Reading all the original 80s Transformers comics in order, get your engines ready, homosexuals
Time for some CLASSIC TRANSFORMERS COMICS, feat. Ratchet
This is the issue the following panels are from:
ALRIGHT so the setup seems to be that Ratchet accidentally winds up crashing a camping trip/party in the woods
right away we have Ratchet learning about wood as a fuel, which evidently fascinated him, and a mention of PARTY AMBULANCE, possibly the first in text Party Ambulance reference????, which bodes extremely well
he shows the teenagers his alt mode and they recover from their initial shock pretty quickly and decide it’s really fucking cool that this giant space robot man can turn into cars and shit, so they invite him to hang out and Ratchet immediately hones in on the weenies roasting over the fire and decides to teach them a totally unhelpful Cybertronian method for weenie roasting which is just so good honestly (one of the teenagers is like “yeah we don’t have built in blow torches but cool” lmao)
then shit quickly goes south when one of the teenagers, one of the Witwicky kids, starts freaking out and has to be taken to the hospital
after which Ratchet has a brief despair moment as he finds all the other Autobots in stasis, strung up by their legs upside down in some kind of cargo bay type area ????? and Optimus’ decapitated head tells him that he has to train up and keep the fight going after Ratchet dramatically states he is a medic and not a warrior and it’s very cheesy but also I am emotionally engaged 100%
it’s very angsty, love me some Ratchet character moments tbh
then it ends with Megatron finding him and interrogating him and instead of being scary it’s kinda homoerotic in a weird way idk I’m into it though
anyway this issue was great, might actually make this a thought out series in which I go over these old comics if anyone’s interested, more effort will go into this in the future I promise lmao













