Contents
“The Greatest Gift of All!” -- 5 pages
- written by Simon Furman
- art by Staz
- black-and-white
- on Christmas Eve, Longtooth’s piece of the Matrix arrives on Earth, and Optimus Prime debates which one Autobot to use it and revive
- Optimus Prime considers reviving Red Alert, since the Autobots need a medic (following Ratchet’s apparent death in Transformers Vol. 1 #59)
- features the Rescue Patrol on Earth (they arrived in Transformers Vol. 1 #61)
- when a battle destroys a forest, Optimus Prime uses the Matrix fragment to heal it (which would make this as nice a story for Earth Day as for Christmas)
- the fifth and final U.K. Christmas story
- the final original U.K. story to tie into U.S. continuity (subsequent stories focus on the future chracters and the Earthforce contingent of characters)
“Skin Deep, Part 2″
- reprints the second third of Transformers Vol. 1 #59
Additional Images
Wraparound cover to Transformers U.K. Vol. 1 #250.
The first page of “The Greatest Gift of All!” from Transformers U.K. Vol. 1 #250.
See It in Context on the Continuity Pages:
Original Transformers Comics: 1989
More to come. Beginning in issue #213, the British comic changed its format so that each issue included a partial reprint of of a U.S. story and a new, British-exclusive story. However, the reprints were now… [more]
