Ladies' Night (issue)

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Ladies' Night
Publisher Marvel Comics
Cover date 31st October - 7th November 1987
Script Simon Furman
Art Dan Reed (137), Geoff Senior (138)
Colours Euan Peters (#137), Nick Abadzis (#138)
Letters Annie Halfacree
Continuity Marvel Comics continuity

Three human women take on the Combaticons, who are trying to dispose of Ultra Magnus and Galvatron.

Synopsis

This story continues from the UK annual story Vicious Circle!

Archaeologist Susan Hoffman is investigating the dormant volcano Mount Verona and is shocked to discover the entombed bodies of Galvatron and Ultra Magnus. She is later interviewed on television by journalist Joy Meadows. The news report is later seen by the Decepticons and by Goldbug, Blaster and the Throttlebots.

Shockwave, seeing an opportunity to rid himself of Galvatron for good, dispatches Soundwave and the Combaticons to blow the volcano up. Goldbug, Blaster, and the Throttlebots set out to rescue Ultra Magnus.

Also watching the news is Cindy Newell who had once befriended Ultra Magnus. Upon seeing his body she sets out for Mount Verona herself and demands that Susan and Joy help her to free him.

It is just at that moment that the Combaticons attack. They plan to plant explosives around the volcano burying Galvatron and Ultra Magnus forever.

When they reach the volcano Goldbug and Rollbar overhear the Combaticons' plan and decide that destroying Galvatron is ultimately more important than freeing Ultra Magnus. As they are about to leave they are confronted by Cindy with Joy and Susan in tow. She demands that they help her free Ultra Magnus but Goldbug refuses and tells her to go home. They then depart to keep an eye on things from a distance.

Cindy is unwilling to leave Ultra Magnus to his fate, however, and with the help of Susan and Joy takes on the Combaticons. Using an abandoned jeep that was left behind by the military when the Combaticons attacked they first take down Swindle before luring the other Combaticons to a second jeep loaded with explosives. They then attack them with a tank causing the jeep to explode violently.

All the Combaticons except Onslaught are brought down. He is just about to kill his attackers when the Throttlebots return, feeling guilty for having left the women to fight alone.

Onslaught and the Combaticons leave but the Autobots are nervous as they feel that everything was too easy. They realise that the Combaticons have lain explosives around the whole volcano and that they plan to detonate it from a distance. Fortunately Blaster is able to jam Soundwave’s detonation signal giving them time to defuse the bomb. The Decepticons depart defeated.

Goldbug and the Throttlebots leave as well after expressing their admiration that mere humans could have defeated the Combaticons on their own.

Inside the volcano the earlier explosion has weakened the hardened lava and Galvatron begins to stir.


(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Humans

Errors

Gee, I sure wish I had stayed that large.
  • In part 1, Swindle picks up a military Jeep and holds it in one hand, dwarfing it by far. In part 2, the burning Jeep that crashes into him is in scale with Swindle's robot mode. What, can he choose the size of his robot mode at will?
  • The Throttlebots walk off and leave Ultra Magnus entombed in the volcano at the end of the story rather than releasing him, despite this being the reason for their involvement in the first place.
  • Even though they were defeated, why do the Decepticons not try to kill Galvatron again once the coast is clear?


Items of note

  • This is a deliberate team-up of Marvel UK female supporting characters: Susan Hoffman had previously appeared in #125's "Ancient Relics!", Joy Meadows had befriended the Dinobot Sludge in #48's part of "Dinobot Hunt!" and had been macked on him in "In the National Interest", and Cindy had befriended Ultra Magnus in #115-6's "Burning Sky!" before leaving in anger at his apparently suicidal need to keep fighting Galvatron.
  • How exactly does the discovery of two alien robots that were trapped inside a volcano only a few months ago (as explicitly confirmed by Cindy) constitute "the greatest find" of Susan's career? How would the destruction of those robots make her the "laughing stock of archaeological circles"?
  • In an understated character bit, Susan (terrorised by Megatron) is wary of the Transformers while Joy (saved and assisted by the Dinobots) calmly tells her some Transformers "are okay".

Secondary Transformers Stories

On rare occasions, the Marvel UK issues ran two new (to the UK audience, at least) Transformers stories in the same issue. This is the case for both parts of "Ladies' Night" The secondary story in issue #137 being part 4 of "Broken Glass!". While the secondary story in issue #138 is part 1 of "Love and Steel!".


Back-Up Stories

Issue #137:

Issue #138:

  • Robo-Capers

Reprints

Covers (3)

  • Issue #137
    Issue #137
  • Issue #138
    Issue #138
  • Transformers Comic-Magazin issue #14
    Transformers Comic-Magazin issue #14
  • Legacy of Unicron TPB
    Legacy of Unicron TPB
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