Transformers: Space Case
| The name or term "Space Case" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Space Case (disambiguation). |
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 I'm the best at spaaaaaaaaace! | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing Target | ||||||||||||
| Writer | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Atilio Martin | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Sergio Abad | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Garry Henderson | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt Denton J. Tipton | ||||||||||||
| Cover | E. J. Su | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Live-action film series | ||||||||||||
| Packaged with | Space Case | ||||||||||||
Space Case wakes up on the wrong side of the earth's surface and takes it out on an Autobot search party.
Synopsis
[edit]Space Case dreams of flying. In his dreams, nobody can touch him and, more importantly, none of the other Decepticons can make fun of him for being stupid. His reverie is interrupted by an earthquake which jolts him awake and provides him with the opportunity to free himself.
Meanwhile, Arcee and Bumblebee are pulled away from a picnic with their friend Sam Witwicky to investigate an energy signal that appeared after the earthquake. The trio proceed deep underground and, just as Arcee is admonishing Sam to be careful, Space Case ambushes them. Despite their numeric superiority, the Autobots have trouble with their enemy because they are afraid firing weapons might cause their unstable surroundings to collapse.
Space Case, angry at what he perceives as persecution from the Autobots, activates his plasma afterburners and rockets out of the cave, triggering the feared cave-in and burying Sam and the Autobots. A short distance away, he congratulates himself on his clever escape and looks forward to getting to fly again.
Featured characters
[edit](Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
[edit]"Maybe I'm not smart enough to figure out how to crawl outta a hole. I guess everybody's right about me."
- —Space Case has a complex
"I'm always careful. When am I not careful? I'm Mr. Careful."
- —John Barber writes a convincing Sam
Notes
[edit]- The comic comes free with Target's exclusive Dark of the Moon Space Case.
- Space Case is a quasi-sympathetic figure in this story, whose acute sense of his own perceived inferiority drives him to hostility toward everyone and everything, despite the fact that the Autobots neither mock nor attack him.
- Bumblebee plays clips of Simon & Garfunkel, Cool Hand Luke, Olivia Newton-John, and "Weird Al" Yankovic.
- Someone must have cut-and-pasted some legalese for the indicia, because licensing information for both Lockheed's Raptor and Sikorsky's Pave Low appear inside the front cover.
