The Age of Wrath Pt.3
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| "The Age of Wrath Pt.3" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Dreamwave Productions | ||||||||||||
| First published | December 1, 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | December, 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Joe Ng | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Tracy Ho, Erik Sander | ||||||||||||
| Additional inks | Ferd Poblete | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Josh Burcham | ||||||||||||
| Additional colors | Rob Ruffolo, Eric Burns | ||||||||||||
| Letters | Ben Lee | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Dreamwave continuity | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | The Age of Wrath | ||||||||||||
As Jetfire has always taught us, the Autobots can win... with science!
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Synopsis
Around a campfire-like light at Iacon Command, Slamdance tells his Autobot friends about how, during Starscream's raid on the new Council of Ancients, Slamdance fell into a fissure, into ancient Cybertron. The newly discovered caves are suitable for housing the Autobots who managed to avoid capture by Megatron and his Aerospace Extermination Squadron. Perceptor interrupts the story to bring the Turbomasters to the Think-Tank. There, Perceptor explains how if Megatron survived the space bridge Incident, then logically, Optimus Prime must have survived as well... hopefully.
Nightbeat's team of Autobots have managed to defeat two of the Aerospace Exterminator drones that were chasing Getaway, causing the third one to mysteriously go dormant. When Nightbeat approaches to attach an inhibitor claw (so the drone can be retrieved for study), the drone reawakens and materializes additional armaments to fight off all five Autobots at once. A flare blinds Siren, but together with Joyride, the two ram the drone backwards, impaling it onto a spike. However, even this doesn't halt the drone, who tosses an explosive at the two, and then moves to terminate Slapdash. But moments before Slapdash can be executed, Getaway ends the drone's activity by attaching the inhibitor claw to the drone's posterior.
Rumble and Frenzy try to explain how neither of them were responsible for, under their watch, one of Shockwave's machines exploding. Angry at the delay in his investigation of the Aerospace drone technology, Shockwave leaves, but, as soon as he's gone, another machine explodes on its own. The only clue why is a smiling face torn into the wall.
With Perceptor overseeing the kidnapping of the Exterminator Drone, the Turbomasters engage in a game of tear'n'chase beneath in the tunnels around the Autobots' base. Flash cleverly doubles back to the base but upon his return, he's caught in an anomaly from the machine being used to find Optimus Prime. Flash lands on a strange alien landscape.
Featured characters
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Notes
- Due to Dreamwave's closure, this was the last published issue of the miniseries. By default, Micromasters #1: "Destined for Nothing" would be the next chronological story. For some information about the unreleased Age of Wrath issues, see Unreleased Dreamwave issues.
- In one panel, the soon-to-be-executed Slapdash is colored like Siren, making the sequence more confusing than it needs to be.
- The images on Perceptor's screens are from "Confrontation".
- Frenzy lists the following dead Autobots which never received fiction: Galactica, Geronimo, Gizmo, and Glasnost. Grimlock returned from death in the unpublished fourth issue. An Autobot named Gizmo would later make an appearance in IDW Publishing's Spotlight: Hot Rod.
- The "Declarations of War" page has reader mail answered by Matthew Hansen.
- The "Wavelengths" page has a letter from the desk of Ernst Dabel.
- Science rules!
Errors
- Not necessarily an error, but a spelling inconsistency comes from Slamdance's speech bubble when he states "I was, I realised, in the presence of ghosts." "Realized" is spelled using British English spelling instead of the more common American English spelling found in the Dreamwave comics.
- Hosehead calls out to Joyride, while it's Nightbeat who is in danger.
- Just after Flash zooms into the probe at the end of the issue, the word "correlation" is misspelled as "coreelation" on the readout.
Covers (1)
- A clone trooper attacks Nightbeat and Getaway, pencils by Joe Ng.
Advertisements
- Transformers/G.I. Joe: Divided Front #3: "In the Line of Firefly", which was never released
- Energon #30: "No Exit": "Throne Wars!"
- Dreamwave pocket books (back cover)
- Dreamwave/Dynamic Forces exclusive covers
- A special five-page advertisement for Warlands: Malagen's Campaign
- Generation 1 #12: "Cybertron's greatest hero returns...", which was never released (back cover)
