Space Opera Act 2: Out of the Silent Planet
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| "Space Opera Act 2: Out of the Silent Planet" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | June 1, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | June 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Mike Costa | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Guido Guidi | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Joana Lafuente | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Shawn Lee | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| Assistant editor | Carlos Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2011) | ||||||||||||
Rodimus and Wheelie return to Cybertron and reunite with Ironhide and Sunstreaker, who have been busy fighting an old enemy.
Synopsis
Rodimus awakens, and is shocked to find that he's functioning even without the Matrix as a power source. He soon learns that while he was out, Wheelie repaired him and took the ship to their home, Cybertron. Knowing full well that Cybertron is a dead planet infested by the Insecticon swarm, Rodimus tries to convince his allies to leave again, but the Matrix has stopped providing power to their ship. Just as he fears, something does break into the ship... but it turns out to be Ironhide.
While Ironhide is glad to meet some old friends, Rodimus is absolutely boggled by the sight of both him and Sunstreaker, both of whom are supposed to be dead (not to mention seeing their freaky Insecticon pet). After a confused Garnak attacks Ironhide, Rodimus heads outside to have things explained to him from Sunstreaker. He learns the details of their apparent revival at the hands of Alpha Trion, but their chat is suddenly interrupted by an aerial attack. Rodimus and Wheelie go after their attacker and shoot him down, but as they approach the crash site, they find none other than Galvatron, using the Darkness to repair the Sweep they injured.
Now really eager to get off Cybertron, Rodimus hurries back to the ship, which Ironhide and Sunstreaker are able to power up using the experimental fuel cell given to them by Alpha Trion. As the ship comes under attack from dozens of Sweeps, the Autobots blast off and set a course for Earth.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
- TBD
Notes
Continuity notes
- Despite the name change, Rodimus's license plate still says "Hot Rod". He is officially renamed in the following issue.
Transformers references
- Garnak names the planet from last issue LV-118, making it a neighbor of LV-117 from Spotlight: Wheelie.
Real-world references
- This story is named after Out of the Silent Planet, a 1938 science fiction novel by C.S. Lewis.
Errors
- This issue is given the title "Act 2" while the last one was "Part 1".
- Sunstreaker knows Hot Rod as "Rodimus", despite not being present when he took on his new name. Most likely Alpha Trion told him in the Ironhide miniseries when he was repairing Sunstreaker, seeing as Alpha Trion knew all about what happened to Ironhide on Earth he most likely also knew about the Rodimus predicament.
Trivia
- Originally Galvatron was going to kill the Sweep, rather than revive him.[1]
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Ironhide and Rodimus stare at each other with Wheelie stuck in the middle; art by Marcelo Matere and colors by Priscilla Tramontano.
- Cover B: Rodimus and Wheelie watch Galvatron as he stands over an injured Sweep; art by Guido Guidi and colors by Joana Lafuente.
- Cover RI: Uncolored version of Cover A.
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