"Pretender to the Throne!" the Transformers#40 (May 1988) with credits to Bob Budiansky (script), Jose Delbo (pencils), Dave Hunt (inks), Nel Yomtov (colors), Bill Oakley (letters), and Don Daley (editor)
So we end the look back at the comics for right now, and with the first Transformers comic I ever bought, plus the first one I saw advertised on TV.
Say, remember Optimus Prime? And Ethan Zachery?
Well, Optimus is alive! Sort of! Ethan keep a backup of Prime's brain and uses it to play video games. Prime thinks and talks but he is convinced he is a very smart computer program, nothing more.
Ethan tries calling Buster but gets Sparkplug instead. He also gets Sparkplug's full opinion on all transformers up to this point, and TLDR-not a fan.
Luckily for them, Spike has a tap on his dad's phone and hears the news. Optimistic, he, Goldbug and Brainstorm head back to Earth to figure out if Ethan is on the level.
The guys are convinced but Prime isn't. Figuring a mission might snap him out of it, they have Prime infiltrate a Decepticon computer, where he finds files on something called 'pretender shells'. Prime gets the info back to the 'bots but his theft is noticed.
The Decepticon Pretenders attack, but they are driven back by the Autobot Pretenders. Prime is still convinced he is a program though.
Interesting change to the status quo, and the first time Optimus gets brought back from the dead.
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