Flashback!
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| "Flashback!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 28th April 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 5th May 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | John Marshall | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Stephen Baskerville | ||||||||||||
| Lettering | Glib | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity/Earthforce | ||||||||||||
In pursuit of Megatron, Prowl goes back to his own death!
Synopsis
The Autobots have discovered Megatron is using a Flashback Doorway to project his mind into a being in the past. Prowl steps through to follow him and arrives inside his own past body during the battle with the Underbase powered Starscream.
Megatron is after extra troops and has possessed the body of Snap Trap with the intention of altering history to ensure the Seacons survive. Because of the consequences this could have to the timeline, Prowl seeks to stop him. Confronting them in the river, Prowl calls out Megatron's name and the latter, realising he has been followed, transforms into Snap Trap's robot mode. As the two time travellers battle, Prowl drops hints that Megatron should know who he is and at a crucial moment, Megatron pauses in shock when he thinks it's Optimus Prime. Prowl takes advantage of this knocks out Megatron, whose consciousness returns to the present. Prowl hangs around long enough to see Starscream destroy first the Seacons and then, despite his desire to run, himself. His consciousness returns to the present where Jazz tells him Megatron has fled.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
Notes
Artwork and technical errors
- The title of the story has the last four letters printed in mirror image.
Continuity errors
Continuity notes
- The events in the past take place during those of "Dark Star". However, in that story, only the death of the Seacons is seen on panel.
- Megatron just happens to have a time machine! How, we dunno (five pages gives no room) but chronologically this is the first time machine made in Marvel continuity.
Real-life references
Other trivia
Back-up material
- Additional Transformers story: "Blood on the Tracks"
- Other strips: G.I. Joe the Action Force - "Shuttle Complex" and Combat Colin
Covers (2)
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Issue #268 - Dark Star Redux -
Fallen Star
- Issue #268 cover: Megatron/Snap Trap tries to stab Prowl in the past, by Stephen Baskerville.
- Fallen Star cover: Megatron and Shockwave wrestle at Memphis Airport, by Stewart Johnson.
