Police Action: Part 1
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| "Police Action: Part 1 " | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | September 7, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | September 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Mike Costa | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Brendan Cahill | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Joana Lafuente | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Shawn Lee | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Carlos Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2011) | ||||||||||||
Prowl investigates Scrapper's murder, and finds that the rabbit hole goes deeper than previously suspected.
Synopsis
During a meeting, Prowl and the other Autobots on Earth recruit Pennington for their investigation work. Later, after Spike Witwicky comes to Prowl, asking him to do something about Ben Simpson and his spreading mistrust for the Transformer race on television. He refuses, and upon learning that Spike is going away for some time, decides to spy on him. Meanwhile, Jazz asks Bumblebee for permission to hunt down the remaining Decepticons on Earth, but is denied due to his killing of a human last time he was in the field.
Prowl secretly tails Spike around Albuquerque, but spots nothing out of the ordinary. Suddenly, Breakdown shows up and tries to run down Witwicky, and Prowl is forced into action. Streetwise chases the Decepticon off, but breaks protocol by transforming into robot mode in the process, earning both cops a chewing-out from Ultra Magnus once they return to base. Prowl takes this opportunity to tell Magnus about his suspicions of both Ben Simpson and of a Decepticon conspiracy, but is told to stick to one investigation—Spike's.
Following orders, Prowl travels to the place where Scrapper was killed, where he discovers liquefied remains of the Decepticon's face. His suspicions are raised, as the weapon that killed Scrapper shouldn't have been able to melt any part of him, but when he's busy taking a sample he's suddenly hit by an explosive shell. As he tries to crawl away, more shells hit the building, which begins to collapse on him...
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Humans |
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Quotes
"You're letting this investigation sprawl. You've got Spike. Now you've got Ben Simpson. And you're trying to bring in a Decepticon conspiracy, too. That's a lot of loose threads. You really think you can tie them together?"
"It's what I do."
- —Prowl doesn't appreciate a chewing out from Ultra Magnus.
Notes
- This issue is listed on the Chaos checklist as "The Last Story on Earth Part 1".
- The behaviour of Prowl (methodical, calm) and Streetwise (hotheaded) here is something of a reverse from issue #1 of the Ongoing.
- "Police Action" was meant to be yet another playing in the genre, a 1940s cop/noir story, and a "Prowl solves a mystery" story had been intended for a while. It was meant to happen earlier, with "Spotlight: Prowl" as part of it, but other stories pushed Action back while Spotlight was moved forward.[1]
Errors
- Despite it being Prowl tailing Spike, the narration (being less clinical and more pop cultural-y) implies it's Streetwise. Streetwise is the one who breaks cover and transforms to rescue Prowl.
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Prowl being buried under debris; art by Marcelo Matere, colors by Priscilla Tramontano.
- Cover B: Prowl, Bumblebee and Jazz; art by Brendan Cahill, colors by Priscilla Tramontano.
- Cover RI: Black & white version of Cover B; art by Cahill.
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I'm getting too old for this shit!
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We're here, we're clear, we don't want any more bears!
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Cover RI
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