Transformers: Way of the Warrior

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Transformers: Way of the Warrior
Publisher	Titan Books
First published	22nd July 2005
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Simon Coleby, Dan Reed, Geoff Senior, Staz, John Stokes, Lee Sullivan
Pencils	Jeff Anderson, Pete Knifton
Inks	Stephen Baskerville, Michael Eve, Pete Venters
Letterers	Stuart Bartlett, GLIB (also credited as Gary Gilbert), Helen Stone
Editor	Euan Peters
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
TPB ISBN	ISBN 1-84576-059-X
Price	£5.99
Printed in	Italy

Transformers: Way of the Warrior is the second in Titan Books' series of black and white Marvel UK reprint trade paperbacks. It mainly follows the exploits of the survivors left over from the Time Wars as they are hunted down by the Mayhem Attack Squad and their subsequent integration into Grimlock's Earthforce. The last two stories tie in closer to the Marvel Comics continuity being set just before the Matrix Quest.

Contents

• "Survivors!"
• "The Hunting Party"
• "Way of the Warrior"
• "Survival Run"
• "A Savage Place!"
• "Cry Wolf!"
• "Wolf in the Fold!"
• "Where Wolf?"
• "Shut Up!"
• "Manoeuvres!"
• "Whose Lifeforce Is It Anyway?"
• "The Greatest Gift of All!"

Cover

• Springer and Carnivac take down Skids's nightmare creatures from Limbo. Detail from the cover of issue #222, by Simon Coleby.

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Notes

• This volume covers some of the UK tales from issue #219 to #250.
• The stories in these TPBs are placed into themes rather than as a chronological collection of the UK tales as they were published and the page count inevitably means some of the collections are more coherent than others.
• Some of these stories sit well within the wider Marvel continuity, while the "Survivors" story arc just kind of segues into Earthforce continuity.
• There are no changes from the original prints so the teaser at the end of one story/arc usually doesn't relate to the next story in the book. For instance, the "Survivors" arc ends with 'Next: Aspects of Evil', only to be followed by "The Hunting Party".
• The small size of the books (7½ by 5 inches - less than half the original A4 format) means that some of the fine detail is lost.