Battersea Power Station issue 1
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| First published | September 17 2025 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | September 2025 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Frédéric Pham Chuong | ||||||||||||
Transformers: Battersea Power Station is a short comic, featuring the debut of Powerplex.
It was written by Simon Furman and illustrated by Frédéric Pham Chuong, and released to a limited 2500 copies run via the Transformers store at Battersea Power Station.
Synopsis
[edit]In 1986, Wheeljack aids Optimus Prime in following a mysterious spark uplink, indicating the presence of a Cybertronian of unknown alleigance. The search leads Prime to London's Battersea district, but upon arrival, he finds only the derelict remains of a large power station. Suddenly, the power station converts into a colossal robot... revealing itself to be the Cybertronian lifeform that they were after!
Characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Others |
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Notes
[edit]- The entire comic is drawn on a single fold-out poster, with one side featuring the cover and the other being the comic itself. Each copy was hand-numbered.
- Powerplex is not named in this story, as the character's name had yet to be decided from a fan poll. Early promotional material simply referred to them as the "Battersea Titan".
Transformers references
[edit]- When he transforms, Optimus Prime's ion blaster is seen flying out from the truck mode and unfolding. This detail is seen in various 2000s media, such as IDW Publishing's The Transformers: Escalation issue 5.
Errors
[edit]- Product copy consistently refers to this poster as being "hexagonal". Guys, it's an octagon.
- Presumably, this unusual shape was chosen because they only had three pages of material to work with, and wasn't intended from the outset: rather than having been drawn to fit the, uh, "hexagon", the comic was clearly commissioned as two standard US-size comic book pages, which are simply cropped in on the poster; the remaining negative space is filled with a repeating logo.
- The lack of a credited letterer seems to imply this was an in-house job, and it shows: dialogue is awkwardly stacked into the rectangular speech bubbles, all written in unsightly-looking italicised block capitals. Hyphens are used instead of em dashes.
- Why on earth would you ever stick this on a wall?
- This thing retailed for £10.
