The Hunting Party (IDW)
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| This article is about the IDW issue. For the Marvel comic story, see The Hunting Party (Marvel). |
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| "The Hunting Party" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | January 16, 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | January 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Pencils by | Chee | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Ronda Pattison | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Shawn Lee | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Carlos Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Assistant editor | Thomas Boening | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Post-Autocracy | ||||||||||||
Searching the galaxy for Metroplex, Thundercracker finds his loyalties divided.
Synopsis
Featured characters
Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Others |
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Quotes
Notes
- This issue was accidentally released early through digital retailer Comixology, on January 2nd. It was taken down after about an hour and released properly two weeks later.
- Barrage and Chop Shop make their IDW continuity debuts this issue. Their fellow Deluxe Insecticon Venom appears alongside them, but their fourth teammate Ransack is notable by his absence, replaced by Beast Wars expatriate Waspinator. Perhaps this is because Ransack was shown to be part of a different unit way back in Spotlight: Sixshot.
- The capture of Orion Pax and Alpha Trion that Thundercracker mentions occurred in Orion's own Spotlight issue.
- Optimus Prime raised Metroplex in issue #10 of Autocracy. The giant became the Autobots' headquarters in issue #12 of that series; his subsequent disappearance was first mentioned in the 2012 Robots in Disguise annual, bringing his depiction in Autocracy into line with his original IDW continuity appearance in his self-titled Spotlight issue, which introduced his mysterious mission.
- Bludgeon's ship is the Decepticon heavy transport from the Marvel UK story, Time Wars. It's not inappropriate for Bludgeon to command this vessel, as in that story, it was the transport of the Mayhem Attack Squad, the group that Bludgeon would go on to be a member of in the post-Time Wars era of stories.
- Though unnamed, the multiple identical robots staffing Bludgeon's bridge are based on Fasttrack, the little dude who came with Scorponok. Given that there are a bunch of them, we've taken the route of considering them Guardminders, mass-produced duplicates of the Fasttrack mold from Super-God Masterforce.
- Also unnamed are the organic aliens that wind up caught in the middle of this issues events, whose porcine features, prominent tusks, jagged teeth and large, pointed ears appear to mark them as Urtuskians, a race previously only seen in issue #52 of the original Marvel series. They're a more real-worldish grey-brown in this issue, though, where the example from the Marvel story was red.
Errors
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Thundercracker as one among many, by Chee and James Brown
- Cover B: Thundercracker looking mean, by Livio Ramondelli
- Cover RI: Thundercracker by Clayton Crain
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