Dreadwind's Xmas!

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"Dreadwind's Xmas!"
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Cover date	29th December 1990
Writer	Unknown
Continuity	Letters page

Dreadwind has had too much of the Christmas spirits...

Synopsis

Dreadwind has barricaded himself into his room at the Marvel UK offices, resisting his replacement as the letters page answerer. After some weeks he has become bitter and twisted. Then on Christmas Eve he is visited at midnight by three apparitions. The first resembles Grimlock and states it is "the ghost of the past". It tells Dreadwind to give up and go back to Cybertron. The second resembles Blaster and is the "ghost of the present" who asks Dreadwind what has been achieved other than turning his bitterness on himself. The third is cowled but reveals itself to be a distorted version of Dreadwind who tells the Decepticon that this is what he will become if he doesn't change his ways. The spirits vanish and Dreadwind cries. At dawn he abandons his occupation and leaves, heading home to plot vengeance on the Ultimate Beings...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Decepticons	Humans
Dreadwind (1)	Ghost of the past (2) Ghost of the present (3) Ghost of the future (4)

Notes

• No credits are given for this story.
• The title only appears on the cover.
• With the UK comic no longer producing originated comic stories, this text story served as the year's Christmas tale.
• Dreadwind had been replaced as the letters page answerer from issue #300; however the Transformation page in that issue reported on his refusal to be evicted from his office.
• There is no mention of Hi-Test.

No reprints

• This story is not known to have been reprinted anywhere. However a scan appeared at Lew Stringer's blog Blimey! It's another blog about comics! in December 2011.