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'''There's something ''fishy'' under the sea...''' hahahaha

==Fury from the Deep==
* '''Script:''' [[Chris Cooper]]
* '''Art:''' [[Dario Brizuela]]
* '''Lettering:''' [[Comicraft]]
* '''Continuity:''' ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Transformers: Prime]]''
''A sudden storm came upon the ship ''Mary Jane'', tearing it apart... as most of the crew are lost, the survivor clings onto some wreckage and sees it.. the '''[[Piranacon (Prime)|monster]]'''!''

So says Al, who is telling his story to Miko, Jack and Raf at some burger bar during their summer holiday. The burly waiter removes Al from his restaurant, but Miko's already intrigued by his story, and jumping to conclusions about Decepticons after seeing the metal 'tooth' handing round Al's neck. Raf is on the case, laptop in hand, finding that the ''Mary Jane'' sank 10 years ago in Devil's Cove (where else?) not far away. Jack's not too sure, but the idea of beach time persuades him to go along with the others in Bumblebee to check it out.

At the cove, the kids head out in a dinghy and spend an hour not doing much. From a rocky overhang above, Bumblebee spots something large heading straight for them underwater, and just as it attacks ('SPWOOOOSH') he jumps in to rescue the kids. Underwater, the huge bulk of Piranacon rises behind him...

The kids find themselves in an underwater cave, next to the ''Mary Jane''. As they explore further, they find more and more wrecked ships, all stripped of parts. Raf notices that one of the 'wrecks' is not from Earth, but a Decepticon, and gets on the Autobot Archive to find out who. Mika notes that [[The Gambler|this means she owes]] Jack lunch.

The remains are of Snaptrap, the leader of the Seacons, a special team of Decepticons adapted for underwater combat. There are another five Seacons out there, combined into Piranacon -- but without Snaptrap in command he's "pretty much a mindless monster".

Bumblebee already knows this of course, and is doing his best to stay alive against the huge Decepticon. With the help of some narrative captions, Bumblebee uses some rocks to inflict a bit of damage, but eventually Piranacon captures 'bee in his tentakils, er, tentacles.

The kids have found a pile of unexploded World War II mines, and use them to blow a hole in the side of their cave, thus freeing them. The resulting explosion sends huge boulders shooting through the water, one of which fatally wounds Piranacon (in the face), who sinks into the "inky depths". The kids of course have been knocked unconscious by the explosion, but valiant Bumblebee saves them from joining the Seacons, gabbing them and making for the surface.

The story ends on the beach at sunset, with Mika and Jack wrapped in towels round a fire planning a staycation next time... while Raf, still in his trademark tank-top, shirt and jeans, laptop under his arm, gives Bumblebee a high-five.

===Featured characters===
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (5)

|c2=
*[[Piranacon (Prime)|Piranacon]] (6)
*[[Snaptrap (Prime)|Snaptrap]] (7)

|c3=
*Al the survivor (1)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (2)
*[[Jack Darby]] (3)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (4)

}}

===Quotes===
"AARROOOOOOOOOOO"
:—'''Piranacon'''

"Mechanical elements compatible. De-construct Autobot with ''maximum force''. Zzk!"
:—'''Piranacon''' gets more coherent the closer he is to victory.

===Errors===
*To tell the truth, I haven't looked that closely.

===Notes===
*Notes here. Talk about Piranacon.

==Contents==
===Articles and features===
*'''Beast Hunters Sneak Peak!''' -preview of [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)#Season_3: Beast Hunters|Season 3 of Transformers: Prime]].
*'''Front Line! Exclusively for employees of the US Government'''. Newspaper front page, but also done up a bit like the comic front page, advertising the comic's contents... A bit confused. There will be a Transformers: Prime UK tour again this year (8th Aug - 7th September). And regarding [[Transformers 4 (film)|Transformers 4]]: "IT'S HAPPENING!" the headline threatens.
*'''All About Ultra Magnus''' profile page
*'''Competition''': Win a Transformers: Prime: Decepticons Unleashed DVD or a Beast Hunters voyager figure.
*'''Kre-O Transformers Conundrums''' puzzles
*'''Bumblebee's Beach Bonanza!''' more puzzles
*'''Soundwave's Stumpers''' yet more puzzles.
*'''X Marks The 'Bot''' - a codebreaker puzzle.
*'''Poster''' of Optimus and Ratchet
*Mega-Mouth: [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and [[Arcee (WFC)|Arcee]] answer letters and critique art again.

===Free Gift!===
*I got a disc shooter and a water pistol. Did everyone else get the same thing, or are they just clearing out the warehouse? Am I the only one buying this any more?

===Mega-Mouth===
"Fleshbags, I have to admit your efforts on these pages have improved. Who knew such pathetic creatures could be so creative? I may just let you live today."
:—'''Megatron''' loves us all really.

==Notes==
===Errors===
*Nothing so far.

===Trivia===
*There's a moth in here with me.

===Advertisements===
*Freakin' Awesome! [[wikipedia:Adventure Time|Adventure Time]]! An advert for another comic from Titan.
*babyFACES - Look who's arrived!! DVDs of Baby Bugs Bunny and baby friends.
*Subscribe today!
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.17]] — this will be '''the Beasthunters Issue!''' with the usual selection of features, on sale 10th October.

==External link==
*[http://aesircomics-books.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/titan-prime-16.html Aesir's Written Word: Titan - Prime #16]

[[Category:Prime Magazine issues]]

Transformers Comic issue 4.16

2013-08-12T20:24:43Z

Astrobot: /* Fury from the Deep */ --adding first part of synopsis.

2013-06-12T22:07:06Z

Astrobot:

Transformers Comic issue 4.15

2013-06-12T22:06:11Z

Astrobot:

Transformers Comic issue 4.15

2013-06-12T22:05:28Z

Astrobot: Just a quick construction of this page. More to fill in later.

Transformers Comic issue 4.13

2013-04-09T06:52:54Z

Astrobot: Removed the Featured Characters table, as it was just a placeholder copied from 4.12.

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'''This Issue Exists.'''

==Protecting the Lady==
* '''Script:''' [[Robin Etherington]]
* '''Art:''' [[Jeremy Tiongson]]
* '''Colours:''' [[Sam Palmer]]
* '''Lettering:''' [[Comicraft]]
* '''Continuity:''' ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Transformers: Prime]]''
There should be a summary here. It will involve the [[Statue of Liberty]].

===Featured characters===

===Quotes===
None noted so far.

===Errors===
*None noted so far.

===Notes===
*Nothing of note.

==Contents==
===Articles and features===
*New Year Wordsearch
*Soundwave's Stumpers
*Kre-O Transformers puzzles
*Taking Liberties
*Are you an Autobot or Decepticon?
*Primed for Action: [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)| Prime]] Season 2 continued
*Starscream's Star Signs
*Mega-Mouth: [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] answer letters and critique art.
*Competition: Win something.

===Free Gift!===
*A micro-change Kreon! (the best free gift ever attached to this comic)

===Mega-Mouth===
*The usual.

==Notes==
===Errors===
Nothing jumps out as being wrong.

===Trivia===
*Despite being quarterly, the episode guide is still here - just covering a whole bunch of episodes at once.

===Advertisements===
*Some stuff? I dunno.
*Subscribe today!
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.14]] —

==External links==
*[http://aesircomics-books.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/titan-prime-volume-4-13.html Aesir's Written Word: Titan - Prime Volume 4 #13]
*[http://www.comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=265620 ComicBookDB listing]

[[Category:Prime Magazine issues]]

Transformers Comic issue 4.14

2013-04-04T21:30:06Z

Astrobot: Added this as it came in the post this morning. It's on my desk so it's more detailed than the 4.13 page I just did.

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'''This Issue Exists.'''

==It's A Knock-Out==
* '''Script:''' [[Robin Etherington]]
* '''Art:''' [[Horacio Domingues]]
* '''Colours:''' [[Nestor Pereyra]]
* '''Lettering:''' [[Comicraft]]
* '''Continuity:''' ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Transformers: Prime]]''
There should be a summary here. It will involve [[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicon]] mummies.

===Featured characters===
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (4)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (5)
*[[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] (6)

|c2=
*[[Knock Out (Prime)|Knock Out]] (3)
*[[Breakdown (WFC)|Breakdown]] (8)
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] dressed as mummies (8)

|c3=
*Poor [[Tod]] (1)
*[[Chuck Chuckles]] (2)
*[[William Fowler|Agent Fowler]] (7)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (9)
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (10)
*[[Jack Darby]] (11)

}}

===Quotes===
"Haha! It's funny because he's wet!"<br />

:—'''Breakdown''' and later '''Raf'''. <br />
(It's funny, you see, because Bulkhead is wet.)

===Errors===
*None noted so far.

===Notes===
*Nothing of note.

==Contents==
===Articles and features===
The issue manages to have the now-usual bunch of puzzles, AND a surprisingly large number of actual features, just like in the old days.
*Kre-O Transformers Conundrums
*Soundwave's Stumpers
*Down and Out! -more puzzles
*Super Cybertronian Seach!
*Prime Targets game (used with the free gift)
*Knock Out profile
*The Trans Files: Trypticon (fact file on the Decepticon spaceship)
*Smackdown: Starscream vs. Soundwave (Soundwave wins)
*"Prime Time" poster of the Autobots posing.
*Mega-Mouth: [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] answer letters and critique art again.
*Competition: Win a Transformers: Prime: Dangerous Ground DVD or a Prime deluxe figure ("styles may vary").
*It's Prime Time: Final part of TF:Prime Season 2. Manages to be spoiler-free by only showing small screen-grabs with very brief captions telling you how exciting it all is.

===Free Gift!===
*A (surprisingly phallic) AWESOME dart shooter!

===Mega-Mouth===
*Megatron and Arcee both being complimentary to the artists.

==Notes==
===Errors===
*Despite Breakdown featuring prominently in the comic, the profile for Knock Out points out he's [[The Human Factor|very much dead]].

===Advertisements===
*What time is it? Adventure Time! An advert for another comic from Titan.
*Totally Fruit Ninja magazine -another advert for another comic from Titan.
*Completely Cut the Rope magazine -another advert for another comic from Titan. I don't understand kids these days.
*Subscribe today!
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.15]] — promises this will contain '''Giant-sized Transformers: Prime goodness!''' with a '''Massive poster to transform your wall!''' which apparently makes next issue a POSTER SPECIAL. With a '''Free!! Fantastic Frisbee!''' On sale 13th June.

[[Category:Prime Magazine issues]]

Transformers (Titan Magazine)

2013-04-04T21:09:09Z

Astrobot: Added links to issues 13 & 14. Editing the pages for those issues now.

[[Image:Tf mag 01 2007.JPG|right|300px|thumb|''"GIVE ME YOUR POCKET MONEY."'']]

'''''Transformers''''' (rebranded '''''Transformers Universe''''' from issue #22-25, then '''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen''''' with Vol.2 #1-7, then '''''Transformers''''' ''again'', then '''''Transformers: Dark of the Moon''''', currently '''''Transformers: Prime''''', likely to then be rebranded ''again'' as, I dunno, '''''Transformers: Go-Go-Gobots''''' or something) is an ongoing monthly magazine published in the United Kingdom by [[Titan Books|Titan Magazines]]. It initially tied in to the [[live-action film series]] and featured a mix of original comic strips, reprinted strips by [[IDW Publishing]], and regular features and competitions, with over fifty pages a month. This was later cut to thirty or so, without any IDW reprints, and in late 2011 it would become a comic for ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Transformers: Prime]]''.

Titan picked up the rights to a Transformers comic in 2005 after [[Panini]], publishers of [[Transformers: Armada (Panini)|the short-lived UK ''Armada'' comic]], allowed it to lapse. Titan sat on it, reasoning "bugger ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (franchise)|Cybertron]]'', let's wait for the upcoming film and make £££££s!". Work began on it in October 2006, though all information on the film was top secret ''even for Titan'' until IDW's movie comics began.

According to Steve White, Transformers was seen as "the big one", the title that would get Titan Magazines the attention and kudos of the UK comic industry.<ref name="fractalmatter">[http://web.archive.org/web/20090215042925/http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671 Steve White interview] (archive copy)</ref> It seemed to succeed, selling enough to get ''original cover art'' after #6, quite a feat in the UK licensed comic market. It's already the longest running UK Transformers comic since [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]]'s!

Titan briefly ran a [[Transformers Animated (Titan)|''Transformers Animated'' sister title]] from 23rd October 2008, but unfortunately it didn't make £££££s and died after issue 3.

The main comic was rebooted and rebranded in June 2009, ''just'' in time for the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|second film]]. This is not an unusual tactic for Titan, who have done this repeatedly with their ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' comic to give sales a little bump. Unfortunately, the reboot saw the comic use stock-photo covers again (sob!). The preview in #25 of the first volume lied that this was "an '''EXTREME''' makeover!!!".

The eighth issue, however, returned to comic art on the covers and then the format as a whole was made leaner from #9: the reprints were dropped and nothing replaced them, cutting the page count to 32, and from #10, the comic strip was reduced to eight pages. The cover stock, the cover's ''size'', and the price have all proved to be fluid, going from larger-than-the-comic glossy card covers (£2.70/£2.75) to normal-sized paper covers (£2.50) and back again, before increasing to a ''shocking'' £3.99 from the last few months of 2010. The price dropped back down during the June 2011 reboot for the third film, but the general format remained the same.

The ''Transformers: Prime'' rebranding in October 2011 continued the same format.

Titan has produced three digest-sized collections of the UK strips under the title ''[[Transformers Adventures]]''. IDW reprinted the first eight issues' worth of strips in the United States in late 2008 as a four-issue miniseries, under the title ''[[Transformers: Saga of the Allspark]]'', as a tie-in to ''The Reign of Starscream''.

{{chapters|title=''Transformers'' issues:|align=left|content=
<div class="list-header">v1:</div>
*[[Transformers Comic issue 1|#1]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2|#2]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 3|#3]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4|#4]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 5|#5]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 6|#6]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 7|#7]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 8|#8]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 9|#9]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 10|#10]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 11|#11]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 12|#12]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 13|#13]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 14|#14]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 15|#15]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 16|#16]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 17|#17]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 18|#18]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 19|#19]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 20|#20]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 21|#21]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 22|#22]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 23|#23]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 24|#24]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 25|#25]]
<br/><div class="list-header">v2:</div>
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.1|#1]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.2|#2]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.3|#3]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.4|#4]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.5|#5]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.6|#6]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.7|#7]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.8|#8]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.9|#9]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.10|#10]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.11|#11]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.12|#12]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.13|#13]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.14|#14]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.15|#15]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.16|#16]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.17|#17]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.18|#18]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.19|#19]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.20|#20]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 2.21|#21]]
<br/><div class="list-header">v3:</div>
*[[Transformers Comic issue 3.1|#1]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 3.2|#2]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 3.3|#3]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 3.4|#4]]
<br/><div class="list-header">v4:</div>
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.1|#1]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.2|#2]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.3|#3]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.4|#4]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.5|#5]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.6|#6]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.7|#7]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.8|#8]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.9|#9]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.10|#10]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.11|#11]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.12|#12]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.13|#13]]
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.14|#14]]
}}

==Comic strip==
{{main|Titan Magazines movie timeline}}
[[Image:Movie Devastator TitanIssue2.jpg|left|180px|thumb|I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE AND I BRING YOU...]]
Opening each issue is an original comic strip: 10 pages before #13 (Vol.1), 11 pages before #10 (Vol.2), and currently eight pages, with two 15 page special events. These are written by [[Simon Furman]] and illustrated by a mix of artists, many of whom have been seen on other Transformers comics—[[Geoff Senior]], [[Nick Roche]], [[Staz]] and [[Guido Guidi]].

The Titan strips were tied in to the [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|IDW movie prequel]], but apart from that they've generally ignored IDW's movieverse comics and vice versa. It's also notable that while IDW's artists will generally try to redesign characters to resemble the movie's designs, Titan's artists have generally drawn the toy characters looking like their toys. This means a number of characters, like [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]], [[:Image:Titan2_Ransacktransforms.jpg|can look]] completely [[:Image:RansackROTFNefarious.jpg|different]] depending on which comic you're reading

===''Transformers'' (2007)===
====Prequels and sequels====

{{quote|I suppose you'll just have to read the comic, which you could consider a historical document.|Starscream, #21's Star Screams}}

Issues #1–6 were set before ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' and were based on specific characters, filling in details of the war and characters (like [[Brawl (Movie)|Devastator]]) who were not given much development in the film. The first two strips, starring [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus]] and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], tied in to the [[Transformers: Movie Prequel|IDW prequel comic]] in the same way [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|Marvel UK]]'s stories tied in to the Marvel U.S. series. At the end of #2, four of the characters had been scattered across the galaxy and #3–6 focused on their solo adventures on alien worlds. They also featured characters from the toyline, such as [[Clocker (Movie)|Clocker]], in secondary-character roles.

Issues #7–8 were set immediately after the [[Mission City]] battle in the film, dealing with leftover plot elements like [[Scorponok (Movie)|the whereabouts of Scorponok]]. Time and later film drafts have not been kind to these two strips: Scorponok stubbornly deciding to not be dead in ''Revenge of the Fallen'', and poor #7 had the Transformers' final battle being in Los Angeles.

====Alternate universe====
[[Image:TwilightsLastGleaming1.JPG|right|200px|thumb|Bloody foreigners, coming over here, taking our jobs...]]

For issues #9–13, the strip featured an alternate reality story, "Twilight's Last Gleaming", where the [[Decepticon]]s had captured the [[AllSpark]]. Rather than just being a 5-part divergence, this alternate reality rolled on into the second year of the title and lasted until #25, the end of the first series. This was intended to allow Titan to do pretty much whatever they wanted with the cast and universe without having to worry about the plot of the second film.<ref>[http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/script-wrap-%e2%80%94-uk/ SCRIPT (W)RAP — UK] on Simon Furman's blog</ref>

The alternate reality boasted a sizeable cast, covering both characters from the film and ones who only had toy [[bio]]s like [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]]. It opened with [[Sam Witwicky]] already dead, Optimus Prime missing in action (later found to be offline), Autobot reinforcements gathering on the moon, and the Decepticons [[Eco-structuring|cyberforming]] the Earth. The resolution had Megatron dead (with Starscream usurping command) and the AllSpark destroyed.

In this second year, the Autobots had to handle the ''aftermath'' of an Earth-shattering story, something that had not been done before. Storylines included the Decepticons deliberately preventing America from rebuilding, Jazz being reborn as an amoral villain, a second group of Decepticons under [[Stockade (Movie)|Stockade]], and [[Transformers Comic issue 18|then]] a [[Unicron|very big twist]]. The central plotline first involved Earth's slow, destructive demise from the aborted cyberforming of Twilight's Last Gleaming, before being replaced with the formation of a [[Decepticon Heartland]] and Starscream's manipulation of [[Theodore Allen|the American government]].

The alternate universe ended with a three-parter called "Revolution" that pitted the Autobots and Stockade's Decepticons against an all-out conquest attempt by Starscream. It tied up ''most'' of the loose ends. The last shot of the alternate universe was [[Mikaela Banes]] and [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] driving off into the sunset, awwww!

====Artist "consistency"====
[[Image:Titan22 Arcee.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Hi, I'm Arcee!]]

Titan's first volume became infamous for inconsistency in the movie strip art. For reasons unknown, instead of using one or two artists it used ''hordes'' of them (plus a few inkers and colourists) in #1-25, none ever doing more than one issue in a row. Different artists had different styles and, not to put too fine a point on it, different ideas of how many of the Movie design's fiddly bits they want to draw.

Then there were other issues like:

* [[Elita-One (Movie)|Elita-One]] started out looking just like her toy, but by her second strip her head was being altered to resemble [[Elita One|''Generation 1'' Elita One]] (either to differentiate her from Arcee or as deliberate homage). How ''much'' her head resembles Elita One differs depending on artist... and in #14 and #16, she has the toy's head again!

[[Image:Titan13 Arcee.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Hi, I'm Arcee!]]

* [[Arcee (Movie)|Arcee]] constantly alternates between being drawn like her movie design or like her Scout-class toy (only not blue).

* Andrew Wildman drew Ratchet looking like the white, face-plated Cybertronian Ratchet in [[Movie Prequel issue 1|''Movie Prequel'' #1]], which was reprinted in Wildman's issue. Unfortunately, in the issue immediately before, Nick Roche had drawn Ratchet looking ''exactly like'' his movie self!

* Colouring is fluid for many characters and sometimes entirely wrong: [[Armorhide (Movie)|Armorhide]] has been green and [[Armorhide (Cybertron)|white-and-blue]], Starscream has been both grey and bronze (and once had a huge fanged mouth), Thundercracker has been blue and black...

* Poor [[Theodore Allen]] changes hair, age, and build in seemingly every appearance.

* The Decepticon Heartland base changes from a squat bunker with guns to a tall phallic tower, then into a ''different'' bunker, then into a bunker/tower combo thingy.

The ''Animated'' strips (which emulated a specific art style) and Vol.2 (which used a single artist, [[Jon Davis-Hunt]]) avoided this.

===''Animated''===

[[Image:Lugnut_robobutt.jpg|thumb|left|200px|(You ''need'' a caption for this?)]]

{{quote|...quite possibly the greatest animated TV series ever in the history of mechanoid lifeforms!|A very excited editor, [[Transformers Comic issue 10|#10's contents page]]}}

Issue 17 featured a 6 page ''[[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]]'' story written by Furman, written to promote the spin-off. Unsurprisingly, it featured [[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]].

When [[Transformers Animated (Titan)|the spin-off]] buggered off into cancellation, ''Transformers'' began printing the leftover strips from #23 to #25. The first and third were done as "pull-out" comics. By the second, it had began to diverge from the Season 2 continuity... which will never be followed up. Doh!
{{-}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
====Prequels====

{{bigquote|We've got the lowdown on this dude they call the F—|The Twins|"[[Transformers Comic issue 2.5|Reversal of Fortune]]"}}

[[Image:Titan2-1_Mudflap.jpg|right|thumb|"[[Don Murphy]]'s stating an opinion! LEG IT!"]]

With the reboot, the comic returned to prequel strips, this time for ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''. Furman announced that the focus would be on [[Mudflap (ROTF)|Mudflap]] and [[Skids (ROTF)|Skids]] and their interactions with the new movie cast.<ref>[http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/it-begins-again/ IT BEGINS AGAIN…] on Simon Furman's blog</ref> This lasted for the first eight issues, with the first six following a specific formula: The twins' plotline had them run into a number of newly introduced characters, with a specific goodie and baddie being crucial to this part of the plot. Unlike the first run of prequels, there was no IDW prequel being reprinted and thus no attempt to tie into it.

A Decepticon army was being gathered on [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] by Starscream, albeit a Starscream secretly backed by [[the Fallen]]. Skids and Mudflap, accidentally discovering the Decepticon plans, fled to Earth to warn the other Autobots. The menacing [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]] was dispatched to silence them, but failed. The twins waited to warn Optimus and tried to adjust to life on Earth with [[NEST]] (and NEST tried to adjust to life with ''them''!), while the Decepticons under [[Soundwave (ROTF)|Soundwave]] began searching on Earth for ''[[Matrix of Leadership#Live-action film series|something]]'', simultaneously trying to ensure the twins never talked.

The Decepticons finally achieved this by framing the twins as traitors. At the same time, with the Fallen incapacitated, Soundwave and Starscream were doing their own thing more often, causing a clash with Ransack that they were determined to end ''permanently''. After the twins spent a few days as fugitives, Soundwave went to them and offered them a position in the Decepticons, their first mission being to bring Ransack in. The twins accepted...or so Skids wanted him to think, using that as a way to capture one of the Decepticons to show their credentials to the Autobots. That done, the twins took the fight to the enemy, bringing about the destruction of the Decepticons' Mars base and much of their [[purple generic drones|drones]].

Ransack fled to talk to the Fallen, with Soundwave desperately pursuing, while the twins were officially part of the Autobots' Earth team. After this, they decided not to bring up the Fallen again and [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|just let what would happen, happen]].

====Sequels====

[[Image:Titan_rotf_deadend.jpg|left|thumb|275px|Even the characters wish Transformers comics were still weekly!]]

From #9, the comic began doing post-movie strips. ''New'' young, untrained Autobots became the POV characters, starting with [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] and soon taking in new toys like [[Rollbar (ROTF)|Rollbar]] who underwent training, with the remaining Decepticons believed to be a mop-up operation. This assumption went ''horribly wrong'' when [[Bludgeon (ROTF)|Bludgeon]] broke free of NEST's jail and took a bunch of other prisoners with him as his own splinter faction. This conflict would harm human-Autobot relations, forcing the creation of a covert strike team, before it finally came to a head when the Autobots were cornered in a fatal ambush...

...which ''sounds'' epic and exciting, but the six issues between Bludgeon's escape and the final clash would only focus directly ''on'' Bludgeon's machinations twice. [[Robin Etherington]], who'd previously written half of the ''Animated'' strips, returned in #10 and contributed a run of three scripts during the Bludgeon saga, only [[Transformers Comic issue 2.16|one of which]] dealt with that ongoing plot. (An upside is that he used [[William Lennox]] and [[Robert Epps]] as characters, neither of whom had been touched by Furman) Furman's first post-Bludgeon script (#14) didn't feature the character, and #19 was a one-shot [[Christmas]] story that interrupted the forward progression of #18; insult to injury, Jolt and his mates ceased to appear after #14. Injury to further injury, the comic went bimonthly after the eighteenth issue and that left only two issues to wrap everything up, leaving lots ''un''wrapped (the human relations plot quietly died) and having Megatron turn up to beat up Bludgeon in the middle of a massive Decepticon ambush on the Autobots.

It's not all doom-and-gloom though, as several characters like [[Blazemaster]] and [[Dead End (ROTF)|Dead End]] got meaty roles, the ROTF Bludgeon gets to be far more dangerous and effective as a villain than he managed in other mediums, and Jolt actually ''had stories and dialogue''.

Some of the issues may have run out of their originally intended order: we know for a fact that [[Transformers Comic issue 2.13|"Inside Out!"]] was meant to appear in #14 instead of #13<ref>[http://simonfurman.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/updates/ Furman's blog]: "Just turned in issue #14′s script for Transformers UK, featuring ROTF Bludgeon (who’s also in the current issue [#9], now on sale), and set in South Africa at the time of the World Cup. Talk about synergy."</ref>, and the story that did appear in #14 resembles one of the preceding Jolt-and-rookies stories. The Christmas issue has Dead End tracking Bumblebee, something that happened at the end of #21.
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===''Dark of the Moon''===
The comic rebranded itself for ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (franchise)|Dark of the Moon]]'' on June 2011, and kicked things off with an eight page prequel strip, "[[Transformers Comic issue 3.1|Fight for Fiesole]]", by Etherington: Starscream going to excessively dangerous lengths to prevent the Autobots from finding the lost [[Sentinel Prime (ROTF)|Sentinel Prime]]. While this initially seemed like this would be the only prequel before the film came out - there's even a caption saying the story continues in the film - the remaining three issues would all be prequel tales. "[[Transformers Comic issue 3.3|Dealing with the Devil]]" would stand out as it gave a reason for [[Robert Epps]] to depart NEST.

Unlike the previous volumes, Titan rebooted itself after a mere four issues.

===''Transformers: Prime''===

[[Image:Titan4.5 Silas kick.jpg|thumb|200px|right|]]

From October 2011, the comic was reworked for the ''Prime'' franchise. Etherington continued as the sole writer, with another round of musical chairs for the art.

The first few issues were done-in-one eight page stories that stood apart from the strips; "[[Transformers Comic issue 4.5|School Is... Out!]]" in #5 changed things by explicitly mentioning the episode "[[Crisscross]]".

After the tenth issue, the magazine went quarter-yearly—surely not a good sign.

==In fiction==
Titan Magazines were warned of reprisals if they continued to peddle Autobot propaganda {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 7|#7's Star Screams}}, but would not heed them... so, in 2008, Starscream seized control. Most of the staff were captured, starved, and forced at lash point to keeep working; the only relief were visits to conventions. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 13|#13's Star Screams}} Soon they would be locked in cages. Months of this soon left Den Patrick and Steve White broken, mentally and physically. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 19|#19's Star Screams}} However, secret [[Maximal]] agent Fur-Man remained on the loose. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 21|#21's Star Screams}}

After Starscream's nervous breakdown, before new occupier Barricade could consolidate his group, the Autobots launched a strike. While there's a power-sharing agreement over the letter page, the Autobots seem to run the rest of the comic and were responsible for hiring [[Jon Davis-Hunt]] for an extended run. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.1|#1's Law and Disorder}} However, Ironhide threatened Furman to alter the ending of his alternate universe stories... {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.12|#12's Law and Disorder}}

==Regular features==
* '''Autobot vs Decepticon Smackdown''' — last seen in #5 (as "Human VS Decepticon Smackdown"), this pitted two characters against each other and gave a list of their strengths and weaknesses. The outcome of the fight was left up to the reader to decide. This feature saw a return in #20 as '''Beast Wars Battlefield''', pitting [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]] against a real Tyrannosaurus.
* '''Top Gear''' — this section provided competitions to win Transformers merchandise, as well as [[To sell toys|telling readers about awesome new stuff it'd be cool to have]].
* '''Character Profiles''' — an in-depth description of an individual character's personality, history, abilities and weaknesses. Originally these were taken from ''[[Transformers: The Movie Guide]]'', but from #8 (Bonecrusher) the movie-based ones have been new creations. As of issue 14, the profiles have included ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]'' characters, adapted from ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook]]''. When volume 2 started, it took the ''[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Movie Universe|The Movie Universe]]'' profiles as its base but expanded on them (unsurprising as Furman wrote both!).
[[Image:Star Screams logo.JPG|right|150px|thumb|You love it, you slags!]]
* '''Letters page''' — Letters and fan-art from readers, with a prize for the Star Letter. Originally called ''Mech Mail'', readers were invited to write in and say which Transformer they'd like to answer the mail (a [[Letters page (Marvel UK)|traditional]] gimmick)—[[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] got the nod, and from #7 the column was called '''Star Screams'''. The tone was very over-the-top, with "Starscream" threatening death to readers who like the Autobots, slagging off the other characters, and so forth. Following the reboot, the strip was renamed '''Law and Disorder''', and [[Barricade (Movie)|Barricade]] and [[Ironhide (Movie)|Ironhide]] got the gig. Barricade picks up where Starscream picked off, while Ironhide is a nicer letters host; they argue and insult each other, similar to [[Dreadwind (G1)|Dreadwind]] and [[Hi-Test]] in [[:Image:185LETTERScomp.JPEG|''Dread Tidings'']]. Following the ''Dark of the Moon'' changeover, this was renamed '''Mega-Mouth''' with letters being answered by an extremely bad-tempered [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and [[Sideswipe (Movie)|Sideswipe]]. With Volume 4, ''Prime'' [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] took over from his movie incarnation, while Sideswipe was replaced with [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]].
* '''Artobots''' — a special section for readers' fan-art.
* '''[[Posters]]''' — a pull-out poster in the centre pages, sometimes double-sided. Generally it's a poster version of the front cover, though #7, #18 and #19 featured the art of what ''would'' have been a cover but were scrapped/altered at the last minute. Vol.2 has started to use covers from ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron]]'' as posters.
* '''How To Draw...''' — This feature instructs small children how to draw the incredibly fiddly and complicated movie-verse Transformers. "If you found this one a bit difficult to draw... well, it's all part of Megatron's evil plans!" It's also shown how to draw sequential art and cover images. It's noted to not ''actually'' work as a how-to-draw and is generally unworkable.
* '''Colouring pages''', usually under the name '''The Purple and the Red'''.
* '''Puzzles'''. In Volume 2, these got a consistent name of '''More Than Meets The Eye'''.
[[Image:Sideswipe's Armoury logo.JPG|left|150px|thumb|]]
* '''Bumblebee's Way-Past-Cool Reviews''' — Video game reviews. Which aren't written in Bumblebee's "voice". And aren't way past cool. Or even cool.
* '''Why [x] Like Being A:''' — irregular feature explaining all the cool features of a Transformer's alternate mode.
* '''Arcee's Soulmates''' — Starting in #20 and ended in #25; a small personal's column in ''Star Screams'', with Transformers (all of which are specific characters but go unnamed) putting a lonely-hearts ad out. I am not joking about this.
* '''Starscream's Stars''' — Starting in Volume 2, Starscream writes a horrorscope! (Instead of Scorpio, there's Scorponok, ho ho ho.)
* '''Sideswipe's Armoury''' — Starting in Volume 2; a text feature explaining about military weapons.
* '''Bumblebee's Guide: The Solar System''' — Starting in Volume 2; "Bumblebee" gives minor facts about the solar system and its bodies, some of which are Transformers related.
* '''Megatron's Mind Maulers''' — Starting in Volume 2; pitiful humans, ''dare'' you attempt to answer the mighty Megatron's questions and puzzles?!
* '''Starscream's Stumpers''' — [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] took over the puzzle page as of Volume 3. Volume 4 kept the name and turned it over to [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]].
* '''Episode Guide''' — Volume 4 also brought with it a regular feature covering an episode of ''Prime'' per issue. Of course, with only 13 issues a year and 26 episodes to a season, catching up is going to take a while.

==Fantastic Free Gift!==
[[Image:freegiftscover.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Oh yeah, and Starscream's in here too.]]

It's a battle-scarred and ancient tactic, known well to British and Irish comic fans: a cheap item stuck to the cover, that is hopefully desirable enough to convince a child to buy the comic. It's been around for decades, but traditionally was placed on the early issues and then on the occasional later ones to cause a short-term sales boost. These days, due to the fragile state of the UK industry and demands by retailers, ''every damn issue'' has to have them—and they're often bulky, which leads to badly-shelved and bent comics in the newsagents—and Transformers is no exception.

Free gifts have included a target-shooting game, Autobot/Decepticon dog tags, a notebook and pen, stickers, a pinball game, sweatbands, and ''many'' [[FREE! Blaster!|toy guns]].

They are always large enough to take up a significant amount of space on the cover they are stuck to, necessitating some pretty ugly graphic layouts that cover the illustrations with text in order to leave a large blank space for the gift to be attached to so it won't obscure anything important. This can often make the covers look ''really freaking bad'' when you take the gift off; a quick perusal of the cover images on their relevant articles will make immediately apparent the frequent emptiness of the bottom left-hand corner in particular.

Issues #23-25 had a splashy ''two'' free gifts, both of the extras being ''Animated'' themed. You might think that this was Titan getting rid of gifts they'd had made for the cancelled ''Animated'' comic... and you'd be right, since the promised gift for #25 is the sacred Pencil Pod promised to us in Animated #4 but that never arrived! Vol.2's comics, from #4 to #7, would also use two free gifts, the second being nummy candy from Haribo. In #19, the ''Animated'' Pencil Pod turned up again!

According to editor [[Steve White]], coming up with free gifts is "a nightmare for our marketing department, who have no real experience on a more male-orientated older title and have to come up with ideas that don't just rely on some piece of cheap plastic... However, they're constrained as much by money—yes, we'd love to have a [[Mini-Con|Minicon]] on the first issue, but we have to get real."<ref>[http://transfans.co.uk/interviews_white.php Steve White interview] on TransFans</ref>

Instead, it was reality who got Mini-Conned when the first issue of the magazine's third volume ''did'' came with a cover mounted [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|''Revenge of the Fallen'' Legends Class figure]]! Titan said on the magazine's Facebook page that "there will be more action figures"...

==Reprints==
[[Image:IDW Megatron Magmatron.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Transformers Mag is educational. It teaches small children that BW Megatron is ''badass''.]]

To fill out the pages while keeping costs down, the magazine reprinted comics published by [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]. The reprints in Vol.1 were cut into 5–8 pages segments (though one was once ''12'' pages out of necessity), deliberately shorter than the UK strip so it was clear which is the primary story.

The reprints in Volume 1 included:

* ''[[Transformers: Movie Prequel]]'': #1–13
* ''[[Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering]]'': #1–13
* ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin]]'': #14–25
* ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending]]'': #14–25

[[Image:Titan_AHM_cutandpaste.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Combiner!]]

The Diamond solicit for Volume 2 #1 said that it would reprint "the official movie prequel", though [[Transformers: Alliance|which]] [[Transformers: Defiance|one]] was not specified. Oddly, this was then ''not'' included, and instead we got:

* ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron]]'': #1-8

The first issue promised ''All Hail'' would last until #12. Savvy readers wondered ''how'' this could work, as the reprints were cut into bits (except #1 and #8). Then, in #8, it was announced that ''All Hail'' was ending... and the issue reprinted random fragments from ''All Hail'' #6, #7, and #9 (the last having [[:Image:Titan_AHM_cutandpaste.jpg|one edited page made out of three normal pages]]), ending with telling us to buy IDW's trades to see the full story. Presumably, this wasn't the original plan at all.

From #4, Titan gave titles to the ''All Hail Megatron'' reprints instead of "Part X".

After ''All Hail'' finished its run, Titan dropped reprints entirely.
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==iPhone and PSP strips==

From February 2010, Titan started offering Transformers as a downloadable strip for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Sony PSP. It started off with a reprint of #1, Vol.1, which was absolutely free on iPhone! (On PSP, you have to pay for it)

You can only download the strips if you live in the UK or [[Ireland|Eire]]. Sorry, Americans!

Zinio however, has saved the day for American readers, as they offer a subscription to the comic and back issues dating back to mid-2011.

==Audience==
{{quote|Younger readers? Pah, all they do is write in to fawn over that brightly coloured dishwasher, Bumblebee, or whine how Jazz dying in the 2007 film is 'unfair'.|Barricade, Vol.2 #1}}
[[Image:Ultra Magnus Koji and friends.jpg|left|150px|thumb|"Starscream called us worthless!! Yayyyy!"]]

The primary audience of ''Transformers'' is, of course, young children—as well as the features and editorial sections being written in juvenile tones (and the presence of free gifts), the letters page is full of kids sending in their praises, photos of their collections, suggestions for stories, and drawings of their own characters. Steve White has openly admitted it's a "junior" title, though they attempt not to talk down to the audience, citing this as a flaw in the short-lived Panini Armada title.

The youngest reader thus far is four and a half!

[[Image:Movie2007 Maggieandnerds.jpg|right|200px|thumb|"''That's'' not how that background character's feet looked in the last issue! ''To the wiki!''"]]

There is, however, a sizeable minority of older fans and this is openly recognized in both interviews and in the comic itself. This generally does not affect the content, with the exception of a few references to older fiction in features and the letters page (Starscream certainly enjoyed referring to Generation 1!); one big exception was the competition in #7 for the ''[[The Transformers: The Best of Simon Furman|Best of Simon Furman]]'' trade, with the question being: [[Death's Head (G1)|what robot bounty hunter Furman had made]]. Older fans have brought up continuity quibbles in Vol.2's letters page, which got a favourable response in #1 and a ruder one in #5. Of course, the biggest acknowledgement of older fans was the time [[Transformers_Comic_issue_2.7#Starscream.27s_stars|Starscream said only losers edit Transformers wiki pa]]— wait, hang on...

Letters and photos have also shown a sizeable number of female readers of varying ages, which Starscream openly approved of.
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==Multi-continuity==
While the current focus of the comic is, obviously, the animated series, having focused on the movies previously, the title has been multi-continuity from the start; in #22 to #25, the logo was even altered to say "Transformers Universe".
[[Image:Tf mag 23 Animated Pullout.JPG|left|200px|thumb|''"CELTIC!"''<br>''"RANGERS!"'']]

Substantial references are made to the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|''Generation 1'' franchise]]. #1 had a feature on the [[The Transformers: The Movie|animated movie and its DVD]], trades of IDW's comics are promoted and offered as competition prizes, and gets repeated nods in the letter's pages. A poster on [[The Many Faces of Optimus Prime]], running in both #17 and #1 of the Animated title, listed all the versions of Optimus Prime as well as [[Marvel Comics continuity|Marvel]], [[Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Sunbow]], [[IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] and [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave]] Generation 1 continuity. A follow-up, The Many Faces of Megatron, was run in #2 of Animated and #19 of this title.

As of #14, it began reprinting the Generation 1 prequel story ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin|Megatron Origin]]'', while informing the young'uns that Generation 1 is a [[Ruined FOREVER|wildly different variation]] of the mythos they know and love; this was followed with ''All Hail Megatron'', "an awesome reimagining of Transformer history" apparently.

IDW's [[Beast Wars (comic)#IDW comics|''Beast Wars'' comics]] were the main reprint in Vol.1, being chosen by Steve White for marketing reasons as the ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Machines]]'' DVD boxsets were being released at the same time as the film.<ref name="fractalmatter" /> The [[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|''Beast Wars'' cartoon]] itself had been repeated in full on a loop on Channel five in recent years, making it familiar to the target audience. Young readers in the letter's page have written in mentioning it (and #7 had a fan-art of [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]]), Beast Wars character profiles began in #14, and Starscream has alluded that Simon Furman as a [[Maximal]] in the form of "a strategically-shaved ape", especially his head! There have also been two competitions to win the UK ''Beast Machines'' DVD boxsets.

The 2008-9 [[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|''Transformers Animated'' cartoon]] received a series of minor features from #10-12 to hype up the show airing on UK satellite TV. #13 saw a 12-page "Pull Out Special" that contained information, plugged merchandise, and hyped the then-upcoming Animated comic; this was repeated with further hype and a six-page strip in #17. After the cancellation of the Animated comic, the three leftover strips and features ran in this comic.

Starting from October 2011, it switched from being film-centred to featuring strips and content about ''Transformers Prime''.

==Sales==
Thanks to circulation figures printed in the comic's indicia and online sources, we know the comic's sales in the UK and Eire from 2007 to the end of 2008, as reported to the UK industry group [http://www.abc.org.uk ABC].

[[Image:Titan16_jazzlittleauction.JPG|right|240px|thumb|Titan's CEO appeases the shareholders.]]

The comic's average net circulation in 2007 was over 45,000 (reported from #10). This basically means it was selling more than the [http://tfarchive.com/comics/idw/sales.php average IDW issue] ever had.

[http://bearalley.blogspot.com/2008/08/comic-cuts-british-comics-circulations.html The January to June 2008 sales] showed Transformers' average sales [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XsVALQtGIZM/SKcer_CIbqI/AAAAAAAAGUQ/vVbg7JzAS4A/s1600-h/Circulation+Charts+2008-01.jpg had dropped to 38,733].

The June to December 2008 average sales, by comparison, are reported by ABC to have [http://abcpdfcerts.abc.org.uk/pdf/certificates/15744762.pdf dropped to 24,617]. (''Arrrrg!'') Issue 14 was above the average, #18 and #19 below it. A global recession ''and'' being tied into last year's big film make for wobbly sales.

From #4 (Vol.2), for reasons unknown, Transformers is no longer registered with ABC<ref>[http://www.abc.org.uk/Products-Services/Product-Page/?tid=20281 Product page] on ABC</ref> and the sales stopped appearing in the indicia. Sales in 2009 are thus unknown. The expectation was that sales bounced up again after the second movie, though at the moment there's no way to know. Worryingly, Diamond UK stopped carrying the title after #4 due to low orders.<ref>[http://tmukhub.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=idwtf&action=display&thread=2712&page=6#60934 Titan Transformers v2] thread on Transmasters UK</ref> Newsagents (where most of Titan's business lies), however, continued to stock the title.

From #9 (Vol.2), the reprints were scrapped, making the comic shorter; from #10 (Vol.2), the strip length was reduced to 8 pages.

Finally, with #18 the comic became ''bimonthly'', usually a sign of [[Void|bad things]]. This was a pretty worrying sign, but luckily in late December Titan stated that when the third film came out, the comic "will return to monthly, so you won't have to wait so long between issues."<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/TransformersComic Transformers Comic] on Facebook</ref> It then returned to long gaps, a whopping ''twelve weeks'' between issues, after 4.11.

The sales for #1 of the ''Saga of the Allspark'' reprint series sold 11,417 in the North American direct market; <ref>[http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=622675&postcount=432 Comic sales discussion] (August 19, 2008) on TFArchive</ref> this had dropped to 8,939 by #4. <ref>[http://tfarchive.com/community/showpost.php?p=634907&postcount=467 Comic sales discussion] (November 19, 2008) on TFArchive</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==External links==
* [http://titanmagazines.com/t/transformers/ Titan's Transformers Comic webpage]
* [http://www.facebook.com/Transformers-Comic/ Transformers Comic Facebook page]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20090215042925/http://fractalmatter.com/main/?p=671 Steve White interview with Fractal Matter] (archive copy)
* [http://transfans.co.uk/interviews_white.php Steve White interview with TransFans.co.uk]
* [http://titanmagazines.com/pages/digital/ Titan's digital strips]

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Transformers Comic issue 4.13

2013-04-04T20:58:37Z

Astrobot: Making this page was long overdue. Finishing this page can wait a little longer.

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|date=[[January 10|10 January]] [[2013]]
|editor=[[Mark McKenzie-Ray]]
|assistant editor=[[Jon Chapple]]
|senior editor=[[Steve White]]
|designer=[[Dan Bura]]
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'''This Issue Exists.'''

==Protecting the Lady==
* '''Script:''' [[Robin Etherington]]
* '''Art:''' [[Jeremy Tiongson]]
* '''Colours:''' [[Sam Palmer]]
* '''Lettering:''' [[Comicraft]]
* '''Continuity:''' ''[[Transformers: Prime (franchise)|Transformers: Prime]]''
There should be a summary here. It will involve the [[Statue of Liberty]].

===Featured characters===
{{featuredcharacters|c1=
*[[Bumblebee (WFC)|Bumblebee]] (1)
*[[Ratchet (WFC)|Ratchet]] (3)
*[[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] (7)
*[[Optimus Prime (WFC)|Optimus Prime]] (8)
*[[Bulkhead (Prime)|Bulkhead]] (9)

|c2=
*[[Vehicon (Prime)|Vehicons]] (6)
*[[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]] (10)
*[[Soundwave (WFC)|Soundwave]] (11)

|c3=
*[[Raf Esquivel]] (2)
*[[Jack Darby]] (4)
*[[Miko Nakadai]] (5)

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===Quotes===
None noted so far.

===Errors===
*None noted so far.

===Notes===
*Nothing of note.

==Contents==
===Articles and features===
*New Year Wordsearch
*Soundwave's Stumpers
*Kre-O Transformers puzzles
*Taking Liberties
*Are you an Autobot or Decepticon?
*Primed for Action: [[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)| Prime]] Season 2 continued
*Starscream's Star Signs
*Mega-Mouth: [[Megatron (WFC)|Megatron]] and [[Arcee (Prime)|Arcee]] answer letters and critique art.
*Competition: Win something.

===Free Gift!===
*A micro-change Kreon! (the best free gift ever attached to this comic)

===Mega-Mouth===
*The usual.

==Notes==
===Errors===
Nothing jumps out as being wrong.

===Trivia===
*Despite being quarterly, the episode is still here - just covering a whole bunch of episodes at once.

===Advertisements===
*Some stuff? I dunno.
*Subscribe today!
*[[Transformers Comic issue 4.14]] —

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Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Annual 2010

2012-02-05T13:15:50Z

Astrobot: Added a couple of things to the Notes section. Page probably still need more links.

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|date=[[September 3]], 2009
|coverdate=2010
|pagecount=64
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The '''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' Annual 2010''' was published in the [[United Kingdom]] by HarperCollins Children's Books.

==Contents==
* '''Return of the Robots''' - Text introduction, summarising the first movie, Starscream and the Fallen on the Nemesis, the revival of Megatron, and Sam going to college.
* '''Locations in Disguise''' wordsearch
* '''Colour Devastator'''
* '''Transformers Sightings 2009''' - world map, with callouts to various locations with Decepticon sightings.
* '''Spot the Difference''' between two photos of Skids & Mudflap
* '''Save the Sun''' by completing a pyramid-shaped maze.
* '''The Fallen poster'''
* '''[[When Robots Attack!]]''' reprint of the illustrated storybook of the same name.
* '''History of the Primes''' - Text background on the Fallen, the Star Harvester and the Dynasty of the Primes
* '''Battle for the Pyramid''' board game
* '''Whose Side Are You On?''' complex psychological profiler, for identifying British children that are most similar to Optimus Prime, Megatron, Wheels, Starscream or Bumblebee.
* '''Colour the Fallen'''
* '''[[Operation Autobot]]''' reprint of the illustrated storybook of the same name.
* '''Transform and Roll Out!''' - match the Transformer to their alt-mode
* '''Shadow Match''' - match Transformers' stock renders with silhouettes of the same stock renders.
* '''Colour Megatron''' - hitting Starscream
* '''Code of the Primes''' code-breaker puzzle
* '''Transformer Tracker''' - logic puzzle
* '''Bumblebee Poster''' - "Your new best friend"
* '''Allspark Grid''' - wordsearch-like puzzle: cross out every instance of "AllSpark" to reveal a hidden message
* '''Memory Machine''' - look at a picture, then turn the page and answer questions on it
* '''More Than Meets The Eye Poster'''
* '''Sideswipe Poster'''
* Answers

==Notes==
* Wheelie is consistently named Wheels, and is visually absent even in the ''Whose Side Are You On?'' feature.
* The stories have perhaps been edited for a UK audience: in ''When Robots Attack!'', the text switches between "mum" and "mom".

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[[Category:Annuals|2010]]

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Annual 2010

2012-02-05T13:07:50Z

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The '''''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' Annual 2010''' was published in the [[United Kingdom]] by HarperCollins Children's Books.

==Contents==
* '''Return of the Robots''' - Text introduction, summarising the first movie, Starscream and the Fallen on the Nemesis, the revival of Megatron, and Sam going to college.
* '''Locations in Disguise''' wordsearch
* '''Colour Devastator'''
* '''Transformers Sightings 2009''' - world map, with callouts to various locations with Decepticon sightings.
* '''Spot the Difference''' between two photos of Skids & Mudflap
* '''Save the Sun''' by completing a pyramid-shaped maze.
* '''The Fallen poster'''
* '''[[When Robots Attack!]]''' reprint of the illustrated storybook of the same name.
* '''History of the Primes''' - Text background on the Fallen, the Star Harvester and the Dynasty of the Primes
* '''Battle for the Pyramid''' board game
* '''Whose Side Are You On?''' complex psychological profiler, for identifying British children that are most similar to Optimus Prime, Megatron, Wheels, Starscream or Bumblebee.
* '''Colour the Fallen'''
* '''[[Operation Autobot]]''' reprint of the illustrated storybook of the same name.
* '''Transform and Roll Out!''' - match the Transformer to their alt-mode
* '''Shadow Match''' - match Transformers' stock renders with silhouettes of the same stock renders.
* '''Colour Megatron''' - hitting Starscream
* '''Code of the Primes''' code-breaker puzzle
* '''Transformer Tracker''' - logic puzzle
* '''Bumblebee Poster''' - "Your new best friend"
* '''Allspark Grid''' - wordsearch-like puzzle: cross out every instance of "AllSpark" to reveal a hidden message
* '''Memory Machine''' - look at a picture, then turn the page and answer questions on it
* '''More Than Meets The Eye Poster'''
* '''Sideswipe Poster'''
* Answers

==Notes==
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[[Category:Annuals|2010]]

Transformers Annual 2008

2012-02-05T12:40:40Z

Astrobot: Listed the contents.

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The '''''Transformers'' Annual 2008''' was published in the [[United Kingdom]] by HarperCollins Children's Books.

==Contents==
* '''Transformers''' (reprint of [[Transformers: The Movie Storybook]], the illustrated text adaptation of the movie for children)
* '''Incoming!''' colouring page
* '''Mistaken Identity''' code-breaking puzzle
* '''Crossword''' puzzle
* '''Under Wraps''' code-breaking puzzle
* '''Transformers Lingo''' - wordsearch-like puzzle, cross out the word Transformer wherever it appears to reveal their motto
* '''Who's Who''' wordsearch
* '''What if...''' If you could transform into any vehicle or object what would it be? Draw it here, while we get away with printing a blank page.
* '''Victory!''' - wordsearch-like puzzle, crossing out the word Decepticon this time.
* '''A Peaceful New Home''' join-the-dots puzzle.

==Notes==
As with many of the Movie's promotional merchandise, stock renderings of early designs are used throughout, most conspicuously of [[Megatron_(Movie)#Notes|Megatron's early head]].

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[[Category:Movie media|Annual 2008]]

Transformers Annual

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Astrobot: Added some more info on the changing faces of the annuals, and shuffled some bits around.

[[Image:Transformers annual 1987.jpg|thumb|right|300px]]
'''Transformers Annuals''' are hardback books released in the [[United Kingdom]], typically during the run-up to [[Christmas]] the year before the date on the cover. Traditionally, Annuals in the UK contain a mixture of comics, text stories, profiles, puzzles and games, but the balance between these had varied strongly over the decades. The [[Marvel Comics]] Annuals of the G1 era contained stories which are regarded as part of the [[The Transformers (Marvel comic)#Marvel UK|Marvel UK comic]] canon, as well as unique [[Transformers_AtoZ|A-Z profiles]] of characters in the context of the UK continuity (such as [[Earthforce]]).

The two Annuals produced during the [[Unicron Trilogy]] period are almost entirely reprints of the contemporary [[Dreamwave_Productions|Dreamwave]] comics, with no introductory or background material. In the [[Live-action_film_series|live-action movie]] era, the balance has swung the other way, with the Annuals filled with games and puzzles, interspersed with a text story such as a movie adaptation.

While some annuals, notably those concerning [[Wikipedia:Rupert Bear|Rupert Bear]], are so rare as to fetch thousands of pounds, Transformers Annuals have so far failed to attain that sort of value. Indeed, while they typically retail for £6.99 - £7.99 before Christmas, after the holidays they can often be picked up for under a quid.

===Generation 1===
*[[Transformers Annual 1986]]
*[[Transformers Annual 1987]]
*[[Transformers Annual 1988]]
*[[Transformers Annual 1989]]
*[[Transformers Annual 1990]]
*[[Transformers Annual 1991]]
*[[Transformers Annual 1992]]

===Generation 2===
*[[The Official Transformers: Generation 2 Annual]]

===Unicron Trilogy===
*[[Transformers Armada Annual 2004]]
*[[Transformers Energon Annual 2005]]

===''Transformers'' movie===
*[[Transformers Annual 2008]]

===Transformers Animated===
*[[Transformers Animated Annual 2009]]

===Revenge of the Fallen===
*[[Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Annual 2010]]
*[[Transformers Annual 2011]]

===Dark of the Moon===
*[[Transformers Dark of the Moon Annual 2012]]

[[Category:Annuals| ]]

User:Astrobot

2012-02-05T12:04:25Z

Astrobot:

That would be me then.

I'm a UK-based fan, from the late-80s/early-90s period, and again since about 2001 (when BW/BM toys were on sale for krazee-low prices). I spent a few years in Germany, gawking at high prices and shelfwarmers.

[[User:Astrobot|Astrobot]] 01:32, 11 July 2011 (EDT)

Transformers Energon Annual 2005

2012-02-05T12:02:40Z

Astrobot: Added cover photo

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|date=1st September 2004
|coverdate=2005
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ISBN 978-1904329671
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The '''Transformers Energon Annual 2005''' was published in the [[United Kingdom]] by [[Pedigree Books]].

==Content==
Reprints of Dreamwave [[Energon_(comic)|Energon]] comics:
* [[What Lies Beneath|What Lies Beneath, Part One]]
* [[What Lies Beneath, Part Two]]

Other material:
* A double-page spread of brief character profiles
* 7 "posters"

==Notes==
* The story content ends on an incongruous "To be continued."
* The posters and cover art use the same slightly mis-proportioned non-Dreamwave early promotional artwork as the [[Transformers:_The_Ultimate_Guide|Ultimate Guide]] book.

==External links==
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transformers-Annual-2005-Annuals-Anon/dp/1904329675/ Amazon listing]

[[Category: Annuals|2005]]

File:Energon Annual 2005.JPG

2012-02-05T11:59:54Z

Astrobot: Photograph of the Transformers Energon 2005 Annual. Taken by me. ~~~~

Photograph of the Transformers Energon 2005 Annual. Taken by me. [[User:Astrobot|Astrobot]] 06:59, 5 February 2012 (EST)

Transformers Energon Annual 2005

2012-02-05T11:48:38Z

Astrobot:

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ISBN 978-1904329671
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The '''Transformers Energon Annual 2005''' was published in the [[United Kingdom]] by [[Pedigree Books]].

==Content==
Reprints of Dreamwave [[Energon_(comic)|Energon]] comics:
* [[What Lies Beneath|What Lies Beneath, Part One]]
* [[What Lies Beneath, Part Two]]

Other material:
* A double-page spread of brief character profiles
* 7 "posters"

==Notes==
* The story content ends on an incongruous "To be continued."
* The posters and cover art use the same slightly mis-proportioned non-Dreamwave early promotional artwork as the [[Transformers:_The_Ultimate_Guide|Ultimate Guide]] book.

==External links==
* [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transformers-Annual-2005-Annuals-Anon/dp/1904329675/ Amazon listing]

[[Category: Annuals|2005]]

2011-07-11T05:32:32Z

Astrobot: New page: That would be me then. I'm a UK/Germany-based fan, from the late-80s/early-90s period, and again since about 2001 (when BW/BM toys were on sale for krazee-low prices) ~~~~

That would be me then.

I'm a UK/Germany-based fan, from the late-80s/early-90s period, and again since about 2001 (when BW/BM toys were on sale for krazee-low prices)
[[User:Astrobot|Astrobot]] 01:32, 11 July 2011 (EDT)