What Happened to Ironhide
The issue begins with an event that transpired 4 million years ago on Cybertron. The Autobots were trying to stop a team of Decepticons from delivering a shipment of energon which would have meant that part of Cybertron would belong to the Decepticons. In the middle of the battle, Optimus seemingly goes on his own to stop the shipment but is ambushed by Soundwave and Rumble. Luckily, Ironhide comes to his aid and with his help he manages to arrest the 5 Decepticons delivering the shipment. They celebrate later that night and while some bots want Prime to give a speech, he refuses because he believes the Autobots should relax and let off steam and also says that he feels the war will last a long time because they are fighting a philosophy and that can't be defeated. He then says that it can be changed, but he doesn't know how to do that and until someone figures out how, they're just going to have to keep fighting and winning battles. Later, Ironhide finds a suspcious looking Autobot at the party and realizes that he's about to attack Optimus and gets in the way of his blast. Ironhide then wakes up and finds himself in a dark room and looks around wondering where everyone is while thanking the Autobots for fixing him. As he continues to search for them, he realizes that he's on Cybertron and is all alone and in a description, it says that this is Cybertron today. I personally really liked the issue. It shows how respected Ironhide was and how much he helped in the Autobots' cause. Optimus' speech about fighting an idea I felt was pretty interesting too. In a way, it's true even in our world. You can't defeat an idea but you can change it. But changing it isn't easy and no one really knows entirely how to do that. At the end, we're in for a surprise as we see that Ironhide is alive again but has somehow ended up back on Cybertron. How is he alive? How did he end up back on Cybertron? The Transformers Ironhide series will reveal the answers to these questions. I recommend any TF fan to pick this up. However, this isn't a good starting issue. You'll have to read the current mainstream Transformers comic series by IDW to understand how he died but this series will explain the mysteries of what has happened to him since.