Black Sunshine
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| "Black Sunshine" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Dreamwave Productions | ||||||||||||
| First published | February 25,2004 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | February, 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Brad Mick | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Don Figueroa | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Elaine To | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Espen Grundetjern,Rob Ruffolo | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Ben Lee | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Dreamwave continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Modern era | ||||||||||||
Sunstorm trashes everybody.
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Synopsis
Fresh from their escape from the now-destroyedArk,theDecepticonsopen fire uponSunstorm.Their attacks have no effect, as Sunstorm barely notices the blaster fire while preaching his dogma. Uninterested in Sunstorm's proclamations of salvation, theCombaticonsreassemble intoBruticus.Sunstorm even laughs at the monstrouscombiner,when, out of nowhere, Bruticus is blasted in the head by theAutobot Supply VesselOrion.Seeking more prey and pissed that they interfered with his affairs, Sunstorm attacks theOrionas it descends. Seeing even theOrioncrippled by Sunstorm,Starscreamcharacteristically decides to retreat and Sunstorm chases him, leaving theOrionto make an extremely rough landing into the terrain below.
OnCybertron,ProwlandIronhidemonitor some unsuccessful training exercises in which a team of newAutobotrecruits were bested in combat by a trio of training droids. The two check up onOptimus Prime,whoHoisthas in aCR chamberto undergo repairs after having theMatrix of Leadershiptorn out of him byShockwave.Ultra Magnuswalks in, fully functional and back in his armor. Prowl then receives a communication from theProtectobots,who have discovered the ruins ofShockwave's lab.
Sunstorm chases Starscream beneath the surface of the ocean to theNemesis,where Starscream readies one of his contingency plans. For safety, he has the ship's computer do a security scan for any intruders, and the scan returns negative. But despite this scan, Starscream is ambushed by Sunstorm, who reveals that the two are actually siblings.
Brawnbeats into a fallen Bruticus, whileRatchetexpresses some regret over having had to destroy the Ark.Bumblebeetries to get Ratchet to look on the upside—theOrionis here and thePowerdasherswill be able to repair it, so that it will function as theEarth-Autobots' new base.Cliffjumperand Brawn remind everybody how suspicious it is that thehumanelement to the conflict has remained uncharacteristically quiet—but they're unaware that their very conversation happens to be monitored by a black helicopter from a human military.
Starscream recounts to Sunstorm how his crew of Decepticons was able to take control ofSky Lynxand scan newalternate modesfor the Combaticons. Things were going fairly well until Sunstorm arrived and threw a monkey wrench into Starscream's plans. Sunstorm justifies his actions by explaining how he's on a holy quest from theOracleto lead all Transformers toHeaven.Starscream mocks Sunstorm's gospel, and when Sunstorm gets angry, he notices the larger figure standing behind him.
Hours later, the Powerdashers board back on theOrion,having repaired much of the damage done in the crash. Bumblebee and Ratchet get ready to board the ship after activating its stealth mode, when they're attacked by Starscream and hisnew bodyguard.
Featured characters
(Characters initalic textappear only in flashbacks.)
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"I am your savior, brother. And it is I who shall aid you in achieving yourtruedestiny. We are two wings that mustunite.So that we may carry the rest to the heavens. We shall guide them.
We shall guide them into thelight."
- —Sunstorm
Notes
- The training droids are of a similar design to theauto-combatantHot Rodfought against briefly inThe Transformers: The Movie.
- Starscream seems able to access theNemesisfine, while last issue he was disappointed that he would be unable to access theNemesiswithout the Ark remaining functional. It's later clarified that he needed the Ark for harvesting components to use in repairing theNemesis.
- The story introduces a Decepticon version of the previously Autobot-onlySky Spytechnology.
- Optimus Prime is drawn differently than inWar and Peace.His design holds more similarities to the (then recently released)20th Anniversary Optimus Prime.However this could just be attributed to the different (and arguably better) artist.
- The "Wavelengths"page has an article from the desk ofJohn Ney Rieber.
- Reader mail was answered in the "Prime Transmissions" section byRoger Leeand also included a piece of fan-art from Hal Laren.
Covers (1)
- Art byDon Figueroa
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