Stormbringer issue 2
Script: Simon Furman
Art: Don Figueroa
Lettering: Robbie Robbins
Colors: Josh Burcham
Editor: Chris Ryall and Dan Taylor
- Major characters (in order of appearance): Jetfire, Bludgeon, Thunderwing, Optimus Prime, Searchlight, Springer, Roadbuster, Megatron, Dogfight, Nosecone, Afterburner, Ruckus, Darkwing
- Originally published: August, 2006
Synopsis
Jetfire is interrogated by the Decepticon Bludgeon, who is leading a team intending to continue what the dormant Thunderwing started. In the meantime, Optimus Prime receives a report on the destruction of the Calabi-Yau and decides to call in the Wreckers in case Thunderwing is indeed returning.
Bludgeon commences restoring power to Thunderwing using the Energon pocket detected by the Calabi-Yau. Jetfire attempts to stop Bludgeon, but is disabled. As Optimus Prime hurtles toward Cybertron, he remembers a time when Megatron attempted to persuade Prime into destroying Thunderwing by nuking Cybertron.
Nosecone and Afterburner leave their escape pod and make their way across the surface of Cybertron, but the cosmic radiation plays havoc with their systems and they are rounded up by a pair of Centurion drones.
A Decepticon infiltration unit on the planet Nebulos picks up something big and powerful exiting foldspace. The people of the planet look to the sky and flee in fear. The apocalypse has arrived - and its name is Thunderwing...
Errors
- The inside cover of issue #2, solicited for August 2006, shows the publish date of the issue as June 2006, one month before the last issue.
Items of Note
If the Transformers ongoing series is maintaining a focus on the classic G1 characters, then Stormbringer appears intent on drawing the more esoteric G1 Transformers into the rebooted continuity and explaining their at-times odd technology. Thunderwing's "grafting process" appears to be the origin of Pretender technology, given that Thunderwing has only been glimpsed outside his shell prior to the apocalypse and that Bludgeon and all of the named Decepticons working for him thus far are part of the G1 Pretender toy line. Also, most of the Decepticons glimpsed in the background inside the Decepticon command bunker on Nebulos are members of the Headmasters, Targetmasters and Powermasters lines. (Though whether the various *-master technology have yet been invented in this continuity is unknown).
