Transformers Comic issue 17
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Meanwhile, Back on Cybertron...
<strike>Transformers #17</strike> DINOBOTS COMIC was published by Titan Magazines in October 2008.
Magazine Credits
Editor: Steve White<br /> Art Editor: Danny Preston<br /> Deputy Editor: Den Patrick<br /> Publishing Manager: Darryl Curtis<br />
Contents
Return to Cybertron: Part 1
- Script: Simon Furman
- Art: Jon Davis-Hunt
- Colours: Hi-Fi Design
- Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft
- Continuity: Alternate
A raw energon seam, building up to sixty thousand rads, has erupted in Sylacauga, Alabama! The newly arrived Autobot specialist team are on the job (their ninth such job), with Evac evac-ing the humans while under Camshaft's direction, Salvage magno-caps the seam and Grindcore buries it with rubble. But it's too late, the inverted pressure tremors are too much for the makeshift job and the whole town is destroyed!
The demise of Earth is escalating, and President Allen is annoyed at the specialists' failure to stop it. Optimus reveals the situation is worse than they previously believed: the All Spark's corruption has reached the core of Earth, and the planet is at war with itself, the organic and technological struggling for a new status quo — Earth will die before this status quo arrives. A frustrated Allen gets Optimus to agree to work with Earth's best geologists in a symposium — but Optimus secretly has a long shot plan to save Earth, one he's keeping quiet to avoid dashing hope when it fails...
A plan that involves Ironhide taking a team to the abandoned, dying Cybertron to salvage Nucleon!
Ironhide instructs his team — Arcee, Bumblebee and Armorhide — to be cautious and don't get distracted by being home: they don't know whether anyone else is still on the planet. It becomes clear there is when Bumblebee finds a newly-erected satellite dish on the planet, and when the Autobots investigate on their way to the Nucleon, they find out who those inhabitants are: Stockade and his self-proclaimed "new Decepticons"!
Stockade wants the Autobots to remain functional rather than die, and calmly challenges Ironhide to hand-to-hand combat. And is completely unaffected by his strike. And then beats the snot out of him with one punch. It turns out the Decepticons survived on Cybertron because they got to the Nucleon first and guzzled it down...
...and then a swirling energy thing appears in orbit, while Stockade proclaims that this will see Cybertron re-empowered and reborn!
Dino-MIGHT!
- Script: Simon Furman
- Art: Lee Bradley
- Colours: Kris Carter
- Lettering: Jimmy Betancourt/Comicraft
Starscream and his clone hordes have just taken out all the Autobots and seized their base! Sari Sumdac has fled to rain-swept Dinobot Island to get the Dinobots to come help — but Grimlock views her as a trespasser!
Back in Detroit, Starscream reveals his plan is basically to have a base he can stay in that Megatron won't find, because why'd he come looking for him in the Autobot base? But all that talking gives the Dinobots an opening to attack, and they turn the tide against him!
The Autobot base is saved from one intruder — but gains three more, because it turns out the Dinobots don't like the rain and Sari gained their alliance by promising them they could stay in the base until it stops. Guess what the forecast for the next FOREVER is.
Articles & features
- Top Gear: promotion of and competitions for Universe Sunstreaker, Marvel Crossovers Transformers, and a lunch bag.
- Character Profile: Lio Convoy.
- Starscream's Ten Tips On Ruling: Starscream advises us on how to be a tyrant, with a Soviet propaganda style image of the man himself.
- Bumblebee's Way-Past-Cool Reviews: video game review feature.
- Advert and promotion for the Animated comic, out on 23rd October 23rd October 23rd October.
- How To Draw: Scorponok
- Artobots: Fan art section.
- Star Screams: Letters, art and photos from readers, answered by Starscream.
- Poster of the cover
- Half of a The Many Faces Of Optimus Prime poster. The other half is in Animated #1 23rd October buy it kids.
- Competitions for a Nintendo DS and Sonic Chronicles, and the Next Avengers DVD.
Free Gift
- "Free! Bumper Tattoo Set!" — temporary "tattoos" again
Reprints
Reprinted stories are only a portion of their respective issues.
- Megatron Origin, part 1d/2a (7 pages)
- Beast Wars: The Ascending part 1d (4 pages)
Errors
- The contents page advertises last issue's reprints.
- The Many Faces Of Optimus Prime, when citing Robots in Disguise, mistakenly calls Koji Onishi "Yuki Onishi" (his Japanese name).
- Armorhide is coloured like Strongarm.
- Cybertron is not a "Zombie World!" like the cover said. Booo!
- Starscream somehow knew where the Autobots' base was, in spite of its location being unknown to all Decepticons and human villains.
Quotes
Strip (Movie)
"The damage to Earth goes far deeper than we realised."<br /> "How deep?"<br /> "Core deep."
- —Optimus and the Prez
"We don't know what state Cybertron's in. It could be teeming with life... if [so], they could be native or "visitors", hostile or friendly. Take nothing for granted. One thing I do know, this ain't no happy homecomin'. Start getting all optic-fogged — and you'll get dead."
- —Ironhide, Motivational Speaker
"Please, no sudden moves. Just at the moment, I'd prefer you all fully functional."<br /> "You expect us to surrender?"<br /> "No. I expect you to fight. One-on-one. Hand-to-hand. Winner takes all."
- —Stockade and Ironhide
"And now Cybertron shall arise from the ashes, re-empowered, reborn!"
- —Stockade is mental
Strip (Animated)
"Clones — I want them extincted!"<br /> "Um... is that even a word?"
- —Starscream beaten at English by an eight-year-old girl
"Me Grimlock want clones. World needs more Grimlock!"
- —<strike>Simon Furman</strike>Grimlock
"What's the forecast again, Ratchet?."<br /> "Same as last time you asked, Prime... rain, rain and more rain!"<br /> "<sigh>"
- —Optimus and Ratchet
Star Screams
A six-year-old: "I am sending you a picture my daddy took of me at a Transformers Convention with David Kaye. He played the voice of Megatron in TRANSFORMERS Beast Wars and the Armada cartoons..." <br /> "We need more loyal, young fans like you at conventions. Keep up the good work!"
On Ratchet doing the letters: "Oh great, we get to hear the Autobot's most famous medic be dull and polite and magnanimous to you barely-evolved meatsacks of primeval sludge. How riveting."
"Not cowardice. Just a lifestyle choice."
"So sorry we had to kill Jazz. Well, I say sorry... I regret... well, not so much regret as really don't care..."
"Oh dear, David. Let me explain in basic terms you will understand — I'm a Decepticon and I don't like Autobots. Sending a picture of you, dressed as Bumblebee is a bad idea. A very bad idea. Now go to your room and write 'I will not sympathise with the pathetic Autobots' a hundred times."
Items of note
- This is the second bumper-sized issue.
- Fun with artist changes: Arcee now resembles her movie concept art rather than her toy.
- The "new Decepticons!" are (from left to right) Fracture, Overcast, Incinerator and Divebomb.
- Last issue made it sound like Evac ran the specialist team, but Camshaft is the one giving the orders here.
- The All Spark-caused disasters are occurring more and more frequently; even though they've just recently arrived, the specialists have already used up all the disaster relief equipment they brought with them.
- Some Decepticons have remained on Cybertron, but otherwise it's been completely deserted due to its slow death.
- Snarl and Swoop talk here for the first time anywhere. Swoop appears slightly more intelligent than his mates.
- The Animated strip does everything in a mere six pages. Rock on.
- The Optimus Prime poster uses various stock images of Primes, including Marvel Comics and a Dreamwave RID poster. It summarises Optimus' life with data from four separate versions of G1, making it an extremely awesome micro-continuity.
- The fans in the letters page mention Beast Wars, the Unicron Trilogy and the G1 cartoon.
- The contents page bids a "fond farewell" to Alison Paye of Hasbro UK, who'd been credited as liaising with the comic in previous issues.
