Demons!
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| This article is about the comic story. For the title character group, see Demon. |
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| "Demons!" | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||
| First published | 25th November 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Cover date | 2nd December 1989 | ||||||||||||
| Writer | Simon Furman | ||||||||||||
| Art | Jeff Anderson | ||||||||||||
| Letterer | Annie Halfacree | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Marvel Comics continuity (Marvel UK) | ||||||||||||
| Chronology | 1989 | ||||||||||||
How do the Autobots prove they didn't slaughter a group of Decepticons?
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Synopsis
The explosion in the Underworld has released creatures who have tasted for the first time in many millions of years. Now they want to taste more...
Seawatch has been caught alone by three unnamed Decepticons. They rough him up a bit, but then they are attacked by unseen creatures. Seawatch survives but is so terrifed his mind shuts down.
In the repair bay at Autobase, Emirate Xaaron details how all three Decepticons had their very life force sucked out of them, but, with Seawatch non-responsive, it is hard to devise a plan. He dispatches Grimlock, Jazz, and Bumblebee to investigate and find proof that the Autobots were not responsible, in order to prevent Decepticon reprisals.
Deep underground, the Autobots discuss whether to search discreetly or try luring the creatures to them, when they encounter the Decepticons Ruckus, Windsweeper, Sparkstalker, and Cindersaur. As a fight breaks out, Bumblebee steps back and wonders how to stop the Decepticons from sending more in reprisals. But that can only be done if they can find the culprits...
Two of the demons are not far away, standing right behind Bumblebee!
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
| Autobots | Decepticons | Others |
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Quotes
"Now - some folks say you should only pick on people your own size. But we're Decepticons..."
"We go out of our way to pick on people smaller than us!"
- —Two generic Decepticons showing why no-one will miss them
"Some-one or some-thing tore three vicious Decepticons apart before they could fire a shot! It sucked them dry, Fixit! There wasn't a trace of lifeforce left in them!"
- —Emirate Xaaron, sounding like he's not quite sure whether to be upset or not.
"Huh! Hate this sneaking about! Make big noise, bring the creature to us!"
"Smart move, Grimlock! That way we bring the entire Decepticon army down on us too!"
- —Grimlock coming up with a characteristically intellectual plan and Bumblebee being fed up being under his command again already
Notes
Artwork and technical errors
- TBD
Continuity errors
- TBD
Continuity notes
- It is unclear how much time has elapsed since the events of "Underworld!"
- This story takes place between the US stories "Skin Deep" and "Yesterday's Heroes!". However it was reprinted before them, and consequently pre-empted the resurrection of Grimlock, Jazz and Bumblebee, due to the US material being interrupted by reprints of old UK stories and thus throwing off attempts to make the two strips tie into one another.
Real-life references
- TBD
Other trivia
- TBD
Back-up material
- Additional Transformers story: "All the Familiar Faces!"
- Other strips: Action Force - "Law of the Jungle!" and Combat Colin
Foreign Localization
Swedish
- Title: "Demoner" ("Demons")
Cover
- Issue #246 cover: a Demon reflected in Seawatch's eye, by Stewart Johnson.
Issue #246
Generics
The three Decepticons that attack Seawatch are typical generics—they have no names or obvious alternate modes, and are dead within six panels.
They have presumably encountered Seawatch before; one even calls him by name.
Advertisements
- Gilbert the alien and the Sun-Pat peanut butter school survival kit mailaway offer
- Action Force Weapon Transport and Cobra Night Landing
- The Incredible Hulk Presents comic
- Spooky Wooky, one of the Fiendish Feet yoghurts and desserts (back cover)
Reprints
- Transformers: Aspects of Evil: Rodimus Prime and Unicron fight, by Stephen Baskerville. Cropped version of issue #254's cover.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection: Vol 19: Perchance to Dream: Megatron (from early IDW promo art), by Guido Guidi above a retro scene of the Battlechargers (from Marvel UK #255 cover), by Stephen Baskerville.
Aspects of Evil TPB
(Titan Books, 2005)
The Definitive G1 Collection Vol. 19
(IDW Publishing, 2017)
