Goin' South
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 Look Megatron, there's Starscream, and he just made fun of your color scheme! | |||||||||||||
| "Goin' South" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | September 1993 | ||||||||||||
| Script | Larry Hama | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Chris Batista | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Chip Wallace | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Bob Sharen | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Rick Parker | ||||||||||||
| Editor | David Wohl | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
Megatron and Cobra Commander fetch the Ark, and land it in Anytown, USA.
Synopsis
Somewhere over Canada, Megatron leads Cobra to the location of the Ark as part of their technology exchange. Megatron had disguised it as a hillock while it was self-repairing. Now, he remotely orders it into the sky. It impresses the heck out of most of Cobra, especially Doctor Biggles-Jones, who is nearly orgasmic over the chance to play with plasma impellers, photon accelerators, and anti-gravity.
They head south into the United States, and Cobra Commander has them set down in Milleville. It turns out Cobra has everyone in the town brainwashed. Cobra Commander orders the citizens out to unload the Cobra helicopters and the Ark. During the process, the containment capsule holding Doctor Mindbender breaks, and he stands up, mostly recovered from being dead.
Meanwhile, G.I. Joe has managed to notice a ginormous spaceship drifting into middle America and is sneaking into Milleville. Tunnel Rat gets a visual on Megatron and radios his findings to Mainframe (via Hawk). Mainframe and Professor Mott use some technological gifts left behind by the Autobots to radio Cybertron: "Megatron is back, and he's on Earth." Bumblebee and Optimus Prime receive this message and prepare to head back to Earth.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- The cover title of the series for this issue is G.I. Joe Starring Snake-Eyes and Transformers: Generation 2. However, the title in the indicia (and hence the legal title) is G.I. Joe A Real American Hero.
- Our first exposure to Milleville is a sign reading, "WELCOME TO MILLEVILLE! ...A NICE PLACE TO LIVE..." This makes it the only town in America to put ellipses on its welcome signs.
- Cobra Commander asks Megatron to switch to tank mode so he'll be less conspicuous to passing aircraft. One assumes they found someplace to hide the aircraft carrier-sized Ark.
- Cobra Commander refers to Zarana as "steatopygous". This is a medical condition that can loosely be described as "fat-assed".
- He also refers to Milleville as "uliginous", meaning "marshy".
- When Doctor Biggles-Jones comments unfavorably on all the brainwashing, Cobra Commander tells her to spare him from her "cacophemisms", meaning "bad words". Most people only are familiar with "euphemisms", "good words", but Cobra Commander, he likes to show off his vocabulary, he does.
- Mindbender gives us a 3-line rundown on early 1990s culture, mentioning a Democrat in the White House, the cancellation of Cheers, and the hideous changes wrought upon the face of Michael Jackson.
Errors
- On the last page reveal, Optimus Prime is massively miscolored. He's got way too much red, and in all the wrong places.
Covers (1)
- Cover A: Megatron and Cobra Commander by Chris Batista
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Reprints
- 2012 — Classic G.I. Joe Volume 14
