Invasion (issue)

	"Invasion"
Publisher	Fun Publications
First published	BotCon 2012, April 26, 2012; ? (retail edition)
Writer	Benson Yee and Pete Sinclair
Pencils	Dan Khanna
Inks	Jake Isenberg
Colors	Josh Perez, Jesse Wittenrich, and Thomas Deer
Letters	Jesse Wittenrich
Editor	Pete Sinclair
Continuity	Shattered Glass continuity

An evil Ultra Magnus and his army invade an unwitting alternate universe, threatening all existence.

Synopsis

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

SG Autobots

SG Decepticons

Autobots

Decepticons

Humans

As storms threaten Earth's existence, modern-day South Americans worry their ancestors were right about 2012.

Ultra Magnus kills Ironhide in a way similar to Ironhide's death in The Transformers: The Movie. "Such pitiful nonsense!"
Ultra Magnus and the Terminus Blade were mentioned briefly in earlier stories, and both are only now being given center stage. The Stellar Spanner was also introduced earlier, but had much larger roles.
Ratchet is still in the new body he acquired in "At Fight's End," but now it's colored like the North American release versus the Japanese release.
The "Canada" panel on page 16 is full of tiny Marvel Superhero cameos. And Simon Furman. Also ... Robot-Master? ...and Rescue Roy???
Octopunch mentions that he survived the Unicron War.
There are two inverted Furmanisms. First is Magnus's "My time is about to start! Begin!" and the second is Treadshot's "Like a small, herbivorous shrew, you are nothing!"
Shattered Straxus's speech at the end mirrors Optimus Prime's reassurance at the end of "All Fall Down."
Many visual details throughout the story cement the main setting as a Marvel-style universe, such as Blaster, Wheeljack, and Octopunch's colors and Broadside's character model. Slapdash's head is based on the round, helmeted face seen in his Transformers: Universe profile, not the square-ish helmet seen in the comics themselves.