His leadership questioned at every turn, Bumblebee sets out on a solo mission to stop the Decepticons returning to Cybertron.
Synopsis
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Notes
- As the note on the inside front cover says, this story takes place during the events of "Police Action", the story which ran in issues #25, #27 and #29 of the ongoing series. Its precise placement is not detailed, but specifically, it would appear to take place concurrently with #25, with Groove's absence in that part of the story explained here by having Prowl send him off on a mission off-panel. However, #27 had Wheeljack conferring with Prowl via holo-projection while he was still aboard Omega Supreme's rocket, implying that the Autobots hadn't reached Cybertron yet, which would make the timing of the Decepticons space bridge departure problematic, as they didn't arrive on Cybertron until after the Autobots.
- By that same token, the story also occurs concurrently with the events of "Chaos", which ran in the issues of the ongoing that alternated with the "Police Action" chapters. The Decepticons would emerge through the space bridge they are shown entering here in the third chapter of that story, in issue #28. The bridge terminal is of the same claw-like curved-pylon design as that seen in All Hail Megatron #7.
- The original encounter between Bumblebee, Thundercracker and Metroplex was detailed in Spotlight: Thundercracker. More recently, chronology-wise, Bumblebee petitioned Thundercracker for aid in ongoing #10; further unsolicited visits to Thundercracker's "man cave" occurred in #15 and #16, leading him to pack it up and move, as seen here.
- Bumblebee met Sanjay Bharwaney in his self-titled mini-series.
- The ongoing series was painfully vague on why Megatron allowed himself to be captured by the Autobots; this issue finally has someone give the out-and-out explanation in dialogue, which is that he planned to open a space bridge with his new body to allow his troops to overrun the Autobots.
- Breakdown comments that he "owes the Autobots a little somethin'," presumably a reference to the scrap with Prowl and Streetwise he has in ongoing #25, which timeline-wise he has probably only just returned from.
- After his stunt channelling the space bridge power flow through his cane, Bumblebee quips that he must get Wheeljack to "make him one of these." He would have a zappy-cane in Robots in Disguise #2.
- With the revelation that the Stunticons were left behind on Earth, the Decepticons' decision to rely on a physically crippled Devastator during the battle over in "Chaos", rather than a functional Menasor, makes a bit more sense.
Errors
- Early promotional images of the covers for this issue misspelled it Spotlight: Bubmblebee. It's fine in the finished edition.
- Doctor Bharwaney's name is misspelled "Bharmaney".
Covers (4)
- Cover A: The shadows of the Stunticons fall over a battered Bumblebee, armed with his cane, by David Daza and Esther Sanz
- Cover B: Bumblebee with a new arm-gun, by Livio Ramondelli
- Cover RI: Bumblebee by Clayton Crain
- Convention Exclusive: Mirror-flipped, cropped-in version of cover RI, available through (a?) currently-unknown convention(s?).
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