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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||
| Date published | March 21, 2007 | ||||||
| Story | Chris Ryall | ||||||
| Script by | Simon Furman and Chris Ryall | ||||||
| Art by | Don Figueroa | ||||||
| Colors by | Josh Burcham, Mark Bristow | ||||||
| Letters by | Robbie Robbins | ||||||
| Edits by | Dan Taylor | ||||||
| Continuity | Movie continuity | ||||||
Our world.
Appearances[]
Featured characters[]
- Archibald Witwicky (First appearance)
- Decepticons
Supporting Characters:
- Autobots
- Decepticons
- Dreadwing
- Reginald Danco (First appearance)
- Theodore Joseph Wells (First appearance)
- Walter Simmons (First appearance)
Synopsis[]
In his inner monologue, Megatron recounts how he began the war, not to conquer Cybertron, but to possess the AllSpark. Despite Megatron's determination to gain the AllSpark, Optimus Prime was just as determined to stop him, eventually jettisoning the AllSpark into space and condemning Cybertron to death. Megatron muses that he and Prime are not all that different. Locating the AllSpark on Earth, the Decepticon leader loses contact with it upon reentry. Heading to the North Pole, Megatron crashes through the ice. Low on energon and with his safety buffers exhausted, Megatron goes into stasis.
Millennia later, in 1897, the National Arctic Circle Expedition under Archibald Witwicky discovers something within the ice. Witwicky is driven blind and insane by what he sees, but his tales attract the interest of a group of spooks, who begin unearthing Witwicky's "Ice Man". Six years later, a Cube is discovered with symbols similar to those on the Ice Man.
In 2003, the Hubble Space Telescope tracks an impact on Mars. Sector Seven, hoping to find raw materials to exploit examine, plans to secure their new visitor.
Bumblebee.
Errors[]
- Yet another case of galaxy/solar system confusion, as Megatron claims he traveled across "countless solar spans, through myriad galaxies, nebulae and systems". That's a bit like saying "I've searched the whole city, through myriad planets, states and cities."
- This story appears to present Sector Seven as having existed since the 19th century, predating Megatron's discovery, while the film would state they were formed under President Hoover. Since the Alternate Reality Game states they were formed over a century before 2007, it's possible they were older in an early version of the script. Years later, IDW's Sector 7 comic book series would smooth this error over, by establishing that the two men in this issue are not from Sector 7, but are two independent adventurers named Walter Simmons and Theodore Wells, whose experiences with the otherworldly and fantastic saw them drafted by the president to deal with Witwicky's case. They would go on to found the actual organization of Sector 7 decades later, working with Hoover before he became president.
- Sector 7 would apparently swap the pair's "character models", however; this issue depicts the mutton-chopped, bespectacled character as having a family and developing an obsession over Megatron, but these are traits Sector 7 gives to Simmons, while depicting this character as Wells.
- In another continuity error, this issue has the AllSpark being found in 1902, while the movie itself states it was found in 1913. Again, Sector 7 would clarify this a few years later, stating that while the cube was found in 1902, it took eleven years to divert the Colorado River around it, and they didn't excavate it until 1913.
Items of note[]
- Sector Seven's headquarters as seen on page 15 features several interesting artifacts, among them what looks like blueprints of a Cosmos-like flying saucer, a map of Skull Island from the Peter Jackson King Kong movie and a fragment of a Golden Disk inside a trophy case.
- A bot matching Longarm's appearance is seen fighting in the flashback war scenes........ only as a Decepticon. Then again, it may be a Decepticon Longarm drone unit, as there was another one exactly like it standing not far away. But how do we explain the lack of one eye...
Covers (3)[]
—all by Don Figueroa
- Cover A: Megatron in ice
- Cover B: Decepticon symbol
- Cover RI: Uncolored sketch of cover A
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