M.A.S.K.: Revolution 1

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***M.A.S.K.: Revolution 1*** is the first issue of the *M.A.S.K.: Mobile Armored Strike Kommand* series, and a tie-in to the *Revolution* event.

## Publisher's summary

*The origin of M.A.S.K.! Miles Mayhem’s decades long plans are finally coming to fruition, but will the revealed secrets he has hidden from Matt Trakker create a new enemy bent on Mayhem’s undoing? A special story tying directly into REVOLUTION!*

## Plot

Miles Mayhem reminisces over the creation of the Mobile Armored Strike Kommand, a black ops team designed to counter the threat of Transformers.

A year ago, nine candidates for Project Spectrum are assembled a secret facility. Because of their unique skillsets, the ten have been selected to create a team to deal with the ongoing threat that the Transformers pose to Earth.

The candidates are pushed to their mental and physical limits under the watchful eye of Mayhem and Doctor Armand Singh. Sly Rax and Vanessa Warfield impress Mayhem, but Matt Trakker—once Mayhem's biggest hope—disappoints him.

During the training, recruits William Evans and Marcia Watkins are the first to test the new masks by test-driving Jackhammer and Gator respectively. During the test, both of the mask interfaces malfunction, and the vehicles blow up, killing both Evans and Watkins.

Both Rax and Warfield make the cut for Mayhem's team, and during a final training mission, the rest of the recruits are given the task of moving through a speeding train car to reach the locomotive. They come across a train car filled with people, but the train car is made primarily of aluminum. In addition to magnesium and iron oxide present in the car, it creates thermite and a single spark threatens to blow the entire train.

While Trakker tries to save the people on board, Bruno Sheppard and the others realise they have no time and detach the affected carriage from the rest of the train. While the rest of the team is despondent at the loss of so many, Mayhem reveals to Warfield that they were in fact hard light holograms produced by a fine-tuned Eclipse mask.

With his team ready, Mayhem takes the newly assembled Mobile Armored Strike Kommand to rendezvous with Scarlett's G.I. Joe force.

## Appearances

**By type**

Characters

* Banks
* William Evans
* Julio Lopez
* Miles Mayhem
* Sly Rax
* Scarlett
* Bruno Sheppard
* Armand Singh/Dr. Mindbender
* Cornelius Trakker (Indirect mention only)
* Matt Trakker
* Brad Turner
* Vanessa Warfield
* Marcia Watkins

Locations

	+ Canada
		- Canadian Rockies
	+ United States of America

Organizations and titles

	+ MK-Ultra
* General
* G.I. Joe
* Mobile Armored Strike Kommand
* V.E.N.O.M.

Sentient species

* Transformer
	+ Cybertronian

Vehicles and vessels

* Gator
* Jackhammer
* Rhino
* Thunderhawk

Weapons and technology

	+ Eclipse
	+ Gulliver
	+ Spectrum
	+ Stiletto

Miscellanea

* Iron Oxide
* Magnesium
* Mercury Program
* Project Spectrum
* Technopathy
* Thermite

## Cover gallery

Subscription Cover A. Art by Dan SchoeningSubscription Sketch CoverRetailer Incentive Cover. Art by Ken Christianson

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 *M.A.S.K.: Revolution 1*