#action man programme

[askvectorprime]

Now it makes sense.

Dear Clarification Connoisseur,

I'm glad you agree! Mr. McFeely is an excellent biographer—it's truly tragic that his counterpart who served in the Action Man Programme was killed by the forces of Doctor X.

[askvectorprime]

Did the revolutionaries reunite after the end of IDW1?

Dear Revolutionary Reader,

That unlikely team of heroes did indeed have further adventures following Earth's close encounter with Unicron. In fact, recognizing the important role they had played in combating the Iron Ring, the group was formalized as the Special Threats Allied Response Team, an official collaboration between G.I. Joe and the Action Man Programme—although I gather the team themselves still prefer the name "Revolutionaries"!

Thanks to a wholly unlikely series of events, one of the team’s earliest escapades involved none other than their fallen comrade Kup! In Kalistan, the Count van Rani had begun experimenting upon the Talisman simulacrum that had been left in his Iron Castle by the late wizard Merklynn—or rather Garrison Kreiger, as he was known at the time. Seeking to learn more about the device, the “Iron Klaw” recruited a number of experts in the arcane—the Cobra mystic Crystal Ball, Lady Shazraella of Microspace, the stranded Prysmosian warlock Falkama, and the Dire Wraith sorcerer known as “Caleb Awan”—and tasked them with summoning Kup’s spirit from beyond the veil, believing the Autobot’s extensive adventures with the Talisman could provide unique insight. 

Using a mystical artefact known as a Ouija board, the group successfully dragged the elderly Autobot back into the world of the living, but Kup refused to cooperate, instead proceeding to cause gleeful ghostly havoc around the Iron Castle. This chaotic “haunting” drove his villainous hosts away from the fortress, which in turn drew the attention of the Revolutionaries, who infiltrated the castle only to find themselves in an unexpected reunion with their deceased friend. Believing their time with him to be short, Ian, Ayana and Garrison made ready to say their goodbyes, but—stubborn as ever!—the spectral Kup informed them he had no plans to go anywhere.

As it happened, Kup’s final remains had been transported to the Buenos Aires Onyx facility prior to Cybertron’s destruction—in particular his largely-intact head. With a renewed sense of purpose, Blackrock set about reconstituting Kup’s cranium, combining the late Wheeljack’s reverse frequency wave technique with the skills of another practitioner of the mystic arts: amateur magician Tankor. Kup’s spirit was able to inhabit and animate his restored head, although as you can imagine, becoming a talking head was not quite the new lease on life he was hoping for. Before long, however, Garrison would use his own body as a template to reengineer Kup into a pseudo Titan Master, able to transform from head into diminutive robot form. Kup would in fact be only the first of a whole new generation of Headmasters—but that, my friends, is a story for another day.