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 TransReview Note: Sadly we have none of these comics in our possession, so we are presenting you with this summary from Rob's Transformers Page.
A Review of British Transformers Comics
By Liane "Tetra Reris" Elliot
US comics have their UK comics equivalent listed to the right its title.
UK comics have the story title within quotes. Review goes by the UK comic
order. Both US and UK comics are listed for the sake of continuity.
1 The Transformers #1, 2
2 Power Play #3, 4
3 Prisoner of War #5, 6
4 The Last Stand #7, 8
9-12 "Man of Iron" (see US #33, 34)
13-17 "The Enemy Within"
An accident causes Brawn to resent his fellow Autobots overusing his
immense strength. So much so that he becomes quite a problem. Meanwhile,
Starscreams' desire to lead the Decepticons causes him to act irrationally.
As a result for his misconduct, Megatron allows Starscream a trial by
combat. A dishonored Brawn volunteers to be the opponent. The two fight,
and with the help of Mirage, it seems like Starscream wins. When Megatron
finds out about this, beware Autobots.
18-21 "Raiders of the Last Ark"
A all out Con assault on the Ark is aborted after Teletran (called
Auntie in this story) goes out of control. Ravage and Windcharger work
together to shut her down.
5 The New Order #22, 23
6 The Worse of Two Evils #24, 25
7 Warrior School #26
8 Repeat Performances #27, 28
29, 30 "Decepticon Dam Busters"
Similar to the cartoon episode of the same name where the Decepticons
try to get energy from a dam. To evade the Autobots they blow the dam. The
Autobots save a nearby town.
31 "The Wrath of Guardian"
Swoop arrives ahead of the other Dinobots and Ratchet and discovers a
Decepticon controlled Autobot by the name of Guardian. Guardian gives the
Dinobots a severe thrashing until Ratchet acts to stop the droid using its
weakness. With Wheeljacks' help, they track down the droid... but the
Dinobots have already found him, and what's worse is that Guardian is a
literal bomb, ready to go off.
32 "The Wrath of Grimlock"
Grimlock is set to blow a hole in the robot Guardian left behind in
the Ark by Shockwave. But if he does, Guardian's fail safe will ignite
and destroy the Ark! So, Wheeljack takes remote control of the
decapitated body of Optimus Prime and subdues Grimlock. This gives the
Guardian time to escape where he begins running diagnostics. It logically
decides that the best course of action is to activate the timer on his
fail safe just in case it fails personally to take care of the Autobots.
It storms the Autobots, who try to fight back. With the timer close to
zero, Swoop transforms and flies the Guardian away, but apparently he
doesn't do it enough time to save himself. Believed to be dead, the
Autobots hold a ceremony for Swoop, the Dinobots go off on their own after
their own destiny, and Ratchet returns to reactivating an Ark full of
Autobots.
9 Dis-integrated Circuits #33, 34
10 The Next Best Thing to Being There #35, 36
11 Brainstorm #37, 38
12 Prime Time #39, 40
41 "Christmas Breaker"
Circuit Breaker has plans... to kill the Transformers for making her a
cripple. Meanwhile, the Autobots are indulging Buster by decorating a
"Christmas tree". Afterward, Jazz takes Buster on a ride... and in the ice
and snow has an accident, which CB sees. Buster manages to convince her that
Jazz did not hurt him on purpose.
42-44 "Crisis of Command"
Optimus has a hard decision to make and is getting pressure to make
it, this decision could bring forth the creation of ultimate Autobot
Guardians made specifically to destroy the Cons. Once Prime makes his
decision, Ravage makes his way out of area with Bumblebee in tow.
Bumblebee is captured and psychologically tortured. He is freed by Optimus
who reaffirms his decision NOT to use the Matrix to make these ultimate
Autobots.
45, 46 "The Icarus Theory"
Professor Morris fails to convince his superiors that Transformers
are controlled by Blackrock. Morris secretly builds a machine to control
them. In a swamp he discovers the missing Dinobot, Swoop, and uses his
machine to control him. In fact he uses Swoop to attack the ARK! The other
Autobots try to subdue him, but to no avail. Optimus orders Swoop to stop,
knowing that Swoops' hatred for orders would break the mental control.
Morris destroys his machine and is arrested. Swoop attacks again, but is
pacified and transferred to med bay, where it is found he had a mental
breakdown due to his cybodendrons burning out after his extended burial in
a tar pit. Knowing this, the Autobots begin the Dinobot Hunt.
47-50 "Dinobot Hunt"
Some army units find Snarl in the midst of a sandstorm in Nevada.
Mirage, Trailbreaker, and Brawn save the humans from harm. It seems Snarl
and his fellow Dinobots are suffering from some sort of madness, supposedly
cause by many years buried beneath tar. Snarl attacks a secret human
military base and the commander of the base decides in order to stop the
threat, he'll have to blow up the base. The shock of the blast triggers
Snarl to transform and then becomes unconscious before his fellow Bots.
Meanwhile, in California, Windcharger, Gears, and Cliffjumper have the
unpleasant task of finding Sludge in a swamp. Sludge is found by a female
human first and befriends the Dinobot. Unfortunately, the Decepticons
Soundwave, Skywarp and Scavenger find the Dinobot and human and then take
care of the Bots. Later, the said Cons discover an injured Laserbeak who
reports about an incident between humans and Slag. The Autobots Jazz,
Ironhide, and Jetfire attempt to stop the humans from getting hurt. They
manage to stop Slag and use Laserbeak to prevent damage to Jetfire. The last
Autobot team which was to take on Grimlock are severely hurt and Optimus
goes to do what he can for them. Meanwhile, a Con controlled Sludge is
fighting his leader Grimlock. The fight leads to a lake, which fits
perfectly with Primes plan. Prowl crash lands a electrically charged shuttle
into the lake and the shock stops Grimlock. An explosion near Sludge shock
him unconscious and the Dinobot Hunt is over.
13 Shooting Star #51, 52
14 Rock and Roll-Out #53, 54
15 I, Robot Master #55, 56
16 Plight of the Bumblebee #57, 58
59, 60 "Robot Buster"
Wheeljack and Ratchet create a robot body for Buster in order for the
boy to better protect himself, which does not please Optimus at all.
Optimus orders the suit destroyed, but Buster has other plans and soon
returns to take the suit. Later he discovers Frenzy near the old Con base
and gets more than he bargained for when Shockwave shows up. Buster gives it
his best, by Shockwave finally is able to remove the human from the suit.
The Autobots show up just in time to save the boy, but Shockwave now knows
the Bots weakness.. that the human means a great deal to them and that he
will be their ultimate downfall.
61, 62 "Devastation Derby"
(unable to review, do not have these issues)
63-65 "Second Generation"
Buster is having nightmares, and they include the combining teams,
which have not been created.. yet. Optimus decides that he should see this
nightmare and the Cons find out about the experiment and are able to tap
into the dream. While Shockwave prepares the constructions of the Con
Special Teams, Soundwave reports to Megatron. Megatron and Shockwave duke it
out for the leadership of the Cons. Soundwave realizes that both are evenly
matched and just as conceited to realize it and tells them to knock it off.
Shockwave and Megatron agree that they're feud is futile and that sharing
the leadership is best.. for the moment.
17 The Smelting Pool #66, 67
18 The Bridge to Nowhere #68, 69
19 Command Performances #70, 71
20 Showdown #72, 73
74-77 "In the National Interest" (repeated #302-307)
78-88 "Target: 2006"
While Prime is having to deal with the Dinobots leaving the Autobots,
taking with them a human crafted mechanoid named Centurion, Emirate Xaaron
has to deal with a miffed Impactor. He wants to be sure Ultra Magnus is
ready in time for Operation: Volcano, which Xaaron assures him the Magnus
will be. Optimus, Ratchet, and Prowl mysteriously disappear before the
shocked optics of their fellow Bots, and elsewhere three Cons appear..
from the future, they are Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge. Cyclonus and
Scourge make nuisances of themselves attacking human settlements as the
Bots spy on the present day Cons to see if they were involved in the
disappearance of their friends. The future Cons meet with the present day
Cons, Galvatron wants to borrow the Constructicons and are forced to
"convince" Megatron into letting them have them. Meanwhile, Ultra Magnus
is ready to go to Earth. The Constructicons build Galvatron a large gun
that will kill Unicron when he happens upon Cybertron in 2005. Ultra
Magnus arrives to present day Earth and helps out the present day Bots
that were spying on the Cons. Magnus returns the injured Bots to base and
learns of what happened with the Cons and with their missing comrades.
Galvatron gives them a buzz to show off his new toy, the VVH, that he's
using on Jazz. The Bots go to rescue their friend and are soundly
defeated. Ironhide realizes that their only chance to find Megatron and
Soundwave. On Cybertron, the Wreckers are practicing for the upcoming
Operation: Volcano. Meanwhile, at the Ark Starscream awakens and he can't
believe what he's seeing! Megatron at the Ark, commanding the Bots as to
how to attack Galvatron. Ultra Magnus tries to find out what happened to
Prime and the others. The Bots go after Scourge as Galvatron reveals to
Jazz that he is a future version of Megatron. Impactor is attacked by
Triple Changers, which later turn out to be Autobots who are testing the
Wrecker leaders abilities. Galvatron explains to Jazz about the weapon
that the Constructicons built. Future Bots come to our time, Hot Rod,
Kup, Blurr and a hitchhiking Wreck-Gar.. Shockwave, Skywarp and Frenzy
disappear just and Prime and the others did. Starscream joins forces with
Galvatron as the future Bots meet up with Magnus. An exchange of prisoners
(Jazz for Scourge) occurs but does not turn out well when Jazz goes
berserk (thanks to Galvatron remote control). Magnus is briefed by the
future Bots and goes to find them future Cons. Galvatron and Magnus have
it out, Galvatron wins. He drags Magnus back to the site of his weapon and
discovers his lieutenants unconscious (thanks to the future Bots) and
said Bots detonate bombs. Starscream (actually a repainted twin of his)
claims he has done this and Galvatron destroys him. Then he realizes that
this cannot be the universe he wanted, but a parallel one and uses his
time jump device to go back to the future. The future Bots put the real
Starscream in cold storage and return to the future as well. Ultra Magnus
realizes that he has spent too much time on Earth for Operation: Volcano
has begun without him and returns to the Cybertron of his time. The
Wreckers go on without him, awaiting for the Cons to strike at a trap set
up by the Bots and using Xaaron as the bait. Impactor takes a death
dealing blow for Xaaron during the Con attack and dies. Springer is named
the new Wreckers leader. On Earth, the Bots and Cons that had disappeared
have returned.
21 Aerialbots over America #89, 90
22 Heavy Traffic #91, 92
93 "The Gift"
Jetfire visits Buster at home and talks to him about his problems with
his Autobot comrades. He is greatly concerned that he is able to perform his
best when humans are in danger but not always when a fellow Autobot is.
Buster tells him not to worry so much about it.
23 Decepticon Graffiti #94, 95
96, 97 "Prey"
Prime comes to terms about dealing with the Decepticon Space Bridge and
asks for Wheeljacks' help. Meanwhile Megatron orders Soundwave to call on
the Predacons. Prime goes out alone to the Decepticon Base and enroute is
attacked by the Predacons. Prime fares reasonably well until they combine
into Predaking. Megatron steps in to help and leaves the Predacons to finish
up for him. Later the Bots discover the remains of their dead leader.
98 ".. The Harder They Die"
On Cybertron, a not so dead Prime helps out Outback. Prime thinks about
how his friends would react to his facsimile, thinking he died. Meanwhile
Megatron discovers the head of Straxxus and tells him of how the Predacons
betrayed him and of Primes trickery with the facsimile. He also relates that
he summoned the Space Bridge and Prime took them both through. Megatron
tells Straxxus about how he leaked info to the Bots about a Decepticon
disguised as Prime would try to infiltrate them. Prime is attacked by a
Guardian unit and faces termination by the Wreckers.
99, 100 "Under Fire", "Distant Thunder"
The Autobots on Cybertron think Prime is a Decepticon imposter. They
are about to execute him when Outback saves the day. The two hide out, but
are found by guardian units who injure Outback. Prime take his injured
friend to the Dead End. To raise Outbacks' spirits, Prime tells him about
how he, Ratchet, and Prowl had a run in with organic/metallic beings as well
as Shockwave, Thundercracker and Rumble, Prime figure out the way things are
shaped in this world: that its too close to how things are with their war
and he test his theory and poof its as it were a bad but real dream. They
find themselves in a void known as Limbo, with creatures attached to their
heads. The creatures, given enough time and violent emotion, could have
weaved their dreams into reality. Just then, the is napped out of the story
by the Wrecks, who come upon the two. Prime begs for the life of Outback and
in the process convinces his old friend Emirate Xaaron that hie is the true
Prime.
101, 102 "Fallen Angel" "Resurrection"
Galvatron is in Earths past and his first victim is a human controlled
mechanoid Centurion. Later, he runs into a group of Autobots who were
recently released by Circuit Breaker and almost trashes them all. As
Galvatron battles the Dinobots, who came to save the day, Swoop has a
conversation with the human who reside inside Centurions head. Together they
attack Galvatron, just then the Decepticons step in and send Galvatron
running. Surprisingly they don't bother finishing off the Dinobots.
103, 104 "Resurrection"
Optimus and Ultra Magnus are out to get Megatron, who is a bit at
odds with himself. Lord Straxxus, who we all remember was sent to his doom
when he fell of the Space Bridge thanks to laser, tried to switch places
with Megatron. The switch didn't work so Lord Straxxus and Megatron are
fighting for supremacy over Megatrons' body. The two Autobots find him and
Megatron uses his ability to hook up to a black hole. Ratbat acts and send
the three back to Earth via the Space Bridge.
24 Afterdeath #105, 106
25 Gone But Not Forgotten #107, 108
26 Funeral for a Friend #109, 110
27 King of the Hill #111, 112
113-120 "Wanted: Galvatron-Dead or Alive", "Burning Sky", "Hunters", "Fire
on High"
Its 2008 and Rodimus want Galvatrons' head so bad that he puts a bounty
on it. Out to claim the reward is the ruthless Death's Head, who gets is
info about Galvatrons' whereabouts from Cyclonus. Death's Head goes to 1987
and blasts Bumblebee so no one will know he's there. Later Death's Head
tackles Soundwave to get more updated info, Ultra Magnus runs into Galvatron
when he is sidetracked into rescuing three female humans. Galvatron beats
the tar out of him and drags him up to a nearby volcano to show him his
power siphon which will grant him enough power to make him a god. Rodimus,
Kup and Blurr time jump to get at Galvatron and run into one of the female
humans, Cindy, who help them find Magnus. Just as they are about to take on
Galvatron, Death's Head steps in wanting to claim his bounty. He and Rodimus
bicker about this and Galvatron shuts them up by shooting at them.. Death's
Head retreat with a damaged are, Cindy wakes Magnus, who starts putting
holes in the siphon to distract Galvatron long enough for Rodimus to
retreat. Elsewhere, Wreck-Gar runs into the remains of Bumblebee and Goldbug
is born. Magnus buys the others time, but is defeated and thrown into the
volcano. Galvatron goes to get his time jump mechanism and finds it stolen.
Wreck-Gar fiddles with it while Galvatron and Rodimus have it out. Death's
Head shows up to mix it up with Galvatron, Goldbug helps out Rodimus,
Wreck-Gar presses the button to send everybody from the future back home.
Goldbug--- and Galvatron, remain.
28 Mechanical Difficulties #121, 122
29 Crater Critters #123, 124
125 "Ancient Relics" (crossover with "Action Force" #26-29)
After Megatron blasted the Space Bridge, he ended up in Londons'
sewers. Blades find him and Grimlock and Centurion show up to see if the
life reading is the missing Goldbug and Blaster (which it isn't, it's
Megatron). Grimlock and Megatron battle as Action Force (AKA GI Joe) feebly
trips to stop Megatron as well. Centurion takes Grimlocks' places just
before Action Forces' Skystrikers blow up some flammable gas containers.
Megatron and Centurion are presumed dead, but actually they end up in the
River Thames where they rust in place.
30 The Cure #126, 127
31 Buster Witwicky and the Car Wash of Doom #128, 129
137 "Ladies Night"
Human females help the Autobots stop the Decepticons from blowing up
the volcano that has entombed Magnus and Galvatron.
3 Love and Steel (HEADMASTERS) #138-141
4 Brothers in Armor (HEADMASTERS) #142-143
32 Used Autobots #139, 140
35 Child's Play #141, 142
36 Spacehikers #143, 144
146-151 "The Legacy of Unicron" (also #290-301)
Unicrons' head is on Junk and he has enslaved the Junkions, who are
rebuilding him. Death's Head is out to get Cyclonus and Scourge, who
interfered with his Rodimus Prime hit, and suitably trashed them. A
Junkion pops up claiming he's the only one with a mind of his own and has
Death's Head and the Con duo to take a look. Unicron takes their minds
over too, except Death's Head resists him the best he can. Smokescreen,
Inferno and Wreck Gar see what's going on and try to leave. Death's Head
injures Inferno and Wreck Gar buy the other two time to go tell Rodimus
about Unicron. Death's Head then goes to Shockwave, who is the current
Con leader, with Cyclonus and Scourge pretending to be dead. Soundwave
ruins this ploy with his mind reading ability. Death's Head goes after
Shockwave and kills him. Death's Head returns with Shockwaves' head and
bluffs Soundwave into proclaiming Cyclonus and Scourge as the new leaders.
After this, they proclaim war on the Autobots. Smokescreen shows up in
Cybertronian air space while the battle is raging and his ship is heavily
damaged. Inferno boots Smokescreen out of the ship and to safety as he
heeds the ship straight into the Con forces. Smokescreen tells Rodimus
about Unicorn and he head to Junk hoping that the Matrix can conquer
Unicron. Death's Head finally succeeds in crossing the astral plane and is
inside Unicrons mind, Unicron is so impressed by this feeble attempt to
attack him that he tell him about his origin. Turns out that he and he
arch enemy, Primus Lord of the Light Gods, had a bug tussle when the
universe was very young. Primus couldn't defeat him in the physical or
astral planes so he led him and into a trap. The two materialized in
barren planetoids, and Primus sealed their path so that they were stuck in
their prisons. Unicron formed his into a planet and then further so that
had a robot form. Primus formed his into Cybertron and created beings who
mimic Unicrons ability to change at will and furthermore placed his
essence into the Matrix. The Autobots attack Unicron after all of this and
Death's Head is cast out of Unicrons mind. Death's Head attacks Unicron,
and his blast causes rocks to fall on Wreck Gar who had just set a time to
enough explosive to blow Unicron up. The bots distract Unicron, Death's
Head chats with Rodimus and they set it up so Rodimus can go into Unicrons
mind. Death's Head digs out Wreck Gar then pulls Rodimus out of Unicrons'
mind just in time. Cyclonus and Scourge show up, Death's Head carries them
through a nearby time portal as the explosives blow. Unicrons' evil is
absorbed by the Matrix. The lieutenants end up under the leadership of
Scorponok, of Death's Head there is no trace.
152, 153 "Enemy Action"
Galvatron is on the loose again after having dug himself out of his
volcanic rock tomb. He heads the Con HQ and Shockwave sicked the Seacons on
him, who are easily beaten. On the beach, the Sparkler mini-bots tussle with
the Firecons. Galvatron gets into HQ and points out how Shockwave has made
an enemy of him by sending the Seacons against him and he leaves. A short
time later he runs into the combatants and the Firecons try to get him to
return to Cybertron with them. He laughs at them and leaves.
37 Toy Soldiers #154, 155
38 Trail by Fire #156, 157
39 The Desert Island of Space #158, 159
160, 161 "Salvage"
Humans salvage Megatron and Centurion from the River Thames and the
Decepticons kidnap the find. Sometime later the Sparklers free Ultra
Magnus from his volcanic tomb. They reach above-ground in time to see the
Decepticons and their cargo. Also watching is Galvatron. The Decepticons
repair Megatrons body, but his mind is a vegetable so they put a psycho
probe on him to salvage his mind. What they find is that Megatron is
running from the one thing that frightens him, namely Optimus Prime. Lord
Straxxus shows up (remember they are sharing the same body) and destroys
Prime and then goes after Megatron. Meanwhile Galvatron has happens upon
Ultra Magnus and co, Magnus loose sit for a time then pulls himself
together to give Galvatron a good beating. Megatron destroys Lord
Straxxus, Shockwave acts to prime Megatron for his ultimate destiny, to
take on and destroy Galvatron.
40 Pretender to the Throne #162, 163
164-169 "City of Fear", "Legion of the Lost", "Meltdown"
Its not safe in the city of Kalis anymore for the dead walk there, as
is soon found out by Ultra Manus, the Sparklers and their prisoner
Flywheels. Later, it shown what happened three weeks earlier in Kalis, a
huge nuclear reactor is in operation. The Bots set out to find it and are
captured by computer controlled zombies Transformers, their host turns out
to be a Bot they thought was dead, Flame. Flame has the Wreckers dead
leader, Impactor, watch them. Springer escapes, Impactor realizes his state
and Springer gets help from Magnus and the Sparklers. They and the Wreckers
are stopped form helping emirate xaaron by a blast door, which a well timed
visit from Trypticon, led by Flywheels, easily demolishes. Xaaron and Flame
have a one sided scuffle until the other show, the reactor signals its about
to blow. Xaaron is almost killed by Flame. Luckily Impactor kills Flame and
then stops the reactor from exploding.
170, 171 "Deadly Games"
In the Jekka amphitheater many Autobots have been slaughtered by
Hooligan for the enjoyment of the fans and a alien name Zabra. Magnus and
the Sparkler investigate and are caught. Magnus is thrown into the arena and
wins, then captures Zabra and turns him into the authorities.
172, 173 "Wrecking Havoc"
Cyclonus and Scourge have fund with some human jets on their way to
meet Galvatron, from whom they hope to get his time-jump mechanism. The
Wreckers use a portal to fall on top of them and all hell breaks loose.
Springer hears Galvatron gloat about how his lieutenant are going to feel
dumb when they find out he doesn't have what they want, and he pretends to
take it from him, the lieutenants go after him. The Wreckers go help
Springer and the lieutenants split, Galvatron also disappears.
41 Totaled #174, 175
42 People Power #176, 177
43 The Big Broadcast of 2006 #180, 181
44 The Cosmic Carnival #178, 179
180, 181 Reprints "The Big Broadcast of 2006"
There are two new pages of exposition, one at the beginning of #180 and
one at the end of #181, that tells the tale of a torturer trying to extract
information from the imprisoned Wreck Gar. He tells his torturer the tale
of "The Big Broadcast of 2006." The torture reveals the information he has
gleaned to his employers: the Quintessons! They've been looking for the
journal referenced in Wreck Gar's story, but they point out that it is a
fabrication because Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge are no longer in 2006.
They sentence both prisoner and jailor to execution on Quintessa and prepare
their final push for "Space Pirates."
182-187 "Space Pirates"
Wreck Gar is missing and Rodimus wants to know where he is. Well he
and Wheelie are dodging the Quints. Speaking of whom, they've trashed
Autobot City: Earth and hung up the bots like slabs of meat. Not only
that, they're trying to do the same to the cons. Well, Soundwave's the
leader these days and he calls the Bots for help. Later, Rodimus goes to
the city see his comrades strung up then spots Arcee. As he heals her with
the Matrix, the Quints take it and he reverts to Hot Rod. He and Arcee run
for it and elude the Quints, they head for the roof and Rod climbs down to
see if any of Blaster tapes are at home. On Cybertron, Magnus and the Bots
come to assist the cons. Meanwhile Wreck Gar and Wheelie make it to an
asteroid where fellow Junkions have set up a little satellite hook-up to
transmit the contents of a quint canister. At Autobot City, Rod awakens
Metroplex as the quint squad leader Gyrik tries to stop him. Gyrik fetches
the matrix to use it against Hot Rod. On Cybertron, the combined might of
the Bots and cons ˙˙defeat the quints. Soundwave thanks Magnus and almost
hints at them being able to end the war. The canisters' tale of how the
Quints were planning to use several other mechanical worlds as possible
colonization targets is broadcasted. On Earth, Hot Rod uses a little
ventriloquism to trick Gyrik and takes the Matrix back. quintessa is
destroyed by what bot scientists will learn later is a rip in the fabric
of time and space.
188 "Firebug"
A short bit about a Firebug and a few Bots who send the little
pyromaniac to Mercury where it nice and hot, since Firebugs love heat.
189 "Dry Run"
Megatron is fully operational and shockwave needs to test him. Leave it
to Cyclonus to let slip about him and Scourge killing Shockwave in the
future (which they really didn't do) and Shockwave sicks Megatron on the,
Cyclonus dies.
45 Monstercon from Mars #190, 191
46 Ca$h and Car-nage #192, 193
47 Club Con (Underbase Saga Pt. 1) #194, 195
48 The Flames of Boltax (Pt. 2) #196, 197
198 "Cold Comfort and Joy"
Powermaster Optimus and the other Powermasters are on Earth. As Prime
tries to understand why he's not the Prime of old the others head to a town
which was supposedly attacked by cons. They attack the perpetrators and
they turn out to be Bots. Prime catches up with them and tells them of his
discovery, that is was him who brought their war to earth and that they will
have to change things.
199-205 "Time Wars"
The occurrence of Cyclonus dying along with the fact that he and
Scourge had circumvented the mass substitute process has increased the pace
of the rift in time and space. The cons are trying to siphon power from
Earth's core. The Bots stop them and head for the past to get Galvatron and
company and the cons give chase. The mass substitution for the Bots takes
place the present day Bots think the future ones killed the substitutes.
They fight for a bit, the present day cons join in and then get substituted
by the future cons. Rodimus uses the Matrix to protect Optimus in limbo who
tells both factions of both times what is going on and what will happen if
the three renegade cons don't go back. The Wreckers and the Mayhem Attack
Squad go into con HQ first only to find that Galvatron and Megatron are
fighting together. They are trashed, the other Bots and cons show up and are
simularally taken care of. Optimus finally decides to step in and now poor
Galvatron has conflicting theme, you see he took a blast meant for Megatron
so he changes all that Megatron remembers which is Galvatron killing all the
Bots and cons that oppose him. The rift finally catches up to the rio.
Needless to say all three are returned to the future and the rift is
stopped.
49 Cold War (Pt. 3) #206, 207
50 Dark Star (Pt. 4) #208-210
51 The Man in the Machine #211-212
213, 214 "The Fall and Rise of the Decepticon Empire"
Megatron and Ravage find out the Cybertron isn't how Megatron left it.
The cons laze around watching arena fights, a sight Megatron immensely
dislikes. The three leaders cast Megatron into the arena, he starts to
destroy all who attack him but stops and talks sense to his warriors. three
cons kill the three leaders and Megatron rules again.
215-218 "Race with the Devil"
Darkwing and Dreadwind are on a job and three Bots have to go find out
what they're looking for. It turns out to be Starscreams' body, which had
fallen to Earth after the Underbase destroyed him. Starscreams' still
walking about and shoots at both parties. after the cons are put down, along
with two Bots, the last bot talks sense to this walking nightmare. As he
listens, the Nebulan partners to Darkwing and Dreadwind absorb the
Underbase. Starscream crumbles and is taken away by the revived cons.
53 Recipe for Disaster #217-220
219-222 "Survivors"
Skids has a nightmare problem, actually these particular nightmares
have physical form and are a part of Skids. Meanwhile the remaining
Wreckers get a visit from Catilla, Carnivac and Snarler. The Bots are
distracted from the visit by human emergency vehicles, which they follow to
discover that a Transformer busted into an active nuclear reactor. Snarler
tells Carnivac that he is to destroy the Bots or else. The Bots and Skids
have to battle the nightmarish creatures. Finally Springer calls for
reinforcements. Carnivac and Catilla come to the rescue, which really ticks
off Snarler. Together with the Bots the nightmare creatures soon perish and
they join forces.
221-224 Reprint of "Wanted Galvatron Dead or Alive"
223 "Aspects of Evil" pt 1 - told by Rodimus Prime
After the battle between Scorponok, Megatron and Shockwave, Scorponok
was forced to flee. The Air Strike Patrol was sent to finish him, right in
the middle of a human settlement. This the Bots wouldn't allow, or at least
Hot Rod wasn't going to let it happen. Scorponok surrenders to the Bots,
allowing him to be protected by the Bots since he is now their prisoner.
With the Bots dealing with the Cons, Scorponok leaves the area.
224 "AoE" pt 2
After just returning from Earth's past, having witnessed Galvatron torn
apart by the rift in time and space, the self same Galvatron busts into the
Bots ship with plenty of Cons to back him up. Somehow the Cybertron they
left was now ruled by the Cons. Rodimus gets really ticked and attacks
Galvatron, which is what he wants him to do. As he fights Galvatron,
letting the anger and hatred fill him, the Matrix is slowly being perverted.
The Bots realize this and get him to stop before its too late.
225 "AoE" pt 3
The official opening of Autobot City: Earth. The cons
don't want the humans and bots becoming allies, so Shockwave a the jets
attack the ceremony. Hot Rod charges at the unobservant Shockwave.
Realizing that everything has been ruined, Shockwave runs and the others
follow.
226 "AoE" pt 4
Megatron's a tad upset, one of the Pretenders is a traitor and tries to
flush him out by trail by combat. Whey the true spy is faced with having to
kill the accused traitor, his hesitance brings his death.
227 "AoE" pt 5
Its the third coming of Unicron and he's hellbent on destroying the
Transformers. Rodimus attacks and Unicron is destroyed.
228 "(Double) Deal of the Century"
Leave it to Double Dealer to pull off something like the above title.
After staling the bot battle plans for the resistance of Cybertron, he gets
both sides to pay energon for them and leaves the two factions to fight it
out.
229 "Hunting Party"
Welcome to Slaughter City cons and die. The Bots attack and are easily
handle but with so many attacking mindlessly, Needlenose runs. Spinister
runs after him and makes it look like he's about to be creamed by a Bot.
Needlenose saves him and it turns out the cons were running a solid light
simulated combat session. Snarler asks Spinister if the new Mayhem Attack
Squad is ready and he answer that they were and that the two renegades,
Carnivac and Catilla, and the Wreckers are as good as dead.
229-232 Reprint of "Resurrection"
230, 231 "The Big Shutdown"
Nightbeat and Siren investigate a mysterious bot corpse on the beach
and find other Transformers there. Siren gives chase. The others tune out to
be Bots. They are about to split but are attacked by Thunderwing. Hosehead
give the con a chemical foam bath so they can escape. The Con follows.
Nightbeat pulls a little dead arises trick with his partner Muzzle and using
the corpse as a bomb to send the con packing.
54 King Con #232-235
232, 233 "A Small War"
After breaking into con HQ, the Micromaster battle patrol find out they
were allowed to do so. Thunderwing captures them so as to dissect them and
find out the secret of building Micromasters. Emirate Xaaron sends the race
car patrol to destroy them. course this doesn't sit well with them, they
enter con HQ, have a scuffle with the air strike patrol and rescue their
comrades.
234 "Primes Rib"
Introducing Arcee to a equal rights group has Jazz explaining to Hot
Rod exactly what is a female. The cons attack having thought the Bots had a
secret weapon. After being told to stay back Arcee steps in and give the
Cons a taste of her fist.
55 The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship #236-239
235, 236 "Deathbringer"
A robot touches the Matrix and becomes Deathbringer, a being whose
purpose it is to cleanse a world of life. the Bots run into him and Optimus
realizes that he is filled by the power of the Matrix and that they cannot
fight him. He talks to him, explaining how the power of the Matrix is slowly
killing him and the Deathbringer explodes himself.
237-239 "Way of the Warrior", "Survival Run", "A Savage Place"
What is left of the Mayhem Attack Squad and the Wreckers are the focus
here. Springer and Carnivac have a disagreement so Carnivac leaves and falls
into a trap set by the Mayhems who have orders to kill him and Catilla. The
fight is interrupted by the army, who learns the error of their way. Catilla
also disagrees with the Bots and goes to find Carnivac. The Mayhems find
Carnivac, and prepare to kill him, but he is saved by a human. Again they
fight and Catilla saves the day and pays with his life. the Bots show and
the cons leave, Carnivac swears to avenge Catilla.
56 Walk of the Dead #240-242
240 "Out to Lunch"
Dreadwind and Darkwing seem a bit tipsy as the enter a pub where
Quickswitch is awaiting informants. The Mechanibles crash the joint and
Quickswitch rids of them and the two drunk cons complain about their status.
241, 242 "Rage", "Assault on the Ark"
Thunderwing returns very angry and wanting revenge of the Bots. He
downs a con shuttle, then commandeers them to attack the Ark. They board,
get creamed and leaves. Thunderwing approaches the High Council and is
surprised to find out he passed his test and becomes the new con leader.
243, 244 "Mind Games", "Two Megatrons"
Megatron is having a time of it. Straxxus is attempting to control his
body still. Ravage finds this fact very unnerving. Suddenly an alarm sounds
and Ravage leaps to discover that there are TWO Megatrons. When the two
meet, it gets brutal. They fight, each saying they are the TRUE Megatron.
One gets the better and states that he must hear his story and that the
other will know he speaks true. The story goes that Megatron survived the
exploding Space Bridge and was found by Blackjack in the Dead End. He found
Straxxus' old base, where he learned of Project Re-Birth. He witnessed the
building of a second Megatron, a contingency plan if his bid to take over
his mind failed. When it failed, his mind fled to the body. This body was
sent to the sewers of London and later discovered by Action Force. The
Straxxus possessed Megatron commits suicide to prevent Straxxus from taking
over.
57 The Resurrection Gambit #243-245
245-247 "Underworld", "Demons", "Dawn of Darkness"
Tailgate and his two buddies have to go the Underworld to get initiated
and the two pals end up dead. Luckily for Tailgate he's one tough nut.
Unfortunately, the residents of the place follow him and rid of a few cons
he runs across. He's found later shut down and its later found out what
happened. The cons aren't happy about their buddies and attack a few Bots.
The creatures show and together they fight them to no avail. Xaaron shows
and overloads the creatures' systems with pure energon. Then he tells
everyone that there's more where these came from.
58 All the Familiar Faces #246-248
248 "Fallen Star"
Starscreams' life is no bowl of cherries, he's a joke to his fellows
and he hates it. The bots he meets prove however that he's still one tough
nut to crack.
59 Skin Deep #249-251
249 "Whose Lifeforce is it Anyway?"
Longtooth, Doubleheader and Pincher return from a successful raid on a
con base. They learn of the search for the Matrix. Longtooth remembers a day
when many had fallen and he tried desperately to save a comrade. that day
Prime gave him a piece of the Matrix so that he may save lives. Since then
it has ben his shame to possess it. He loads it in a pod and sends it to
Earth, hoping Prime will receive it.
60 Yesterdays' Heroes #252-254
250 "The Greatest Gift of All"
Optimus holds a piece of Matrix in his hand and cannot decide who to
give it to. Many Bots lay mortally injured, all deserve a second chance.
Meanwhile Stakeout and his crew are hunting down a wounded Con. But some
of his Con buddies aren't about to let them capture him. A computer sensor
sweep reveals the ecological damage of the Transformers battles and Prime
decides to give the piece of the Matrix to the Earth, to help heal what
damage has been done.
251-254 "The Void", "Edge of Impact", "Shadow of Evil", "White Fire"
Its called Warp Space and Hyperspace, but to others its The Void. The
Bots are using it to travel. Meanwhile there seems to be a saboteur on ship.
Then Rodimus disappears. The Bots arrive at their destination, but their
engines are dead - sabotaged. Kup finds the supposed saboteur - Longtooth -
with an unconscious Rodimus. Arcee is sent through the coolant tanks in
order to get into the sealed up retro room in hopes of reactivating the
engines. A possessed Rodimus attacks the Bots after a crash landing. Inside
the Matrix, Rodimus battles an evil within. He is interrupted from cleansing
the Matrix for good when Kup decides they must remove the Matrix in order to
save him.
61 Primal Scream #259-261
255-260 "Perchance to Dream"
Galvatron uses a Mind Bug to learn which Bots would best suit his
purpose. The plan backfires when Wheeljack is awakened by the Mind Bug,
along with its other subjects: Prowl, Ironhide, Sunstreaker, and Silverbolt.
Galvatron is forced to fight them, and the Bots knock him down long enough
for him to get a taste of his own medicine.
261 "Starting Over"
Prowl and Wheeljack are ordered to check on Con activity in Arizona,
complaining about all the new Transformers that have been created. They run
into two of the Constructicons, who they defeat. Then discover Megatron up
to no good, they decide what the hell and attack him too.
62 Bird of Prey (Matrix Quest Part 1) #262-264
262 "Two Steps Back"
The Dinobots fight Shockwave, Motormaster, Starscream, Ravage, and
Runabout. Optimus order them to cease, which ticks off Grimlock.
263 "Break Away"
Grimlock issues his ultimatum, the Dinobots will leave the Autobot
ranks. Optimus tells him, fine go ahead and leave because he has no time for
tantrums. Grimlock demonstrates a true tantrum and them tells him that he is
not fit to lead the Bots. He then challenges Prime to see who will lead. Ten
minutes later, its a definite draw and the two laugh and decide to call a
truce.
264 "Desert Island Risk"
Bumblebee and Ironhide discover that the Constructicons are building
Devastator as a separate form since they lost the ability to combine.
Ironhide braves an automated defence ring and brings down the supporting
grid as well as the incomplete Devastator.
1 Blood on the Tracks (GI JOE/TFs) #265-268
2 Power Struggle (GI JOE/TFs) #269-272
3 Ashes, Ashes... (GI JOE/TFs) #273-276
4 ..All Fall Down (GI JOE/TFs) #277-281
265 "Once upon a time...."
A nice summation of the Transformers story as told by Grimlock. Then
throws the book from which he's reading out the window, who needs the
AUTOBOT CODE anyway?!
266 "Life in the Slow Lane"
Jazz and Sunstreaker are in a real hurry to get to a satellite before
the Cons are. The satellite has a lethal cargo of gas, this gas would have
caused the atmosphere to trap the sun's heat, thus melting the polar ice
caps and causing global flooding. Prowl hitched a ride on it to stop it.
Two of Megatrons troops and two of Shockwaves end up at the site at the
same time and fight over it. Prowl is found to be alive and quite well and
invites his buddies to sit back and watch the Cons fight over the now
empty gas canisters.
267 "Snow Fun"
Grimlock is steaming mad in the middle of a snowy terrain and a full
force blizzard. He thinks Shockwave challenged him to a duel out in the
middle of nowhere. He comes to find out that his Dinobots have played a
April Fool trick on him. Unfortunately for Razorclaw and Rampage they become
victims of his anger.
268 "Flashback"
Prowl goes after Megatron, through a flashback doorway - to when
Starscream possessed the Underbase. Megatron intends to keep the Seacons
clear of Starscream so he'll have them a extra troops in the future. Prowl
manages to knock the possessed Snap Trap out cold, therefore returning
Megatron to the future.
269 "Mystery"
Skydive finds the Autobot Earthforce Base totally vacant, and suspects
that the lone occupant at the time, Wheeljack, has met with fowl play. It
turns out that Wheeljack had accidentally made it look like someone had
broken in.
270 "The Bad Guys' Ball"
Its called only when infighting within the ranks reaches critical and
the Con army is threatened with extinction. A general truce is called so
that all Cons can meet and patch up their differences. The Bots want to ruin
this particular gathering and manage to pull it off easily, tricking the
Cons into believing that one of Shockwaves warrior fired upon Megatron.
271 "The Living Nightlights"
Wheeljack and Snarl breaking to a warehouse containing a special
nightlight - a nightlight with Cybertronian technology that enables the
nightlights to read minds and subliminally mind control. The little
buggers come to life and attack them, overcome by them, the mastermind
behind them - Mindwipe - appears and the Bots use the thought "LIGHT ON".
The combined light overload his neural circuitry.
272-274 "Cry Wolf", " Wolf in the Fold", "Where Wolf"
Needlenose manages to tick off his fellow Mayhems. He set up the
Mayhems in order to test their response time. And all because he is worried
that they won't be ready to a vengeful Carnivac. His suspicions about
Carnivac getting into the base become real, and he learns that its not wise
to Cry Wolf. Carnivac scopes out the Mayhems, seeking out a lone warrior and
finds Bludgeon. Bludgeon however is not one to be unaware. Meanwhile the
Wreckers argue over if they should help Carnivac. The other Mayhems appear
and Carnivac is forced to leave, and sacrifices his Pretender shell to make
it look like he was killed. The Wreckers show up and battle the Mayhems.
275 "Secret"
Soundwave has a secret, and he'll do anything to shift the blame from
himself. He tricks Wildrider who gets killed for being too trusting.
276 "Bugged"
Starscream has security duty and he's about to get bugged by the
Insecticons. He uses a rustbug hoop (AKA a fly swatter) to swat them into
submission.
277 "Internal Affairs"
Shockwave and Megatron are having it out. Starscream tells the Bots
about the scuffle anonymously. He then goes to Soundwave and starts a joint
leadership with him. This leaves the two warriors to fend for themselves.
278 "The House That Wheeljack Built"
The Autobot Earthbase defenses are complete, and Wheeljack is proud to
show it off. Unfortunately he forgot a small detail, someone was needed
inside in order to shut of the defenses. Prowl volunteers to brave the
defenses, which he manages to do.
279 "Divide and Conquer"
The Cons discover the Earthbase and attack. Meanwhile Starscream claims
an oil tanker. THe Survivors show up and stop him from taking the tanker.
The Cons retreat from the base.
280 "The 4,000,000 Year Itch"
All Transformers have emotional dampers in order to keep an age-old
warrior-savage at bay, for Slag though, such dampers weren't installed and
its a constant struggle to keep the inner beast at bay. Today he loses the
battle to that beast and its up to his fellow Dinobots to keep him
controlled as Grimlock show Optimus around Earthbase.
281 "Makin' Tracks"
Someone is sabotaging the body shop so that Tracks won't be reanimated.
Turns out Grimlock is doing the sabotaging, but Tracks comes on line anyway,
much to Grimlocks chagrin.
63 Kings of the Wild Frontier (Part 2) #282-285
282 "Shut Up"
Inferno is bothered by the eerie silence that his prisoners Bludgeon,
Octopunch and Stranglehold maintain. His suspicion of them is well founded,
they set him up and escape easily.
283 "Maneuvers"
Octane blunders into a US Army testing site and requisitions help from
his fellow triple changers. The two soon learn how he got into this mess and
leave him to deal with it himself.
284-286 "Assassins", "External Force", "The Lesser Evil"
Someone wants Starscream dead, and they are Megatron and Shockwave.
Meanwhile Wheeljack has bad news for Grimlock, Snarl has Corrodia Gravis,
meaning he'll rust to death if he doesn't receive a systems boost from a
compatible Transformer, that Transformer is Starscream. Starscream seeks out
Soundwave, and beats the crap out of him until the Mayhems show, along with
the Bots who are there to get Starscream. Then Shockwave and Megatron show
up to gum up the works. It gets really ugly, but the Bots manage to beat the
Cons and save Starscream.
64 Deadly Obsession (Part 3) #286-289
287 "Inside Story"
A freelance reporter named Irwin gets a very literal INSIDE STORY
specifically, inside Superion. The Autobots asked Irwin to help them get one
of Bombshell's cerebro-shells out of the goliath.
288-289 "Comic Convention", "End of the Road"
Irwin is shown about Earthforce Base as reward for his help. Bombshell
is spying on the scene. The Cons decide to kidnap the human. The Autobots
try to stop them and do. Unbeknownst to them, Bombshell implanted a
cerebro-shell and Irwin writes a story about the Autobots that isn't at all
favorable.
65 Dark Creation (Part 4) #290-294
66 All Fall Down (Part 5) #295-297
67 Rhythms of Darkness #298-301
290-301 "Legacy of Unicron" (also #146-151)
68 The Human Factor #302-305
69 Eye of the Storm #306-308
70 The Price of Life #309-310
302-307 "In the National Interest" (also #74-77)
308-310 "The Enemy Within", parts 1 and 2
71 Surrender #311-312
72 All This and Civil War 2, "The Enemy Within" #313-314
73 Out of Time, "The Enemy Within" #315-316
74 The Void, "The Enemy Within" #317-318
75 On the Edge of Extinction #319-322
76 Still Life #323-324
77 Exodus #325-326
78 A Savage Circle #327-328
79 The Last Autobot, "The Big Shutdown, part 1" #329-330
80 The End of the Road, "The Big Shutdown, part 2" #331
80 The End of the Road, "The Greatest Gift of All" #332
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