Comic book value guide how to value your comics in 3 easy steps. Joe franchise, the early transformers comics at marvel helped define and enrich a universe that began as nothing more than a toy line. The original the transformers comic ultimately ran monthly from 1984 to 1991, spanning 80 issues with multiple extra miniseries in the us. Cybertron balancing act edit balancing act, released by idw in april 2007, is a collection of stories from the hasbro collectors club magazine that were published from 2005 to 2006. He has been writing a bunch already, such as transformers, action man, back to the future, and under his breath he mentioned an ultimate spiderman. Transformers 2007, revenge of the fallen 2009, dark of the moon 2011, age of extinction 2014 and the last knight 2017. Initially a line of transforming mecha toys rebranded from takaras diaclone and microman toylines, the toy line began in 1984 with the transformers toy line, and centers on extraterrestrial factions of sentient selfconfiguring modular robotic lifeforms often the autobots and the.
Transformers kiss meme i love the one perceptor xd. Bumblebee x arcee kiss you for windy prime youtube. Jul 22, 2016 he has been writing a bunch already, such as transformers, action man, back to the future, and under his breath he mentioned an ultimate spiderman online comic, because one of these things is not. Much more successful were dreamwaves comics for 2002s transformers armada, which introduced a third race of robots, the minicons, who could connect to bigger toys and unlock hidden features, and 2003s transformers energon. It also spawned mutuallycontradictory sequel series under the generation 2 and classics franchises and idws regeneration one. The first series was produced by marvel comics from 1984 to 1991, which ran for 80 issues and produced four spinoff miniseries. Transformers is a series of american science fiction action films based on the transformers franchise which began in the 1980s. When the well of reprintable material ran dry, british talent was enlisted to fill in the gaps with new stories.
Transformers comic book series is a massive website about transformers toys, cartoons, comics, and movies. Transformers 1984 marvel 1st printing comic books 19801989. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. I love transformers and slash vk is the largest european social network with more than 100 million active users. The manga volume 1 from viz media will be released at book and comic book stores nationwide. Transformers is a robot action figure line of toys that originated in the united states in 1984 and is still in production. This was followed by a second volume titled transformers. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. This book would run for seven years, containing new stories set not only in. The movie is out of continuity with the other marvel comics. Over 500 comics with brand new stories in the popular more than meets the eye and transformers ongoing series, movie tieins and adaptations, and classics from the 80s and 90s. The 15 best transformers stories of all time screenrant. Check out our storfolios as well, perfect for transporting your comics to conventions or shelving them on a bookcase. Robots are cool, cars are cool and so they became popular.
Generation one also included an avalanche of ancillary licensed merchandise, more so than any other transformers franchise outside of japan. Imagining an alternate reality in which terminators may be earths only hope against a future ruled by. Hasbro produces the line, having bought the rights to sell them from a japanese company called takara. While the comic book actually predates the cartoon, there was a threeissue miniseries that adapted the movie which is only accepted as canon by the uk version of the comic series and one issue was an adaptation of the cartoon episode the big broadcast of 2006.
The autobot pretenders grimlock, jazz and bumblebee and the micromaster rescue patrol are taken deep within their homeworld, cybertron, and come facetoface with primus, their maker and are able to find out about the birth of the transformers in primal scream. The comic book that followed was designed to bolster toy sales by creating backstories and spotlighting new characters for that would soon become toys. Meanwhile, young rubbles coming of age is interrupted by the discovery of a destroyed brainstorm. You see, kiss players was written by longtime transformers fan and freelance toy designer yuki ohshima, who took takaras desire for an otakutargeted series as an invitation to freak the fuck out of people and gave them a freakyass magical girl horror story in the vein of narutaru and madoka magica that just happened to have transformers in it. In the beginning, marvel comics held the rights to transformers comics in the us and uk, owing to their hand in developing the characters and story for hasbro. The uk the transformers comic was weekly, and added a ton of extra stories woven into and around. Tfarchive transformers comics titan books reprints.
The comic that accompanied the kiss players was an unashamed reflection of this, with several images which were considered by some to be very sexually themed. Popular features include daily news, toy galleries, a message board, a. Kiss players continued the theme of the metaphysical power potential of human beings empowering transformers. However, titan retain a limited license for transformers comics in the uk and are releasing further marvel reprints. Dec 15, 2016 there has never been a franchise more designed to sell toys than transformers. One of two new ongoing transformers series offers an excellent jumpingon point and all.
Our goal is to keep old friends, exclassmates, neighbors and colleagues in touch. Jan 17, 2017 part of the reason is that, as its own entity uniting two franchises, the book had to tie into events in the ongoing books. Bcw has a wide range of short and long comic book storage boxes and bins. She was one of the decepticons assigned to spy on sam witwicky. Oct 4, 2017 your targetmasters double as kiss players. One of two new ongoing transformers series offers an excellent jumpingon point and allnew direction as bumblebee and his fellow autobots. Get the scoop on all the popular comics, games, movies, toys, and more every day. Commander amaou shouts from the sidelines, telling atari that she has been chosen by the autrooper, and is a kissplayer. Transformers, gi joe, action man, rom, micronauts, mask. He is one of the most well known autobots and in most incarnations is optimus primes right hand man. There has almost always been a manga to accompany the newest transformers toyline, sometimes taking place in the same continuity as the concurrent animated series, and sometimes. Readcomiconline read comics online in high quality.
As an extension of that, in the last two weeks, ive purchased the transformers history of music cd set, and the topic of this post, the transformers. Comicbook nation podcast kofi outlaw 1 hour ago dan abnett teases the future of valiants rai, which includes spooky faerie land dan abnett spencer perry 1 hour ago. This series marks the conclusion of the hasbro comic book universe, primarily the transformers comics, in advance of a reboot series in 2019. Stop by the hasbro booth to learn more about angry birds transformers. The original the transformers comic ultimately ran monthly from 1984 to. Only from idw publishing, a leader in digital comics. In the film, she was first presented as a girl with beautiful long blonde hair and was at sam witwickys university. The entire transformers comic book universe all in one app. The comics manga collection, which reprints all of the tf manga printed in japans tv magazine from the original series through to battlestars. Terminator, at least one comic book story will aim to capture both. Pin by wanderer on transformers transformers comic. This has resulted in a higher number of microcontinuities in g1 than in any other transformers franchise. Manga are usually black and white comic books which read from right to left. You can find more information here, and international readers may be able to import them.
Its publication coincided with the departure of both optimus prime and megatron from the main transformers comic, leading to both characters abruptly disappearing from the miniseries after the second issue. If a link is in red, the page has not been created yet. The future optimus prime, orion pax, stands by to witness sometime friend megatron hold a rally for the ascenticons. Special thanks to viz media for providing a sample copy of this book. He is also the coauthor of a prose book about comics, comic books 101, and has written comics based on the transformers, the band kiss, mars attacks, weekly world news, and, currently, hasbros rom. There have been three main publishers of the comic book series bearing the name. They are published in japan by various comic magazines or packaged with toys and dvds. Transformers is an ongoing american comic book series that is mostly written by brian ruckley and was initially published twicemonthly by idw publishing that. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for.
Small but tough autobot that has an affinity for interacting with humans. Panicked edc operatives order kremzeek bullets to be fired at the legion. Balancing act, released by idw in april 2007, is a collection of stories from the hasbro collectors club magazine that were published from 2005 to 2006. Ryall and zvr cocreator ashley wood were nominated for the 2006 eisner award for best short story. You can even get a comic book box with awesome graphics, including some of your favorite licensed characters. Transformers is a comic book series by idw publishing, based upon the 2007 transformers movie. Fans of chromedome and rewind may be touched to learn that the two are now in a romantic relationship. I love transformers and slash transformers, transformers.
Autobot windblade by bansan if that were the case, there would be a line right here. Fans of sciencefiction action and 1980s nostalgia may never agree on the coolest brand, but in this years transformers vs. Transformers is a series of robot toys created by hasbro and takara tomy that typically turn into cars and other vehicles. Previous examples were the japanese series programs masterforce and car robots. While the anime series for both were hampered by being translated and dubbed before the show was even finished armada and quite literally some of the worst animation of. Marvel uk comics includes the american comics as well as nearly 100% more material that was published exclusively in the uk until being reprinted internationally in the 2000s. Published largely biweekly from 1984 to 1990, marvel uks the transformers was, like most of the imprints titles, comprised of choppedup reprints of the us comic.
A spinoff film, bumblebee, directed by travis knight and produced by bay, was released on. Generation 2, which ran for 12 issues starting in 1993. Transformers based on the toy lines of the same name. Early comic book version of the famous transforming robots. This licensing was revived in the early 2000s due to retroappeal at. Transformers is a japaneseamerican media franchise, coproduced by the toy companies takara tomy and hasbro. Legendary comic book heroes toys, action figures and collectibles. Please feel free to add more titles or correct spellings of existing titles. Takara tomy transformers legends comics 35 and 36 with.
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