Yay! I found all my TF comics! More reviews forthcoming...
here's the promised Issue #0. Now, am I getting old, or why do I find
myself missing the days when comics started with Issue #1? Not only
that, but although #0 is only 16 pages of story, 24 page
total--shorter than a regular comic--it has the same cover price.
I've heard that Dreamwave plans to exclude all #0s and other special
editions, like the Summer Special, from its Graphic Novels and Pocket
comics (which are smaller, manga-size, printed on newsprint, cheaper
versions of GNs). Still, I don't think the "exclusive" nature of this
story justifies the moneygrab of paying the same price for less story.
But on to the story. Picking up where G1 Vol 2 War and Peace left
off, the story is narrated by Quintessons. Unicron chomps up Lithone,
and heads for Earth. Inside, he is breeding a "second
generation"--including what looks like Galvatron tearing free of an
incubating pod. The first generation of clones was sent out before
Unicron went into Hibernation, including Scourge who came across
CYbertron. Scourge was the one who woke Shockwave from the Great
Shutdown (a period when all TFs on Cybertron went inactive from lack
of fuel).
Shockwave, however, doublecrosses Scourge and experiments on him.=20
Scourge later flees to Earth where he appears in War and Peace. This
explains why Shockwave knows so much about the nature of Cybertron and
Transformers. The humans have Devastator and Scourge in their
captivity.
Optimus Prime is still on Cybertron, in recovery after the events of
War and Peace. Female robots are glimpsed as Quintesson guards.
Wreck-Gar finds Megatron's body, thrown into space during WAR AND
PEACE, and begins salvaging him and some Seeker clones. Megatron
lives!
***
Overall, this is less a "story" than a teaser of things to come and an
explanation of some of the mysteries from War and Peace, such as
Scourge's presence, what happened to Megatron, how Shockwave knows so
much, who awakened Shockwave, etc. It is, however, a valuable
componenent linking War and Peace to Vol 3. Also, with Devastator and
the appearance of a very-much-alive Wheeljack, it does some damage
control from G1 Vol 1, which it seems everyone pretty much wants to
forget about.
--Enfilade
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