Desert Island Risks!
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<tr style="font-size:14px;"> <td class="tti_buttonlink">« </td><td align="center">The Transformers (UK) #264 </td><td align="right" class="tti_buttonlink">» </td></tr> <tr class="tt1_secondarynav"> <td class="tti_buttonlink"> </td><td align="center"> </td><td align="right" class="tti_buttonlink"> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 12px; background-color:#ffffff;" align="center"> <img alt="" src="/w2/images2/thumb/c/c0/Desert_island_risks.jpg/230px-Desert_island_risks.jpg" width="230" height="307" border="0" /><br />"And it looks just like a G.I. Joe logo!" </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" style="font-size: 14px; background-color:#e7d492; color:black;font-weight:bold;" align="center"> "Desert Island Risks!" </td></tr> <tr> <td>Publisher </td><td> Marvel Comics </td></tr> <tr> <td>Date published </td><td> 1st April 1990 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Cover date </td><td> 7th April 1990 </td></tr>
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<td>Writer </td><td> Simon Furman
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<td>Pencils </td><td> Pete Knifton
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<td>Inks </td><td> Pete Venters
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<td>Letterer </td><td> Stuart Bartlett
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<td>Cover </td><td> Pete Knifton
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<td>Continuity </td><td> Marvel Comics continuity
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</table> Ironhide and Bumblebee destroy a project to re-construct Devastator.
Synopsis
Ironhide and Bumblebee track a Transformer lifeform to an island in the Bahamas, hoping that it is their missing teammate Prowl. Instead they discover the site of a project to reconstruct Devastator as a separate robot, since the Constructicons have lost the ability to combine.
Ironhide penetrates the Automated Defense Ring protecting the project, and destroys it.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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- Devastator (3)
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Items of note
- The search for Prowl follows his <small>offscreen</small> Bucky-impression after UK issue #261. He will turn up alive in the care of some kindly Louisiana farmfolk in issue #266.
- Devastator's appearance here is presumably intended to promote his Action Master toy. No in-story explanation is given as to why the Constructicons can no longer combine; nucleon is the obvious suspect, but it's never mentioned.
- The front cover of the issue depicts Bumblebee shouting "There's somethin' moving out here, an' it ain't us!" This is a reference to a line in the 1986 film <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliens_%28film%29" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Aliens_(film)">Aliens</a>, where in one scene Private Hudson (played by Bill Paxton) says the exact same thing, verbatim.
