Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 17
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| Publisher | Condor Verlag | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | October 1991 | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
| Price | 3.50 DM | ||||||||||||
Contents
Transformers in the Battle for Peace: Powermaster Optimus Prime - a Robot, a Hero
2008: In the year 2008, in the control room of their hyperspace crusier which travels in space and time, Rodimus Prime and his Autobots look over records from the early adventures on Earth of Optimus Prime.
September 25, 1973: Powermaster Optimus Prime has gathered the Autobots, including the Small Targetmasters and Sparkler Minibots to discuss philosophy - namely the difference between Autobots and Decepticons. The Autobots agree that they are loners, whereas the Decepticons are better team players (but evil). Slapdash suggests setting up an Autobot World Government with which to run Earth and achieve eternal piece.
Optimus Prime reminds the troops that in order to achieve Slapdash's goal, the Autobots have to ensure the Decepticons do not gain control of oil supplies which they can use to make Energon.
September 26, 1973: The Sparkler Minibots are investigating an aircraft graveyard in the Nevada desert, which was an old Decepticon base. The Decepticons are still present however - Needlenose, Darkwing and Dreadwind reveal their liquid crystal Decepticon insignias and fly off for the oil fields of Venezuela to attack an oil tanker. Optimus Prime puts Crossblades in charge of the defense mission.
Crossblades gathers the Pretenders to arrange a surprise attack on the Decepticons. The attack begins - Megatron, Shockwave and the Decepticons fend off a frontal Pretender assault, while another submarine containing Pretenders submerges at a remote pier. The Pretenders manage to rescue the tanker crew.
Needlenose, Darkwing and Dreadwind escape, and Optimus Prime reveals that he believes the Decepticon plan is to raid as many oil fields as possible. Luckily, he positioned Micronaut patrols at all possible coordinates for Decepticon attacks.
Optimus Prime and his men spend all night chasing the Decepticons. The Decepticons flight superiority is their advantage however, and the Autobots are worn down. The Decepticons are also worn out however, and at the end of the night Optimus Prime calls all the Autobots to a truck full of energon, which they all drink and have a good time. (source)
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons |
|---|---|
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Needlenose (10) Darkwing (11) Dreadwind (12) Megatron (16) Shockwave (17) |
Articles and features
- Character profiles for Grimlock and Groove
- Optimus Prime invites us to use a grid to copy a red-and-blue picture of Megatron
- A very strangely coloured Megatron presents a crossword.
- The same competition for Action Master Optimus Prime and some Micromasters as in previous issues.
Models
- In what is the greatest cut-out model selection yet, the reader gets the chance to make a dancing pink Megatron (and Optimus Prime, but he isn't in mad colours).
Reprints
Notes
- The title to part 3 of the comic is translated as "The Unicron Conspiracy: Open Season" whereas part 4 is simply 'The Unicron Conspiracy'
- The text story is set partly in 1973. By this point the Autobots have not only awoken in the Ark, but Optimus Prime is a Powermaster, and the Targetmasters are present.
- The Autobots were asleep on the Ark for 4 million years.
- Slapdash appears to be some sort of robo-Marxist in his call for a benevolant world government of Autobots to control Earth.
- Needlenose, Darkwing and Dreadwind actually use their rubsigns in fiction, which are described as 'liquid crystal insignia'.
- It isn't clear if Crossblades is the only Mega Pretender or if Vroom is present (but silent)
- Good grief, Crossblades gets to do stuff which doesn't involve dying pathetically!
- The story mentions Micronauts a lot. This is probably a misspelling of Micromaster rather than a reference to the actual Micronauts.
- The Autobots have, apparently, unanimously made the decision that flight modes provoke a demonstration and power, and so are not desirable for Autobots. In this continuity then, the Aerialbots have presumably been locked in a gulag.
Errors
Advertisements
- A one page advertisement for the Micromaster Combiner Headquarters.
- A one page advertisement for a computer joystick.
- A one page advertisement for some cartoon videos, including Transformers.
