Invasion (issue)
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| "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
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| SG Decepticons | SG Autobots | Classicsverse Autobots | Classicsverse Decepticons | Humans | |
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Quotes
"Every one of them will pay for how they laughed at our plans! Or how they would have laughed had they known. Either way... BOOM!"
- — SG Wheeljack
"Oh, dear Treadshot, you delightful Decepticon scum! I can't tell you how much I missed you trying to kill me."
- — Ultra Magnus has a special relationship with Treadshot
"Magnus! You coward! Like a small, herbivorous shrew, you are nothing! I will hunt you to the ends of time! I will burn your empire to the ground I... I... I fraggin' hate that guy."
- — Treadshot has a special relationship with Ultra Magnus
Notes
- At the end of this story, anyone in the Classicsverse who wasn't on Earth was destroyed. As Megatron had left Earth in "At Fight's End" with a ship full of Decepticons, that likely suggests their demise, as well as Ultra Magnus's group which left Earth at the end of "Games of Deception." And let's not forget Nightbeat's detective agency on Azure. Comments made at BotCon 2012 imply that Optimus Prime was also off-planet at the time.
Errors
- Lotsa missing commas and some comma splices. Example: "I am one of Gigatron's personal guards, you have no hope of defeating Octopunch!"
- On page 13, SG Octopunch has purple Decepticon symbols.
Continuity errors
Real-world references
- As storms threaten Earth's existence, modern-day South Americans worry their ancestors were right about 2012.
Transformers references
- 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 a much larger role.
- 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.
Covers
- BotCon Edition:
