Heart of Darkness issue 2

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Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	April 6, 2011
Cover date	April 2011
Written by	Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art by	Ulises Farinas
Colors by	Andrew Crossley
Letters by	Shawn Lee
Editor	Andy Schmidt
Assistant editor	Carlos Guzman
Continuity	IDW continuity
Chronology	Current era (2011)

Galvatron and his followers are confronted by Arcee and Hardhead, but a much greater threat from within the Dead Universe soon makes itself known...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Others
Arcee (5) Hardhead (6)	Cyclonus (1) Jhiaxus (2) Scourge (3) Galvatron (4)	D-Void (7)

Quotes

• TBD

Notes

• The eye-meltingly metatextual cameos appearing in the double page spread across pages 14 and 15 include:
  • Frank Welker
  • Marvel Comics Megatron
  • Marvel Comics Galvatron
  • Megatron with his prototype head design (miscolored yellow)
  • G1 cartoon Megatron
  • Beast Wars Megatron's non-show crocodile form
  • Leonard Nimoy (as Mr. Spock)
  • G1 cartoon Galvatron
  • Galvatron's Generation 1 toy, in box, and loose in cannon mode
  • Galvatron with a Generation 1 toy-accurate headsculpt
  • Galvatron based on his early character model

Another boxed Transformers toy and three more Galvatron heads are also floating around, but they're too small to determine if they're supposed to represent anything specific.

Errors

• TBD

Covers (3)

• Cover A: Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge by Ulises Farinas, with colors by Andrew Crossley.
• Cover B: Galvatron in the Dead Universe, by Casey Coller and Joanna LaFuente
• Cover RI: Pencil sketch version of cover A

• Cover A
  Cover A
• Cover B
  Cover B
• Incentive Cover
  Incentive Cover

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