IDW Ironhide #2 preview (spoilers)

[griffin]

Must be coming out this week, as a preview has been posted of Issue 2 of the Ironhide mini-series. And it is not the usual five pages - we get to check out the first seven pages of the comic! With TFs comics usually having 23 pages of story, they're revealing almost a third of this issue. A desperate attempt to get people into this new series, or necessary to reveal the danger that is stalking Ironhide?

http://www.previewsworld.com/public/...s=783&ai=95720

Also, we finally get to see a live Outback, albeit briefly (might feature more in the story later though). The last we saw of Outback was in the Kup Spotlight, as a corpse. Unfortunately for fans of the 'Australian' Transformer, the only way would see him in the IDW-verse is in flashback. And now we finally do.

So, any guesses or clues as to how Ironhide is up and about on Cybertron after being killed off on Earth?
Is it a clone, automatically activated after the real Ironhide is dead? Or was the one on Earth the clone? If either of them is a copy of the other, why was it necessary? And does the Swarm (from a previous IDW story) have anything to do with his mission to clone himself and remain dormant all this time?

[SMHFConvoy]

Looks pretty cool but I missed the first issue. May wait for a collection.

[i_amtrunks]

Interesting setup, considering what happened in the ongoing...

Wonder how they'll explain it (if they even try), and I bet the results of this miniseries puts the ongoing back at square 1...