

Joe operatives attempt to eavesdrop on the Autobot-Junkion negotiations with little success, they turn to ex-Decepticon Thundercracker for help. Soundwave warns Optimus that the Transformers' civil war destroyed the Junkion homeworld long ago and may have ulterior motives, but Wreck-Gar offers them a positron core, an extremely rare power source that could be used to save Arcee's comatose friend Sideswipe. Joe operatives destroying Junkion patriarch Wreck-Gar's body, Optimus agrees to meet further with Wreck-Gar and his consort Rum-Maj. Although the initial contact ends with G.I. In the present, the cheerful Junkions emerge from the spaceship, hoping to trade their technology for Earth's deposits of super-fuel Ore-13. Although the initial meeting goes poorly, Prowl convinces Jetfire that he and Pax genuinely want to help him investigate Hefter's death Jetfire reveals that no one ordered him to attack Pax. In the past, Pax arrests Jetfire and takes him to his old colleague Prowl, who agrees to help him investigate corruption within the system. New Cybertron Part 2: A Lonely Pillar on the Plain Optimus, the Torchbearers, Soundwave, Arcee, and Aileron await the spaceship's arrival at the Matterhorn, only for it to destroy the mountain range while landing. In the present day, Pax, now known as Optimus Prime, watches as an anti-Cybertronian protest on Earth turns violent against a cadre of Cybertronian colonists led by Aileron while meeting with the President of the United States, Pyra Magna, leader of the Torchbearers, arrives to report that a large unknown spaceship is approaching Earth. Pax's medic friend Ratchet examines Hefter's body and finds that his cause of death does not match official reports Pax also meets Ratchet's graduate student Jetfire, who attacks him and reveals he is a Decepticon. Pax attempts to confront the police officer in question, Outback, who pulls a gun on him and is summarily disarmed. New Cybertron Part 1: To Walk Among the Chosenįour million years ago on Cybertron, before the war, Orion Pax investigates a Decepticon named Hefter who died in police custody and wonders whether current leader Zeta Prime has fallen prey to the corruption that has plagued past Cybertronian Primes. The final issue was released on November 21, 2018, in the announcement of a reboot series for 2019. The first issue was released on Decemalongside Transformers: Lost Light as part of the Hasbro Reconstruction comic book line. The series is a direct continuation to The Transformers: Robots in Disguise, featuring Optimus Prime as the main protagonist, and is set in the Hasbro Comic Book Universe. It is published by IDW Publishing in collaboration with Hasbro. Optimus Prime is an American science fiction comic book series written by John Barber, with art by penciller Kei Zama and colorist Josh Burcham.
