Death's Head of Transformers UK fame is back! (spoiler alert)

For those fans of Death's Head, you might be interested to know that the classic version (eg not Death's Head II) has just made a reappearance in Marvel Comics.

The new series S.W.O.R.D. features a cameo appearance in issue 1 and a longer appearance previewed in issue 2 (but I can't find the image I saw last night but it included Death's Head's eye getting blasted in the eye in a way that reminded me of Mikaela and Wheelie.

S.W.O.R.D. is the Marvel Universe's equivalient of the Men In Black, a version of S.H.I.E.L.D. that deals with aliens.

Death's Head is presented in TF scale (not the human size of his later appearances following his run in with The Doctor) but I doubt Marvel will be able to sneak in references to the Transformers.

Might be worth a look, yes?

Well it's out and I saw it. It was a surprise I've gotta say :-)

Death's Head is actually set for a 5 issue story arc in S.W.O.R.D.

Death's Head II made an appearence a few months back in Captain Britain and MI13, apparently as a reservist of MI13.

I was just floored to read in the new Marvel Sword #1 comic that Death's Head of Transformers UK fame (Simon Furman) is back in the marvel universe, and was unsolicited. This news might have slipped past most Transfans. Not only is the bounty hunter back and alive, he's still recognisable as him (as opposed to the failed "reboot" in Planet Hulk). He's around until at least next issue, so here's hoping he'll be a regular.

Yeah, that bit of news was snuck into one of the non-tf sections of the board, and only had 70 views:
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=6345

Excuse my knowledge but i have no experience with the UK comic. Was Deaths head a transformer or just a bounty hunter. Was he a robot at all??

Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%27s_head

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Originally Posted by sideswipes brother

Excuse my knowledge but i have no experience with the UK comic. Was Deaths head a transformer or just a bounty hunter. Was he a robot at all??

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Death's Head was a non-transforming, non-Transformer robot from the future who was blown up to Cybertronian size and became a bounty hunter. He was then sent to 2007ish by The Doctor. (From Doctor Who. No, really.) Death's Head then timetravelled back to 1987 to hunt for Galvatron but was prematurely sent back to 2007 by Wreck-Gar. He then hunted Rodimus Prime, but Prime paid Death's Head more to hunt Cyclonus and Scourge instead. Death's head then defeated Unicron (with a bit of help) and travelled through time again. He met The Doctor again, who shrank him back down to human size using The Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator and sent him to 8162. Where he did lots of stuff with lots of people, none of it directly related to Transformers.

Death's Head II was originally Minion, a cyborg from 2020 who was an amalgamation of personalities owing to him sucking the skills out of a variety of people, but when he tried to do it to Death's Head, DH's personality became the dominant one. (Supposedly, although he stopped liking money and bounty hunting and became a hero instead. He didn't have anything to do with Transformers. Well... only very indirectly... like... he did some uncanonical stuff with Spider-Man just like Gears and Megatron did some uncanonical stuff with Spider-Man.)

Death's Head III is a cyborg from the 22nd century who allegedly precedes Death's Head (I). He didn't hang around with Transformers.

And there's even more time travel involved than just the bits I mentioned.

(Oh - and S.W.O.R.D. is an awesome comic - Kieron Gillen is a legend.)

More about Death's Head:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Death%27s_Head
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Death%27s_Head
http://marvel.wikia.com/Death%27s_Head_%28Lupex%29

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Originally Posted by Sky Shadow

Well... only very indirectly... like... he did some uncanonical stuff with Spider-Man just like Gears and Megatron did some uncanonical stuff with Spider-Man.

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They all regretted it the next morning...

:D