Shadow of Evil
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| "Shadow of Evil" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 14th January 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 20th January 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Cam Smith | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Annie Halfacree | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
Unicron has possessed Rodimus - everyone's buggered...
Synopsis
This story follows on from Edge of Impact.
The possessed Rodimus is slaughtering the Autobots by the dozen, and, as they are reluctant to kill him, their weapons are set to stun. Kup has called for help from Autobot City, and until it arrives, he feels they owe it to Rodimus to let him have a chance fighting against the real enemy...
Rodimus flees through a nightmare world, pursued by Unicron, now in the form of a walking shadow. Rodimus is running scared when he should be fighting, and he is lost.
The possessed Rodimus pauses due to this psychic battle, and as reinforcements arrive, Arcee makes Kup realise they have to take this chance and shoot to kill...
This story is continued in White Fire.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Items of note
- Unicron's name is not mentioned either here or in "White Fire".
- Rodimus/Unicron appears to take out a fair number of Autobots in this issue. As well as the deactivated Getaway and Quickmix, we see him blasting Siren, Doubleheader, Hosehead and Longtooth (along with some poor sod in silhouette who is pretty much disintegrated). It would be the last time we would see these characters in the future timeline, leaving their eventual fates uncertain.
- The Autobots really are in trouble; the "heavy artillery" ordered in by Kup consists of Blaster, Perceptor, Afterburner and Strafe. We could be charitable and assume the other Technobots are just off-panel, but they're still not more heavily armed than, say, any other group of random Autobots.
