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C Ov E R   AART & COLORS BY

BRIAN ROOd

C Ov E R   R IART BY 

CARLOS MAGNO

COLORS BY ABuRTOv ANd GRAPHIkSLAvA

I S S U E T W O C O V E R C H E C K L I S T :

Special thanks to Hasbro’s Aaron Archer, Michael Kelly, Amie Lozanski, Val Roca,Ed Lane, Michael Provost, Erin Hillman, Samantha Lomow, and Michael Verrecchiafor their invaluable assistance.

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TRANSFORMERS: RISING STORM #2. MARCH 2011. FIRST PRINTING. HASBRO and its logo, TRANSFORMERS, and all related characters are trademarks of Hasbroand are used with permission. © 2011 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved. © 2011 Paramount Pictures Corporation. All Rights Reserved. TM & ® denote U.S. Trademarks.Hasbro Canada, Longueuil, QC, Canada J4G 1G2. General Motors trademarks used under license to Hasbro, Inc. IDW Publishing, a division of Idea and Design Works,LLC. Editorial offices: 5080 Santa Fe St., San Diego, CA 92109. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental. With the exception of artwork usedfor review purposes, none of the contents of this publication may be reprinted without the permission of Idea and Design Works, LLC. Printed in Korea.

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R I S I N G   S T O R M   # 2

STORY BY

JOHN BARBER

ART BY

CARLOS MAGNO

COLORS BY 

ABuRTOv ANd GRAPHIkSLAvA

LETTERS BY

CHRIS MOWRY

ASSISTANT EdITOR

CARLOS GuZMAN

EdITOR

ANdY SCHMIdT

Ted Adams, CEO & PublisherGreg Goldstein, Chief Operating OfficerRobbie Robbins, EVP/Sr. Graphic ArtistChris Ryall, Chief Creative OfficerMatthew Ruzicka, CPA, Chief Financial OfficerAlan Payne, VP of Sales

After killing two Autobots and

destroying a Chinese oil refinery,

Shockwave sends his henchman,

Astrotrain, to a secluded forest to

build… something. But a data-stor-

age “brain-unit” malfunctions and

gains sentience, escaping into the

woods and making his way to

Philadelphia. There he comes face-

to-face with Bumblebee, an Autobot

whose vocal processor was dam-

aged in battle, and his friend Sam

Witwicky, reluctant caretaker of

the tiny Cybertronian, Wheelie.

Meanwhile, Autobot leader Optimus

Prime works with the human NEST

squad to track down rogue

Cybertronian technology. They

learn that Starscream has been

trading Transformer-tech to

humans. As Prime and his team try

to track down Starscream, it’s

Shockwave who finds him first…

and violently persuades him to go

after the brain-unit.

But who is Shockwave—and how

did he get to Earth…?

THE STORY SO FAR:

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