Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome

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"Revenge of the Decepticons Part 4: Burning Chrome"
Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	March 9, 2011
Cover date	March 2011
Written by	Mike Costa
Art by	Alex Milne
Colors by	Andrew Dalhouse and Romulo Fajardo
Letters by	Shawn Lee
Editor	Andy Schmidt
Assistant editor	Carlos Guzman
Continuity	IDW continuity
Chronology	Current era (2011)

Things continue to go downhill for the Autobots, as Megatron holds Ultra Magnus hostage.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Optimus Prime (4) Ultra Magnus (6) Jetfire (7) Broadside (8) Prowl (9) Red Alert (10) Ratchet (11) Cliffjumper (12) Jazz (13) Brawn (14) Smokescreen (17) Gears (19) Bumblebee (20) Hoist (21) Silverstreak (22) Huffer (23)	Megatron (5) Starscream (15) Thundercracker (16) Soundwave (18)	Campolongo (1) Spike Witwicky (2) Joe Henderson (3) Schwalbe (24)

Errors

• Blurr, Tracks, and Windcharger are mysteriously absent in the group that Megatron leaves on the school playground, even though were seen last issue.
• On page 14, third panel, Silverstreak's shoulder is mistakenly colored orange.
• And on the subject of colors, in the pages colored by Andrew Dalhouse, Jazz's visor is G1 blue, but in the pages colored by Romulo Fajardo, they're colored like his movie counterpart's. Also, Red Alert's helmet is colored red (like in the cartoon), whereas the previous Earth-based story had him with a black helmet (his figure).

Items of note

Covers (3)

• Cover A: Soundwave holding Ultra Magnus hostage; art by Marcelo Matere and colors by Priscilla Tramontano
• Cover B: A devastated Jazz near a dead Skywatch soldier; art by Nick Roche and colors by J. Brown.
• Cover RI: Concept art of Soundwave by Marcelo Matere.