Desert Island Risks!
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| "Desert Island Risks!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 1st April 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 7th April 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Pete Knifton | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Pete Venters | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Stuart Bartlett | ||||||||||||
| Cover | Pete Knifton | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity/Earthforce | ||||||||||||
Ironhide and Bumblebee destroy a project to re-construct Devastator.
Synopsis
These stories do not fit into the normal Marvel continuity. See Earthforce for details.
Ironhide and Bumblebee track a Transformer lifeform to an island in the Bahamas, hoping that it is their missing teammate Prowl. Instead, they discover the site of a project to reconstruct Devastator as a separate robot, since the Constructicons have lost the ability to combine.
Ironhide penetrates the automated defence ring protecting the project, and destroys it.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
Notes
- The search for Prowl follows his Bucky-impression after UK issue #261. He will turn up alive in the care of some kindly Louisiana farmfolk in issue #266.
- Devastator's appearance here is presumably intended to promote his Action Master toy. No in-story explanation is given as to why the Constructicons can no longer combine; nucleon is the obvious suspect, but it's never mentioned. A popular (but false) myth ties this story to a re-release of the Generation 1 Constructicon toys in some European markets, which were retooled and lacked all of the Devastator-related accessories so they could no longer combine. However, the yellow "Euro" Constructicons weren't released until two years after this story came out.
- However, US story All fall down! (printed in the UK issues #277-281) had Superion attack Devastator with his Stress Fracture Cannon, which caused a malfunction to Devastator's coupling links, forcing the constructions to 'unmerge' into there individual Robots. It's possible they never got repaired, this lead to this event. Even though the Transforms GI-Joe crossover was printed in the UK after this story, the UK original stories were notability out of sync when referencing US stories, allowing this to be possible.
- The front cover of the issue depicts Bumblebee shouting "There's somethin' moving out here, an' it ain't us!" This is a reference to a line in the 1986 film Aliens, where in one scene Private Hudson (played by Bill Paxton) says exactly the same thing, verbatim.
- The title is a play on the name of the long-running BBC radio series Desert Island Discs.
Covers (2)
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Issue #264
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Titan TPB
- Issue #264 cover: Ironhide and Bumblebee in the jungle, by Pete Knifton.
- Earthforce TPB cover: Grimlock thumps a table, by Stephen Baskerville.
