Assault on the Ark!
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| "Assault on the Ark!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 28th October 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 4th November 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Andy Wildman | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Stuart Bartlett | ||||||||||||
| Cover | Jeff Anderson | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity (Marvel UK) | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 1989 | ||||||||||||
Revenge is a dish best served cold...cold as the vacuum of space.
Synopsis
[edit]Thunderwing begins his assault run on the Ark, striking the starship in his Pretender shell's vehicle mode, assisted by Ruckus's crew's shuttle. Admiring the sheer brazenness of the attack, Ruckus and his crew of forcibly-requisitioned soldiers follow Thunderwing's lead and storm the Ark and its crew. The Autobots are shocked by the audacity of the Decepticons here, but quickly recover and begin trading fire. As he faces down Optimus Prime himself, Thunderwing is blasted back by a trio of Autobot laser blasters. Ruckus then manages to convince him to make a full retreat, and Thunderwing finally fulfills the Decepticon High Council's request to appear before them. To his surprise, the Councillors are impressed by his displays of single-mindedness, ruthlessness, and fighting prowess. With their approval, Thunderwing is named the new leader of the Decepticons.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
[edit]"Like your predecessors, Thunderwing, you have more courage than sense!"
- —Optimus Prime thinks Thunderwing's reach exceeds his grasp
Notes
[edit]Artwork and technical errors
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Continuity errors
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Continuity notes
[edit]- Chronologically, this story predates issues #232-233 and #240, which all show or reference Thunderwing having already achieved Decepticon leadership.
- Presumably, the Decepticon High Council operate on Cybertron like a sort of Congress, while Lord Thunderwing fulfills a role similar to President.
- Thunderwing's rage stems from the incident in issue #231.
- Nightbeat identifies Thunderwing's weapon as a cyclone cannon for the second time; he previously deduced that it was the weapon that had killed Playback from the damage to his corpse in "The Big Shutdown!".
Real-life references
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Other trivia
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Back-up material
[edit]- Additional Transformers story: "Back from the Dead"
- Other strips: Action Force - "Evasion" and Combat Colin
Foreign Localization
[edit]Swedish
- Title: "Attack på Arken" ("Attack on the Ark")
Cover
[edit]- Issue #242 cover: Thunderwing leads the attack on the Ark, by Jeff Anderson.
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Issue #242:
Reprints
[edit]- Transformers: Perchance to Dream: Menasor smacks down Superion, detail from the cover of issue #259, by Andrew Wildman.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Vol 19: Perchance to Dream: Megatron (from early IDW promo art), by Guido Guidi above a retro scene of the Battlechargers (from Marvel UK #255 cover) by Stephen Baskerville.
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Perchance to Dream
(Titan Books, 2006) -
The Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 19 (Hachette Partworks, 2017)
