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The stories that laid the groundwork for the entire Transformers Universe continue, as the Autobots mourn the death of their leader...Optimus Prime! Things go from bad to worse for the Autobots, as new adversaries step up to rock their world, from the human threat of the Mechanic, to the giant menace of Trypticon, to the all-consuming plague of the Scraplets. Who will lead them in their darkest hour? Prowl? Blaster? Grimlock? And if you think it's all a bed of roses for Megatron and the Decepticons - think again! Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Transformers phenomenon with these classic collections!
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Bob Budiansky worked on Avengers and Sleepwalker in addition to Transformers. Don Perlin has worked on Bloodshot, Solar: Man of the Atom and also Ghost Rider. Ian Akin has provided the inks for numerous comics, including such titles as Alpha Flight, Avengers, Iron Man and Professor Xavier and the X-Men. Brian Garvey has worked alongside Ian Akin on many titles, as well as inking the likes of Flash and Robocop: Roulette.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With Optimus Prime out of the way in the previous volume, 'Showdown', Bob Budianski wastes no time here in getting rid of Megatron and starting things afresh... to the detriment of the stories. For the first couple of years, the two leaders stood supreme (despite being temporarily beheaded and lost, respectively) but now they are gone. Permanently. Well, for a couple of years.
Grimlock is quickly named the new Autobot leader and it is in these stories that the characterisations given by Bob Budianski and Simon Furman most jar. While Furman's interpretation of the new leader is of a likeable, rebellious anti-hero who reluctantly accepted that he was one of the good guys, Budianski's is of a completely unlikeable, almost psychotic tyrant with a speech problem who would really fit in better with the Decepticons. I know which I prefer.
In truth, 'Breakdown' isn't too bad a US volume, although it's largely downhill from here until Simon Furman's debut in the already published 'Primal Scream'. Okay, so the Mechanic isn't the best of the human supporting cast (why does he constantly wear welding goggles...?), but he's fun enough. The Scraplets, whose presence disrupts the lives of the on-the-run Blaster and Goldbug in the later stories here, are a fantastic creation (a Transformer disease!), and while Blaster comes across as almost suicidal at some points, the things he's experienced in the past few months give this plausibility. Even Trypticon works a lot better than he might. But overall it's not hard to see that Budianski was quickly running out of ideas, which will be confirmed in 'Treason'...
Overall, then, a worthwhile read for Transformers fans, collecters of the books and nostalgia freaks like me... but newcomers may be wondering why the Transformers are still revered after twenty years...
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
More than meets the eye!
30 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
I waited to read the transformer books because i just knew that like so many of my favorite books and tv shows and other childhood memories, it would not be as good as it once was..but it is every bit as good as i remember.
I only had a few of them as a child but i remember the toys, the cartoon and the few issues of this book i once had, i was amazed how well the writing held up, oh sure it's very much of it's era, and you may laugh at the fashion, slang and the pop culture of the time, but i lived through it, i love it and i think you will too.
the books are well put together, the whole series is reprinted in 14 volumes, i would advise collecting 1-4 before reading this one, it forms an epic story with anazing characters, the art is top of the line and they did a fantastic job restoring the colors from the original printsw, they didn't just dslap these together, they also include original covers and forwards and a page to catch you up on current events if this is your first book or if it's been a while since you read the last book.
I only had a few of them as a child but i remember the toys, the cartoon and the few issues of this book i once had, i was amazed how well the writing held up, oh sure it's very much of it's era, and you may laugh at the fashion, slang and the pop culture of the time, but i lived through it, i love it and i think you will too.
the books are well put together, the whole series is reprinted in 14 volumes, i would advise collecting 1-4 before reading this one, it forms an epic story with anazing characters, the art is top of the line and they did a fantastic job restoring the colors from the original printsw, they didn't just dslap these together, they also include original covers and forwards and a page to catch you up on current events if this is your first book or if it's been a while since you read the last book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
the deathtoll rises
22 Aug 2007
Format:Paperback
we get to see megatron go even more insane here he crushes brawl's face for one shockwave and soundwave getting more paranoid thinks its time megs met his maker and calls the predacons who megatron beat even when they combine to form predaking good way to get rid of megs by having him blow himself and the spacebridge up, we saw prime's funeral the return of the dinobots who fought tyrpticon who was beaten by grimlock and yes ther mechanic struck twice and blaster and goldbug meets the triple changers ansd scraplets.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Some of the Better... One of the Worst
10 Nov 2007
Format:Hardcover
This collection of Marvel Comics' 1980s Transformers series begins with one of the worst Transformers stories ever published, issue #25, "Gone But Not Forgotten!" The less said about this tale of Shockwave manuvering to overthrow a suddenly quite insane Megatron the better. Just junk. The following issue introduces the fan non-favorite, The Mechanic, who makes a return appearance in issue #28. A pity, as one of the better stories of the period, #27's "King of the Hill!", is sandwiched in-between these issues. However, the character growth of Grimlock in this story of the Dinobots verses Trypticon is completely tossed out in subsequent issues, starting with the very next one. The two-parter which concludes this volume, introducing the Decepticon triple-changers, the Throttlebots, and the Transformers plague known as Scraplets, is actually a pretty good tale. But, while the Marvel US series would eventually reach new heights with the arrival of UK writer Simon Furman, and later artists Geoff Senior, Andy Wildman, and Stephen Baskerville, this volume (along with the 24th issue, reprinted in volume 4), signals the beginning of a severe decline in this series, which would continue, and worsen, for a good thirty issues. The stories in this volume are of some interest, particularly the better issues, but the low quality of the worst of them prevents me from giving a rating higher than two (possibly two and a half) stars to this collection.
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