Heart of Darkness issue 3
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | May 25, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | May 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Ulises Farinas | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Andrew Crossley | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Shawn Lee | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Andy Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| Assistant editor | Carlos Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 2010, before Infestation. | ||||||||||||
Galvatron gathers his army against D-Void, but meets an old friend...
Synopsis
On the planet Spindrift, a former battlefield in the Transformers' civil war, the alien crew of the Murkdipper are hunting vapor eels when they are attacked by a cloud leviathan. The sudden appearance of Galvatron saves them from the monster, but his actual goal turns out to be the liberation of Thinkbox, an old deactivated Headmaster who is used to power the alien ship. He proceeds to take Thinkbox with him to the Realm of Wrecks, an area of the planet littered with dead Transformer bodies from past battles, and revives them all to join his growing army.
As Galvatron returns to Gorlam Prime with his new troops, he explains to them that he has visited numerous worlds, resurrecting or recruiting Autobots, Decepticons and even other robotic lifeforms in preparation for the showdown with D-Void. Cyclonus has his doubts about whether or not D-Void really exists, but his leader assures him that the threat is very real.
Galvatron's next destination is the planet Dykayra, where ruins similar to those beneath Gorlam Prime have been found. As his scouting party makes their way past old Autobot corpses, he wonders what happened to the seemingly long-gone culture that built the ruins, and suspects a connection to D-Void. Inside the ruins, they're surprised to find another portal to the Dead Universe, and even more surprised to see the figure emerging from it... their old leader, Nemesis Prime.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Galvatron's forces | Others |
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Quotes
- TBD
Notes
- One of the planets that Galvatron recruits from is apparently the planet Junk.
- He's probably just using his usual flowery style of talking, but if Galvatron really has an army of over one million, he's just increased the Transformer population of the IDW-verse by a lot of percent, based on the population figure of 10,000 given in Spotlight: Prowl. Uh, wow.
Errors
- The "hair" for Capt. Karrg and Master Eeems varies from panel to panel.
- On page 14, Galvatron's name is misspelled "Galavtron".
- On the two-page spread across pages 15 and 16, the treads on Galvatron's back are not colored in.
Covers (3)
- Cover A: Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge in battle, by Ulises Farinas, with colors by Andrew Crossley.
- Cover B: Galvatron bringing dead Transformers to life, by Casey Coller and Joana Lafuente
- Cover RI: Pencil sketch version of cover A
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