Transformers Comic-Taschenbuch issue 2
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| Publisher | Condor Verlag | ||||||||||||
| First published | 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Wolfgang M. Biehler | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
| Price | 4 DM | ||||||||||||
Contents
Transformers in action: TRUST NO DECEPTICON
The Autobots are holding a secret conference with various world leaders, during which they want to inform the humans about a major threat. Scenes highlighting various Decepticon attacks are shown on monitors. Powermaster Optimus Prime then orders various Autobot units to intervene in these crises.
Subsequently, Bumblebee takes charge of the conference and explains the difference between Autobots and Decepticons.
One of the Autobots' missions to secure a nuclear power plant goes haywire, though, as Bumblebee suddenly transforms from a Volkswagen into a Decepticon. As it turns out, the Decepticons have captured the Autobot and placed Submaroder inside his Pretender shell. The Autobots manage to defeat the Decepticons, Submaroder returns Bumblebee's Pretender shell, and the Autobots once again assure the humans attending the conference of their good intentions. (source)
Reprints
- The Transformers (Marvel US) #23 - "Decepticon Graffiti!"
- The Transformers (Marvel US) #24 - "Afterdeath!"
- The Transformers (Marvel US) #25 - "Gone but Not Forgotten!"
- The Transformers (Marvel US) #26 - "Funeral for a Friend!"
Notes
- After Bumblebee takes charge of the conference, the exact whereabouts of Powermaster Optimus Prime are never explained. Instead of closing the conference himself, he is only mentioned in third person at the end. Did he go AWOL again?
- Even if we are to assume the Decepticons are completely unaware of what a nuclear power plant is and how dangerous radioactive materials are, why would they be careless with their laser fire if they assume that crude oil is being stored inside when they are perfectly capable of exercising caution around refineries, where they know oil is being stored?
- The story is confusingly vague regarding Bumblebee's fate. Somehow Bumblebee is speaking at the conference but also participating in a mission at the same time? Because of this, it is also unclear at which point the Decepticons captured and replaced him. Was that Submarauder speaking at the conference? And even though he is stated to have returned Bumblebee's Pretender shell at the end, Bumblebee himself is never explicitly stated to have been released by the Decepticons. Is he still being held captive? And who is that speaking at the end?
- One possible explanation could be that the mission being shown on the screen isn't actually supposed to occur in real time. Therefore, Bumblebee could simply be speaking at the conference following his release from captivity. However, the story never makes this clear.
- Writer Robert Mann appears to be confused by the exact nature of Pretenders. In this story, Bumblebee's Pretender shell is somehow capable of transforming into a Volkswagen, and when Submarauder is placed inside the shell, it can transform into a Decepticon.
- The Autobots sure are preachy for beings that have been engaged in a civil war for the past four million years, accusing humans of being involved in "petty national conflicts"…
Errors
- In typical Condor fashion, Submarauder is once again spelled "Submaroder"in the text story.
- The translated version of "Funeral for a Friend!" suffers from the downsized format of the publication, as the lettering size does not allow for the full names of the various Autobots in the group shots to fit into the captions. The result are a large number of incomplete names such as "Air", "Fire", "Beach", "Wheel", "Aid" and Wise".
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