Together

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Transformers: Sector 7 issue 3
"Together"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published November 24, 2010
Cover date November 2010
Writer John Barber
Art Chee Yang Ong
Colors Andrew Crossley
Letters Chris Mowry
Editor Andy Schmidt
Cover Brian Rood
Joe Suitor
Continuity Live-action film series

1934: Let us tell you a story of two bank robbers named Bonnie and Clyde... and their transforming death car!

Synopsis

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

Notes

Transformers references

  • A note is added to the inside front cover apologizing for the name goofs that have peppered the first two issues, clarifying that Walter Simmons's partner is named Theodore Wells and promising the errors will be correcting for future editions. The recap written on the same page attempts to harmonize the errors by noting that Wells's full name is "Theodore Joseph".
  • Margaret previously appeared in the last issue as a child. Since then, she's grown up, got married, and had a son (who, although he is unnamed, must logically be Felix Simmons). Since her descendant Seymour still bears the Simmons name, an explanation is required, and so we see in this issue that she has become separated from her husband (be it through death, divorce, or something else) and retaken her maiden name.
  • Roy Thompson calls Walter Simmons "The Old Man", the epithet Walter was referred to by in the original movie prequel novel, "Ghosts of Yesterday".

Real-life references

  • As in the previous issue, real-life figures and events play a big part in this story. Bonnie and Clyde were, of course, infamous real-life outlaws in the Dust Bowl era, as was their young accomplice, W. D. Jones. The setting of Sowers, Texas was the site of a real-life shoot-out involving the criminals a few months before the events of this story are set, and the jailbreak led by Clyde in this issue did indeed happen in real life, at the time of the story. The couple's real-life deaths happened a few months later than this story places them—presumably a Sector Seven cover-story!
  • The poem written by Bonnie during the story, paraphrased by Margaret in the issue's final panel, is a real-life work, though it was written some time before this story presents it being penned.
  • The "Doc Oppenheimer" referenced by Thompson is Robert Oppenheimer, theoretical physicist and scientific director of the Manhattan Project, which created the nuclear bomb. He was previously noted to be involved with Sector Seven and to have studied and reverse-engineered Megatron (hence how he could develop the gun in this issue) in the third issue of IDW's Movie Prequel comic.
  • This issue is dedicated to the memory of Athur Penn, director of the 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde, who died while the comic was in production.

Covers (2)

  • Cover A: Art by Brian Rood depicting Bonny and Clyde and their transforming car (looking a lot like Jazz).
  • Cover RI: Art by Joe Suitor, the third of a series of interconnecting exclusive covers depicting archival Sector Seven documents and photos that cover the events of this issue.

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