Transformers: Ratchet
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing Target | ||||||||||||
| Writer | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Atilio Martin | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Sergio Adad | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt Denton J. Tipton | ||||||||||||
| Cover | E. J. Su | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Live-action film series | ||||||||||||
Ratchet rescues Arcee from Space Case while doing a lot of self-justification of why he's a doctor who hacks people up with a buzzsaw.
Synopsis
Ratchet, out examining soil samples after an earthquake in a remote desert location, receives a priority-one Autobot distress signal. Tracking the signal to its source, he was surprised by a nearby rumbling. What he took at first to be another earthquake was actually the dull-witted Decepticon Space Case. Ratchet avoided the initial attack and leapt onto his opponent's jet form, overpowering him and causing them both to crash through the unstable earth into a subterranean cavern.
With Space Case temporarily out of commission, Ratchet looked around and found Arcee, trapped beneath a rockfall. Grateful the Autobot medic had found her, she explained that Sam Witwicky and Bumblebee were trapped as well. Before Ratchet could take any action, however, Space Case recovered and attempted to impale him on his trident. Ratchet acknowledged the conflict between his belief in pacifism and the realities of war and, determined to rescue his friends, retaliated with a devastating strike on the Decepticon with his buzzsaw, and Space Case turned tail and ran, grousing loudly about the ineffectiveness of his special protective cyberglyphics.
Ratchet extracted Arcee from the rubble, patched her up, and sent her after Space Case, remarking that he was going to stay and save more lives.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Quotes
"I don't like violence. I know how things look right now, but truly - I abhor it."
- -Ratchet, as he drives Space Case through the ground
"I've had it with this cave! I'll see you later, an' then we'll settle things for reals!"
"What's he talking about?"
"I'm afraid I have no idea."
- -Space Case also learned to speak English from the World Wide Web, while Arcee and Ratchet are like whatevs
Errors
- None yet identified.
Items of note
- The comic comes free with Target's exclusive Dark of the Moon Voyager class repaint of Ratchet.
- The issue takes place between Revenge of the Fallen and Dark of the Moon, following on from Transformers: Space Case (in which Space Case winds up in a cave and escapes his pursuers by caving them in). More specifically, these comics take place not long before the Barber-penned Rising Storm prequel comic; the attack on Sam mentioned in this comic would even be alluded to by Space Case in the third issue of that series.
- There's a bit of artistic conflict, though, since this comic features Ratchet in his new Dark of the Moon coloration, and Transformers: Starscream put Megatron in his new truck body, while Rising Storm featured the characters in their Revenge of the Fallen forms. This was either an out-and-out goof, or possibly a deliberate choice to not feature the characters' new bodies ahead of time in Rising Storm (something similar happened in that comic with other new movie cast members).
- Ratchet recognizes Space Case because Jazz told him about him, "some time ago".
- Bumblebee and Sam are mentioned by Arcee but never actually appear on-panel.
- Someone must have cut-and-pasted some legalese for the indicia, because licensing information for both Lockheed's Raptor and Sikorsky's Pave Low appear inside the front cover.
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