Duke is a satisfying and surprising reinvention of G.I. Joe for the new Energon Universe

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There was a memorable moment in November's Transformers #2 (we wrote about it here) where Decepticon Starscream, dogfighting with a US Air Force fighter jet, changes into his robot form, forces his opponents to eject from their plane, and then claps his metal hands together, gleefully splatting one of the humans in front of the other. It was grimly funny and seemed to exist purely to illustrate just how evil the Decepticons really are. 

In Duke #1 (written by Joshua Williamson, drawn by Tom Reilly and colored by Jordie Bellaire), it becomes clear that there was more to that scene than we initially realised. The surviving pilot is none other than Conrad "Duke" Hauser, a legendary hero from the world of G.I. Joe. He's been left traumatised by the encounter and now he has a lot of questions...

We pick up with Duke six months after the incident. Rattled by what happened to him and on an enforced "vacation" from the Army, he has become obsessed with discovering the truth about what he encountered. This leads him to a meeting with Dr Adele Burkhart, a disgraced scientist who has stumbled onto what she describes as a "high-tech arms race," which in turn leads him to the mysterious M.A.R.S. Industries. 

Joe fans will immediately recognise that as the name of the manufacturer that will eventually supply terrorist organisation Cobra with their weapons - and indeed when Duke breaks into their facilities he sees tanks, choppers, submersibles, and a whole army's-worth of deadly-looking wargear in the process of being manufactured. We also get a brief cameo from the villainous Destro.  

Duke returns to Dr Burkhart to find her mortally wounded by an unknown assassin. As they're talking, armed police burst in and shoot up the room