Battle Lines, Part 1

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Publisher	Fun Publications
Published in	Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 36
Story	Rik Alvarez & Pete Sinclair
Writers	Pete Sinclair & Jesse Wittenrich
Pencils by	Dan Khanna
Inks by	Dan Khanna
Colors by	Evan Gauntt and Jesse Wittenrich
Letters by	Jesse Wittenrich
Managing editor	Pete Sinclair
Continuity	Wings of Honor

Side Burn pretends to be Dion to pick up tail.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots

Decepticons

Dion (1) Paradron Medic (2) Ratchet (3) Orion Pax (4) (flashback) Ariel (5) (flashback) Cop-Tur (8) (flashback) Sentinel Major (10) (flashback) Magnum (11) Kup (12) Landshark (13) Brawl (14) (flashback) Onslaught (15) (flashback) Vortex (16) (flashback) Swindle (17) (flashback) Road Rage (18) Side Burn (19) Prowl (20) Thunderclash (24) Flak (25) Ironhide (26) Brawn (27) Optimus Prime (28) Jazz (29)

Megatron (6) (flashback) Transport warriors (7) (flashback) Bruticus (9) (flashback) Starscream (21) Deathsaurus (22) Lyzack (23)

Quotes

• TBA

Notes

• The opening page recounts some of the events of "War Dawn." Though we knew these events were in Dion's backstory, this is the first time we've seen them (and Dion's pre-Elite Guard body) in this continuity.
• This is the first fictional appearance of both Cop-Tur and Road Rage.
• The server that Side Burn is trying to pick up looks like T-AI but is not T-AI. She's only supposed to look like T-AI. We are silly for thinking she's supposed to be T-AI.
• Like Side Burn's Robots in Disguise counterpart, he's berated by his universe's Prowl for being a good-for-nothing doofus.
• Similar to the Cybertronian altmodes seen in the first episode of the original cartoon, Prowl's robot mode still looks like it transforms into a Datsun, but his trans-form is a vehicle that looks completely different.
• Both Ironhide and Ratchet are shown in their Descent into Evil bodies, as this Wings of Honor story continues to feature the BotCon 2005 exclusives.