Stormbringer issue 3

Script: Simon Furman Art: Don Figueroa Lettering: Robbie Robbins Colors: Josh Burcham with assist by grungewerx Editors: Chris Ryall and Dan Taylor


 * Major characters (in order of appearance): Thunderwing, Bludgeon, Iguanus, Nosecone, Afterburner, Roadbuster, Whirl, Topspin, Optimus Prime, Springer, Broadside, Darkwing, Dreadwind, Ruckus, Jetfire, Razorclaw, Megatron
 * Originally published: September, 2006

Synopsis
Jetfire is interrogated by the Decepticon Bludgeon, who is leading a team intending to continue what the dormant Thunderwing started. Thunderwing, we disover in Jetfire's flashback, was a Decepticon scientist who predicted the environmental catastrophe that struck Cybertron and attempted to take action. In the meantime, Optimus Prime receives a report on the destruction of the Calabi-Yau and decides to call in the Wreckers in case Thunderwing is indeed returning.

Bludgeon commences restoring power to Thunderwing using the Energon pocket detected by the Calabi-Yau, and reveals that he is using the Technobots as raw material for a "grafting process" that Thunderwing created. Jetfire attempts to stop Bludgeon, but is disabled.

Nosecone and Afterburner leave their escape pod and make their way across the surface of Cybertron, but the cosmic radiation plays havoc with their systems and they are rounded up by a pair of Centurion drones.

A Decepticon infiltration unit on the planet Nebulos picks up something big and powerful exiting foldspace. The people of the planet look to the sky and flee in fear. The apocalypse has arrived - and its name is Thunderwing...

Errors

 * The inside cover of issue #2, solicited for August 2006, shows the publish date of the issue as June 2006, one month before the last issue.

Items of Note
If the Infiltration arc is maintaining a focus on the classic G1 characters, then Stormbringer appears intent on drawing the more esoteric G1 Transformers into the rebooted continuity and explaining their at-times odd technology. Thunderwing's "grafting process" appears to be the origin of Pretender technology, given that Thunderwing has only been glimpsed outside his shell prior to the apocalypse and that Bludgeon and all of the named Decepticons working for him thus far are part of the G1 Pretender toy line. Also, most of the Decepticons glimpsed in the background inside the Decepticon command bunker on Nebulos are members of the Headmasters, Targetmasters and Powermasters lines (though whether the various -master technologies have yet been invented in this continuity is unknown).