Transformers Comic-Magazin issue 19

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Publisher	Condor Verlag
Cover date	February1992
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
Price	3.50 DM

Contents

Transformers in Action: Shockwave's Galactic Secret

Shockwavewatches anEarthtelevisionprogramme about the danger of meteors and gets an idea—he will construct a blaster, a thousand times bigger than a Transformer's normalneutron blaster,and use it to get energy from meteors.

Meanwhile,Goldbug,ScoopandLandfillare searching aMichiganforest forQuickmix,who had been captured by theDecepticons.TheAutobotsituation is worse becauseOptimus Primeis currently missing.

Night comes, and the Autobots pitch their camp in the woods. They hear a high-pitched hum and see a huge green laser beam shoot into the sky. The Autobots find the Decepticonlaser cannon,which is the largest laser cannon in the universe. Whilst they are wondering what its purpose could be, they are captured by a squad of Decepticons. Back at theArk,alarms ring, but are cancelled when it is decided that the laser is not a direct attack.

Galaxies away,Rodimus Prime,the Autobot commander onCybertron,also wonders what the laser cannon could be for.

In space, the laser hits a metoroid. Shockwave meanwhile interrogates his prisoners, telling them that Quickmix is dead and that the Autobots will help him to build an even bigger gun.

At the Ark, the Assembly of Autobots has consulted with Rodimus Prime and the otherHeadmasterson Cybertron and decided to not send a rescue party, reasoning that this would put Goldbug in more danger.

Weeks later,Clockwisediscovers that the Decepticons are moving a hundred-metre long pipeline into position, and puzzles over the Decepticon's motives, especially where the laser beam is aiming.

TheRescue Forceannounce that they will head to the laser and rescue Goldbug and the SmallTargetmasters.However, Goldbug and his friends had managed to capture a guard and extort their freedom. They rescue the injured Quickmix and escape to the Ark.

Months later, unnoticed by anyone, the meteorite the Decepticons shot flies over their abandoned laser, missing the Earth by 58 km.(source)

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Articles and features

People used to think dinosaurs had a second brain in their tails. Now we know they had a giant miscolored Ultra Magnus head there instead.

• Character profiles forHoistandHeadstrong.
• Galvatronbookmarks and Decepticon pagemarkers for the reader to colour and cut out.
• Divebombintroduces somedinosaurfacts, whileUltra Magnus' miscoloured disembodied head shows us how to make a papier-mache dinosaur.
• The miscolouredBrawltwins present some picture puzzles and a wordsearch.
• A puzzle page featuring pictures ofSilverbolt,Superion,Optimus PrimeandBlasterfor the reader to put back together.
• Results of a competition, featuring a rather nice fan-picture ofOverlordfightingPowermasterOptimus Prime.

Reprints

• The Transformers(Marvel UK) #152-153 - "Enemy Action!" Parts 1 & 2

Notes

• The comic is titled "Missing in the Piranacon-Triangle"
• Galvatron's barrel on the cover is black like his prototype toy. Given the rather erratic nature of the coloring, this is more likely due to accident than design however.
• The comic keeps the Marvel UK-only "Jawbreaker" name forOverbite.
• The text story reveals that Transformers, or at least Autobots, have an automatic data transfer system, which transfers records of voice, sight and sound back to control continuously. Presumably it can be shut off if captured: Goldbug knows Quickmix has been captured due to this system, but not where he currently is or his condition.
• Shockwave watches television, but he can't understand the words - he just watches for the pictures.
• Optimus Prime is mysteriously missing (again).
• Goldbug talks about Quickmix, if dead, joining the 'Matrix-pool of all Transformers'.
• The Autobots have a Matrix detector back at the Ark which can apparently detect Quickmix. Presumably this is because Quickmix is a fellow Autobot, not because he currently holds theMatrix.
• Rodimus Prime is described as being the Autobot commander on Cybertron, concurrent with Optimus Prime commanding the Autobots on Earth. WriterRobert Mannalso translated the UK future stories, so he has no excuse. Rodimus Prime is also described as a Headmaster, carrying on with the idea that Headmaster is a rank, not an ability.
• Something called The Assembly of Autobots seems to be in charge of sending more troops on missions. Whether this is just a description of the Autobots at the Ark with a random capital letter, or an actual Assembly, is unknown.
• A new Autobot,Clockwise,randomly appears.
• Rescue Forceget their first official appearance in fiction. They fail to rescue anyone.
• Everyone in this story is rather inept. Goldbug and his friends get captured in exactly the same way as Quickmix, the other Autobots decide to do nothing to rescue them, Rescue Force decide much later to rescue them, and then do nothing of the sort because Goldbug rescues himself, and then the Decepticons abandon their laser forno reason.Seemingly the day is only saved because Shockwave's calculations were wrong and the meteorite misses the Earth!

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