Heart of Darkness issue 2

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Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	April 20, 2011
Cover date	April 2011
Written by	Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning
Art by	Ulises Farinas
Colors by	Andrew Crossley
Letters by	Shawn Lee
Editor	Andy Schmidt
Assistant editor	Carlos Guzman
Continuity	IDW continuity
Chronology	Current era (2011)

Galvatron and his followers are confronted by Arcee and Hardhead, but a much greater threat from within the Dead Universe soon makes itself known...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots	Decepticons	Others
Arcee (5) Hardhead (6)	Cyclonus (1) Jhiaxus (2) Scourge (3) Galvatron (4)	D-Void (7)

Quotes

• TBD

Notes

• The psychedelic Dead Universe imagery on pages 14 and 15 includes a stream of floating representations of several incarnations of Galvatron and Megatron and their voice-actors. Our best guesses as to their identities, from left to right (all of them are disembodied heads unless noted otherwise):
  • Frank Welker
  • Megatron from the Marvel Generation 1 comic
  • Galvatron or Galvatron II from the Marvel Generation 1 comic
  • Megatron from the Shattered Glass universe (or just his early Generation 1 design), miscolored yellow
  • Megatron from the Generation 1 cartoon
  • Megatron's alligator form from the Beast Wars toyline
  • Galvatron's Generation 1 toy in cannon mode
  • Leonard Nimoy (as Mr. Spock)
  • Galvatron from the Generation 1 cartoon
  • Galvatron's Generation 1 toy packaging (twice)
  • A tiny Galvatron too indistinct to identify
  • Galvatron's Generation 1 TakaraTomy reissue toy
  • An even tinier and less identifiable Galvatron
  • Galvatron from the Henkei! Henkei! toy pack-in comic, even colored in greys like the black-and-white comic
  • Galvatron's early character model
• The Galvatron of the IDW Generation 1 universe was never Megatron, so the inclusion of Megatrons among his alternate-universe visages is curious. Presumably they all represent Megatrons who became Galvatrons in their own universes, thus still qualifying as incarnations of this Galvatron. This is most significant for the Beast Wars alligator Megatron: Not only does his appearance cement the idea hinted at in early media that he is actually Generation 1 Megatron, but it also implies an event in the future of that media.
• Among the wrecked ships floating around in the Dead Universe on the same double page spread is the first Enterprise from Star Trek.

Errors

• On the first page, Cyclonus is colored entirely white (or perhaps it's just a very, very light purple with no distinguishing features).
• In the Furman stories Cyclonus was able to take on an entire Autobot space craft by himself. Here, he and Scourge are both beaten by Hardhead alone.

Covers (3)

• Cover A: Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge by Ulises Farinas, with colors by Andrew Crossley.
• Cover B: Galvatron in the Dead Universe, by Casey Coller and Joanna LaFuente
• Cover RI: Pencil sketch version of cover A

• Cover A
  Cover A
• Cover B
  Cover B
• Incentive Cover
  Incentive Cover

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