Shut Up!
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 4th August1990 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 11th August1990 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Staz | ||||||||||||
| Lettering | Gary Gilbert | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity/Earthforce | ||||||||||||
Inferno believes Earthforce's prisoners are quiet. Too quiet.
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Synopsis
Infernois guarding the surviving members of theMayhem Attack Squad,and he's deeply uneasy, as they are all absolutely silent. He looks at each of them and believes they are thinking dark thoughts, but none can do anything in a cell with ten-foot-thick metal walls and energy bars. They are also weaponless.
However, in the confiscated weapons store,Bludgeon's blade suddenly levitates.
Suddenly,Strangleholdstarts tearing up the floor of the cell. Inferno reacts quickly and grabs aPacifierfreeze ray weapon. He ponders if it could be a trap, but reckons he has all three covered. He deactivates the bars and freezes Stranglehold. Still the others are silent, so he steps forward. Suddenly, he realises he's messed up badly...and Bludgeon's sword impales him!
Inferno staggers to the alarm but collapses before he can trigger it, and theDecepticonsescape. Later,Prowlreports toGrimlockthat Inferno will live, and all he says is that "They did it by being quiet!"
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Quotes
"Well? What happened?"
"It's okay,Grimlock,Inferno will live. "
"Pah!"
"As for how they did it, Inferno said somethingfunny.He said they did it bykeeping quiet!"
- —GrimlockandProwl
Notes
Artwork and technical errors
- TBD
Continuity errors
- TBD
Continuity notes
- The Mayhems were captured in "Where Wolf?".
- Bludgeon's powers of levitation are not seen again until issue#1of the UKGeneration 2comic.
Real-life references
- TBD
Other trivia
- Aside from a scream from Inferno when he's stabbed, the only piece of dialogue spoken aloud in this issue is Prowl and Grimlock's conversation at the end. Everything else is in thought captions.
Back-up Material
- Additional Transformers Story:Kings of the Wild Frontier.
- Other strips:G.I. Joe the Action Force- "Into the Breach"andCombat Colin
- AtoZ:TailgateandTantrum
- In the box at the top left-hand corner of the cover, an unknown Transformer is attackingOptimus Prime.The attacker's identity will be revealed in subsequent issues.
Cover
- Issue #282 cover:Inferno has some weird dreams about Bludgeon, byJohn MarshallandPete Venters.
Issue #282
Reprints
- Transformers: Way of the Warrior:Carnivac and Springer stand victorious over aLimbonightmare creature, bySimon Coleby.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection:Volume 20: End of the Road:Bludgeon(art reused fromDreamwave'sMore than Meets the Eyeprofiles) above an interior scene ofGrimlockpunching throughFangry(fromUS issue #80) byAndrew Wildman.
Way of the Warrior(Titan Books, 2005)
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 20(Hachette Partworks, Ltd., 2018)
