Goin' South

Megatron and Cobra Commander make a deal.

G.I. Joe A Real American Hero 140
Script: Larry Hama Pencils: Chris Batista Inks: Chip Wallace Colors: Bob Sharen Editor: Dave Wohl


 * Major Transformers characters (in order of appearance): Megatron, Optimus Prime, Bumblebee.
 * Originally published: September, 1993

Synopsis
We open somewhere over Canada, with Megatron leading Cobra to the location of the Ark, as part of their technology exchange. Megatron disguised it as a hillock while it was self-repairing. Now, he remotely orders it into the sky. It impresses the heck out of most of Cobra, especially Doctor Biggles-Jones, who is nearly orgasmic over the chance to play with plasma impellers, photon accelerators, and anti-gravity.



They head south into the USA, and Cobra Commander has them set down in Milleville. It turns out Cobra has everyone in the town brainwashed. Cobra Commander orders the citizens out to unload the Cobra helicopters and the Ark. During the process, the containment capsule holding Doctor Mindbender breaks, and he stands up, mostly recovered from being dead.

Meanwhile, G.I. Joe has managed to notice a ginormous spaceship drifting into middle America, and is sneaking into Milleville. Tunnel Rat gets a visual on Megatron, and radios his findings to Mainframe (via Hawk). Mainframe and Professor Mott use some technological gifts left behind by the Autobots to radio Cybertron: "Megatron is back, and he's on Earth." Bumblebee and Optimus Prime receive this message, and prepare to head back to Earth.

Several of the ongoing G.I. Joe plots are also visited in this issue, but are not relevant to the Transformers-related storyline.