- Hardcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: Titan Books Ltd; Limited edition edition (26 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1840235071
- ISBN-13: 978-1840235074
- Product Dimensions: 26.2 x 16.5 x 1.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,380,028 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The bestselling Transformers series continues...The Creation Matrix - the life-force of Transformers, the essence of their creator, Primus - has been lost for an age. Now, with the chaos-bringer, Unicron, bearing down on their home, Cybertron, the Autobots must locate the Matrix before all is lost. But they're not the only ones looking for it, and the Matrix itself may be more than they can handle! Join our heroes in a dazzling array of adventures, as their search for the Matrix takes them through the Wild West, a terrifying encounter with a creature from the deep, and an alien that may destroy them all, in the awesome run-up to the bestselling "All Fall Down" storyline. Old heroes are reunited, old enemies return, and the action grows ever more frantic - and ever more deadly serious!
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Simon Furman has written extensively for both comics and TV animation, including Alpha Flight, Death's Head, Beast Wars, X-Men: Evolution and The Roswell Conspiracies. He is currently producing the online comic The Engine. Geoff Senior has worked on Transformers, Death's Head and What If? Jose Delbo's non-Transformers work includes Marvel's Brute Force.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Matrix Quest continues the story begun in Primal Scream: Primus, creator of the Transformers, has briefly awoken from his long slumber, unfortunately alerting the world-destroying Unicron to his location. As Unicron steam-rollers towards Cybertron, the Autobots learn that the vessel of Primus' sacred life-force, the Creation Matrix, is the only thing that can stop Unicron. Unfortunately, the Matrix was blasted into space three years earlier along with Optimus Prime's corpse (although Prime has since been resurrected in a different body). Thus four teams of Autobots set out to locate the missing artefact. However, newly-elected Decepticon commander Thunderwing takes an interest in the search and is soon hot on the tail of the Autobot search teams. Matrix Quest's problems are obvious: the episodic nature of the story, the variable art (Geoff Senior is good, Jose Delbo is semi-adequate, Dwayne Turner sucks big time) and the downbeat ending. However, Furman's superior talents as a writer shine: Longtooth's obsession with the Klud being a tribute to Moby Dick, Grimlock's team inadvertantly wandering onto the set of 'Aliens' and so forth, again proving that Furman wasn't writing just for kids. The 'Rhythms of Darkness' story saves the collection from its faults, though, showing a horrific alternate future where the Autobots have just seven warriors left (out of millions) and the Decepticons rule most of Earth. The ending is pure cheese, though. However, it is just all set-up for the next two stories, All Fall Down and End of the Road.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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How time changes your perspective on things. When I first read the stories collected here, when they were reprinted in the UK Transformers comic, I thought it was the greatest Transformers storyline I'd ever read or was ever going to read. To understand this it must be put in perspective - 'Matrix Quest' occurred over the course of five issues in the US but in the UK, by this point, it took four issues to get through one US issue - and not only that, but after the first chapter of Matrix Quest ('Bird of Prey', actually featured in the 'Primal Scream' volume), there was a sixteen issue break in the UK reprint to allow the US comic to catch up. Naturally, this made 'Matrix Quest' seem even more epic than it was - appearing over the course of 35 weeks between issues 262 and 297 - but, collected here, its faults become more apparrent. There's no way it poses a serious threat to 'Target: 2006'.
It's actually a very fractured storyline - five chapters tied together with the hunt for the Matrix as a theme, but each focussing on a different group of Transformers - presumably to advertise the toylines by giving them centre stage. The stories also appear to be attempts by Simon Furman to parody movie styles - 'Bird of Prey' is film noir/'The Maltese Falcon', 'Kings of the Wild Frontier' is a Western, 'Deadly Obsession' is 'Moby Dick' and 'Dark Creation' is so close to 'Aliens' that I'm amazed Marvel weren't sued.
This isn't to say that I don't still like 'Matrix Quest' - as indicated by the four stars I gave it, this is definitely not the case. Simon Furman's scripting throughout is great and I actually like the movie parody element, especially in 'Dark Creation'. There's a strong villain in Thunderwing - Furman had a knack of taking a minor toy character and bringing him to life as a major player - and throughout you can sense the urgency with which the Autobots are acting - something BIG is on its way...
'Rhythms of Darkness', a post-'Matrix Quest' story printed here - is, if you discount the pretty shoddy TV adaptation 'The Big Broadcast of 2006' (a story brilliantly dealt with in its UK reprint), the first true US story to deal with the future Autobots and Decepticons, and is on the whole pretty good (although not so much as the UK stories). 'The Human Factor', on the other hand, is let down badly by possibly the worst artwork ever to appear in a Transformers comic.
Simon Furman seemed to enjoy being freed from the restrictions of the UK comic, where he had to write compact stories to fit into the US storyline. As soon as he moved to the US title he began an epic storyline which would last two years, and by the point of the stories collected in this volume, his masterplan was well underway. 'All Fall Down' and 'End of the Road' show where it was all heading...
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The second volume of classic Transformers issues continues the story where "Primal Scream" left off as the Autobots continue to search for the Matrix, with a group of Decepticons in close pursuit. Unfortunately the first two issues feel like fillers designed to appease Hasbro (the transformers toy company) by spotlighting some of the-then current toys. It doesn't help that these parts are encumbered by some less than enthusiastic artwork from Jose Delbo and are crude rip offs of first the western genre and then the novel "Moby Dick". However the middle two issues feature the return of Geoff Senior as the story kicks into higher gear and becomes truly downbeat and dangerous. Thunderwing was dismissed by many as just another dull toy but in the hands of Simon Furman he becomes one of the most interesting villains in the entire series as he becomes ever more obsessed in his search for the Matrix, little realising what the cost will be to him. Finally we get two issues that set the scene for the future. The first is set in an alternate future where the Decepticons rule supreme over a ruined New York (sound familiar?) but the last few Autobots make a stand to fight back, whilst the second introduces and reintroduces a group of humans who set out to fight the Decepticons and save their fellow humans. Whilst perhaps the least coherent of the four initial Transformers volumes, this nevertheless contains strong characterisation that is the hallmark of Simon Furman and the middle two issues are worth the cover price alone.
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