops out and stings Razorbeast with something that mutates the Maximal into a razorback of rage!

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals Predacons Others

Notes

  • Stampy is shown holding a carrot while in the Maximal ship—apparently his "beast head" hand was hungry.
  • The Maximal ship used by The Pack seems to be loosely based on the Maximal symbol.
  • The murdered Angolmois junkie is the Monster GoBot Pincher, albeit miscolored. Well, that's either him or Vice Grip, either works.
  • The Imperium dwells in a tower with a roof shaped like the Maximal insignia, rather than the Council Citadel.
  • Big Convoy's dialogue seems to indicate some Maximal-Predacon discrimination is going on in Cybertron's legal system as he has to remind Ikard to tell the Imperium that the mob that killed the junkie was an equal mix of Maximal and Predacon. Other Beast Wars fiction also indicates this, such as one of Megatron's lines in The Agenda (Part III).
  • This issue features an interesting way to avoid creating a continuity error; Magmatron stops Ravage from interacting with the primary Beast Wars by shunting him out of time, which prevents Ravage from carrying out his plan. The comics take place during the early parts of Season 3 of the show, while Ravage kicked the bucket before then. Basically, Magmatron's intervention stopped Ravage from accidentally incurring a temporal paradox in-fiction and a continuity error out of it.

Errors

  • Mark Bristow, the colorist of the previous issue, is incorrectly credited for the colors of this issue instead of Josh Burcham.
  • On the third page, Wolfang addresses one of his statements to himself, because the second two speech balloons (his and Bonecrusher's) are reversed. This was corrected for the Transformers: Beast Wars Omnibus.

Covers (3)

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Specifics: Cover RI
  • Cover A: The Pack arrive; art by Don Figueroa.
  • Cover B: Ravage attacks Optimus Primal; art by Nick Roche.
  • Cover RI: Uncolored version of cover B

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