Command Performances!
Template:Comicnav Omega Supreme defends the Ark while the Autobots invade the Decepticons' base.
Synopsis
The Autobots raid the Decepticon base in order to steal the technology required to create combining robots. While nearly the entire Autobot force goes on the mission, Omega Supreme is left behind to guard the Ark. Megatron, meanwhile, takes most of his original crew to greet the Decepticons, who are anticipated to be arriving shortly via the space bridge.
During their journey to the Decepticon base, Skids runs afoul of a human driving an expensive Lamborghini. The Autobots arrive at the Decepticons' base and attack. Megatron, meanwhile, finds that a group of Autobots has crossed the bridge instead of Decepticons; but before he can lead an attack, Shockwave radios him about the Autobot attack at their base. Megatron tries to take advantage of the situation by attacking the Ark, but his squad is soundly defeated by Omega Supreme, with only Megatron and Laserbeak escaping. At the Decepticon base, Donny Finkleberg takes advantage of the battle to attempt an escape. When Shockwave sends Devastator against the Autobots, they gain the information they were looking for, and retreat. As the Autobots leave, the Lamborghini driver cuts Skids off, allowing Ravage to blast Skids with one of his missiles.
The battered Megatron returns, and though Shockwave accuses him of gross incompetence, Megatron reasons that Shockwave sat and did nothing while a trap — an attack that surely had an ulterior motive — sprang up around him. Shockwave cedes command in the face of Megatron's sound argument.
The Autobots are enthusiastic at their victory, but Optimus Prime cannot celebrate, as Skids is presumed lost...
Credits
Script: Bob Budiansky
Pencils: Don Perlin
Inks: Ian Akin and Brian Garvey
Colors: Nelson Yomtov
Lettering: Janice Chiang
Editor: Michael Carlin
- Originally published: August, 1986
Major characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Regulars
Guests
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Errors
- Megatron hated Finkleberg so much that it took Soundwave's agreement with Finkleberg's argument to keep Megatron from killing Finkleberg in U.S. issue #15. Why is he now the one to tell Shockwave how good an idea it is to keep Finkleberg around?
Items of note
- References to other Transformers continuities/issues: Grapple began work on Omega Supreme in U.S. issue #14
Covers (3)
- U.S. cover: Omega Supreme kicking Decepti-ass by Herb Trimpe
- UK issue 70 cover: Autobots attacking by John Stokes
- UK issue 71 cover: reuse of art from U.S. cover
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