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
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 three inverted Furmanisms. First is Wheeljack's "Sow the edy!", second is Magnus's "My time is about to start! Begin!" and the third 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:


