Dark of the Moon issue 4
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | July 6, 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 | ||||||||||||
The final battle begins!
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Notes
- This issue also includes Convergence chapter 4 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).
- This issue was planned to be released on June 29, but after the movie date was pushed to that same date, the adaptation was delayed to July 6.
- Hardcore Eddie is inexplicably drawn as a muscular, Caucasian male with a red Mohawk.
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:
- We never see Sam and Epps finding the soldiers, unlike the film.
- Lennox shows up after Starscream is dead.
- Bumblebee doesn't save Sam when Starscream dies.
- The Wreckers don't tear apart the Decepticon pilot.
- Most of the scenes with the NEST soldiers during the battle are omitted.
- Topspin speaks!
Other script-based differences include:
- Carly does not change her clothes while she is trapped with Dylan Gould. She still wears her white dress from last issue.
- Shockwave speaks in the final battle.
- Starscream attacks Sam and the others when they are in the building about to shoot at the pillars, something that never happened in the movie.
- Simmons is still sans wheelchair.
- The boomstick that ends Starscream's life is stabbed in his mouth instead of eye.
- The Autobots are in chains during the execution scene, as opposed to simply being restrained.
- Wheeljack lives, and instead Mirage has his head ripped off by Soundwave.
- Bumblebee kills Soundwave with one shot to the chest, and the two do not have an extended battle.
- Wheelie and Brains live as opposed to the movie where their fate was merely ambiguous.
- Optimus' rampage is omitted. Shockwave stands with Sentinel as he triggers the pillar, and is simply stabbed in the chest as opposed to having his throat ripped out.
- The final fight between Optimus Prime, Sentinel Prime and Megatron takes place up in a large, destroyed building. Megatron helps Optimus in killing Sentinel Prime, providing a distraction so Optimus can use Sentinel's rust cannon against him. As well, Megatron does not die and offers a sincere truce after Cybertron disappears.
- The main control pillar is destroyed by missile launchers instead of Bumblebee destroying it.
- The final scene from the comic, with Igor looking at the sky wondering what became of his master, is not in the movie.
The Decepticons are also shown tearing a building apart and making a fortress out of it.
Errors
- The Wreckers' are colored rather inconsistently. In some panels they have the right colors, and in others Roadbuster is blue, Topspin is red, and Leadfoot is green.
- In the panel before Mirage dies, he has Soundwaves color's and Soundwave's "prisoners" line is attributed to him as well
Covers (2)
- Cover A: Megatron and Soundwave, by Jorge Jimenez Moreno.
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