ok, i was at borders books in longbeach and i read a TF comic unlike any i have ever read. Megatron was dead, they had lost the matrix and Hot Rod is a total dink. It was vary strange and vary good, with Spike as an Army commander or something. Heres my problem... I FORGOT THE NAME!!! and TF wiki has nothing about it. either i went insane and fabricated it or its a rare gem. help me out here guys, what is this comic called. more details will be given if asked.
Megatron's not dead. he's in a repair chamber making slow healing progress. Hotrod didn't just take off because he's a loser. Hotrod over heard some autobots talk about the matrix being lost to the decepticons. So hotrod stole ultra magnus space ship. so he could hunt down the matrix & bring it back to the autobots. Since there's a MP Rodimus Prime toy coming out in december 2010. Hasbro will most likely have hotrod power up into rodimus prime to captialize on the MP Rodimus Prime toy. when ever there is a newer mold MP TF toy comming out. it always stars in the DW/IDW comics. Spike only advanced that high in the Army because his dad has connections.
And also because he went and took down Megatron himself. Plus he's added one of the Constructicons and Ravage to that score by now.