Dreadwing Down!
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| "Dreadwing Down!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 1st August 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 1990 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Dan Reed | ||||||||||||
| Colours | Euan Peters | ||||||||||||
| Lettering | Glib | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity | ||||||||||||
The Autobots go undersea to salvage a vital component stolen by Dreadwing.
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Synopsis
The Aerialbots shoot down Dreadwing over an ocean... which is unfortunate, since he's carrying a power cell needed to power life support machines for a human that the Autobots injured while chasing Decepticons. Optimus Prime and the other Powermasters go undersea to salvage the component, only to run into the Seacons.
The Autobots are outnumbered and disadvantaged, as the Seacons are in their native territory underwater. To make matters worse, the Autobots' Nebulan partners only have a 30 minute air supply, and time is running out. Optimus Prime sends the Nebulans to salvage the component, even though this will leave the Autobots underpowered and easy pickings for the Seacons. The four Nebulans quickly overpower Hi-Test and Throttle and head for the surface, fretting that they've left their Autobot allies to die. But Prime and the others soon surface—with the component gone, the Seacons decided that saving Dreadwing and the two Nebulans was a much higher priority.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Nebulans |
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Notes
- Much like "Prime Bomb!", placing this story within the main UK comic continuity is a little tricky, mainly due to the presence of both Quake and Dreadwing on Earth. Neither was ever shown working with Earth's Decepticons in the main comic storyline.
- Apart from that problem, the story occurs somewhere between "People Power!" (the creation of the Powermasters) and "Cold War!", whose storyline concludes with the Underbase Saga slaughter.
- Overbite identifies himself as "Overbite" rather than "Jawbreaker", his name from his early Marvel UK appearances. Presumably, by the time he wrote this story, Simon Furman had been made aware of the toy's correct name.
Errors
- Is it a "component", a "power cell", or an "isotope"?
References
- Hi-Test and Throttle plan to absorb energy from the power cell, obviating their need to consume mass quantities of food, a problem originally brought up in "People Power!".
Cover
- Transformers Annual 1990 cover: Powermaster Optimus Prime fights Megatron, by Lee Sullivan.
Transformers Annual 1990
Reprints
- Transformers: Second Generation: Defensor battles Bruticus, by Lee Sullivan.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 13: City of Fear: Trypticon and a zombie killing Chuffer.
Transformers: Second Generation (Titan Books, 2004)
The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 13: City of Fear (Hachette Partworks Ltd., 2019)
