Transformers: Mosaic #229 - "The Order To Leave"
Originally posted on August 20th, 2008
Story - Martin Fisher
Art - Derrick West
Colours - Gilbert Monsanto
Letters - Dstinct
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wada sez: Throughout the first two seasons of the cartoon, the Transformers on Earth would travel back to Cybertron using a space bridge. During the timeskip leading into The Transformers: The Movie, the Decepticons successfully gain total control of the planet, with Shockwave acting as leader on Megatron’s behalf. This strip is set during that timeskip. Iacon was the Autobots’ final stronghold, established in the very first episodes of the cartoon—in contrast to the comics, which used the name for an entire polity on the planet, the cartoon simply presented it as a single structure. This strip’s script makes lots of heavy-handed references to the fact that Prowl and Ironhide are amongst the swathe of old product brutally killed off in The Transformers: The Movie.