The Transformers: Infestation issue 1

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"Prime, does it have to be a headshot if you're using a huge laser cannon?"
"I don't know, but I'm looking forward to finding out!"
Publisher IDW Publishing
First published February 2, 2011
Cover date February 2011
Written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art by Nick Roche
Colors by Joana Lafuente
Letters by Robbie Robbins
Assistant editor Bobby Curnow
Continuity IDW continuity
Chronology Current era (2011)

Galvatron's here to stop interdimensional zombies, whether the Autobots want it or not.

Synopsis

A Cybertronian shuttle crash-lands on the Las Vegas strip. Coming out of the shuttle is a swarm of zombiefied humans, giant robots and Sweeps that make short work of the local police. Coming out of the shuttle as well are former Dead Universe inhabitants Galvatron, Cyclonus, Scourge and the mysterious Bayonet. Galvatron screams for Optimus Prime and his Autobots to come… and they do, along with Skywatch agents. Galvatron demands that the Autobots surrender command to him, riling Optimus Prime and Bumblebee to attack Galvatron. Bayonet, Cyclonus and Scourge attack the Autobots, telling them that while their primary mission is to destroy the curse of unlife, the Autobots are in their way.

While fighting, Optimus Prime asks Galvatron to explain himself, but Galvatron orders Optimus to bow down before him. Kup leads the Skywatch crash-suits to battle the zombies, but a horrifying memory brings Kup back to the time when he was stranded and was assaulted by monsters, causing him to lose his cool and sanity, and drop his cy-gar. In battle, several of the Skywatch agents were infected and turned into zombies themselves. Bumblebee and several other Skywatch crash-suits manage to latch three inhibitors to Galvatron, forcing him to transform into his alternate mode. Cyclonus surrenders, but tells the Autobots that they are not their enemy this time. Noticing the Infestation as the larger threat, Optimus orders the Autobots to seal the city, and Prowl suggests a force dome. Wheeljack sets it up, sealing Las Vegas, but the dome can only hold for twenty hours.

Prowl and Optimus interrogate Galvatron, who explains that they had found a mass of frozen remains of organics and machines with the telltale energies of the Dead Universe, coming out of a distortion in space-time. They had brought it aboard their ship, until the dead mass awoke with unlife. During the ensuing battle, the ship was damaged, causing them to plummet to Earth. Galvatron had then determined that only with Optimus’ help can they end the plague. It was at this point that a crazed Kup stumbles towards them, screaming incoherently that nothing makes sense, that the truth is in disguise, and began to point a finger at Bayonet, asking where she popped out from. Kup screams that the threat is right in front of them… and Bayonet thrusts her hand through Kup’s torso, opening her face mask to reveal an organic face and calling herself ‘Britt’, who gives the Transformers a greeting from the Undermind.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans Others

Quotes

  • TBD

Notes

  • Wheeljack shows up for one panel to do his thing. There's no sign of him elsewhere in the issue.

Errors

  • Spike refers to Galvatron as a Decepticon, when Galvatron and his crew are actually unaffiliated. While this may have simply been a case of generalization on Spike's part, the next issue would feature the Autobots themselves using the term to refer to the Dead Universe characters.

Covers (4)

  • Cover A: The Autobots stand off against Zombies; art by Nick Roche with Joana Lafuente on colors.
  • Cover B: Optimus Prime holds an unconscious woman while Bumblebee trashes a car and humans look frightened; art by John K. Snyder III.
  • Cover RI A: A zombie hand "rips" the cover; art by Gabriel Rodriguez.
  • Cover RI B: Cover RI-A with added unique sketch of either Optimus Prime, Starscream, Megatron, Galvatron, Bumblebee, Prowl, Jazz, Kup, Rodimus Prime, or Soundwave by Dan Khanna.

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