The Transformers (Milton Bradley comic)
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 That's either one tiny jet or one giant hand gun. | |||||||||||||
| "In the Transformers" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Milton Bradley | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 1985 | ||||||||||||
The million year war between the Autobots and Decepticons arrives on Earth.
Synopsis
The Transformers' civil war has knocked Cybertron from its orbit around Alpha Centauri and the planet is endangered by an asteroid belt. The Autobots' heroic leader Jetfire and his warriors launch in an ark to try to create a path through the asteroids, but the Decepticons ambush them and board the ship. Jetfire steers the ark directly at Earth, intent on taking the Decepticons down with them. Megatron has other plans and orders Soundwave to jump out moments before the ark crashes into a mountain.
Though damaged by the crash, the ark's systems detect Soundwave and repair four Autobots—Grimlock, Snarl, Slag, and Sludge—giving them new alternate modes based on the dominant life form of the time. The Dinobots take a shuttle out and soon locate Soundwave, who is shooting dinosaurs in the face. The Dinobots attack, but quickly realize that even the four of them are no match for Soundwave. Thinking quickly, Grimlock bashes the side of the mountain with his tail, bringing tons of rocks down on them all.
Four million years later, a volcanic eruption reactivates the ark's brain, which scans the planet's current dominant life forms and begins repairing both Autobot and Decepticon alike. The Transformer war is about to recommence on Earth!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
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Notes
- This comic originated in the front of the catalog distributed with Transformers distributed in mainland Europe by Milton Bradley. As Optimus Prime was not released in the initial wave, this led to the oddity of Jetfire standing in as Autobot leader. An advertisement following the final page of the comic invites readers to watch out for more Transformers comics with Jetfire as Autobot leader.
- The comic and catalog were produced in multiple languages, including German, Spanish, and Dutch.
- The plot owes a lot to the Marvel Comics The Transformers comic. Specifically the origin of the Dinobots is almost note-for-note their origin from "Repeat Performance!", though with Soundwave filling in for Shockwave.
- Much like the storybook "Battle for Cybertron", dinosaurs were alive and well as little as four million years ago.
- Soundwave (instead of Shockwave) missed out on getting rebuilt with an Earth mode by the Ark.
- The German version of this comic as well as the rest of the toy catalog were reprinted in The Transformers Classics UK Volume 5.
External links
- English translation on the AllSpark
