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

Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks.

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Autobots Decepticons Others

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.
  • 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.
  • The Autobots' shuttle is based on an escape pod which appeared in the Generation 1 cartoon episode "Dark Awakening", but colored differently.
  • 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

  • The name of Bludgeon's ship is inconsistent, it being referred to as the Empirion on page 7 but the Emperion on page 15.

Covers (3)

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