Survival Run
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| 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...
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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.
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
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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
- Additional Transformers story: "The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship!"
- Other strips: Action Force - "Beginnings... and Endings" and Combat Colin
Foreign Localization
Swedish
- Title: "Överlevnadsträning" ("Survival Run")
Covers (1)
- Issue #238 cover: Carnivac is surrounded by Mayhems, by Andy Wildman.
Issue #238 - Don't make me drool on you!
Reprints
- Transformers Annual 1992: the Dinobots on the rampage, by Jeff Anderson.
- Transformers Winter Special 1994: Optimus Prime mourns the dying Scorponok, by Stewart Johnson.
- Transformers: Way of the Warrior: Carnivac and Springer stand victorious over a Limbo nightmare creature, by Simon Coleby.
- Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection, Volume 17: Matrix Quest: Nightbeat and Prime's corpse by Makoto Ono and Geoff Senior.
Transformers Annual 1992 (Marvel Comics UK, 1992)
Winter Special 1994 (Marvel Comics UK, 1994)
Way of the Warrior (Titan Books, 2005)
The Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 17: Matrix Quest (Hachette Partworks, Ltd., 2018)
