The Ascending issue 3

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You can't spell "Rend" without "Blendtron".
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published December 17, 2007
Cover date October 2007
Written by Simon Furman
Art by Don Figueroa
Colors by Josh Burcham
Colors assist by Mark Bristow
Letters by Chris Mowry
Edits by Andrew Steven Harris
Continuity Beast Wars cartoon continuity

Earth is attacked by the Blendtrons as Shokaract gets closer to ascension.

Synopsis

On Cybertron, Big Convoy and his team have found a massive tower with high levels of Angolmois energy inside. Shokaract, aware of their presence, prepares to go deal with them himself. The Blendtrons protest, saying that his power is not yet stabilized, but Shokaract is impatient and dismisses their concerns. Emerging through the wall, Shokaract tears Tasmania Kid in half and prepare to take on Big Convoy himself.

Those with stupid names die first.

On Earth, Razorbeast is attacking Maximal and Predacon alike, mutated by Rartorata's Angolmois injection. Ravage tries to explain the situation to Lio Convoy, saying that the future of Cybertron depends on a truce between them.

On Cybertron, Big Convoy transforms into his spider tank mode to get up close and personal with Shokaract. Shokaract easily tears through Cohrada and Survive, but tells Big Convoy what will happen: Cybertron will become an extension of his will, and Shokaract will become a god. With that, he destroys Big Convoy and goes on to devastate Cybertron. Magmatron, watching everything in chronal phase, knows what will really happen: Shokaract will destroy most of Cybertron, and the survivors will kill each other before Unicron's resurrection.

On Earth, Lio Convoy agrees to a truce with Ravage's Predacons. The Maximals will deal with Razorbeast while the Predacons will take down Rartorata. As the Predacons down the Blendtron and extract some Angolmois from him, the Maximals manage to restrain Razorbeast. Lio tries to reason with him, and Razorbeast's personality manages to break through. Ravage says that they need to go now, but the other Blendtrons arrive. Razorbeast breaks through his binds and attacks—the Blendtrons. He urges the others to go, while he fights the Blendtrons himself. The most able of both forces go on Lio Convoy's transwarp cruiser, while the rest stay behind to help Razorbeast. Ravage says that they will need a scientist to make a retrovirus from the Angolmois that the Predacons extracted, and Lio Convoy happens to know one.

NO! I want two!

As before on Cybertron, Shokaract emerges from his tower and tears Tasmania Kid in half, but before he can do the same to Big Convoy, Lio Convoy's transwarp cruiser emerges, only to be shot down by Shokaract. Then, tears in space and time appear, announcing the coming of Shokaract's Heralds, carrying enough Angolmois to ensure his rise to glory.

The Ascension has begun...

Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Maximals Predacons Others

Errors

  • When the Maximals are wrestling Razorbeast to the ground, Drill Bit is shown pegging stakes into the ground and complaining about their current lack of technology. This is more than likely supposed to actually be Drill Nuts, only mistakenly colored as Drill Bit.

Items of note

  • Noctorro is a guy who gets around. He's seen helping bring supplies to bind the berserk Razorbeast to the ground and then on the very next page, he's also seen wrestling with Rartorata's stinger.
  • On the middle panel and on the bottom left panel of the second to last page, a building and a bridge has inscribed on it "BYE" and "GOODBYE EVERYBODY — DON", a sorrowful goodbye from Don Figueroa as this was his last Transformers comic work for some time. He has since returned to pencil the BotCon 2008 comic Shattered Glass, issue 3 of Transformers: Defiance and IDW's new The Transformers ongoing comic series.
  • The Cybertronix written on the first page of the issue identifies the various Maximals and their equipment, including calling a scanning device in Big Convoy's hand "Geiger". Written in a box in the lower left is the following: "Big Convoy is so freaking awesome. I love him. Yeah ... So cool. He kicks Shockaract's butt all over [unreadable] lol". This marks the first canonical use of lowercase Predacon letters.
  • There's a bunch of little character moments in the fights against the Angolmois-infected Razorbeast and Rartorata.
    • Grimlock complains about having to tie up Razorbeast's hind end.
    • Drill Nuts is moaning about having to use wooden stakes.
    • Transquito is mocking Injector and his resemblance to Rartorata.
    • Transquito then tries to figure out how Air Hammer keeps hitting Rartorata without getting hurt.
    • Polar Claw makes an agressive comment about wanting a piece of Rartorata earning him disapproving glances from K-9.

Covers (4)

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Specifics: alt covers RI A & RI B

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