Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | April 21, 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | April 2010 | ||||||||||||
| Writers | James Roberts & Nick Roche | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Nick Roche (pp. 1, 10-22) & Guido Guidi (pp. 2-9) | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Andrew Griffith (pp. 1, 10-22) & Guido Guidi (pp. 2-9) | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Josh Burcham | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| Associate editor | Denton J. Tipton | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2010) | ||||||||||||
The Wreckers find out that sometimes the truth really doesn't set you free.
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
"Well, unless it contains a fully sequenced cyber-genome, or the uncensored version of the Autobot code, or—let's think the unthinkable—a roadmap to peace, I'd respectfully suggest that High Command have sent us on a fool's errand!"
- —Topspin is not impressed by Aequitas.
"It was never gonna be Perceptor, was it? Or Springer or Impactor or Kup, if they were here. No, it was always going to be one of us—the second stringers".
"Yeah, just because we're not famous—not Ark-worthy—one of us has to bite the bullet.. well, I'm sorry, but this isn't how I'm supposed to die!"
- —Ironfist and Pyro are uncannily aware of Transformers literary convention
Errors
- The quadriplegic, comatose Fortress Maximus, who was recovered by Perceptor's team just outside the Aequitas chamber, is nowhere to be seen this issue.
- After donating his spark to boot up Aequitas, Topspin is shown as being grey, like Optimus Prime in The Transformers: The Movie. However, a couple pages later, he is shown as just being really scorched.
Items of note
- In his weapons lab, Ironfist displays the sky-sled that Impactor used to rescue Xaaron, which he mentioned earlier as having purchased from a blind dealer. He also has the gun that he'll give to Guzzle in issue 2 on a table.
- Squadron X is composed of random hi-then-die non-toy Decepticons from the Marvel Generation 1 comics, both US and UK.
- Hey, look, it's Rack'n'Ruin!
- And holy crap, Nautilus!
- According to Snare, Overlord told his Decepticons that "play makes you free." This is a twist on the real-life German political slogan "Work makes you free", which the Nazis co-opted ironically by displaying it at the entrances of many concentration camps.
- Impactor kills Snare by crushing his brain module, as Death's Head did to Shockwave in the Marvel UK story, "The Legacy of Unicron!".
- The Rung-penned personality profiles return (for this issue any way). This time, they feature the bottomless well of Wreckers trivia, Ironfist, of all bots.
- Last Stand's UK roots are on show again in Ironfist's profile: the two Wreckers datalogs mentioned, "The Wreckers' Lightning Strike" and "Wreckers at the Pole", are named for two of the Ladybird Books, "Autobots' Lightning Strike" and "Decepticons at the Pole".
- Just like last issue, you can definitely tell which pages were done by Nick Roche by the hand-drawn insignias, where Guido Guidi's pages use digitally-inserted templates.
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Bottom-up view of Springer, Sandstorm, Roadbuster, Whirl, and Broadside all staring down at something unseen, art by Nick Roche and colors by Josh Burcham.
- Cover B: Springer firing his weapons with a profile silhouette of Ironfist in the background, art and colors by Trevor Hutchison.
- Cover RI: "Virgin" title-free edition of cover B.
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