The Desert Heat!
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 I was at the Ponderosa, rappin' to the beat. | |||||||||||||
| "The Desert Heat!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Fun Publications | ||||||||||||
| Published in | Transformers Collectors' Club website | ||||||||||||
| First published | March 11, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Writers | S. Trent Troop and Greg Sepelak | ||||||||||||
| Art | Evan Guantt | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Jesse Wittenrich | ||||||||||||
| Managing editor | Pete Sinclair | ||||||||||||
Heatwave and Soundwave find that Earth is a strange, surreal place.
Synopsis
Having landed on Earth, Heatwave tracks a transponder signal through the night. Arriving at the signal's source in Wyatt's Roadsideaganza, he tries not to panic—but a series of animalistic assailants gives him a moment of serious freaking out. After defeating two dinosaurs and the world's largest woodchuck, he finds Soundwave immobilized and incorporated into the displays. Heatwave kindly asks Soundwave's stasis pod to restore his comrade to functionality. Soundwave scans an Earth mode, and the two depart in search of Soundwave's cassette troops. Soundwave sets the pod to self-destruct, to Heatwave's mild dismay—"he was a nice guy", he says.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Quotes
"...that 'Interweb' said there was no military activity here, so getting caught isn't likely... assuming I can trust that system. It has a dirty, dirty mouth..."
- —Heatwave reflects on the Internets
"Oh, hello, Stasis Pod D-36, are you still functioning? Oh that's great!"
- —Heatwave communes with inanimate objects
"Wait...won't the humans find your pod?"
"Negatory, Dude. I just set the thing to blow!"
"Aw...he was a nice guy."
"Dude, we seriously gotta get you debugged."
- —Soundwave and Heatwave discuss the latter's malfunctioning processor.
Notes
- This two-page comic is a prelude to the "Shattered Glass" story "Eye in the Sky".
- The dinosaurs that "attack" Heatwave look rather familiar. The Tyrannosaurus Rex is based on the new-mold 10th Anniversary toy of Beast Wars Megatron, while the red pterodactyl could be a reference to either Terrorsaur or Magmatron.
- Soundwave refers to his crash landing as a "bogus journey".
- The van that Soundwave scans has a "Cold Slither" logo on the door, with Zartan's face in the center.
- The Cold Slither van is parked next to a sign for "Frog Rock", a decidedly un-frog-shaped roadside attraction from Sam & Max Hit the Road.
External links
- "The Desert Heat!" (page 1}
- "The Desert Heat!" (page 2}
