Panini Armada issue 5
| This article is about the 2003 Armada comic. For the 1994 Generation 2 comic, see Devices and Desires! (Marvel). |
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 The minicons try to keep their purses out of the hands of the evil Starscream. | |||||||||||||
| "Devices and Desires!" & "Tales of the Mini-Cons... 'We Are Not Alone!'" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Panini | ||||||||||||
| First published | September 10, 2003 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencilers | Andrew Wildman ("Devices and Desires!" only) Keiron Ward ("We Are Not Alone!" only) | ||||||||||||
| Inkers | Bambos Georgiou ("Devices and Desires!" only) Lee Townsend ("We Are Not Alone!" only) | ||||||||||||
| Colorist | Junior Tomlin | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Neil Porter | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Panini Armada continuity | ||||||||||||
The comic book Panini Armada issue 5 contains multiple stories or features.
Panini Armada issue 5
Contents
- Devices and Desires! (comic, 7 pages)
- Cyber Gear: Secret ID Badges! and Transformers Codename Generator! (craft)
- Data File #9: Starscream
- Brain Drain! (quiz)
- Mini-Con Match-Up!
- Get Personal!
- Terror in the Skies! Power Poster
- Meet: The Air Defence Team!
- Data File #9: Swindle
- Tales of the Mini-Cons... 'We Are Not Alone!' (comic, 7 pages)
Credits
- Originally published: September 10, 2003
- Continuity: Panini Armada continuity
Items of Note
- The Secret ID Badges include the access codes for the Autobot and Decepticon bases ("MELLON JRT" an "KILLA X99" respectively,) and the Autobot one includes Optimus Prime's signature!
Free Gift
- Astro Flyers! (3 to collect!)
Devices and Desires!
Starscream lays a trap for the Air Defence Team.
Synopsis
The Air Defense Mini-Con Team rushes to intercept a plumetting satellite set to crash in downtown Chicago, Illinois. They succeed in doing so, steering the satellite towards Lake Michigan. but Runway notes that the damage to the satellite looks deliberate— just as Starscream attacks! He shot the satellite down to lure them out, attracted by their recent string of good deeds rescuing humans. He manages to grab Runway, admitting rather sheepishly, he's not sure what to do, since he's not yet powerful enough to claim the Mini-Cons for his own... but if he hands them over to Megatron, the Decepticon leader will become too powerful for Starscream to ever challenge!
Optimus Prime, Hot Shot, and Red Alert arrive to make a fight of things, and outnumbered, Starscream retreats. Sonar tells Optimus Prime that they're grateful for the save, but the Air Defense Team isn't ready to join either team, being more independent players. Optimus Prime is okay with that, but hopes that the Mini-Cons will think of them as friends and call them if they need help.
Neither side notices the tracking device Starscream managed to surreptitiously place on Runway...
Credits
Script: Simon Furman
Pencils: Andrew Wildman
Inks: Bambos Georgiou
Colour: Junior Tomlin
Lettering: Neil Porter
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Mini-Cons |
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Quotes
"See, Megatron wants you. And what he wants... I get!"
- —The ever-loyal Starscream
Errors
- N/A
Items of note
- N/A
'We Are Not Alone!'
The Air Defence Team runs into a trap. Again.
Synopsis
The Air Defense Mini-Con Team sneaks into a N/ASA Research and Development outpost, intending to (rather guiltily) steal the Deep Space technology they return to the stars. Instead they are ambushed by E.R.T.D. personnel armed with Scramblers, and knocked out.
In Area 54, a pair of shadowy scientists, impressed by the effectiveness of their own work with the Scramblers, decide to take a coffee break before fitting the captured Mini-Cons with control implants.
As they leave Runway and Sonar awaken; unlike Jetstorm, who was the first hit, they had enough time to lock out their neural pathways. Sonar reboots Jetstorm manually while Runway ransacks their computers, to discover how they knew just what to hit them with. He discovers that the humans captured and studied the Land Military Mini-Con Team during the 1950s.
When an alarm sounds, the Mini-Cons use their small size to escape through the ventilation shafts, and take to the air, resolving to make finding the Land Military Team their top priority!
Credits
Script: Simon Furman
Pencils: Keiron Ward
Inks: Lee Townsend
Colour: Junior Tomlin
Lettering: Neil Porter
Featured Characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Humans | Mini-Cons |
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Quotes
- N/A
Errors
- N/A
Items of note
- The E.R.T.D. is not named in this appearance, referred to simply as the "Extra-Terrestrial Division" of U.S. Military Intelligence.
