Counterpoint
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| "Counterpoint" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | May 5, 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | May 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Penciler | Andrew Wildman | ||||||||||||
| Inker | Stephen Baskerville | ||||||||||||
| Colorist | Jean-Paul Bove | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Chris Mowry | ||||||||||||
| Editor | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
Synopsis
From the realm of Zero Space, at the end of all existence where all of time and space has collapsed into a perfect singularity, the history of the Transformers is examined, from the battle between Primus and Unicron to the birth of the Transformers and the outbreak of the Autobot/Decepticon civil war... from the arrival of their war on Earth, through the rise of Shockwave, the fall of Megatron, and the creation of combiners and Headmasters, to devastation of the Underbase Saga... from Thunderwing and the tainting of the Creation Matrix through the return of Unicron and his herald Galvatron to the death of Optimus Prime... and to Prime's resurrection at the hands of the Last Autobot, who then restores Cybertron to glory once again!
Twenty-one years have passed since Cybertron's restoration. The world is at peace, populated by Autobots and Decepticons alike, and is presided over by the Last Autobot, perpetually standing sentinel atop a tower in Iacon. But history has a habit of repeating itself, and once again, malcontents rally under the mantra of "Peace through tyranny", as Soundwave gathers several Decepticons at Fort Scyk and inspires them to retake for themselves the destiny Megatron had always envisioned.
Catching wind of this dissident activity, Kup and Ultra Magnus travel to Nova Point, where a brooding Optimus Prime has sequestered himself to mentor Hot Rod, and petition their leader for permission to send the Wreckers in to stop the uprising before it begins. Believing that such an action would only galvanize support for the Decepticons, Prime forbids it, brusquely dismissing both Kup and Magnus, and their concerns that the threat is real.
Unfortunately, Prime could not be more wrong. Soundwave leads a Decepticon strike team in a raid on the Kalis-Baird beaming transmitter, killing the Autobots manning the facility and hijacking control of one of Cybertron's orbital defense satellites. Normally used to destroy asteroids, Soundwave redirects the satellite to face the planet, and fires upon Iacon and the Last Autobot!
Featured characters
(Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.)
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans | Others |
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Quotes
"No Kidding! "Its over-Finished!" He Really Said that?"
Yes, Yes he did.
Notes
- This issue was released as part of the 2012 Free Comic Book Day.
- In the flashback Soundwave is purple like the original comics, but he's blue in the main story.
- 21 years has passed since Cybertron's regeneration and peace began. Issue #80 was published 21 Years ago.
