Terror on Two Worlds!

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"Terror on Two Worlds!"
Publisher	IDW Publishing
First published	December 13, 2006
Cover date	December 2006
Writer	Bob Budiansky
Artist	Don Figueroa
Colorist	Josh Burcham
Letterer	Neil Uyetake
Editor	Chris Ryall
Designer	Neil Uyetake
Continuity	Cartoon continuity

Hot Rod and Kup encounter the Quintessons and Sharkticons while Ultra Magnus's group meets the Junkions.

Synopsis

Hot Rod is trapped in metallic seaweed and facing aggressive fish in the strange ocean. He retracts his hand for a saw blade and frees himself before rescuing Kup from a giant octopus. After repairing Kup, they travel for a bit before they are captured by a strange group of robots who lock them up in a cell. There they meet Kranix, who tells them about the Quintessons and Sharkticons of this planet, as well as the fact that Unicron destroyed his planet. Kranix is soon sentenced to death. As the Dinobots search for Kup and Hot Rod, they encounter Wheelie, who agrees to lead them to their friends.

Meanwhile, Ultra Magnus's crew crash lands on Junk while Unicron informs Galvatron that Ultra Magnus is on Junk and orders him to destroy Magnus and the Matrix. Galvatron's forces attack and blow up Magnus, allowing him to retrieve the Matrix, which he plans to use to enslave Unicron.

Hot Rod and Kup are sentenced to death and dropped in the Sharkticons' pool, but they use their speed to escape attack the Sharkticons. When things look grim, the Dinobots arrive with Wheelie and eliminate the remaining Sharkticons. Together they find the Quintessons' ship, which they take to Junk and save Ultra Magnus's crew from the Junkions. They make peace with the Junkions, who repair Magnus. Unfortunately he reports that Galvatron has the Matrix.

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Notes

Differences between the film and comic

• Hot Rod has some more exposition dialogue when fighting the fish in order to bring people who haven't been smart enough to read the recap on the first page up to speed.
• The "Beryllium Baloney" exchange between the Dinobots is cut short, Grimlock doesn't refer to himself as a king (here, or later in the issue) and doesn't join in the rhyming thanks to the "Me Grimlock say we're on our way!" being dropped.
• Grimlock encouraging the Sharkticons to start a revolution is gone. Instead, he and the Dinobots just kill them all.
• Springer's duel with Wreck-Gar is removed.
• When Scavenger and Shrapnel attack Daniel, Shrapnel is replaced with Long Haul, correcting an error in the film. (What with Shrapnel becoming a Sweep.)
• For obvious reasons, there is no song and dance on Junk.

Errors

• When Hot Rod tells Kup that "they've got more sharkticons than we have photon chargers!" the "they" is replaced with "we", which makes no sense.
• Daniel is drawn way too small on the last page — at that scale it's hard to imagine him having done any damage when he runs Scavenger down.

Other trivia

• Don Figueroa initially drew Wreck-Gar's TV playing a scene from Sesame Street. This was changed to a generic "ABCs TV" logo in the final version.^[1]

Covers (2)

• Regular Cover: Hot Rod and Kup vs. the Sharkticons by Don Figueroa and Josh Burcham
• Retailer Incentive: Uncolored sketch of regular cover

• 

  "At least we still have color!"

• 

  "All is lost!"

Reprints

Other than reprints of the full series

• N/A

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