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Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Transformers This is the second title in a new series of black & white manga-sized books from Titan; featuring stories that have never been collected, Transformers is packed with action and adventure for all ages Way of the Warrior tells the startling story of a Decepticon who turns to the side of the Angels and defects to the Autobot camp. The Decepticons, however, do not approve of this at all - so they send in the Mayhem Attack Squad to deal with it Featuring work from a stellar cast of UK creators including Staz Johnson (Batman/Aliens 2), Geoff Senior, Simon Coleby (Ultimate Nightmare) and the fan-favourite Transformers creative team of Simon Furman and Andy Wildman.… (meer)
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Survivors! / "The Hunting Party" After Time Wars, the UK Transformers comic changed gears, going small scale—and black and white! Survivors! picks up from the end of Time Wars, chronicling the Wreckers, who haven't been given new orders since those events. They end up teaming up with some former members of the Decepticon Mayhem Attack Squad, Carnivac and Catilla, to take down the deranged Skids. All the characters, all feeling like abandoned warriors, join up together at the end. I'm curious to see where this goes, as "The Hunting Party!" indicates that the new Mayhem Attack Squad has orders to hunt down Carnivac and Catilla for going AWOL. Bad Transformers who become good Transformers is probably one of my favorite tropes (see Dinobot, Blackarachnia, MtMtE Megatron), so this has some real potential.
"Way of the Warrior" / "Survival Run" / "A Savage Place!" This follows up on the Survivors. The Mayhem Attack Squad is trying to hunt down and punish the two Deception traitors; the story mostly focuses on Carnivac, who refuses to recognize Autobot authority but also begrudgingly finds himself doing the right thing and in a desperate stand for his own survival. Decepticon-turned-"good" is one of my favorite Transformers tropes, and this is a good example of it. The middle installment illustrated by Lee Sullivan, with Carnivac crawling through the desert, is particularly effective.
"Cry Wolf!" / "Wolf in the Fold!" / "Where Wolf?" In this one, ex-Decepticon Carnivac decides to revenge himself on the Mayhem Attack Squad; it's a fun story about Carnivac doing his own thing while working alongside the Autobots, and how he humiliates Bludgeon by not killing him. All of the Survivors tales have been good, and this one is no exception; the story also links up the Survivors with Earthforce.
"Shut Up!"/ "Manoeuvres!" "Shut Up!" is another great story, one that could pretty much only work as a five-pager: the Mayhem Attack Squad intimidate Red Alert into letting them out of the cell on Earthbase by not talking! "Manouvres!" is one that made little impression, on the other hand.
"Whose Lifeforce Is It Anway?" / "The Greatest Gift of All!" Two linked stories, both pretty okay. Not as forgettable as some of the other pre-Earthforce stories, but not the best either. In the first, we see an Autobot walrus robot named Longtooth. Long enough, Optimus Prime bequeathed a fragment of the Matrix to him to use to save a dying comrade... but the cowardly Longtooth kept it for himself. Guilt has since made him suicidal in battle, but all his fellow Autobots think he's just very brave. This I think is a good set-up for a story, but really all that happens is he just suddenly decides to send the Matrix fragment (anonymously) back to Earth so Optimus can make use of it. Not much of a story. In the second one, Optimus thinks about using the fragment to bring back some dead Autobots, but ends up using it to revitalize a part of Earth damaged ecologically by the Transformers' war. It's fine, you know. More Optimus angst.
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Transformers This is the second title in a new series of black & white manga-sized books from Titan; featuring stories that have never been collected, Transformers is packed with action and adventure for all ages Way of the Warrior tells the startling story of a Decepticon who turns to the side of the Angels and defects to the Autobot camp. The Decepticons, however, do not approve of this at all - so they send in the Mayhem Attack Squad to deal with it Featuring work from a stellar cast of UK creators including Staz Johnson (Batman/Aliens 2), Geoff Senior, Simon Coleby (Ultimate Nightmare) and the fan-favourite Transformers creative team of Simon Furman and Andy Wildman.
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Survivors! / "The Hunting Party"
After Time Wars, the UK Transformers comic changed gears, going small scale—and black and white! Survivors! picks up from the end of Time Wars, chronicling the Wreckers, who haven't been given new orders since those events. They end up teaming up with some former members of the Decepticon Mayhem Attack Squad, Carnivac and Catilla, to take down the deranged Skids. All the characters, all feeling like abandoned warriors, join up together at the end. I'm curious to see where this goes, as "The Hunting Party!" indicates that the new Mayhem Attack Squad has orders to hunt down Carnivac and Catilla for going AWOL. Bad Transformers who become good Transformers is probably one of my favorite tropes (see Dinobot, Blackarachnia, MtMtE Megatron), so this has some real potential.
"Way of the Warrior" / "Survival Run" / "A Savage Place!"
This follows up on the Survivors. The Mayhem Attack Squad is trying to hunt down and punish the two Deception traitors; the story mostly focuses on Carnivac, who refuses to recognize Autobot authority but also begrudgingly finds himself doing the right thing and in a desperate stand for his own survival. Decepticon-turned-"good" is one of my favorite Transformers tropes, and this is a good example of it. The middle installment illustrated by Lee Sullivan, with Carnivac crawling through the desert, is particularly effective.
"Cry Wolf!" / "Wolf in the Fold!" / "Where Wolf?"
In this one, ex-Decepticon Carnivac decides to revenge himself on the Mayhem Attack Squad; it's a fun story about Carnivac doing his own thing while working alongside the Autobots, and how he humiliates Bludgeon by not killing him. All of the Survivors tales have been good, and this one is no exception; the story also links up the Survivors with Earthforce.
"Shut Up!"/ "Manoeuvres!"
"Shut Up!" is another great story, one that could pretty much only work as a five-pager: the Mayhem Attack Squad intimidate Red Alert into letting them out of the cell on Earthbase by not talking! "Manouvres!" is one that made little impression, on the other hand.
"Whose Lifeforce Is It Anway?" / "The Greatest Gift of All!"
Two linked stories, both pretty okay. Not as forgettable as some of the other pre-Earthforce stories, but not the best either. In the first, we see an Autobot walrus robot named Longtooth. Long enough, Optimus Prime bequeathed a fragment of the Matrix to him to use to save a dying comrade... but the cowardly Longtooth kept it for himself. Guilt has since made him suicidal in battle, but all his fellow Autobots think he's just very brave. This I think is a good set-up for a story, but really all that happens is he just suddenly decides to send the Matrix fragment (anonymously) back to Earth so Optimus can make use of it. Not much of a story. In the second one, Optimus thinks about using the fragment to bring back some dead Autobots, but ends up using it to revitalize a part of Earth damaged ecologically by the Transformers' war. It's fine, you know. More Optimus angst.
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