Spin-offs during this period included The Transformers: Bumblebee #1–4 (2009–2010), The Transformers: Ironhide #1–4 (2010), The Transformers: Drift #1–4 (2010), The Transformers: Infestation #1–2 (2011) and The Transformers: Heart of Darkness #1–4 (2011); the last two of which, by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, set up the final arc of the Costa ongoing, leading into another "soft reboot" of sorts. As is common for children's magazines in the UK, each issue came with a free cover gift. #1 had dog tags featuring either Autobot or Decepticon logos, #2 had removable tattoos, #3 had a keyring, which would be either the Autobots or Decepticons logo, and #4 had a set of four badges. In 2017, a version of the Hearts of Steel story was retroactively folded into the main IDW universe via Revolutionaries; the first two stories listed here are also canon in the ongoing G1 continuity.

Optimus Prime - Tillbaka till jorden - a translation of issues #28-32 and #34-38 of The Transformers: Robots in Disguise and the Punishment mini-series. Bonus material consists of an afterword by Andrew Griffith.

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In Japan, the rights to produce comic material for this new Transformers line went to Kodansha, the publisher of several different monthly comic compilations and magazines for kids. 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.

Thunderwing was the most recent addition to a crew of dimension-traveling Heralds of Unicron. He was addicted to Dark Energon, and the prospect of an endless supply of angolmois energy was enough to convince him to join. He went to Aurex 402.24 Gamma with the other heralds when his home universe was destroyed. Ask Vector Prime, 19/09/2015 Dreamwave Armada comic A three-issue mini-series adaptation of the feature film, [21] with no continuity ties to the regular comic series. Differences to the animated feature include the original designs for the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and Ultra Magnus' original death at the hand of Scourge and his Sweeps. After a couple years' hiatus with the end of the original series, Marvel was once again tapped to produce the comic tie-in for Transformers: Generation 2 in the US, which actually started with a five-issue setup crossover in the still-ongoing G.I. Joe comics. But limping sales (and not much faith from Marvel's higher-ups out of the gate) meant the series only lasted a year before cancellation. And that was the end of Marvel's run of Transformers... except for a weird Avengers crossover miniseries co-produced with IDW Publishing over a decade later. This idea was later abandoned when it became apparent that to include the Transformers in the Marvel Universe would cause issues with both the Transformers title, and the other Marvel books (not to mention the rights issues that would later come up, like with ROM the Spaceknight).

A handful of Transformers are born with a natural affinity to the Creation Matrix. Though these special few are usually Autobots, Thunderwing was an exception. Thunderwing felt that the Matrix called to him, and believed that he would become the first Decepticon to possess it. Deadly Obsession And then, just before the end, something unexpected happened. The editorial in TFUK #330, published in December 1991, announced that the comic was going monthly. Not only that, but — for the first time in over a year — it would be publishing new UK stories. All of which meant that, contrary to expectations, Transformers would continue, outliving its US counterpart. Issue #333, we were told, would hit the stands in February 1992. In 1987, IPC had fenced off its comics division, renamed it Fleetway, and sold it to Robert Maxwell. Inspired by the success TFUK (and M.A.S.K., which it had inherited from IPC), Fleetway would go on to launch several licensed titles between 1987 and 1993, some successful ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Red Dwarf Smegazine, Thunderbirds, Sonic the Comic), some not ( Supernaturals, Ring Raiders, Toxic Crusaders). The Transformers toyline, spotlighting the Autobot Cars, Autobot Mini Vehicles, Decepticon Planes, and Mini-Cassettes.

Because TFUK had admitted a few years earlier that its stories were a mixture of American reprints and British originals, older readers would have realised that since the UK strips had stopped, the comic was now entirely reliant on imported material. In issue #319 (July 1991), a reader reported that the US comic had been cancelled and deduced that TFUK would soon follow suit. “Since Marvel US revealed that they would be canning Transformers in the States,” replied ‘Blaster’ [presumably editor Harry Papadopoulos — a longstanding TFUK convention being that editors or editorial assistants answered letters in the guise of Transformers], “we’ve received a great many letters from worried readers deeply concerned that [TFUK] faces imminent disaster… We have enough Yankee material to last at least until the end of the 1991. After that? You know what they say: ‘Never stop fighting until the fight is done.” The rivalry was heated but short-lived: in 1987, 2000AD would pull ahead, hitting a circulation peak of 112,000 in late 1988, while TFUK would suffer a gradual but irreversible decline in readership until its cancellation in January 1992, seven and a half years after its launch.Numerous issues and stories from this series would eventually be reprinted. Marvel UK themselves would reprint some stories in Transformers-The Complete Works Part 1 and Part 2, Plague of the Insecticons and The Transformers Universe Vol. One. [18] None of the invading Decepticons resemble the ten Decepticons later shown to compose Megatron's crew. Mass-market Transformers comics more or less took a hiatus in English-language markets until after the turn of the century, but Japan would see a brief resurgence in the late 90s. Following the success of their imported version of Beast Wars, Kodansha published serialized manga in their Comic Bom Bom monthly anthology book for the Japanese sequel series Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, and Beast Wars Metals (Takara's version of the latter half of Hasbro's Beast Wars franchise). But sales of all three series were low and getting lower all the time, and Takara took another break from mainstream Transformers comics for a few years. Salmon, Will (14 June 2023). "Skybound roll out a new shared Transformers and G.I. Joe universe - and it starts today!". gamesradar . Retrieved 10 September 2023. Action Force itself as a title that was totally separate from its US counterpart G.I. Joe (although the G.I. Joe stories would be reprinted in the Action Force comic, additionally the Action Force stories would see reprinting in a US title called G.I. Joe: European Missions) After 50 weekly issues, it changed to a monthly format which was canceled after 15 issues, and soon only G.I. Joe reprints (re-branded under the Action Force title) found themselves printed in issues of the Transformers UK comic book.

Part of the fifth wave of Generations Deluxe Class toys, Thunderwing's alternate mode is a fighter jet loosely based on an F-22 Raptor, with different wings but retaining the F-22's characteristic zigzag patterns sculpted on the hull. He transforms into a robot that looks like the original Thunderwing toy's Pretender shell. The nose of the jet can detach and become a separate aerial drone, while the two missile launchers can detach from the wings and become handheld weapons or clip together into one massive gun. The middle section of the sculpted missiles on the sides of the guns are also compatible with C joint accessories. Thunderwing's colors seem to be inspired by his color scheme in the latter end of the Marvel run, considering his green arms. There is also an homage to Don Figueroa's design in Stormbringer with Thunderwing's face and feet. Panel 5: A blue-chested, red-legged Optimus Prime is among the invading Decepticons! In the same panel, Optimus himself is colored entirely red and is missing his chest windows. Prime's thought "Our firepower - no match" is missing its punctuation. A few of the early issues were reprinted by Marvel in a digest sized magazine called The Transformers Comics Magazine that ran 10 issues from 1987 to 1988. [2] Marvel had also reprinted some of these early issues in 1985, as the Transformers Collected Comics which ran 2 issues. [3] [4] IDW published a robust series of ongoings, miniseries, one-shots and crossovers throughout the thirteen-year span of their original Generation 1-based continuity, which later grew to include other Hasbro-owned properties. A full list can be seen at IDW Publishing § G1 rebooted, but the major series included: At BotCon 2010, the Hasbro design team noted that they had wanted to make the aerial drone unit transform into a robot but were unable to do so (presumably for budget reasons, though they didn't go into that detail).Transformers: Galaxies #1–12 (2019–2020)— An anthology of side stories, focusing on adventures far away from the action on Cybertron. Optimus Primal/Megatron Mini-Comic – "Beast Wars" ". Archived from the original on 4 November 2015 . Retrieved 24 February 2013. On the Saturn-sized mechanical world of Cybertron, life has evolved not through carbon bonding, but via " naturally-occurring gears, levers, and pulleys". The resultant sentient robots, the Autobots, live in peace for many eons, until some of their number fall victim to a lust for power. Rallying behind the banner of the powerful Megatron, these " Decepticons" rebuild their bodies, allowing them to transform into vehicles and weapons of destruction, and declare war on the Autobots, intending to conquer the planet and rebuild it as a cosmic dreadnought. The Autobots adopt the ability of transformation as well, but struggle to repel the Decepticon onslaught until a leader emerges from the city of Iacon: the wise and powerful Optimus Prime. Under his leadership, the scattered Autobots are successfully united to become an effective fighting force... and thus, an all-consuming war rages across the planet for a thousand years, while the planet itself—dislodged from its orbit by the titanic battles—spins out of control through the cosmos.