Cry Wolf!
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| "Cry Wolf!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 26th May 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 2nd June 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Pete Knifton | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Michael Eve | ||||||||||||
| Lettering | Glib | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity/Earthforce | ||||||||||||
Needlenose learns the hard way why one should never cry wolf...
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Synopsis
The Mayhem Attack Squad have established a base on a tropical island. In this base, Bludgeon, Octopunch, and Stranglehold attack Needlenose. They are stopped by Snarler and Spinister, who demand to know what is going on. Bludgeon explains that they got a distress call from Needlenose about Carnivac and the Survivors attacking the island, but, when they returned, all they found was Needlenose with a chronometer, timing their response. Needlenose explains that he served with Carnivac on Cybertron and knows that, after they killed Catilla, he won't stop until they are all dead. Spinister responds that Catilla, like Carnivac, was a renegade Decepticon who deserved to die and that they deliberately set up this base as it will be easy to defend and their target will come to them. Snarler decides to leave Needlenose behind to learn his lesson.
As the four Pretenders head off, Spinister reminds Needlenose that he overlooked the latter's cowardice during training as he believed Needlenose had potential. Spinister feels betrayed and swears that, if Needlenose screws up again, he will kill him.
Later, Needlenose returns to his quarters, bemoaning that the others don't understand. Inside, he finds the light doesn't work—because Carnivac prefers the dark! Needlenose transmits a cry for help, but the other Mayhems just walk off in disbelief that he hasn't even waited for them to leave the base before trying again. Carnivac reminds Needlenose that one should never cry wolf, and then attacks.
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Notes
Artwork and technical errors
- TPB
Continuity errors
- TPB
Continuity notes
- It's not clear where one draws the line between the main storyline and this portion of the Earthforce branch though this would be a logical crossover point because:
- What that says about how Earthforce fits in with everything else is still way open to speculation.
Real-life references
- TPB
Other trivia
- TPB
Back-up material
- Additional Transformers story: "Power Struggle"
- Other strips: G.I. Joe the Action Force - "The Tenth Letter" and Combat Colin
Cover
- Issue #272 cover: Carnivac, by Stephen Baskerville.
Issue #272
Reprints
- Transformers Annual 1992: the Dinobots on the rampage, by Jeff Anderson.
- Transformers Winter Special: Optimus Prime mourns the dying Scorponok, by Stewart Johnson.
- Transformers: Way of the Warrior: Carnivac and Springer stand victorious over a Limbo nightmare creature, by Simon Coleby.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20: End of the Road: Bludgeon (art reused from Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profiles) above an interior scene of Grimlock punching through Fangry (from US issue #80) by Andrew Wildman.
Transformers Annual 1992; Cover art by Jeff Anderson
Winter Special; cover art by Staz
Way of the Warrior (Titan Books, 2005)
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20 (Hachette Partworks, Ltd., 2018)
