A small band of Autobots take Optimus Prime's consciousness to Nebulos to have a new body built for him, but encounter some potentially deadly challenges.
Marvel US issue #42
(Story also appears in: Marvel UK issues #176-177)
Writer: Bob Budiansky
Pencil Art: Jose Delbo
Ink Art: Danny Bulanadi
Letterer: Bill Oakley
Colorist: Nelson Yomtov
Editor: Don Daley
- Major Characters (in order of appearance):
Darkwing, Dreadwind, Hi-Test, Throttle, Goldbug, Slapdash, Joyride, Getaway, Hi-Q, Optimus Prime, Dreadwing
- Originally published: July, 1988
Synopsis
Just rude, really.
Fortress Maximus has ordered the skeleton crew on the Steelhaven to travel to Nebulos to get some help in rebuilding Optimus Prime. Goldbug, Slapdash, Joyride, and Getaway meet with the Nebulan scientist Hi-Q, who explains that after the events of the Headmasters miniseries, the citizens of Nebulos tainted their own energy sources so as to be poisonous to any Transformers that might seek to return to their world. When Decepticons Darkwing and Dreadwind arrived soon after the departure of the other Transformers, they soon found themselves victim of this poisoning, and lay dormant for a time. They were later revived by Nebulan traitors Hi-Test and Throttle, who had stolen power-conversion plans that eventually created the Powermasters. Hi-Q, the creator of this process, binary bonds with the reborn Optimus Prime, and several members of his staff join with other Autobots, in order to combat the threat posed by Darkwing and Dreadwind. They, too, leave Nebulos to join the other Transformers on Earth.
Errors
- The Nebulan capital city of Koraja appears radically different than it did in the Headmasters miniseries; the new version of Koraja is both much larger and more overtly high-tech than the miniseries' version.
Items of note
- Goldbug is the only Autobot who ends up not needing to become a Powermaster, thanks to his high fuel efficiency.
- Which is convenient, since Kari, Hi-Q's fourth assistant, is a staunch pacifist who refuses to fight alongside the Autobots.
References
- Slapdash, Joyride, and Getaway all made their first non-speaking appearances in a single panel in the previous issue, in which the narration described them as being charged with guarding the Optimus Prime disk on board Steelhaven.
- Hi-Q explains the steps that the Council of Peers took to keep invading robots off Nebulos after the final issue of the Headmasters miniseries.
UK Printing
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