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The Transformers (UK) #238
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"Survival Run"
Publisher Marvel Comics
First published 30th September 1989
Cover date 7th October 1989
Writer Simon Furman
Art Lee Sullivan
Letterer Glib
Cover Andrew Wildman
Continuity Marvel Comics continuity

Carnivac tries to run for his survival...

Contents

Synopsis

In the Mexican desert, Carnivac staggers on amidst heavy heat but collapses as his circuits start to fuse. He tries to carry on as his mind suddenly flashes back to two hours ago:

Carnivac manages to wound Bludgeon but the other Mayhems advance on him. Then a blast hits Stranglehold as US army troops arrive. They were sent to deal with a mechanical dog, not six giants and are rapidly overwhelmed. Carnivac uses the distraction to escape...

However, even now, the human soldiers' death screams ring in his ears. He sees a town on the horizon and crawls towards it.

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"You know a threesome makes sense. Don't you?"

In Dallas, the man who previously met Carnivac now tells the other Survivors how their fellow is in trouble. Catilla realises that the Decepticons have come for them and urges the others to help, but Springer is adamant that Carnivac forfeited protection when the others ran off. Catilla is disgusted at this and heads off to help. Springer turns to ask the other Autobots if he is right.

In the Mexican town, Carnivac has discovered Needlenose and is subduing him, telling him the Mayhem Attack Squad should not have split up as it makes them easy to pick off one by one. However, Octopunch has also arrived and threatens a group of humans unless Carnivac releases Needlenose and comes out of his Pretender shell. Carnivac still feels guilty about leaving one group of humans and so complies.

Octopunch can't believe that a Decepticon would do such a thing and blasts Carnivac down. He advances and raises his trident, declaring that Carnivac is weak and deserves to die!

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

Quotes

Notes

Artwork and technical errors

  • In the last panel of page four, Broadside, Inferno and Skids are in a line up with their heads so close together they would have had to contract their bodies to line up like that.

Continuity errors

Continuity notes

  • The Survivors storyline would eventually tie into the alternate continuity of the Earthforce storyline. It's not clear where one draws the line between the main storyline and this portion of the Earthforce branch.
  • Needlenose's fate at the end of this issue is unclear but he appears next in "Cry Wolf!". If the Earthforce continuity branch takes place between this story and then, Needlenose's next appearance is in "Bird of Prey!".
  • The Mexican town is unnamed here but identified as Los Gravos in "A Savage Place!"

Real-life references

Other trivia

Back-up material

Foreign Localization

Swedish

  • Title: "Överlevnadsträning" ("Survival Run")

Covers (1)

  • Issue #238 cover: Carnivac is surrounded by Mayhems, by Andy Wildman.

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