Ratchet & Clank: Issue 2: Friends with Benefits

Ratchet & Clank: Issue 2: Friends with Benefits is the second issue of the Ratchet &amp; Clank comic series. It was released October 20th 2010.

Plot
At the end of the last issue, Ratchet and Clank were taken prisoners to Artemis Zogg's ship, who has transported Veldin, along with planets from Solana, Bogon, and Polaris, to his own "Artemis Galaxy".

Ratchet and Clank are introduced to Zogg and his assistant, Vorn Grablak. Zogg tells them that he admires them for defeating Dr. Nefarious, and saving the universe several times. However, he doesn't want them to interfere in his plans for the Artemis Galaxy. Instead, he chooses to lock them up in Vartax Detention Facility, but since he is a fan, he does give Ratchet his Omniwrench back. Before he leaves, he mentions Qwark and the "Helios Project", something brought up back in the first issue. Ratchet is mad about this, and vows to kill Qwark (again) for this. This scene hints of Zogg's past with Qwark, as well as his anger problems.

The duo are taken to Vartax Detention Vacility, greeted with a small cell (with a Courtney Gears poster). They plan on breaking out tonight, only to delay to three months. At the cafeteria, the duo are grabbing lunch, along with a Kerchu, and accidentally bump into General Glahm, an Agorian general. The general recognizes the duo from the Krell Canyon battle in A Crack in Time, and fights Ratchet. Warden Klink stops the fight, and punishes the duo by executing them by the airlock. During the walk there, Glahm reveals to Ratchet that the fight was a ruse in order to escape, and they discuss it while they walk. Meanwhile, back in the cell, Clank, along with a Space Pirate, manage to steal the key from one of the guards and break out. Back in the airlock, Ratchet and Glahm are about to be shot, when Glahm's back-up, Cronk and Zephyr, come to the rescue. Glahm is definitely pretty smart and articulate for an Agorian.

A big gunfight insues as the heroes shoot guard after guard, while Ratchet reaches to Clank. The Space Pirate riles up the other prisoners to fight the guards and allow for the escape. A rather interesting conversation occurs between Klink and Cronk and Zephyr, which suggests something big happened in Polaris in the two years Ratchet and Clank were missing, with the Warden referring to the robots as "traitors", and they knowing about him and Vorn. The heroes escape in Talwyn's ship, but Glahm stays behind in order to protect them. The heroes leave, not without leaving an explosion behind, and are headed to see Talwyn. Meanwhile, a frustrated Zogg punishes Klink by ejecting him into space, killing him, and instead of sending more warbots, he wants to lure the heroes to him, all while looking at Veldin.

Characters

 * Artemis Zogg
 * General Glahm
 * Warden Klink
 * Clank
 * Galactic President Qwark
 * Ratchet
 * Vorn Grablak
 * Cronk
 * Zephyr
 * Courtney Gears (cameo)

Weapons

 * OmniWrench Millennium 12
 * Blaster

Gadgets

 * Hoverboots

Species

 * Agorian


 * Lombax


 * Markazian


 * Robot


 * Kerchu


 * Space Pirates

Galaxies

 * Solana
 * Polaris

Buildings

 * Vartax Detention Vacility

Planets
None

Titles

 * Galactic President

Characters

 * Galactic President Qwark
 * Talwyn Apogee


 * Courtney Gears

Organizations

 * Galactic Rangers

Locations

 * Polaris
 * Vartax Detention Vacility