1986 (DW)

August
"The All Too Brief Reign of Rodimus Prime" - For hundreds of years, Hot Rod has dwelled in a prison with other captured Autobots. But as Unicron mounts what looks to be a final attack on Cybertron, Megatron grants Hot Rod freedom (along with the Matrix). Hot Rod instinctively knows how to harness the power of the Matrix to destroy Cybertron's greatest threat. His triumph is short lived...