Forever Is a Long Time Coming (issue)
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| "Forever Is a Long Time Coming" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | June 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Story by | John Barber | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Livio Ramondelli | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Tom B. Long | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2014) | ||||||||||||
Optimus Prime has finally fingered the culprit...
Synopsis
Slug, still fuming after his confrontation with Optimus Pime, takes the Dinobots to the Optimus Prime statue, which he summarily decapitates. Slug threatens to kill Optimus and drags the other Dinobots into following him, just as an explosion goes off and sends the four flying. In reality, it was a feint by Optimus; the unknowing Dinobots fell through a trap door with Barricade's help and the Dinobots were "rescued" by Windblade and Starscream.
All of this was to draw out the killer—Sandstorm, who Optimus confronts. Gone off the deep end, Sandstorm shoots Prime with an infernus bullet, only to show regret afterwards. Optimus rips the bullet out of his body and places Sandstorm under arrest. Sandstorm tells his side: he had seen too much, too terrible, to allow others to go unpunished for their crimes during the war. All of the Cybertronians he had killed or attempted to kill had all committed unspeakable acts and had to killed in the name of justice. After asking whether Optimus knew of the Autobot atrocities and how he could manage knowing them, Sandstorm tries to flee, but Optimus simply knocks him out and answers that he tries to stay "grounded".
The murders solved, Optimus goes on his personal errand: bringing the Matrix of Leadership to the site where he received it all those years ago. It is the anniversary of when he became Prime.
Featured characters
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