The Coming Storm: Part 1
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| "The Coming Storm: Part 1" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 31 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Writers | Pete Sinclair & Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Pencils by | Dan Khanna | ||||||||||||
| Inks by | Frank Milkovich | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Josh Perez | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Wings of Honor | ||||||||||||
Nexus Prime and Aquarius reflect on their MacGuffin-questing while dealing with Decepticons.
Synopsis
As Nexus Prime and Aquarius land on their latest multidimensional destination, they find themselves surrounded by Decepticons who are eager to torment the Autobot intruding on their turf. As Nexus and Aquarius fight off their attackers (read: Nexus fights them off and Aquarius gets stepped on), Aquarius muses to himself about Nexus, the journey Nexus took from being split apart to being whole again, and their current journey and situation.
Eventually Nexus, still incredibly strong and skilled despite pretending to be a normal Autobot instead of one of the Thirteen (much to Aquarius's consternation), emerges victorious, leaving the Decepticons in a trashed heap. He then decides finally to let Aquarius in on the reason that the two have been traveling from one dimension to the next since leaving the Negative Polarity universes.
Nexus explains that back before he was split into his five pieces, he had been charged with protecting a powerful artifact that could unmake the entire multiverse if it ever fell into evil hands. Both he and the artifact had been split apart and dispersed throughout the cosmos. Now that he's whole again, so too he needs to find the artifact's pieces and make them whole again as well. Unfortunately, this is somewhat stymied by Nexus being unable to remember what the artifact is, what the pieces look like, or even where the pieces are. Instead, up until now, he's been trying to find a clue somewhere in the multiverse that will jog his memory.
That clue finally arrives when Nexus realizes that the symbol on the box he's sitting on seems familiar—enough so that he finally gains a concrete notion on where to start really looking. As Nexus activates the codes to their next destination and they step through a portal, Aquarius muses that he wishes the bots that wore the symbol were still together in the current universe, as he would love to hear their stories...
...one of which starts out with Landshark telling Kup that Kup should really work on finishing the moving of those Elite Guard-branded boxes already!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Others |
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Quotes
"Looks like you you've wandered into the wrong place, Autobot!"
"And a Quintesson? With an Autobot? Didn't your motherboard teach you better?"
- —Runamuck and Jetstorm give Nexus Prime and Aquarius an unfriendly welcome.
"Those that push through the dark, though, to the light on the other side, they find themselves in the lap of redemption. And let me tell you, redemption is just rollin' hills of wonders, and totally groovy!"
- —Aquarius waxes hippie poetic.
"And my—what did you call it?—vibe is telling me where we can start looking."
"Twitchin'! Let's get our beat feet on!"
"...you don't have feet."
- —Nexus Prime and Aquarius
Notes
- Cameos (in various flashbacks): Skyfall, a Scrapmetal, Ramjet, Landquake, various (miscolored) Decepticon-aligned Mini-Cons, Bulletbike, Topspin, Alpha Trion, Breakaway, Heatwave, Cyclonus, Megatron, Omega Doom, Galvatron, Starscream, Cliffjumper, Vector Prime, and The Fallen.
- While technically the start of the next "Wings of Honor" story, this comic is more of a "clip show" of Nexus Prime's journey thus far and a wrap-up for his story.
- The market that Nexus Maximus and Aquarius wander through near the end has vendors that are selling stuff like piles of AllSpark cubes, Transmetal drivers, and Cyber Planet Keys.
Errors
- The Mini-Cons who appear in Landquake's flashback panel are supposed to be members of the Sky Terror Mini-Con Team, but they're colored like the Energon Saber team.
External links
- Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 31 containing this comic at Transformersclub.com
