Dark of the Moon issue 3

« Transformers: Dark of the Moon #3 »
Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	June 22, 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

Sentinel and the Decepticons plans are revealed!

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Humans
Bumblebee (1) Sentinel Prime (4) Ironhide (5) Mudflap (6) Skids (7) Wheelie (10) Brains (11) Ratchet (16) Optimus Prime (17) Sideswipe (18) Mirage (19) Roadbuster (26) Topspin (27) Leadfoot (28)	Soundwave (12) Starscream (13) Megatron (14) Igor (15) Tons of unnamed Decepticons (20) Laserbeak (23) Watch-bot (24) Barricade (25)	Seymour Simmons (2) Sam Witwicky (3) Charlotte Mearing (8) William Lennox (9) Dylan Gould (21) Carly Spencer (22) Robert Epps (29)

Notes

• This issue also includes Convergence chapter 3 as exclusive bonus back-up material.
• Megatron's tarp-cape varies in length. It varies between short (going down to his neck) and long (going over his shoulder, like how it's mostly seen).

Differences with movie

Several pieces of the film are trimmed out and/or pared down, but purely for page-space reasons, rather than due to the issue being based on an early script. These include:

• Bumblebee does not do any attempt to shoot Sentinel Prime after Ironhide dies.
• Megatron simply removes Abraham Lincoln statue from the Abraham Lincoln Memorial instead of blasting it......sounds familiar
• Dylan gives Sam the Watch-bot, instead of the Watch-bot coiling itself around Sam's arm in the movie.

Other script-based differences include:

• Simmons is present during Ironhide's and the Twins' deaths, while he was not present in Ironhide's death scene in the final film.
• Simmons does not use a wheelchair after his legs are broken.
• Ironhide does not die due to the Cosmic Rust, instead he's blasted to pieces by Sentinel Prime's gun.
• Like issue 1 and 2. The Twins are still present.
• Sentinel activates the pillars in Washington D.C. during the daytime. He does it at night in the movie.
• Unlike the movie, while held captive by Dylan Gould Carly doesn't change her clothes. Instead, she remains in her dress.
• Topspin talks!

IDW continuity notes

• Sam mentions the attack on the Diego Garcia base which happened in the Rising Storm prequel comics

Errors

• Despite his legs were broken in last issue. Simmons is able to walk perfectly in this and the next issue

Covers (2)

• Cover A: Sentinel Prime and Bumblebee, by Jorge Jimenez Moreno.