Stormbringer issue 1
An unidentified energy source is discovered on a long abandoned world named... Cybertron.
Stormbringer, part 1
Script: Simon Furman
Art: Don Figueroa
Lettering: Robbie Robbins
Colors: Josh Burcham
Editor: Chris Ryall and Dan Taylor
Publisher: IDW Publishing
- Major characters (in order of appearance): Thunderwing, Jetfire, Nosecone, Afterburner, Scattershot, Optimus Prime, Searchlight, Megatron
- Originally published: July, 2006
Synopsis
The crew of the Autobot spacecraft Calabi-Yau pick up an energy trace from the dead planet Cybertron. The ship's captain, Jetfire, orders the Calabi-Yau to drop him and three of the Technobot crew on Cybertron to conduct a detailed survey. Technobots Nosecone and Afterburner take the Calabi-Yau back into orbit, while Jetfire recounts a time before the disaster that destroyed Cybertron, when the warnings of a Decepticon scientist who predicted the apocalypse fell on deaf ears (including his). Suddenly, the four Autobots below are attacked by partially-invisible enemies and overcome.
The Calabi-Yau is then attacked and destroyed by a missile volley launched from Cybertron, although the two remaining Technobots escape in an emergency pod.
Through Optimus Prime's flashbacks, we discover that during the Cybertronian apocalypse, Autobot and Decepticon were united against a mysterious winged figure, wreathed in flame, who was somehow the avatar of the catastrophe. The combined might of the Transformers was ineffectual against it; in the end, the planet itself swallowed the figure.
Jetfire wakes up deep below the surface of Cybertron, and discovers a group of mechanoids worshipping a massive, inert winged figure - they call it "Thunderwing".
Errors
- On the cover, Jetfire sports Autobot symbols from a fan-made font, one that erroneously gives the symbol three hatches on each side of the forehead instead of two.
- The placement of symbols is particularly bad in this issue, with the contours rarely conforming to the contours of the surface they're placed on.
- In the flashback on page 7, Megatron's chest is missing the "squiggle" design seen in all the other flashbacks featuring him.
- On page 19, all three word balloons are attributed to Afterburner, though they read like they should be attributed to Afterburner, Nosecone, and then Afterburner again. This error was corrected when the issue was published in trade paperback.
Items of note
- None as yet.
