Way of the Warrior
| This article is about the original Marvel UK comic. For the Titan Books trade paperback, see Transformers: Way of the Warrior. |
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| "Way of the Warrior" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 23rd September 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 30th September 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Simon Coleby | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Glib | ||||||||||||
| Cover | Andrew Wildman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
Carnivac learns that following the Autobots' ways has its ups and downs...
Synopsis
[edit]In Dallas, Texas Carnivac is angry with Springer and strikes out. When he agreed to join the Survivors, he had hoped for some fights and is unhappy with working as a disaster relief service handling train crashes, burning oil rigs, hijacks and the like. Springer declares that if Carnivac walks off the group won't look out for him, even though Catilla makes a plea to understand Carnivac has been going through private tensions since leaving the Decepticons.
Carnivac runs off alone, thinking how the high-profile role in saving humans that the Survivors have taken on is likely to attract the Decepticons who will want their renegades dead. Suddenly, a human car crashes into Carnivac and the driver, recognising the ex-Decepticon from television, pleads for help in dealing with a giant mechanical dog that is terrorising the area. Carnivac is initially dismissive but then realises he has to make a stand sometime and charges the dog, rapidly dispatching it.
However, the dog is not alone. The new Mayhem Attack Squad declare their presence and Snarler is surprised that the dog lured out Carnivac alone rather than the Autobots with him. They offer Carnivac a clean death but he declares he is a warrior who will fight to the death if need be. Bludgeon responds that he is only too happy to oblige and charges...
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
[edit]Notes
[edit]Artwork and technical errors
[edit]Continuity errors
[edit]Continuity notes
[edit]- The Survivors storyline would eventually tie into the alternate continuity of the Earthforce storyline. It's not clear where one draws the line between the main storyline and this portion of the Earthforce branch.
Real-life references
[edit]Other trivia
[edit]Back-up material
[edit]- Additional Transformers story: "The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!"
- Other strips: Action Force - "Beginnings... and Endings" and Combat Colin
- Classic Covers Calendar: The tenth in a series of monthly calendars that showcased inks from covers of yesteryear with new colours. This October edition used Lee Sullivan's inks from issue 153.
Foreign Localization
[edit]Swedish
- Title: "Krigarens kodex" ("Code of the Warrior")
Covers (1)
[edit]- Issue #237 cover: Carnivac and the Hellhound wrestle, by Geoff Senior.
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Issue #237 - It's dog eat dog out there!
Reprints
[edit]- Transformers Annual 1992: the Dinobots on the rampage, by Jeff Anderson.
- Transformers Winter Special 1994: Optimus Prime mourns the dying Scorponok, by Stewart Johnson.
- Transformers: Way of the Warrior: Carnivac and Springer stand victorious over a Limbo nightmare creature, by Simon Coleby.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection, Volume 17: Matrix Quest: Nightbeat and Prime's corpse by Makoto Ono and Geoff Senior.
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Transformers Annual 1992 (Marvel Comics UK, 1992) -
Winter Special 1994 (Marvel Comics UK, 1994) -
Way of the Warrior (Titan Books, 2005) -
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 17: Matrix Quest (Hachette Partworks, Ltd., 2018)
