Windblade #1 - Combiner Wars, pt 1

[skemono]

When last we left our unfortunate heroine, her home planet Caminus was being invaded by the combiner Menasor.


We open with Swindle griping that he hasn't found anything to steal, despite Starscream's promise that he could get filthy rich by robbing the Camiens.




So, yeah. With Blackjack's anger issues helping form Menasor's personality, the combiner goes on a rampage. With the spacebridge still open, Transformers from Cybertron go in to help.




The Aerialbots fly in and form Superion, who offers Menasor a chance to surrender.



And they fight, and they fight, and they fight, and they fight! After Superion puts down Menasor, we get down to exactly what you want out of a series of warring giant robots with laser cannons: politics and religion!







Optimus opens his chest to reveal the Matrix, at which point the Camiens (except for Windblade) bow to him, while in the background Starscream has a rage stroke.


Writer: Mairghread Scott
Story by: Mairghread Scott & John Barber
Artist: Sarah Stone
Cover artist: Casey W. Coller

Comments

[grumman]

It could be worse - at least Megatron isn't there to see Starscream getting upstaged by Optimus Prime.

[ozaline]

Okay I tried to get into the new Transformers comics with Dark Cybertron, but wasn't able to pick all those up... and I've started following MTME as of late, but I gotta pick up this whole storyline...

[q99]

And people were worried *Starscream* was too trusting of Swindle ^^

Ah, poor Swindle, thinking he'd gotten in on the ground floor of a great Swindle when really, he was the Swindle....

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Also: Tall Flame-bot is tall!

[janegray]

I love this art SO MUCH. I wish Sarah Stone drew all the facial expression forever!

[dustbunny105]

I love the look on Swindle's face when it hits him that he's running on Starscream's word.

[deh_tommy]

Thanks for posting this issue. I really like Mairghread Scott's work on Transformers (so much so that her mini-series is why I bought the Windblade action figure).

Fun fact: she's now writing for Transformers: Robots in Disguise (the new series on Cartoon Network, not the comic).