Transformers Fanclub #9
Plot: Forest Lee, Dan Khanna
Script: Forest Lee
Pencils: Dan Khanna
Inks: Terry Pallot
Lettering: Robbie Robbins
Colors: Rob Ruffolo
- Major characters (in order of appearance): Soundwave, Laserbeak, Unicron
Synopsis
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The Planet X agent Soundwave mysteriously appears after the demise of Ramjet and Nemesis Prime. Standing at an undisclosed location, he summons his mini-con Laserbeak and orders it to infiltrate the local Autobot headquarters. Laserbeak enters stealth mode and cuts through several doors before finding his way to a familiar object: the matrix that Nemesis Prime was carrying.
Laserbeak returns to Soundwave with this matrix, who promptly throws it into the black hole. Immediately, a spark emerges and greets Soundwave, it is Unicron's. Soundwave addresses his lord before the spark travels 700 lightyears away to a nearby planet named Yst. Yst, in all rights, is like a duplicate of Earth with inhabitants that resemble a Star Trek alien race. As his spark penetrates the planet, he begins to recite his creed and agenda, speaking and explaining who he is in rhetoric. Yst explodes into chaos and wars, as the inhabitants begin to tear eachother apart. Suddenly, the planet colapses and explodes.
within the debris, Unicron is reborn in his new tank form.
Errors
- Soundwave is incorrectly written with the G1 personality rather the street-slang radio broadcast personality he exhibits in the Unicron Trilogy.
- The Dark Matrix was miscolored to look like Big Convoy's matrix, which is traditional gold and blue.
Items of note
- Soundwave officially makes his appearance as a herald of Unicron and an agent of Planet X.
- As mentioned above, Soundwave behaves more like the G1 character. I suppose his personality in the animated series could be part of his deception as an agent.
- This issue is really short winded. The exchanges between Soundwave and Unicron are almost humorous in their simplicity.
- The aliens on this Earthen world resemble the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character Elim Garak
- Like Vector Prime, Soundwave features his Takara paint scheme rather the toned-down Hasbro depiction.
- Although previous reports said Unicron retained his planetary size, I'm not sure that's entirely evident. Unicron is shown as a small orb before exploding the planet and his new form is simply shown against debris from that planet and nothing specific enough to determine scale or perspective. Given that the black hole stems from a balance in universal energies, the rebirth of a planetary Unicron should have solved this, but we know how the Cybertron story ends, so it makes sense that he is reborn as a regular Transformer, and not yet that enormous dark balance he once served as. Also, with Hasbro being so specific about the character handling, I doubt he's a planet-size Transformer yet.
- Laserbeak uses his stealth mode.
- Soundwave, while throwing the Dark Matrix into the anomoly, is described as standing right in the event horizon of the black hole. Last time I checked, he shoulda been transformed into robot spagetti.