Dreamwave Armada issue 3

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Pathetic mudball!
Publisher Dreamwave Productions
First published October 16, 2002
Script Chris Sarracini
Pencils James Raiz
Inks Rob Armstrong, Erik Sander
Colors Alan Wang, Ramil Sunga
Lettering Dreamer Design
Editor Roger Lee
Continuity Dreamwave Armada continuity

Millions of years after the Great War started, a trio of Earth kids finds a group of deactivated Mini-Cons.

Synopsis

The war on Cybertron wages on for millions of years, with the Decepticons quickly becoming the dominant force on the planet. The escaped Mini-Cons, meanwhile, experience some engine trouble. Their ship crashes into the Moon, with half of it breaking off and falling to Earth.

Millions of years later, Rad, Carlos, and Alexis unveil Project Supernova: a cardboard plane supported by balloons and with a dummy as a rider. Though they get it to fly, a pair of bullies pops the balloons. As Rad climbs down to look for the dummy's helmet, he falls into a crevice, finds the crashed Mini-Con ship, and accidentally activates a homing beacon that alerts both the Decepticons and the Autobots to their presence on Earth, prompting both groups to open space bridge portals (the Decepticons to claim the Mini-Cons, and the Autobots to stop them). He also wakes up Sparkplug and the Street Action Team, whom he hides in his garage despite Alexis's reservations.

The next morning, they find that not only have the Mini-Cons repaired themselves with the tools they found, but they're created a real, working version of Project Supernova. As they fly off, Sparkplug remarks that the fun has just begun, not realizing that Megatron is looming right behind them.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Mini-Cons Humans

Quotes

"Where's Carlos?"
"You mean Agent Sidekick?"
"Let me guess. You picked that one, didn't you?"

—Alexis and Rad

Notes

Enjoy it kids, you stop existing after this panel.
  • Thanks to the few Autobot/Decepticon toys out at the time, and because no generics are drawn in, it seems that Megatron conquered Cybertron with just three guys and the Autobots only number five.
  • Sid and Seth are basically Billy and Fred. Why they've got different names is unknown. They're also a lot meaner than Billy and Fred would turn out to be, with Sid trying to hurt (possibly kill) a squirrel for the hell of it. What makes them more puzzling is that Billy and Fred later turned up, but only for one issue and in a scene that could probably have been done with Sid and Seth.
  • James Raiz originally drew the human characters in his normal style but Hasbro felt they weren't on-model. As Raiz says, "so I tried drawing it in a quazi-anime style (not a very good one) and sent it to them. Unfortunately for me – they loved it…". [1]


Covers (2)

Aliens! Oh wait...

— both covers by James Raiz

  • Regular cover: Starscream and the other Decepticons above the Earth
  • Alternate cover: Mini-Cons in field stare in terror

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References

  1. ↑ Transfans.co.uk interview with James Raiz
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