The Transformers (IDW Publishing)

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The Transformers
Composite of Stormbringer covers drawn by Don Figueroa
Publication information
PublisherIDW Publishing
GenreScience fiction, superhero
Publication dateOctober 2005 – November 2018
No. of issues427
Creative team
Created byHasbro

The Transformers (later retitled as Transformers) is a comic book line by IDW Publishing based upon Hasbro's Transformers characters and toy line, featuring many writers and artists across multiple series. It is notable for being the longest continuously running Transformers continuity to date, beginning in October 2005 with The Transformers: Infiltration and ending in November 2018, after the six-issue Unicron event comic. The following year, it would be rebooted and succeeded by a new comic book series on 2019.

IDW lost the license rights by the end of 2022 and the license was passed to Skybound Entertainment in 2023.[1][2]

Publication history[edit]

First era[edit]

Dreamwave Productions shut down on January 4, 2005, and announced they would cease publication of all their comics, leaving Transformers: Generation One and its prequel series, Transformers: The War Within incomplete.[3] Chris Ryall, editor-in-chief of IDW Publishing, leaped at the chance to bid on the property.[4] On May 19, 2005, Hasbro announced they had awarded the licensing rights to IDW Publishing, with plans for an issue #0 in October 2005 and an ongoing title entitled The Transformers: Infiltration to begin in January 2006.[5] Beforehand, Ryall met up with long-time writer Simon Furman.[6] Furman aimed for a contemporary version of the Generation 1 incarnation to appeal to new and old fans alike. They both cited a focus on the "Robots in Disguise" element of the characters, aiming to bring back their "myth and majesty".[7] Overall, Furman described it as, "This was, at last (after 20-plus years) MY take on Transformers."[8] Furman also aimed for a real time approach,[9] using maps to help guide his stories.[10] Infiltration's issue #0 sold 100,000 copies in pre-orders, a record for the company.[11] Furman focused the story on Autobot medic Ratchet and broke new ground for G1-based storylines by excluding the Ark crash storyline and having them only just recently arrived deliberately, to give proper intent to the Transformers being on Earth,[7] thus separating the fictional universe from the Beast Wars one.[8] E. J. Su was hired as the artist, and was given free rein to re-design characters slightly.[12]

Infiltration received mixed reviews. Furman's decision to put leaders Optimus Prime and Megatron on the sidelines divided fans,[9] as did the slow pace[8] and the use of human characters. Furman and Ryall responded positively, promising to make both fans and critics happy after reading various message board comments.[13] The Transformers: Stormbringer followed in July, set around the same time frame as Infiltration, and had art by Don Figueroa.[14] The four issue tale was intended to be a weekly event, but Diamond Comic Distributors' resistance meant it became monthly.[15] Furman had planned to visit Cybertron later on, but the fans demanded a human-less story, and Stormbringer was written. Most importantly, the story revealed Cybertron to be dead, giving the saga a darker feel and explaining the status quo of Autobots and Decepticons spread out and fighting pocket wars.[16] Furman intentionally wanted a larger scale and "took Cybertron out of the equation" to shape the overall arc.[8] The story also allowed him to reinvent Thunderwing and the Pretenders, which he felt was one of the sillier concepts.[16]

In September, the companion series, The Transformers: Spotlight was launched, set to last for five issues.[17] Furman drew upon classic stories for Shockwave,[9] re-created the personalities of Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus, and wrote Sixshot for the first time.[8] Nightbeat's story laid a vital seed for future stories,[18] as well as allowing him to re-invent the Micromasters.[8] In November The Transformers: Escalation began, a direct sequel to Infiltration. It put Optimus and Megatron center stage, and brought in characters from the Spotlights.[9] The Spotlights expanded as IDW accepted Furman's willingness to write for any character. This has even included Wheelie,[15] a character he has personally voiced criticism of in the past.

Furman took a break from the main storyline in June to allow Eric Holmes to write the prequel, The Transformers: Megatron Origin over four months. Holmes conceived the tale for his favorite character, Megatron, and to explore the beginnings of the Autobot-Decepticon war,[19] collaborating with Furman to further tie-in the story into the existing continuity and taking historical inspiration from the decline of the Roman Empire.[20] In addition, Furman allowed Nick Roche to write and draw a Spotlight for Kup, and Roche also wishes to create another one for Rumble.[21] Furman returned for The Transformers: Devastation, which will be affected by Galvatron's Spotlight (itself spinning out of Nightbeat's), before leading into The Transformers: Revelation.[18] Galvatron was re-invented as a separate character from Megatron, and Optimus Prime himself received a Spotlight, with both one-shots including major revelations that will affect storylines beyond Revelation.[21] Devastation had a faster pace and explored rebellion in the Decepticon ranks, similar to the early Marvel stories.[22] With the conclusion of Devastation, Revelation began in June. However, this series had a different format to that seen previously, and consisted of four interrelated Spotlight issues that brought several of the elements of the storyline thus far, most notably the Dead Universe storyline, to a conclusion.[23][24] The arc following Revelation was a twelve-issue limited series, later expanded to sixteen issues, titled All Hail Megatron which began in July 2008, taking place a year after the end of Devastation and focusing on an Earth conquered by the Decepticons without the Autobots around to stop them, this time written by Shane McCarthy.[25] A planned storyline, Expansion, has now been canceled, although some of the themes the series would have dealt with may still appear.[23] A new mini-series by Furman, Maximum Dinobots, spun out of Spotlight: Grimlock and featured the Dinobots, Sunstreaker, and the Machination, beginning in December after the conclusion of Revelation,[26] with art by Spotlight artist Nick Roche.[27]

Starting in November 2009, an ongoing series of the Transformers was launched and ended in December 2011. Concurrently, during this time, other mini-series were also published: Last Stand of the Wreckers, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Drift, Infestation and Heart of Darkness, the latter of which led into the story arc Chaos.

Second era[edit]

Following a one-shot titled The Death of Optimus Prime, two new ongoing series started in January 2012, Robots in Disguise and More than Meets the Eye. A digital Transformers comic also became available titled Autocracy, consisting of 12 eight-page issues.[28][29] Two sequels to Autocracy titled Monstrosity and Primacy started publishing in March 2013 and August 2014, respectively.[30][31] In April and November 2014, the Windblade and Drift – Empire of Stone mini-series were also published. In addition, in November 2014, The Transformers: Robots in Disguise changed its title to just The Transformers. A second ongoing series of Windblade started in March 2015, and its sequel Till All Are One followed in June 2016.

Hasbro Universe[edit]

Starting in 2016, the Transformers comics became part of the Hasbro Comic Book Universe, playing a role during the crossover events Revolution and First Strike. After Revolution ended in November 2016, Transformers and More than Meets the Eye re-titled themselves to Optimus Prime and Lost Light, respectively.

The miniseries titled Transformers: Unicron (which is the finale of this continuity) started being published on May 5, 2018.[32]

List of titles[edit]

Title Issue(s) Start date End date Note(s)
The Transformers: Infiltration 0–6 October 19, 2005 July 12, 2006
The Transformers: Evolutions: Hearts of Steel 1–4 July 5, 2006 September 27, 2006 Set in an alternate timeline.
The Transformers: Stormbringer July 19, 2006 October 18, 2006
The Transformers: Spotlight 31 (unnumbered) September 13, 2006 May 1, 2013
The Transformers: Escalation 1–6 November 29, 2006 May 2, 2007 Sequel to The Transformers: Infiltration.
The Transformers: Megatron Origin 1–4 June 20, 2007 October 24, 2007
The New Avengers/The Transformers July 2007 October 2007 Crossover with The New Avengers (Marvel Comics).
The Transformers: Devastation 1–6 October 3, 2007 February 27, 2008 Sequel to The Transformers: Escalation.
The Transformers: All Hail Megatron 1–16 July 10, 2008 October 14, 2009
The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots 1–5 December 10, 2008 April 15, 2009
The Transformers: Continuum One-shot November 11, 2009 First guidebook of The Transformers.
The Transformers 1–31 November 18, 2009 December 7, 2011 Sequel to The Transformers: All Hail Megatron.
The Transformers: Bumblebee 1–4 December 16, 2009 March 10, 2010
The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers 1–5 January 27, 2010 May 19, 2010
The Transformers: Ironhide 1–4 May 12, 2010 August 4, 2010
The Transformers: Drift September 2010 October 20, 2010
The Transformers: Infestation 1–2 February 2, 2011 February 16, 2011 Part of the crossover event Infestation.
The Transformers: Heart of Darkness 1–4 March 23, 2011 June 29, 2011
The Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime One-shot December 21, 2011
The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye 1–57 (plus 1 annual) January 11, 2012 September 28, 2016 Issues #23-27 tied to Dark Cybertron; issues #56-57 tied to Titans Return
The Transformers: Autocracy 1–12 January 18, 2012 June 20, 2012
The Transformers: Robots in Disguise 1–57 (plus 1 annual) January 25, 2012 September 28, 2016 Issues #23-27 tied to Dark Cybertron; retitled as The Transformers (vol. 2) in issue #35; retitled as Transformers in issue #39; issues #56-57 tied to Titans Return.
The Transformers: Infestation 2 1–2 February 1, 2012 February 15, 2012 Part of the crossover event Infestation 2; related to The Transformers: Hearts of Steel.
The Transformers: Monstrosity 1–12 March 1, 2013 July 31, 2013 Sequel to The Transformers: Autocracy.
The Transformers: Dark Cybertron #1 One-shot November 6, 2013 Tied to Dark Cybertron.
The Transformers: Dark Cybertron Finale March 26, 2014
The Transformers: Windblade (vol. 1) 1–4 April 16, 2014 July 23, 2014
The Transformers: Punishment 1–5 June 2014 (printed on January 21, 2015) Digital comic.
The Transformers: Primacy 1–4 August 13, 2014 November 19, 2014 Sequel to The Transformers: Monstrocity.
The Transformers: Drift: Empire of Stone November 26, 2014 February 25, 2015 Sequel to The Transformers: Drift.
The Transformers: Windblade (vol. 2) 1–7 March 25, 2015 September 23, 2015 Sequel to The Transformers: Windblade (vol. 1); issues #1-5 tied to Combiner Wars.
Transformers: Combiner Hunters One-shot July 29, 2015 Tied to Combiner Wars.
Transformers: Redemption October 28, 2015 Sequel to The Transformers: Punishment.
Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers 1–5 October 2015 June 2016 Sequel to The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers.
Transformers: Till All are One 1–12 (plus 1 annual) June 15, 2016 December 13, 2017 Sequel to The Transformers: Windblade; issues #5-8 tied to Titans Return.
Revolution 0–5 June 21, 2016 November 30, 2016
Transformers: Titans Return One-shot July 27, 2016 Tied to Titans Return.
Transformers: Revolution October 26, 2016 Part of the crossover event Revolution.
Transformers: Till All are One: Revolution November 2, 2016
Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Revolution December 7, 2016
Transformers: Optimus Prime 1–25 (plus 1 annual) December 14, 2016 November 21, 2018 Sequel to The Transformers: Robots in Disguise.
Transformers: Lost Light 1–25 November 7, 2018 Sequel to The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye.
Revolutionaries 1–8 January 18, 2017 September 27, 2017 Team-up between various Hasbro characters.
Transformers Annual 2017 One-shot March 9, 2017
Transformers: Salvation One-shot June 14, 2017 Sequel to Transformers: Redemption.
Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook 1–3 July 14, 2017 October 25, 2017 Featuring various background stories.
First Strike 0–6 Sequel to Revolution.
Rom vs. Transformers: Shining Armor 1–5 July 19, 2017 November 27, 2017 Crossover with Rom the Spaceknight.
Optimus Prime: First Strike One-shot October 18, 2017 Part of the crossover event First Strike.
Transformers: First Strike November 8, 2017
Transformers vs. Visionaries 1–5 January 3, 2018 May 2, 2018 Crossover with Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light.
Transformers: Unicron 0–6 May 5, 2018 November 14, 2018
Transformers: Requiem of the Wreckers One-shot May 30, 2018 Sequel to Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers.
Transformers: Historia One-shot January 9, 2019 Second guidebook of Transformers.[33]

Collected editions[edit]

The Transformers has been collected in twenty volumes roughly in chronological order. The first eight volumes, under the title Transformers: IDW Collection, collect most of the series in between Infiltration and Heart of Darkness, including Spotlights.[34] Starting with the issue Death of Optimus Prime, the Transformers are collected under the title Transformers: IDW Collection Phase Two, of which twelve volumes were published.[35] From the Revolution mini-series and the establishment of the Hasbro Comic Book Universe, the Transformers are going to be collected under the title Transformers: IDW Collection Phase Three.[36]

Hardcover editions[edit]

Title Volume Material collected Pages Publication Date ISBN
The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase One 1 Megatron Origin #1–4, Spotlight: Blurr, Cliffjumper, Shockwave, Nightbeat, Hot Rod, Soundwave and Infiltration #0–6 392 May 26, 2010 978-1600106675
2 Stormbringer #1–4, Escalation #1–6, Spotlight: Sixshot, Ramjet, Ultra Magnus, Kup, Mirage and Optimus Prime 374 October 6, 2010 978-1600107511
3 Spotlight: Galvatron, Blaster and Arcee, New Avengers/Transformers #1–4, Devastation #1–6, Spotlight: Grimlock and Wheelie 350 March 2, 2011 978-1600108563
4 Spotlight: Cyclonus, Hardhead, Doubledealer and Sideswipe, Maximum Dinobots #1–5, Drift #1–4, Spotlight: Drift, Metroplex and Jazz 374 May 25, 2011 978-1600109386
5 All Hail Megatron #1–16 352 December 14, 2011 978-1613770528
6 The Transformers #1–6, Bumblebee #1–4, Last Stand of the Wreckers #1–5 and Spotlight: Prowl 364 May 9, 2012 978-1613771839
7 Infestation #1–2, The Transformers #7–18 and Ironhide #1–4 358 October 17, 2012 978-1613774069
8 Heart of Darkness #1–4 and The Transformers #19–31 384 May 29, 2013 978-1613776278
Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two 1 Death of Optimus Prime, More Than Meets The Eye #1–5 and Robots in Disguise #1–6 272 September 16, 2014 978-1631400407
2 Autocracy #1–12, Spotlight: Trailcutter and Hoist, More Than Meets the Eye #6–8, Robots In Disguise #7–9 and Spotlight: Orion Pax 332 August 25, 2015 978-1631403644
3 More Than Meets The Eye #9–13 and 2012 Annual, Robots in Disguise #10–11 and 2012 Annual, Spotlight: Thundercracker, Bumblebee and Megatron 332 March 8, 2016 978-1631405402
4 Monstrosity #1–4, Robots in Disguise #12–18 and More Than Meets the Eye #14–16 356 October 25, 2016 978-1631407154
5 Primacy #1–4, Robots in Disguise #19–22 and More Than Meets the Eye #17–22 344 March 7, 2017 978-1631408441
6 Dark Cybertron #1, More Than Meets The Eye #23–27, Robots In Disguise #23–27, Dark Cybertron Finale and Windblade #1–4 388 October 17, 2017 978-1684050857
7 More Than Meets The Eye #28–34 and Robots In Disguise #28–34 340 March 27, 2018 978-1684051496
8 More Than Meets The Eye #35–40, Robots In Disguise #35–38, Punishment and Drift – Empire of Stone #1–4 400 December 18, 2018 978-1684053728
9 Transformers #39–43, More Than Meets The Eye #41–44 and Windblade Vol. 2 #1–5 312 June 18, 2019 978-1684054848
10 Transformers #44–45. More Than Meets The Eye #45–49, Windblade Vol. 2 #6–7, Sins of the Wreckers #1–5, Combiner Hunters #1 and material from the Holiday Special #1 360 December 3, 2019 978-1684055845
11 Transformers issues #46–50, More Than Meets the Eye issues #50–55, the one-shot Redemption and further material from the Holiday Special #1 336 May 26, 2020 978-1684056408
12 Transformers issues #51–57, More Than Meets the Eye issues #56–57, the one-shot Titans Return and Til All Are One #1–4 336 January 5, 2021 978-1684057467
Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Three 1 Revolution #0-5; Transformers: Till All Are One: Revolution, Transformers: Revolution, Action Man: Revolution, and Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: Revolution, Transformers: Till All Are One #5-8; and Revolutionaries #1-4. 392 November 9, 2021 978-1684058426
2 Transformers: Till All Are One #9–12, Transformers: Optimus Prime #1–6 and Transformers: Lost Light #1–7. 384 March 29, 2022 978-1684058778
3 Revolutionaries #5-8, Transformers: Lost Light #8–12, Transformers: Optimus Prime #7-10, Transformers Annual 2017 and Transformers: Salvation 400 September 27, 2022 978-1413304541

Chronological comic order[edit]

This is a chronological listing of the comics in which the timeline of events developed.[37][34][35][36]

1–4. Megatron Origin #1–4

5. Spotlight – Orion Pax
6. Spotlight – Blurr
7–18. Autocracy #1–12
19–22. Monstrosity #1–4
23–26. Primacy #1–4
27. Spotlight – Thundercracker
28. Spotlight – Shockwave
29. Spotlight – Wheelie
30. Spotlight – Cliffjumper
31. Spotlight – Hot Rod
32. Spotlight – Sixshot
33–37. ROM vs. Transformers: Shining Armor #1–5
38–41. Hearts of Steel #1–4
42–43. Transformers: Infestation 2 #1–2
44. Spotlight – Soundwave
45. Spotlight – Ultra Magnus
46–49. Infiltration #0–3
50–52. Stormbringer #1–3
53–54. Infiltration #4–5
55. Stormbringer #4
56. Infiltration #6
57. Spotlight – Kup
58–61. New Avengers/Transformers #1–4
62–63. Escalation #1–2
64. Spotlight – Nightbeat
65–68. Escalation #3–6
69. Spotlight – Ramjet
70. Spotlight – Optimus Prime
71. Spotlight – Galvatron
72–75. Devastation #1–4
76. Spotlight – Blaster
77. Spotlight – Arcee
78–79. Devastation #5–6
80. Spotlight – Mirage
81. Spotlight – Grimlock
82–85. Revelation (contains Spotlights on Cyclonus, Hardhead, Doubledealer & Sideswipe)
86–90. Maximum Dinobots #1–5
91.Spotlight – Drift
92. All Hail Megatron #15
93. Spotlight – Metroplex
94. Spotlight – Jazz
95–109. All Hail Megatron #1–14 & #16
110. Continuum
111. Spotlight - Prowl
112. Last Stand of the Wreckers #1
113. Transformers Vol 1 #1
114–115. Last Stand of the Wreckers #2–3
116. Transformers Vol 1 #2
117. Last Stand of the Wreckers #4
118–119. Transformers Vol 1 #3–4
120–123. Bumblebee #1–4
124–125. Transformers Vol 1 #5–6
126. Last Stand of the Wreckers #5
127–130. Ironhide #1–4
131–134. Drift #1–4
135–136. Heart of Darkness #1–2
137–138. Transformers: Infestation #1–2
139–145. Transformers Vol 1 #7–13
146. Spotlight – Megatron
147–153. Transformers Vol 1 #14–20
154–155. Heart of Darkness #3–4
156–164. Transformers Vol 1 #21–29
165. Spotlight – Bumblebee
166–167. Transformers Vol 1 #30–31
168. The Death of Optimus Prime
169–171. More Than Meets the Eye #1–3
172–176. Robots in Disguise #1–5
177–178. More Than Meets the Eye #4–5
179. Spotlight – Trailcutter
180. Spotlight – Hoist
181–183. More Than Meets the Eye #6–8
184–187. Robots in Disguise #6–9
188–191. More Than Meets the Eye Annual, #9–11
192–199. Robots in Disguise #10, Annual, #11–16
200–210. More Than Meets the Eye #12–22
211–216. Robots in Disguise #17–22
217–228. Dark Cybertron (contains Dark Cybertron #1, More Than Meets the Eye #23–27, Robots in Disguise #23–27 & Dark Cybertron Finale)
229–234. More Than Meets the Eye #28–33
235–239. Robots in Disguise #28–32
240–243. Windblade Vol 1 #1–4
244–248. More Than Meets the Eye #34–38
249–250. Robots in Disguise #33–34
251–254. Transformers Vol 2 #35–38
255–256. More Than Meets the Eye #39–40
257–260. Drift – Empire of Stone #1–4
261. Punishment
262–265. More Than Meets the Eye #41–44
266–271. Combiner Wars (contains Transformers Vol 2 #39–41 & Windblade Vol 2 #1–3)
272–273. Transformers Vol 2 #42–43
274. Combiner Hunters
275. Transformers Vol 2 #44
276–279. Windblade Vol 2 #4–7
280–284. Sins of the Wreckers #1–5
285–289. More Than Meets the Eye #45–49
290. Transformers Vol 2 #45
291. Holiday Special
292. Redemption
293–302. Transformers Vol 2 #46–55
303–308. More Than Meets the Eye #50–55
309–312. Till All Are One #1–4
313–317. Titans Return (contains Titans Return #1, Transformers Vol 2 #56–57 & More Than Meets the Eye #56–57)
318–331. Revolution (contains Prelude, M.A.S.K., ROM, Till All Are One, #1–2, Micronauts, #3, G.I. Joe, Transformers, Action Man, #4, More Than Meets the Eye & #5)
332–335. Till All Are One #5–8
336–341. Optimus Prime #1–6
342–347. Lost Light #1–6
348–351. Revolutionaries #1–4
352–353. Optimus Prime #7–8
354. Transformers Annual
355–356. Optimus Prime #9–10
357. Salvation
358–361. Till All Are One #9–12
362–367. Lost Light #7–12
368–371. Revolutionaries #5–8
372–384. First Strike (contains #0–1, Optimus Prime, #2–6, Transformers, Micronauts, ROM, G.I. Joe & M.A.S.K.)
385–388. Optimus Prime #11–14
389. Till All Are One Annual
390. Optimus Prime Annual
391–395. Transformers vs. Visionaries #1–5
396. Requiem of the Wreckers
397–399. Lost Light #13–15
400–406. Optimus Prime #15–21
407–415. Lost Light #16–24
416. Optimus Prime #22
417–421. Unicron #0–4
422–423. Optimus Prime #23–24
424–425. Unicron #5–6
426. Optimus Prime #25

427. Lost Light #25

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