The War Within issue 5

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Me Grimlock say where Dinobots?
Publisher Dreamwave Productions
First published February 12, 2003
Cover date February, 2003
Story Simon Furman
Pencils Don Figueroa
Inks Elaine To
Colors Rob Ruffolo
Letters Dreamer Design
Assistant editor Matt Moylan
Graphic design Kevin Lee
Editor-in-chief Roger Lee
Continuity Dreamwave Generation One continuity
Chronology Early war

Prime and Megatron see visions of the Matrix, while Starscream begins his destructive hijacking of Megatron's plan.

Synopsis

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As Grimlock's team descends deeper into Cybertron, Kup makes casual conversation, questioning Grimlock's attitude. Grimlock, of course, just reasserts that he's a badass. Following Optimus Prime's energy signature, they discover one of Megatron's planetary turbines. Adapting the plan, Grimlock orders the rest of his team to sabotage whatever the Decepticons are up to.

Shockwave delivers a killing blow to two Guardian robots, giving the Decepticons a clear path to the last remaining core of Iacon. From their staging grounds in the Decagon, Prowl and his teammates prepare to make their final stand.

Inside of a vision from the Matrix, Optimus Prime and Megatron witness future incarnations of themselves battling at some alien location. When not-future Megatron continues his attack on not-future Optimus, the scenery again re-aligns itself further into the future, where Headmasters and Targetmasters continue the war. After another shift, the two arrive back in the present, but the Matrix teleports Optimus to Grimlock. Grimlock gives Optimus his sword, suggesting the Autobot leader take more active measures in dealing with Megatron.

Starscream, planning to destroy everything on Cybertron's surface, disregards Scrapper's warnings about how the turbines function. Ironhide, Kup, and Wheeljack overhear the plan, but are discovered by two other Constructicons. With the plot discovered, Starscream activates the engine beneath Iacon. As Shockwave stands victorious, the Autobots' capital city is devastated by superheated plasma.

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(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons

Quotes

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"I know it's the image, right? "Me Grimlock-- badass", but c'mon... there must have been someone you respected."

—Kup, on the subject of Grimlock


"Me, Grimlock — badass!"

—Grimlock, on the same subject


"You don't think too much of our current Prime, I can see that. But Sentinel Prime? He had his head screwed on."
"Eh. Not at end he didn't."

—Kup and Grimlock


"I get a real bad feeling about this."

—Kup, doing a Han Solo impersonation


"Hn.
Hm?
Fh!
Tt.
Ff!
Hn."

—Grimlock has FURMAN POWER!

Notes

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  • On the side of the massive turbine, the logo for the Transformers forum the Allspark is visible. But while the turbine pumps hot boiling plasma that destroys cities, the forum has a mildly different function. Usually.
  • The letters "BBTS" on one of the buildings at the Sherman Dam is a reference to online toy store BigBadToyStore.

Errors

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  • Wheeljack has three typos within the same speech bubble: "There's a sub-planetary strata—a second skin—ready and waiting to force it's was to the surface." For the trade paperback collection, "was" was corrected to "way", but "it's" still features an apostrophe and the plural "strata" was not corrected to the singular "stratum".
  • On the page of "Grimlock grunts", Grimlock's left knee is incorrectly-colored as part of his thigh in the panel where he descends deeper underground via his grappling gun.
  • One of Megatron's speech bubbles also contains a typo: "It almost seems as if you have a gaurdian spirit, Prime..." Again, this was fixed for the TPB.

Covers (3)

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  • Me Grimlock say where Dinobots?
    Me Grimlock say where Dinobots?
  • The Transman makes Optronix a balloon-bot.
    The Transman makes Optronix a balloon-bot.
  • Say, you look very much like a toy today, Megatron.
    Say, you look very much like a toy today, Megatron.

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