Ades Media
Ades Media is a Swedish publishing company, whose main services are Swedish translations of various comics, such as Italian horror series Dylan Dog. Relevant to this wiki, it is publishing various Transformers related material. Their main output has been hardcover collections of Simon Furman's work at Marvel Comics and James Roberts' works for IDW Publishing, as well as a quarterly series, translating Energon Universe material. In 2021, Ades Media started Retrobokklubben, an imprint dedicated to franchises from the 80s and 90s, including The Terminator, Marvel Super Heroes and further Transformers releases. Ades intitally worked with IDW Publishing until they lost the license and are currently collaborating with Skybound Entertainment on their Transfomers releases.
Published works
[edit]IDW reprints
[edit]- Wreckers sista strid (June 2018) - collection of The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers, "Bullets", Spotlight: Kup, and "Everything in Its Right Place", along with all the bonus material originally featured in each publication's original TPB releases, as well as "Wreckers: Sweclassified" - a short article written by translator Johan Boström.
- Mer än ögat kan se (June 2019) - a collection of the first eight issues of The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, along with "Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations", "The Reluctant Specialist", and "The Waiting Game" - as well as the bonus material and cover gallery from each of those publications, an interview with author James Roberts, and a reprint of "Bullets," correcting spelling-errors and mistakes present in Wreckers sista strid, featuring new and exclusive illustrations to go along with the story by famed Transformers artists Nick Roche, Jeff Anderson, and Stephen Baskerville, and non-pros Winston Chan and Thomas Sjöström.
- Kaos och Skuggor (November 2020) - a collection of issues #22, #23, #24, #26, #28 and #30 of The Transformers, "The Death of Optimus Prime" and issues #9-#13 of More than Meets the Eye including "Signal to Noise". Bonus material includes original pages, a cover gallery and an afterword from James Roberts.
- Krig och hågkomst (July 2021) - a translation of #14-#22 of More Than Meets the Eye as well as Spotlight: Orion Pax and a special illustrated version of The Sound of Breaking Glass, in the same vein as "Bullets". Bonus material is once again original pages, cover gallery and an afterword from James Roberts as well as some sketches from Alex Milne.
- Du sköna nya värld (November 2022) - a translation of issues #28-38 and #40 of More Than Meets the Eye. Bonus material this time consists of a preliminary sketches and finished pencils from Atilio Rojo with commentary by Roberts.
- Optimus Prime - Tillbaka till jorden (February 2023) - a translation of issues #28-32 and #34-38 of The Transformers: Robots in Disguise and the Punishment mini-series. Bonus material consists of an afterword by Andrew Griffith.
- Några av mina bästa vänner är Autoboter (November 2025) - a translation of issues #39 and #41-46 of More Than Meets the Eye, the Drift: Empire of Stone miniseries and the MTMTE tie-in issue for Revolution.
- Stormvarning (April 2026) - a translation of the first six Spotlights and the Stormbringer miniseries.
Marvel UK reprints
[edit]- Jakten på Matrixen (October 2019) - a translation of the "Matrix Quest" storyline from the Marvel comics run, based on the IDW reprints found in The Transformers Classics, and about 100 pages of supplementary material taken from the Marvel UK comics, as well as an assortment of translated The Transformers Universe profiles.
- I siktet: 2006 (November 2021) - a translation of various Marvel UK materials, mainly Target: 2006 and other related storylines. Bonus material includes more translated Transformers: Universe profiles, four articles from James Roberts, all translated from the pages of The Transformers Classics UK, an article on Atlantic's original Swedish reprints of the Marvel comic from the 1980s and various emphemera.
- Transformers & Action Force: Vedergällning (May 2022) - Mainly the very first collection of Marvel UK's original weekly Action Force strips since the 1980s, this hardcover also includes the Ancient Relics crossover, as well as Ladies' Night, What's in a Name and Grudge Match.
- Tidskriget (September 2024) - A translation of the Space Pirates and Time Wars storylines, along with other related Marvel UK strips and another article on Atlantic's 1980s reprints.
Ongoing series
[edit]- Transformers (2024-present) - A quarterly publication, translating two to three issues of Energon Universe content per issue, with an occasional bonus from elsewhere in the franchise.