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Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Transformers with these collections, starring the bestselling transforming 'robots in disguise'! Featuring stories that have never been collected before, Transformers: Maximum Force is packed with action and adventure for all ages! The action cranks up to fever pitch as things go from bad to worse for the Autobots, with new adversaries, such as the Pretenders, stepping up to take them on! The balance of power shifts again in the ongoing battle for Earth...and Cybertron. This edition features all-new cover art from current Transformers artist Andy Wildman and also a cover gallery showcasing all the paperback covers from the series!
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Bob Budiansky worked on Avengers and Sleepwalker in addition to Transformers. Frank Springer has pencilled Defenders, Invaders and What If?, and the original series of Star Wars. Jose Delbo's non-Transformers work includes Conan the Barbarian, New Adventures of Superman, Teen Titans, Thundercats and Wonder Woman.
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'Maximum Force'? Sounds more like a motoring magazine than a Transformers book... no matter, the title isn't important - all that matters is the stories it collects, and in the latest Transformers US collection we have a pretty mixed bag.
The opening tale, 'Pretender to the Throne', brings the Pretenders into the comic continuity, and sees the return of Optimus Prime (albeit as a computer game character). It's okay, but following on from the preceeding couple of stories starring the Headmasters, it's a bit of a step down - still, the Pretenders always were quite a questionable addition to the Transformers universe anyway - what real use are disguises which resemble monsters and giant humans? - and the story does its best. It's also somewhat ahead of its time in its vision of cyberspace, with 'file-walls' (firewalls, maybe?) and computer defences, even if it does somewhat resemble 'Tron'.
'Totaled' is much better (Budianski's last great story), seeing the rebel Blaster take on the crazed-in-the-US-continuity Autobot commander, Grimlock, in combat. Soon, the Decepticons enter the fray and the story becomes an all-out battle of which the comic did too few, considering the backdrop to all the stories was of a vast civil war. It's a satisfying conclusion to the Blaster vs. Grimlock storyline which had been running for the past year. Just one question - what's Soundwave doing with a mouth?!
The aforementioned 'People Power' is next and, while no real classic, it mirrors Bob Budianski's renewed enthusiam in being able to (literally) combine his love of humanoid characters with the robots. Nowhere near the quality of the 'Headmasters' mini-series, maybe, but it does its job well enough and is a good intorduction for the souped-up new Optimus Prime.
'The Cosmic Carnival', however, is another step down. Returning focus to the annoying children spotlighted in 'Treason', it sees them meet up with Optimus Prime (who for some reason doesn't bother using his new combined form), Goldbug and the Powermasters, as they and Sky-Lynx are being held hostage in a 'Cosmic Carnival' run by an alien. Compare it to Simon Furman's 'Deadly Games', to see how alien characters can work in the Transformers continuity when they are handled well...
In the final story, 'Monstercon From Mars', one of the Decepticon Pretenders, Skullgrin, becomes a film star. I'll let you draw your own conclusions as to how good that is, although the story does see the long-overdue return of one of Budianski's better human creations, Circuit Breaker, and I guess the Decepticon Pretenders did rather resemble b-movie monsters...
Ultimately, despite some good storytelling and artwork ('Guest-penciler' Frank Springer's work in particular), 'Maximum Force' sees Bob Budianski's creative spark largely extinguish. The 'Underbase' saga, as we shall see, appears superficially ambitious but is little more than a chance to get rid of redundant characters, while the author's final stories hit rock bottom. Simon Furman's move to the US comic helped save it, but since his US stories have already seen publication, there will now be nothing to save Titan's reprints...
At least they didn't bother including 'The Big Broadcast of 2006'...
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Featuring Marvel's Transformers #40-42, and #44-45. (Thankfully left out was the horrendous adaption of a Season 3 TF episode "The Big Broadcast of 2006". Of all the episodes to try and adapt in comic form, they chose THAT????????)
This volume features a throwdown between Autobot Commander Grimlock's Autobot team against Fortress Maximus' team of Autobots, th return of Optimus Prime, who met his maker back in issue #24, as a Powermaster, and the return of Circuit Breaker.
Simple stories for a simplier time and enjoyable. While they don't hold up to today's TF comics in terms of plot and art, this is more of a nostalgia trip seeing these reprinted and remastered.
Nothing much for bonus material except for a couple of sketches by Bob Budiansky. At the end of this volume is a paperback cover gallery of the volumes released up until then by Andrew Wildman.
This volume features a throwdown between Autobot Commander Grimlock's Autobot team against Fortress Maximus' team of Autobots, th return of Optimus Prime, who met his maker back in issue #24, as a Powermaster, and the return of Circuit Breaker.
Simple stories for a simplier time and enjoyable. While they don't hold up to today's TF comics in terms of plot and art, this is more of a nostalgia trip seeing these reprinted and remastered.
Nothing much for bonus material except for a couple of sketches by Bob Budiansky. At the end of this volume is a paperback cover gallery of the volumes released up until then by Andrew Wildman.
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