Lost and Found (comic issue)

'''Jazz says goodbye to the EDC. Spike and Bumblebee fight urban crime. Oh, and Megatron's back.'''

Writer: James McDonough and Adam Patyk Pencils: Don Figueroa Inks: Elaine To Colors: Espen Grundetjern Letters: Ben Lee


 * Original release date: November 10th, 2004
 * Preceded by: Extermination
 * Followed by: The Route of All Evil
 * Characters (In order of appearance): Blitzwing, Astrotrain, Shockwave, Razorclaw, Hot Rod, Kup, Springer, Arcee, (Earth Reinforcements: Mirage, Bluestreak, Gears, Prowl, Huffer, Hound), Marissa Faireborn {EDC-friends: Warpath, Jazz, Sideswipe, Bumblebee, Wheeljack, Windcharger, Sunstreaker}, Ratchet, Spike, Bumblebee, Megatron, Predacons, Dirge

Synopsis
Hidden within the Wastelands of Cybertron, Astrotrain and Blitzwing consider having some fun by using the guns to destroy the wandering derelict. Shockwave stops the two goons from taking actions that would jeopardize the long-term planning. The two triple-changes go outside to personally identify the empty, but soon as Blitzwing recognizes it, the drone seizes Blitzwing's face. Astrotrain blasts the drone's face off, and Blitzwing slices the drone in half. As the two return to their base victorious, they're ambushed by Razorclaw! Inside the base, Shockwave becomes frustrated with a string of mechanical problems, when he too is ambushed. Dreamwave comics have a lot of ambushing.

Hot Rod relaxes by destroying some Decepticon practice targets. His training then takes him into confrontation with Kup, who forces Hot Rod into a lake using only rocks and physical contact. But Hot Rod wins the holographic training exercise by using his back-up firearm to cause a tree to collapse on Kup. The two debate if Hot Rod's victory could be considered legitimate, when Kup reveals that Springer was the real winner - hanging out with Arcee.

Springer (on his Hot Date, with Arcee at Landing Platform A) watches Prowl's team take off to return to Earth. Arcee feels irrelevant, staying behind on Cybertron while the other warriors return to protect Earth, but Springer reminds Arcee how valuable she is to her friends.

On board the shuttle, Prowl reminds Huffer how important Huffer is to the crew of the new mission, and together they say goodbye to Cybertron again.

On Quintessa, the locals plot an internal assault against the Autobots. They also seem to have a fascination with Hot Rod, who has an affinity with the object, and the Quintessons plan to get at Hot Rod using… Arcee?

At the EDC base in Area 51, Jazz says goodbye to an Autobot-hungry Marissa. Before she can get further with her crush, Ratchet and The Orion arrive to retrieve the repaired Autobots, leaving Marissa without any love. L

Living on the roads in Cincinatti, Spike and Bumblebee drive around a bad part of town, pouring out their emotions to each other - the sight of a man yelling at his own car drawing some strange looks from the ladies. Seconds later, a call from help prompts Spike to rush to save the same lady from mugger. When the mugger takes out a gun, Spike is saved by his giant robot friend.

Back on Cybertron, Shockwave stands disarmed by Megatron. Megatron explains how being abandoned in space lead to Megatron revitalizing his hunger for conquest, as the drones attach a containment device onto Shockwave's stump. Shockwave in introduced to the Predacons - and the Decepticons who were once loyal to Shockwave (with the exception of Blitzwing). With an army as his ready, Megatron announces the goal of his conquest: Earth!

Quotes
"It doesn't really count as a victory lad, if you ain't around to celebrate, does it lad?"
 * -Kup

"Spare me the melodrama, Shockwave-- it doesn't suit you." "The old Megatron may have disposed of you for pitty revenge… but your treachery and my struggle to return have taught me to temper such unbridled emotion." "You are currently too valuable for me to carelessly dispose off…"
 * -Megatron. 

"Foolish Shockwave, not only did I locate them, I also improved them." "Isn't that usually your area of expertise?'''
 * -Megatron

Notes of interest

 * One of the narrative captions references TF Datatracks 2004 which was never produced. This might have been a reference to the Dreamwave More Than Meets The Eye guidebook, but that was referenced on… the next panel?
 * Megatron recruited Razorsaw and The Predacons in the story Welcome to the Jungle in the Dreamwave Summer Special.
 * The Quintessons having some connection to Arcee (who presumably appeared sometime between Micromasters and War and Peace - mixes with the fact that Female Transformers were seen on Quintessa in Generation 1, Issue Zero.
 * Hey, this time one of Marissa's speech bubbles is entirely missing it's white fill. How weird is that? And later Spike and his new friend suffer from translucent speech bubbles. Must be the drinking watch.
 * Buster Witwicky joined the military? Could that be a plot element later?
 * Spike's shirt has the name "Voltes V" on it, apparently he's a fan of Super Electromagnetic Machine Voltes V


 * This issue contained advertisements for:
 * Transformers (Generation One) MTMTE Guide Book collection volume two (interior front cover)
 * G-Force and Battle Of The Planets DVDs.
 * Transformers: Energon DVDs.
 * Energon #29- Multiplicity, Pt. 4
 * The War Within: The Age of Wrath
 * Transformers/G.I. Joe: Divided Front #2, which was never released.
 * Dreamwave Beast Wars comic series, which was never released.
 * Dreamwave pocket digests
 * On one of the monitors in Megatron's base, the Wreck-Gar's ship is visible, explaining how he was able to get from planet to planet.
 * On the "Prime Transmissions" page, reader mail is answered by writers James McDonough and Adam Patyk
 * Wavelengths contains an article from the desk of Pat "Psycho" Lee.