Robots In
Disguise.
While The Savage Dragon and Gold Digger are relatively niche, I don't think I have to introduce The Transformers.
Especially
not after the four Bay movies and the fact it's a 31
year old fran...
...I
do ?
Oh,
alright then.
Here you go, look at this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF463RT5tWc
and browse
this http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page I'll wait.
Okay,
okay.
The
transformers chronicle the struggles of the heroic Autobots to destroy the evil Decepticons. (
ahem )
They are
living robots, who can reconfigure their shapes in to alt modes and truly
become robots in disguise. ( Yeah
that sounds like marketing copy doesn't
it ? )
Anyway
in 1984 Hasbro repurposed a bunch of Takara
toys and turned them in to The Transformers and
the franchise has never ever
been away since then.
It might
have diminished a bit since the
juggernaut of G1 in the
1980's but the movies for all their faults, ( and
there are many ) have brought them back to the forefront,
The
cartoon, original 1986 animated movie
and the four live action movies might be the most well known iterations of the Transformers, but
there have also been comics.
So much
comics.
From
the 92
Marvel US comics,
To
the 332 Marvel UK comics,
To the roughly
60 Dreamwave comics.
After Dreamwave went bankrupt in 2004,
IDW got the licence,
and that is where we come in.
IDW has had
the licence for a decade now and they have released more Transformers comics then
anybody else, excluding Marvel UK, who had a
weekly schedule.
IDW has
had some heights and some lows and
quite a lot of mediocrity as well.
And this
is the series we will be looking at, from start to finish.
Sadly this is the
series I have the most gaps in. I am missing several mini series and a chunk
of the 2009 ongoing series.
The IDW
series chronology is also a tad ...confused.
It was
first released as a series of inter connected
mini series and one shots.
Before being turned in to a new
reader friendly entry point, maxi series.
Things
didn't quite turn out like that, but we will discuss that when we
get there.
These comics will be reviewed in the order they were released, so Infiltration comes first.
If I
were to review them chronologically, things would become ...confusing very fast.
I look forward to this too. I read all the IDW stuff up to the end of ALL HAIL MEGATRON. Actually I think I may have read the first issue of the ongoing that came after that, but no further. When Simon Furman was kicked aside and they started going in other directions from the stuff he'd been laying out, I lost interest.
ReplyDeleteI wasn't much of a fan of AHM either. I kept reading mostly because Maximum Dinobots and Last Stand Of The Wreckers managed to tide me over.
DeleteAHM was such an oddly paced series, it ignored the main -ation continuity for 6 issues and then all of a sudden crammed everything in.
The 2009 ongoing wasn't much better to be honest.
And because I wavered so much, I have gaps in my collection.
Mostly from the ongoing.
And I am missing 3 mini series, Ironhide,
Bumblebee,
and the first Drift.
Hopefully by the time we get there, I will have filled those gaps up.