Earthquake (book)
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| The name or term "earthquake" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see earthquake (disambiguation). |
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 I AM NOT A SHARK! I AM A MAN! | |||||||||||||
| "Earthquake" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Ballantine Books | ||||||||||||
| Imprint | Find Your Fate Junior | ||||||||||||
| First published | 1986 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Ann Matthews | ||||||||||||
| Illustrator | William Schmidt (interior pencils and cover painting) | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 9780345330710 ISBN 0-345-33071-4 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 73 | ||||||||||||
- Earthquake is a multipath adventure in Generation 1.
Featured characters
Synopsis
Beachcomber discovers a hidden Decepticon base, from which they are planning to destroy the nearby Center City, a dry run at destroying all the world's capitals.
Jesse and Buster, exploring nearby, also discover Megatron's plan.
A crack team of Autobots infiltrate the fortress to destroy Megatron's weapon (running into a conspiracy between Starscream and Soundwave to unseat Megatron in the process.)
Notes
- One of the vanishingly few appearances of Jesse outside of Marvel Comics.
- Beachcomber is armed with a gun that shoots bullets. It's not especially effective, at least against the coneheads.
- Though they're never depicted as coneheads here, thanks to being toy/box-art based.
- Beachcomber's brain functions involve "memory tape". That's apparently standard for this micro-continuity-nexus, since Dirge is able to replay it (exactly how isn't explained; Soundwave and the cassettes aren't around) to gather intel after disassembling him. Dirge specifically replays "the last 15 minutes", implying he considers that the equivalent of TF short-term memory. This also implies that TF brains are much larger here than in most major continuities.
- This book was available individually, or as part of a six-book box set with the other five "pre-Movie era" books in the series.
