Transformers Uk Comics Download

There have been four main publishers of the comic book series bearing the name Transformers based on the toy lines of the same name. The first series was produced by Marvel Comics from 1984 to 1991, which ran for 80 issues and produced four spin-off miniseries. This was followed by a second volume titled Transformers: Generation 2, which ran for 12 issues starting in 1993. The second major series was produced by Dreamwave Productions from 2002 to 2004 with multiple limited series as well, and within multiple story continuities, until the company became bankrupt in 2005. The third and fourth series have been published by IDW Publishing with the third series starting with an issue #0 in October 2005 and a regular series starting in January 2006 to November 2018. The fourth series started in March 2019 with issue #1 and concluded in June 2022. There are also several limited series being produced by IDW as well. Skybound Entertainment began publishing Transformers comics starting in June 2023, kicking off the Energon Universe. In addition to these four main publishers, there have also been several other smaller publishers with varying degrees of success.

The sister title in the UK, this series ran for 332 issues,[17] as well as spawning 7 annuals and 28 specials.[18] It was a weekly publication that spliced original stories into the continuity of the reprinted US issues, and was mostly written by Simon Furman. At the start, it had a more serious science fiction approach. Because of the weekly approach, the UK comic was able to flesh out characters and ideas more; in the US comic, the Aerialbots and Stunticons are first shown having just been built and being given life by the Creation Matrix program, whereas the UK comic fleshed it out more and showed the two teams as being created out of new technology created by Shockwave after scanning Buster Witwicky while he had the Matrix downloaded into his brain. Furman also tried to maintain continuity with The Transformers: The Movie, and wrote several stories set in the future after the movie's ending, as well as bringing characters from the future (i.e. Galvatron) into the present day. Due to his epic and mythological approach, he was highly praised and succeeded Bob Budiansky on the US title at issue 56. The mythic tone continued to influence Furman's work on the Dreamwave and IDW comics.

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The story was hampered by continuity issues (though the storyline was only referred to in the pages of the Transformers comics, as G.I. Joe writer Larry Hama opted to ignore the mini-series), and the absence of several key characters from both franchises, including Cobra Commander, Optimus Prime, and Megatron, as the three characters were presumed dead at the time of the mini-series' publication. The story featured Bumblebee being destroyed by G.I. Joe forces and rebuilt as Goldbug. This plot point was ignored in the UK comic, where the story was not reprinted until much later in the comic's run, and resulted in an alternate story being conceived to change the character into his "Goldbug" persona.

In early 2002, Dreamwave Productions acquired the Transformers comics license and went on to produce a highly successful return of Transformers to the comic world. They started with a limited series focusing on the Generation 1 characters and a monthly series dedicated to Transformers: Armada. The G1 stories were not bound by the previous Marvel stories nor the animated series. Dreamwave produced a large amount of material, but would go bankrupt and lose the Transformers license in early 2005.

The first pages of issue one and the last pages of issue three feature a mini-comic of the human character Alexis studying the history of the Transformers. The comic was set sometime between the events of the Transformers: Armada and Transformers: Energon Dreamwave comics.

The first issue of Stormbringer contains the number 7 on the UPC, continuing from Infiltration' numbering, meaning that despite being sold as mini-series, the G1 comics by Furman are essentially being considered by IDW as a single comic series. This also is continued in Escalation which starts at #10 on the UPC.

The previous official Transformers convention had comics printed as merchandise. The comics included Tales from the Beast Wars (2 issues), Transformers: The Wreckers (3 issues) and Transformers: Universe (3 issues).

In spring[when?] 1999, new publisher Benchpress Comics announced they acquired the rights to produce new G.I. Joe and Transformers comics. The plan was to release two Transformers monthly series, one would feature the Generation 1 cast of characters and a second title would focus on Beast Wars. Benchpress went bankrupt before a single issue was published.

Devil's Due Publishing experienced success with their revived G.I Joe series under license by Hasbro. Both companies produced their own six-issue mini-series detailing a crossover between the two with permission from Hasbro, but Dreamwave had the exclusive license to produce Transformers comics, while Devil's Due had the exclusive license to G.I. Joe; hence the two different miniseries from both companies with two different ideas behind each company's respective franchise. A second series followed in late 2004, followed by a third in 2005, and a fourth in 2006.

According to writer Seeley, the plot of Black Horizon is the one he initially wanted to use for The Art of War, but was turned down by Hasbro, leading to the use of a re-imagined Serpentor instead. The series' format was also changed from four regular issues to two double-sized issues, as Hasbro wanted to avoid competition with the 2007 Movie tie-in comics.[59]

Panini Comics published a Transformers: Armada comic in the United Kingdom in 2003, aiming at younger readers. The series lasted nine issues. It was written by Simon Furman. The comics included backing stories called "Tales of the Mini-Cons" which spotlighted those particular characters.[60]

A mini-comic that was packaged with various series of toys, and printed in various languages. The comics told small side stories relating to the premise of the associated toyline and exist in their own continuities.

I've been reading comics long enough to know that there are good storylines and bad storylines and you shouldn't judge a comic book by the first storyline you read. My question is whether or not I should even bother to continue? I've been Transformer fan since 1984. If Spotlight Megatron is an average storyline for the comic book, then please let me know so I can avoid buying the rest of it. If you can tell me it's not the best work, then there's hope for the rest of the series.

There's a really cool blog retrospective series called Revisitation that's been going on for IDW's Transformers comics by Stuart Webb, where every week he goes through each issue in their original publishing order. This year he finally reached Phase 2, so I figured it would be a good time to share this for anyone who's looking for a weekly MTMTE/RiD retrospective.

Despite being a few years younger then yourself, I got into Marvel continuity much the same way, owning so few issues at the time they came out that I could count them on one hand (10-12, Headmasters 2, and 56), until I found #78 on one of my last BSA camping trips on Kelly's Island in Lake Erie (incidentally, could Animated Dinobot Island be loosely based on that real location? It has a huge glacial gorge not unlike that volcanic crater. Sorry, I haven't gotten around to reading the Allspark Alminac yet, shame on me...). Before that, I had the attitude that I just plain didn't read comics, but would occasionally check in to see what was going on in that universe, like many casual soap opera fans. "Savage Circle", however, made me realize that I'd been foolish to ignore this whole other universe in favor of blurry memories of the cartoon that I only saw about 2/3 of anyway, and I decided right then and there that I'd follow this continuity from now on, eager to see where these Furman and Wildman guys would take it next!

It had actually been on the racks a while, so I only had to wait a week and a half to find out.

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In addition to the news in #79's letters page crushing that newfound enthusiasm, I read that issue when I did to try and cheer myself up immediately after the visitation for the first death in my family: the grandma whose house I used to go to every weekend. I was 11, and my whole damn childhood just died in the space of 48 hours. '91 was one hell of a year.

And thus began, that summer, my great back issue hunt, parallel to yours. #39-60 in general took a few years (not sure if I knew how the Underbase Saga ended until after G2 came and went), but by the end of '91, I'd slammed a good 6 years of Marvel continuity into my brain in as many months, cementing my loyalty to it over the cartoon.

I used to think this made me an oddball amongst comic loyalists who must've followed it from the beginning, but your story makes me think that maybe reading the whole shebang in a short time after the show had been cancelled a few years makes that loyalty the strongest. When I rented TFTM in '92 for the first time since '88, the shuttle attack left me twice as shocked as when I saw it in the theater, simply because Ratchet's head was all screwed up: the REAL Ratchet, who'd gone through the wringer in a universe that forced him to suicidally go one-on-one against Megatron as often as Optimus, did not have a white helmet and black boomerang, but a red helmet and white boomerang. I mean, I'll always love the cartoon, but when the comics filled the void left by its cancellation deprived me of it for 6 years, certain elements of it were rendered wrong in my mind.

Incidentally, as much as I wanted Dreamwave to succeed, the moment I saw that their G1 book depicted Ratchet with a cartoon-accurate head, I knew they were headed for calamity.

Sunbow's continuity may have had a more epic scope in certain ways, and it may have fleshed out most of the characters from the first 3 years a lot better, but Marvel made MY TF continuity, and no matter how many phases HasTak go through in which they'd just as soon ignore it (though they've thrown us some lovely bones with Straxus and Thunderwing lately) I will fight to keep its memory alive as best as I can, even if my efforts only amount to the tiniest fraction of what you've done on this blog.