Energon Volume 3
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| Publisher | Hasbro | ||||||||||||
| First published | 2004 | ||||||||||||
| Story | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Pencils | Edwin Garcia | ||||||||||||
| Inks | Erik Sander | ||||||||||||
| Colors | Alan Wang | ||||||||||||
The Eclipse-Team finds some base.
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Synopsis
Mission clock running, 00:01. From orbit, Shockblast neutralizes the defenses of an Autobot energon refinery, allowing Slugslinger and Sharkticon to enter while Mirage patrols the exterior.
Mission clock: 02:11. The two Decepticons slip past an apparently inert sentry drone. They plan to modify the pipeline flows to destroy Autobot City and capture the refinery to boot. Unfortunately, they come under attack from Bulkhead and Tow-Line.
Mission clock: 04:07. Mirage comes racing in to help, only to get stopped by the formerly "inert" Omega Supreme. Sharkticon attempts to cut out, but Omega nails him and the orbiting Shockblast with a single shot. Though the Autobots are victorious, Tow-Line notes that they can never rest as long as the Decepticons seek control of Earth's energon. Mission clock: 05:27.
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- Though uncredited, the content of this story (similar to contemporaneous Dreamwave issues) and the use of Furmanisms in dialogue—"That's Slugslinger's wings clipped!", "Shockblast, it's all gone to—EEAG!"—made it a pretty safe bet who wrote this one; it would be years however before Simon Furman officially confirmed his involvement.[1]
- Art is also uncredited, but the cover of the story has a watermark (partially obscured in some printings by the "Volume 3" label) reading "Eddie Erik Al". These are Dreamwave penciller Edwin Garcia (let loose on full interior art for the first time!),[2] inker Erik Sander and colorist Alan Wang.[3]
- It's very difficult to tell what Sharkticon and Slugslinger are reacting to when they see Omega Supreme. Only the inside portion of his legs are shown in the scene, and at no point are his legs visible when the rest of him is on-panel.
- The flip half of the booklet features a catalog of Energon toys, including the various "Energon" redecos and the later new-mold Combat-class toys.
- This comic was never released with any of Japan's Super Link figures, due mostly to the fact the comic focused almost entirely on toys that were not released in Japan.
- The toy catalog portion was included with early runs of the Transformers: Energon DVDs offered by Paramount Home Video.
References
- ↑ "I definitely did Energon minis vols 2 & 3"—Simon Furman, Twitter, 2023/01/28
- ↑ "Oh you know what, this does jog my memory. Edwin Garcia was the background artist for anything Pat drew and sometimes others. I think they finally let him fully pencil something for this mini-comic. Makes sense, why it doesn't jump out to me as any of the regular TF artists style"—Matt Moylan, Twitter, 2023/02/06
- ↑ "Ah, a clue on the #3 cover, the signature looks like it says "Erik" and "Al". that would be inked by Erik Sander anbd colored by Alan Wang. Meaning the art was physically in the Dreamwave studio... hm..."—Matt Moylan, Twitter, 2023/02/01
