Police Action: Part 1
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| "Police Action: Part 1" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | September 7,2011 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | September 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Mike Costa | ||||||||||||
| Art by | Brendan Cahill | ||||||||||||
| Colors by | Joana Lafuente | ||||||||||||
| Letters by | Shawn Lee | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Carlos Guzman | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | 2005 IDW continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | Current era (2011) | ||||||||||||
Prowl investigates Scrapper's murder, and finds that the rabbit hole goes deeper than previously suspected.
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Synopsis
During a meeting,Prowland the other Autobots on Earth recruitPenningtonfor their investigation work. Later,Spike Witwickycomes to Prowl, asking him to do something aboutBen Simpsonand his spreading mistrust for theTransformerrace on television. He refuses, and upon learning that Spike is going away for some time, decides to spy on him. Meanwhile,JazzasksBumblebeefor permission to hunt down the remainingDecepticonson Earth, but is denied due to his killing of a human last time he was in the field.
Prowl secretly tails Spike aroundAlbuquerque,but spots nothing out of the ordinary. Suddenly,Breakdownshows up and tries to run down Witwicky, and Prowl is forced into action.Streetwisechases the Decepticon off, but breaks protocol by transforming into robot mode in the process, earning both cops a chewing-out fromUltra Magnusonce they return to base. Prowl takes this opportunity to tell Magnus about his suspicions of both Ben Simpson and of a Decepticon conspiracy, but is told to stick tooneinvestigation—Spike's.
Following orders, Prowl travels to the place whereScrapperwas killed, where he discovers liquefied remains of the Decepticon's face. His suspicions are raised, as the weapon that killed Scrapper shouldn't have been able to melt any part of him, but when he's busy taking a sample he's suddenly hit by an explosive shell. As he tries to crawl away, more shells hit the building, which begins to collapse on him...
Featured characters
Characters initalic textappear only in video footage.
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Quotes
"You're letting this investigation sprawl. You've got Spike. Now you've got Ben Simpson. And you're trying to bring in a Decepticon conspiracy, too. That's a lot of loose threads. You really think you can tie them together?"
"It's what I do."
- —Ultra Magnustakes his frustrations out onProwl.
Notes
Continuity notes
- Breakdown knows the residence of Spike's affair because Spike used Breakdown (while incapacitated) as his ride when he visited her back in "New Arrivals, Old Encounters".
Errors
- Despite it being Prowl tailing Spike, the narration (being less clinical and more pop cultural-y) implies it's Streetwise. Streetwise is the one who breaks cover and transforms to rescue Prowl.
- Even though the place where Spike's affair lives is identified as "3453 N. Mouno Avenue", the very next panel on the same page shows the number "783" on the door of her house.
Trivia
- This issue is listed on the Chaos checklist as "The Last Story on Earth Part 1".
- The behaviour of Prowl (methodical, calm) and Streetwise (hotheaded) here is something of a reverse fromissue #1of the Ongoing.
- "Police Action" was meant to be yet another playing in the genre, a 1940s cop/noir story, and a "Prowl solves a mystery" story had been intended for a while. It was meant to happen earlier, withSpotlight: Prowlas part of it, but other stories pushedActionback whileSpotlightwas moved forward.[1]
Covers (3)
- Cover A:Prowl being buried under debris; art byMarcelo Matere,colors byPriscilla Tramontano.
- Cover B:Prowl, Bumblebee and Jazz; art by Brendan Cahill, colors by Priscilla Tramontano.
- Cover RI:Black & white version of Cover B; art by Cahill.
I'm getting too old for this shit!
We're here, we're clear, we don't want any more bears!
Cover RI
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Reprints
- The Transformers, Volume 6: Police Action(February 15,2012)ISBN 1613771649/ISBN 978-1613771648
- The Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume Eight(May 7,2013)ISBN 1613776276/ISBN 978-1613776278
- CollectsHeart of Darknessissues#1–4,andThe Transformers(2009) issues #19–31.
- Hardcover format.
- The Transformers: Chaos Theory(February 28,2018)ISBN 978-4-86491-370-6
- CollectsThe Transformers(2009) issues #19–23, #25, #27 & #29.
- Japanese reprint. Trade paperback format.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 CollectionVolume 51: Chaos Theory(December 11,2019)
- CollectsThe Transformers(2009) issues#21: "Police Action: Prologue",#22–23, #25, #27 & #29, andSpotlight:Bumblebee.
- Bonus material includes a one-page article exploring the origins of the "Chaos"arc and beyond, a cover gallery and an intro bySimon Furman.
- Hardcover format.
Volume 6: Police Action– cover art byBrendan CahillandPriscilla Tramontano
The IDW Collection Volume Eight– cover art byE. J. Su
Chaos Theory– cover art byKazumasa Yasukuni
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 51: Chaos Theory– cover art byDon FigueroaandAlex Milne
