>So, I’ll just get right to it. IDW’s re-imagining of the classic G1 Transformers mythos is pretty interesting. From what I’ve read of this series, they’ve taken elements from the old 80s comic, the 80s cartoon, ideas from the 90s Beast Wars cartoon (bleh), and mixed it in with a plethora of fresh ideas and made a pretty great story with these giant transforming robots that we’ve all grown to love or hate. Last week, IDW released a recap issue called, The Transformers Continuum (TTC), which lists every major plot point of the series since they acquired the rights to the comics from Dreamwave Productions back in 2005. Since that time, one could say that this incarnation of The Transformers is what Marvel’s Ultimate line of comics is to the regular run of Marvel Comics… What I mean to say, is that this series was created with a new generation in mind, but it doesn’t alienate older readers. Optimus Prime is still the leader of the Autobots and Megatron still leads the Decepticons. Most of the transformers remain associated with whatever allegiance they were apart of in previous media. But what is different here is just like how the Ultimate Marvel comics are different from the regular Marvel Comics. This series has all the information it needs on all the original characters and it takes into account of all the retcons that they have gone through over the years… All the plotpoints and plotholes… All the relationships, friends and enemies… The series can and has established everything about these characters on the first swing. And what TTC does with this information gives us a complete look over this revised history.

We learn of the origin of Megatron, and how he was once a noble robot. We learn of his slave origins and his rise to power, eventually leading to him overthrowing the Autobot leader of that time, Sentinel Prime. With the defeat of Sentinel Prime, there became a split in the Transformer populace, those who followed Megatron became known as Decepticons and those who were not in favor of Megatron’s more aggressive ideals remained Autobots. Eventually leading to the rise of Optimus Prime as the leader of the Autobots. We learn about the Cybertron (Transformer home world) war and what eventually led the war to come to Earth. The comic shows us that apparently, Optimus Prime tends to get beaten within a inch of his life by Megatron quite often. We also see the rise of Galvatron. Which is a fun subject, because in some media, Megatron is rebuilt into Galvatron, but in other media they are two separate entities. In this comic, they are separate. We also see an interesting take on the Witwicky family. Generally a Witwicky tends to be a primary human character that associates with the Autobots in most of the Transformer media, including the two live-action movies that have been released. In this series, Spike Witwicky isn’t really pro-Autobot… In fact, he seems to just be Anti-Transformer in general.

Anyway, the issue was really informative and really helps bring anyone up to speed who is interested in this weeks release of The Transformers ongoing series. Starting at Number 1, The Transformers comics will no long be various sets of miniseries and one-shots. I’m pretty excited about the whole thing and I can’t wait to see what’s going to happen next. See ya.

-Fleet

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