Go! Go! issue 52
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| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | TV Magazine | ||||||||||||
| First published | December 15, 2025 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Haruka Oda | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Minoko | ||||||||||||
How the Seekers (Almost) Stole Christmas.
Synopsis
It's Christmas day at the Decepticon base, but Starscream is stuck on warehouse cleaning duty under orders from Megatron, a role he sees as beneath his status as Decepticon second-in-command. His Seeker cohorts, the prankster Skywarp and the lethargic Thundercracker, are likewise less than enthusiastic about their boring task. That's when Starscream gets an idea – they can go "clean up" those pesky Autobots instead! Jumping on the chance to partake in some action, Skywarp teleports the trio away...
...and the Seekers appear literally right in front of Perceptor, Cliffjumper, and Bumblebee as they help Santa Claus deliver his presents. Starscream and Thundercracker berate Skywarp for blowing their element of surprise, a distraction Bumblebee takes advantage of to allow Santa to slip away. However, Bumblebee's mention of Christmas ticks off the already irate Seekers, whoturn their anger towards attacking the Autobots! (Thundercracker is not so willing, but Starscream and Skywarp browbeat him into participating.) The Autobots rally against the Seekers, but Thundercracker's powerful sonic booms and Skywarp's unpredictable teleporting leave them disoriented and wide open for a missile barrage that blows them off their feet. The three Seekers wrap the Autobots up as a present for Megatron...
...but that's when Optimus Prime comes charging in, called in by Santa and his trusty reindeer! Optimus promptly turns the Seekers into roadkill with his truck mode before transforming and reassuring everyone that the danger has passed. However, making the journey to call Optimus has left Santa's reindeer exhausted, requiring Autobot aid to deliver his presents in time. Looking at the defeated Seekers, Optimus gets an idea... forcibly conscript the Seekers into pulling Santa's new sleigh with Optimus himself as passenger, complete with antlers and red noses! As the bickering Seeker sleigh races across the night sky, the Autobots wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
Everyone except a very furious Megatron, that is, who's left with a whole warehouse to clean and no Seekers to order to clean it.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- This story was published as the December 2025 issue of the web comic and advertised Studio Series War for Cybertron Thundercracker, War for Cybertron Skywarp, and Transformers One Starscream, as well as the Transformers Fan Book 2025 and the second collected edition of Go! Go!.
Transformers references
- Thundercracker and Skywarp debut here sporting character models based on their War for Cybertron: Earthrise toys, naturally matching Starscream whose model is likewise Earthrise-based.
- While Skywarp's prankster personality aligns well with other portrayals of the puerile Decepticon teleporter, Oda has reinterpreted Thundercracker's "uncertainty to the Decepticon cause" into a perennial state of Dead End-esque lethargy.
- Starscream uses his chest-mounted missile clusters from "Fire on the Mountain" when the Seekers launch their missile barrage.
Continuity notes
External links
- Issue 52 at TV Magazine
