Transformers: Wreckers—Tread & Circuits
Transformers: Wreckers—Tread & Circuits is a four-issue comic miniseries from IDW Publishing that debuted in October 2021. Set in the wider galaxy during the early days of the Great War, the comic provides an origin story for a new iteration of the Wreckers.
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Overview
[edit]The Wreckers are a team of deep cover Autobot daredevils who use their highly publicized stunt shows as a cover for their covert operations across the galaxy. When the Speedia 500 is threatened, the team takes on its most dangerous mission yet.
Creative team
[edit]Tread & Circuits is written by David Mariotte, who previously co-wrote Transformers vs. The Terminator with John Barber, and illustrated by Lost Light regular Jack Lawrence.
Collections
[edit]Oddly, Tread & Circuits did not receive a proper trade in English speaking markets, instead being lumped in with volume 5 of the main title. A French language edition was released by Vestron, however.
- Transformers Volume 5: Horrors Near and Far (June 8, 2022) ISBN 168405883X / ISBN 978-1684058839
- Collects Transformers (2019) issues #31–36 & Annual 2021, Transformers Halloween Special, and Wreckers—Tread & Circuits issues #1–4.
- Bonus material includes alternate covers.
- Hardcover format.
- Transformers: Wreckers: Tread & Circuits (September 23, 2022) ISBN 2383730130 / ISBN 978-2383730132
- Collects Wreckers—Tread & Circuits issues #1–4.
- French language edition.
- Trade paperback format.
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Volume 5: Horrors Near and Far – cover art by Cryssy Cheung
Notes
[edit]- This mini-series was essentially "stealth marketing" for 2022's Legacy "Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection" toyline, nearly a year in advance of its release. Though no official link was ever drawn between the comic and the toyline, most of the toys in the line's first wave (Override, Road Rocket, Clampdown, Burn Out, and Road Hauler) appear in Tread and Circuits, months before the figures were officially revealed.
- The series title is a reference to the ancient Roman concept of "bread and circuses" — where rulers would gain support from their subjects by providing food and entertainment even if they weren't actually helping them.[1]
References
[edit]- ↑ "It's called Tread and Circuits as a play on "Bread and Circus" because spectacle plays a big role in the series. I feel ineloquent talking about it right now, but it'll be fun and there'll be plenty of mayhem, for those so inclined. Join us on this journey, won't you?"—David Mariotte, Twitter, 2021/07/20
