Stormbringer issue 1

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Thunderwing—that's hot!
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published July 19, 2006
Cover date July 2006
Story by Simon Furman
Art by Don Figueroa
Colors by Josh Burcham
Letters by Robbie Robbins
Edits by Chris Ryall & Dan Taylor
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Infiltration

An unidentified energy source is discovered on a long abandoned world named... Cybertron.

Synopsis

The crew of the Autobot spacecraft Calabi-Yau pick up an energy trace from the dead planet Cybertron. The ship's captain, Jetfire, orders the Calabi-Yau to drop him and three of the Technobot crew on Cybertron to conduct a detailed survey. Technobots Nosecone and Afterburner take the Calabi-Yau back into orbit, while Jetfire recounts a time before the disaster that destroyed Cybertron, when the warnings of a Decepticon scientist who predicted the apocalypse fell on deaf ears (including his). Suddenly, the four Autobots below are attacked by partially-invisible enemies and overcome.

The Calabi-Yau is then attacked and destroyed by a missile volley launched from Cybertron, although the two remaining Technobots escape in an emergency pod.

At the Autobot Orbital Command Hub, Optimus Prime receives a message from Prowl's unit on Earth. It informs him that the Decepticon infiltration unit has enacted siege mode prematurely. Prime orders Searchlight to keep him informed of the situation. Through Prime's flashbacks, we discover that during the Cybertronian apocalypse, Autobot and Decepticon were united against a mysterious winged figure, wreathed in flame, who was somehow the avatar of the catastrophe. The combined might of the Transformers was ineffectual against it; in the end, the planet itself swallowed the figure.

Jetfire wakes up deep below the surface of Cybertron, and discovers a group of mechanoids worshiping a massive, inert winged figure—they call it "Thunderwing".

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons

Errors

  • On the cover, Jetfire sports Autobot symbols from a fan-made font, one that erroneously gives the symbol three hashes on each side of the forehead instead of two.
  • The placement of symbols is particularly bad in this issue, with the contours rarely conforming to the contours of the surface they're placed on. In fact, the symbols on Jetfire are so badly photoshopped in they actually erase some of Don Figueroa's pencilling near the edges of the symbols.
  • In the flashback on page 7, Megatron's chest is missing the "squiggle" design seen in all the other flashbacks featuring him.
  • On page 19, all three word balloons are attributed to Afterburner, though they read like they should be attributed to Afterburner, Nosecone, and then Afterburner again. This error was corrected when the issue was published in trade paperback.


Items of note

  • This issue was the first glimpse at the design for what would become Classics Jetfire. The fans rejoiced, and complained.
  • During Optimus Prime's first flashback to the past, he is seen with his chest panel slightly ajar with a bright, Matrix-like light source eminating from within. This is possibly a visual homage to Furman & Figueroa's work in The War Within.
  • The first few pages of this story were reprinted as part of a Free Comic Book Day issue by IDW Publishing on May 6th, 2006.

Cameos

Covers (7)

  • Cover A: Jetfire and the Technobots by Don Figueroa and Josh Burcham. This cover can be combined with similar ones from theother three issues to form a giant battle scene.
  • Cover B: Thunderwing in flames by Don Figueroa and ???
  • Cover RI-A: Cover A uncolored

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