Nefarious issue 6

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Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	August 18,2010
Written by	Simon Furman
Art by	Carlos Magno
Colors by	Andrew Dalhouse
Letters by	Shawn Lee
Editor	Andy Schmidt
Assistant editor	Carlos Guzman
Continuity	Movie continuity

A great battle between evil and good! Who will reach thecube?

Contents 1Synopsis 2Featured Characters 3Quotes 4Notes 4.1Trivia 4.2Errors 4.3Covers (3) 4.4Advertisements

Synopsis

Carter Newelldescends further and further into insanity, intent on using the facsimileAllSparkto exterminate all Transformer life, beginning withOptimus Primeand hisAutobots.Outside theInitiative base,the Autobots struggle in their battle against theInitiative-controlledAutobotsandDecepticons;unable to fight to their fullest extent due to their unwillingness to hurt their friends, they are forced instead to subdue them, allowingRatchetto cut them off from the controlling energies of the artificial AllSpark.

With the AllSpark entering meltdown due to Carter's misuse of it,Hank Kirkpatrickattempts to stop the madman, only to have Carter blast him with the AllSpark's energies, reducing him to a pile of smoking bones. This horrific sight promptsIngridto race to the isolation unit where the mysterious Transformer head held captive by Carter resides, agreeing to liberate the Transformer in order to stop Carter if he explains what is going on. The robot explains that he is aSeekernamedFortress,one of many left abandoned onEarthbyThe Fallenthousands of years beforehand. In 1929, a reckless contest between Fortress and another Seeker for information on the location of theTomb of the Primesled to the young Carter Newell's parents being killed in a car crash, and Carter himself being crippled. Carter has hated the Transformers ever since, and has used his parents' wealth to build the Initiative for the goal of destroying them.

Exploiting the chaos of the battle,Soundwaveis able to wrest control ofRavageback from the Initiative, and has him deploy theMicrocons.Just as Carter is using the power of the AllSpark to inflict pain upon Prime and the Autobots through their verysparks,the tiny robots sneak up behind the human and formReedman,grievously wounding him before they are destroyed by an AllSpark-powered blast. Believing the AllSpark will heal his wounds in time, Carter disconnects a portion of the mobile base and flees with the cube, only to be pursued by Optimus Prime,Buzzsaw(at Soundwave's command), and Fortress himself, who has been freed by Ingrid and has reconstituted his body from the remains of the abandoned mobile base. Prime is forced to propel Carter's escape vehicle off the road, plucking the cube from the wreckage and attempting to bring it under control by feeding it the energies of his own spark. Carter emerges from the rubble and is about to use the cube to destroy Prime, when he is killed by a cannon barrage from Buzzsaw. At that point, Fortress arrives and convinces Prime to give him the cube, teleporting away with it to some far-off corner of the cosmos, where it explodes harmlessly, taking no lives but Fortress's own.

In the aftermath of the battle, the Autobots and NEST arrest the surviving Initiative personnel and comb through the base's computers, but information on the full extent of Newell's organization and his operations remains elusive. Prime fears that everything Carter did could all happen again...as up in orbit, Soundwave completes his upload of the Initiative's databanks...

Featured Characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

"Finesse, eh? C'mon Ratchet, let's finesse them all the way back into stasis!"

—Ironhideemploys a spot of brute force.

"Evenifyou speak the truth, machine, if this is indeed the end, I will go smiling... and take you all with me. "

—Carter Newell

Notes

Trivia

• Two new Initiative-controlled Transformers show up this issue, alongside all those seen previously. Moreso than last issue, an attempt is made to color all of them correctly, with varying levels of success.
  • Tankoris now colored blue, although it's not a particularly close match for his toy.
  • Blazemasteris inconsistent from panel to panel—sometimes blue, sometimes blue and gold.
  • Brawnstarts out in the dark green and yellow of hisGeneration 1counterpart,then loses the yellow for the rest of the issue.
  • In the background of the first double-page spread is one of the two new bots,Sonar.He's recognizable by way of his shoulder-mounted launchers and boat kibble legs, and is named in dialogue when he reappears inRising Storm.This issue, he's badly miscolored, with the colorist seemingly having referencedBeast WarsSonar!
  • Skystalkernow sports reasonably accurate black and red colors.
  • Armorhide is now green, drawing upon hisRevenge of the Fallentoy, although he's still drawn with the same semi-truck design as last issue.
  • The second new robot is colored blue and sports obvious car kibble.Rising Stormwill go on to establish him as an Autobot and add some red to his color scheme, clinching him asSmokescreen.
  • The colorist seems to have been unsure which was which out ofThrustandRamjet—they are colored grey and red respectively in their sole appearance.
  • Lockdown is now colored primarily green, evidently drawing upon his partly green toy.

Errors

• Many other Transformers are given the wrong colors in this issue, including a consistently murky yellow Ratchet, a green Mudflap and a red Skids in the first double page spread, then a green Mudflap and ablueSkids on the last page.
• When he appears in the last few pages of the issue,Buzzsawseems to have taken on a helicopter alternate mode with no explanation.

Covers (3)

• Cover A:Bumblebee running with Optimus Prime in the background, byBrian Rood
• Cover B:Carter Newell attacking Optimus Prime and Ironhide with his AllSpark powers, art byCarlos Magnoand colors byAndrew Dalhouse
• Cover RI:Text-free version of Cover A

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