Redpill me on all the Transformers continuities. I ran out of G1 episodes and want to look into the comics. Also the mecha board looks gay.
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Redpill me on all the Transformers continuities. I ran out of G1 episodes and want to look into the comics. Also the mecha board looks gay.
Optimus engages in gay sex
>I ran out of G1 episodes and want to look into the comics.
Just start reading the new Daniel Warren Johnson written and drawn series Skybound/Image is doing under their new "Energon Universe" banner. It's five issues in, issue six comes out next month.
There are two major G1 comic continuities
Marvel US
Marvel UK
Marvel UK shares most stories from Marvel US but ignores the GI Joe/Transformers miniseries because they have a different story for Bumblebee turning into Goldbug. It also draws upon the Season 3 characters more and involves time travel.
Near the end of both runs, Simon Furman who wrote the all-new stories for the UK Transformers, began writing for the US Transformers and they generally converged by the end. However for the UK version he had a possible future story epilogue that he subsequently ignored when he was brought back to write the Generation 2 comic.
And in the decades since there have been multiple alternate continuations of Marvel US G1:
>The G2 comic
>Regeneration One (which ignores the G2 timeline)
>The OTFCC Classics comic (ignores G2 and TFUK and goes with the idea that the Transformers changed into the 00s Classics designs)
Would you recommend the US or UK one? Also what’s your opinion of the IDW comics
Both are good, putting them together makes it even better (just ignore any continuity errors).
But which would you start with
Marvel US, then look up a guide to see where the UK stories slot in.
UK is better but is also very dark and very British. The US comic is set in mainline in Marvel continuity so you have to deal with appearances from Spider-Man and having to read Secret Wars 2 to find out what the Beyonder does to one of the human characters.
The late 90's early 00's Dreamwave book by scumbag Pat Lee is far and away the best looking Transformers book out there and they did a really good adaptations of Armada and Energon
>The US comic is set in mainline in Marvel continuity so you have to deal with appearances from Spider-Man and having to read Secret Wars 2 to find out what the Beyonder does to one of the human characters.
UK comic also counted parts of US in its continuity; the Spider-Man story is in there and even gets referenced in a UK comic. Ratchet also goes to the Savage Land to find the Dinobots and this is even referenced in a later UK story, at the time when editors were telling people to ignore Marvel characters' appearances in Transformers
Honestly for the most part you could ignore Secret Wars II.
Roxxon gets a name drop in a UK story, too.
Yeah, they even use slides of Daily Bugle articles in the same story
Not comics but Beast Wars and Animated pretty good
*are pretty good
The Japanese continuity you watch the OVA Scramble City before Transformers the Movie, you skip season 4 of G1 and then it goes Headmasters, Victory, Super God Masterforce and Zone, each series will get progressively more and more anime until it's unrecognizable as Transformers
/m/ is a little slow, but it's one of the best boards.
As for IDW1, you either love it or hate it, theres really no inbetween.
IDW2 takes a long time to get good, but then its not bad.
Gotcha thanks
G1 - the original cartoon
Marvel US - the G1 comic, it writes the robots as actual alien beings, it's pretty good, both campy and epic in equal measure.
Marvel UK - Simon Furman writing crazy filler for the US stories because they published the comic at a different pace. Eventually Furman took over the US book after Bob Budiansky burned out.
G2 - 90s EXTREME followup to G1 Marvel. For all its fault, it is pretty entertaining.
Beast Wars - optimus is a monkey, early 90s CGI magic. Had a smaller cast and some actual great episodes (Dinobot comes to mind).
DreamWave - They had three lines, a G1 followup, Energon, and War Within, I think. Plus they did some GI Joe crossovers (I think Serpentor Prime was done by them). The G1 one was the first book with the G1 cast for almost a decade. Company was run by a con artist weeb named Pat Lee who sometimes actually drew the comics credited to him. They went bankrupt because he didn't pay the people working for him, leaving lots of plots unresolved. However they did introduce a lot of concepts that have since became mainstream, and a lot of big TF writers/artists started out here.
IDW - this was the biggest and longest continuity started in 2005 or 6. Has too many different writers and ongoings to cover here, some were sad, some were better, in the end they focused too much on everyone being gay or trans or doing social commentaries. The last years had shit like Ratchet and Drifts gay relationship, constant crossover events over 3 ongoings, Hotrod and Ultramagnus fighting personality tics or the correct usage of punctuation, or Shockwave being behind the 4 billion year history of everything.
They ended the book and rebooted circa 2019 but IDW 2019 was the most boring continuity ever and they lost the license soon.
Current Image run started just last year and is only a few issues in, but so far it looks like a giant love letter to G1. Extremely refreshing, especially after all the social commentary IDW did.
>(I think Serpentor Prime was done by them)
Devil's Due, actually. Dreamwave didn't contribute to that line at all. Definitely recommend it though, t gets crazier as it goes along (Time travel! Serpentor Prime! Unicron and Cobra La teaming up!)
Strange. For some reason I thought there were two IDW runs with the first one being normal. They really started adding gay shit as far back as 2006?
No, that happened around the 2010s
JRo owns the gay robots.
IDW started with Furman doing weird shit, then they replaced him and did a plot jump to All Hail Megatron which is standard TF warfare on earth. This goes on for a while and ends in a stupid crossover; after which Decepticons are (mostly) defeated and Cybertron becoming habitable (it used to be a radioactive wasteland thanks to Furman). There they split the story to 2 books: one with Hotrod doing moronic shit in space (it started out okay but got dumber and dumber in the end) and one with political unrest in Cybertron. This went on for fricking forever and had several crossovers and twists like Megatron is now an Autobot and they have an artefact that can turn any team into a combiner and Starscream is now the king of the planet and several Shockwave billion year long plans dating back to the ancient primes. Eventually they got colony worlds involved which means they can bring in Beast Wars characters and female bots and so on.
Eventually things got untenable and they ended it with Unicron destroying everything except Earth.
The crowning achievement of the series was, in a grand way of saying Frick You to Simon Furman, Grimlock was first turned into a moron who is pissing himself, then he carried carrying Scorponoks baby.
>and downs (Carwash of Doom)
Carwash of Doom was awesome. So was Mecannibals.
Ultra Magnus jobs hard.
IDW did some fun crossovers, too. Especially Ghostbusters, Star Trek the Animated Series, Mars Attacks, Terminator, and the Transformers vs GI Joe 13 issue series (ESPECIALLY that one).
Ghostbusters in particular takes place in the continuity of the IDW Ghostbusters universe
So does Ninja Turtles. Primus I loved that comic...
>No mention of 3H/Funpub
Dare you enter my magical realm?
The Unicron trilogy still has a special place in my heart, Cybertron in particular was pure campy kino
Hello Unicron Brother, do you also wish they made a Legacy Energon Prime?
Read all of IDW, and then go for the new Skybound series.