Dark of the Moon issue 1

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Publisher IDW Publishing
First published June 10, 2011
Written by John Barber
Pencils by Jorge Jimenez Moreno
Colors by Romulo Fajardo
Letters by Shawn Lee
Edits by Andy Schmidt
Continuity Movie continuity

A discovery at the heart of Chernobyl reveals to Optimus Prime a secret humanity has long hidden from the Autobots.

Synopsis


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Notes

Differences with movie

As with past IDW movie adaptations, there are some differences between this comic series and the finished film itself. In a unique move for this series, however, they fall into two distinct groups: differences that exist because the comics were written based on an earlier version of the script that was later revised, and deliberately-created differences in the form of additional scenes not in the film, written by John Barber to forge greater continuity links with other IDW movie comics, and to explain away any potential continuity conflicts. See "IDW continuity notes" below for the second type of changes.

  • As with pretty much every other piece of media aside from the film itself, Wheeljack and Mirage are referred to with those names, instead of the last-minute changes used in the movie, "Q" and "Dino".
  • Sam and Carly are living in a ground-level apartment rather than a loft, complete with a yard for Wheelie, Brains and their dog, rather than a balcony. Further, where they have a single mastiff dog in the film, their pets in the comic are the Witwicky family dog Mojo, plus his special friend from Revenge of the Fallen, Frankie.
  • Although they were edited out of the finished movie, Skids and Mudflap can be glimpsed among the assembled Autobots as Prime confronts Mearing.
  • Megatron kills the elephant his bars his way, rather than just scaring it off.
  • Igor is simply a bouncing disembodied head, lacking the stumpy arms and legs he gets around on in the film.
  • While the Autobots use the Xantium to get to the moon in the film, here they use a human rocket, the Ares V.
  • The Dreads are among the Decepticons hidden on the moon, and secretly hitch a ride back to Earth by clinging to the outside of the Ares V, preceding their later role in the story.

IDW continuity notes

  • Walter Simmons oversees the first moon mission.
  • As this issue begins, NEST are just finishing up the decommissioning of the Diego Garcia base, following its devastation in Rising Storm, explaining why it didn't appear in the film. Makeshift "caskets" (actually shipping crates) are laid out for all the Autobots who died in that series.
  • As he carts Brains off, Sam asks him what he's "done to his head", referring to the addition of a shock of fibre-optic hair Brains sports in the movie that he was lacking in Rising Storm.
  • Shockwave's rampage from Rising Storm is actively referred to when he appears at Chernobyl, and he continues to his talk in his cold, stoic, Generation 1-inspired dialect, rather than the growling non-words of the film.

Errors

Covers (2)

  • Cover A: Optimus Prime standing in front of Sam and Carly, by Jorge Jimenez Moreno.

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