The Desert Heat!
Heatwave and Soundwave find that Earth is a strange, surreal place.
Synopsis
Having landed on Earth, Heatwave tracks a transponder signal through the night. Arriving at the signal's source in Wyatt's Roadsideaganza, he tries not to panic — but a series of animalistic assailants gives him a moment of serious freaking out. After defeating two dinosaurs and the world's largest woodchuck, he finds Soundwave immobilized and incorporated into the displays. Heatwave kindly asks Soundwave's stasis pod to restore his comrade to functionality. Soundwave scans an Earth mode, and the two depart in search of Soundwave's cassette troops. Soundwave sets the pod to self-destruct, to Heatwave's mild dismay - "he was a nice guy", he says.
Stats
Writers: S. Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak
Originally published: online exclusive for the Transformers Collectors' Club on March 11, 2009
Artist: Evan Gauntt (misspelled as "Evan Guantt")
Letters: Jesse Wittenrich
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Quotes
"...that "Interweb' said there was no military activity here, so getting caught isn't likely... assuming I can trust that system. It has a dirty, dirty mouth..."
- -Heatwave reflects on the Internets
"Oh, hello Stasis Pod D-36, are you still functioning? Oh that's great!"
- -Heatwave communes with inanimate objects
Notes
- This two-page comic is a prelude to the Timelines story "Eye in the Sky".
- The dinosaurs that "attack" Heatwave look rather familiar. The T-Rex is based on the new-mold 10th Anniversary toy of Beast Wars Megatron, while the red pterodactyl could be a reference to either Terrorsaur or Magmatron.
- Soundwave refers to his crash landing as a "bogus journey".
- The van that Soundwave scans has a "Cold Slither" logo on the door, with Zartan's face in the center.
- The Cold Slither van is parked next to a sign for "Frog Rock", a decidedly un-frog-shaped roadside attraction from Sam & Max Hit the Road.
External links
- "The Desert Heat" (page 1}
- "The Desert Heat" (page 2}
