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Lockdown's captives are revolting.

Locked In!

On board his ship, Lockdown gloats to his captives, who will soon be turned in for the bounties on their heads. However, the bounty hunter suddenly realises that one captive, Sojex, has escaped. In the confusion, one prisoner is able to throttle Lockdown through the bars of his cage, but gets electrocuted for his efforts. Nevertheless, Sojex now has control of the entire ship, and she reveals that she intended to be captured, so that she could exact revenge for Lockdown claiming the bounty on the Coseem crime gang's leader. She invites the mercenary to confront her in the ship's control room, and Lockdown has his troops stand down, so that he can face her alone.

Making his way through the craft, Lockdown easily deals with mounted guns, crushing walls and saw blades – Sojex may control the security systems, he was the one who installed them in the first place. However, Lockdown is caught unaware by a scraplet, tiny creatures that drain a victim's electrical energy and use it to multiply. As a growing swarm of scraplets covers the mercenary, Sojex begins to celebrate...

...only to have Lockdown burst into the control room! The bounty hunter used his holographic systems, still synced with the ship, to manipulate the CCTV, letting Sojex watch a fake Lockdown whilst he dealt with the scraplets using an Earth liquid. Sojex pulls a gun on Lockdown, but he dodges and hits a button, electrocuting the command chair and knocking his assailant unconscious. The mercenary promptly locks Sojex into a prison pod, and launches her back to the Coseem crime gang, who will not be best pleased with her failure.

Some time later, Lockdown receives a transmission from mysterious individuals. They have a job for him – on Earth...

Featured characters

(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)

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Notes

  • This issue appears to be the first written with knowledge of the plot of Age of Extinction, with the end of the story actually leading into the film in a meaningful way.
  • Several panels of Lockdown are very obviously traced from film screenshots and stock art.

Errors

Contents

Articles and features

  • The Lowdown on... Hound – Bio and facts on Hound.
  • Massive Movie Quiz – Quiz on Age of Extinction.
  • Grimlock VS Scorn – Bios and stats for Grimlock and Scorn.
  • Crosshairs' Conundrums – Solve puzzles to prove yourself to Crosshairs.
  • Poster – Pull-out poster featuring Lockdown and the Autobots.
  • Are You... Battle Ready? – Find out which Age of Extinction Autobot you're most like.
  • The Sprint for Cybertron – Board game, in which the Autobots must race back to Cybertron to repel an alien invasion.
  • Lockdown's Letterbox – Lockdown and Crosshairs remark on readers' artwork.
  • Competition – Win a Limited Edition copy of Transformers: Prime Season 2 Volume 2, including a Megatron Returns book.
  • Drift's Wordsearch! – Find words relating to this issue's comic strip.
  • Trouble and Strafe! – Solve a maze to help Bumblebee feed a hungry Strafe!
  • Competition – Win a bundle of Rescue Bots books from Autumn Publishing by assembling and photographing a papercraft Heatwave.

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Notes

  • In further evidence that the magazine staff have now seen the film, Crosshairs' dialogue on activity pages has dropped the inexplicable cowboy accent of previous issues for a screen-accurate London one.

Errors

  • The movie quiz asks who off-screen character Snarl is, despite every other question being about the film itself.

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