Editing War and Peace

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'''''War and Peace''''' is a six-part miniseries published by [[Dreamwave Productions]], set in the main G1 [[Dreamwave Generation One continuity|Dreamwave continuity]] and following up on the successful ''[[Prime Directive]]'' miniseries.  The plot follows the Earth-bound Transformers as they return to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], where [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] has united the Transformers.

{{chapters|title=''War and Peace'' issues:
|prev=Prime Directive
|next=Generation One (Dreamwave comic)
|content=
* [[Transformers Volume 2 Preview|Preview]]
* [[New World Order|#1]]
* [[Brothers' Burden|#2]]
* [[Cold War (issue)|#3]]
* [[Passive Aggression|#4]]
* [[Countdown to Extinction (issue)|#5]]
*[[Revelation (War and Peace)|#6]]
}}

==Overview==
An Autobot-Decepticon battle on [[Earth]] ends when Shockwave arrives and announces that the war is over. Most of the Earthly Transformers are eventually captured and returned to Cybertron, where both factions are united under Shockwave's ostensibly peaceful banner, but the Decepticon leader's machinations run deep, and soon open war emerges again.

The series seems to repudiate some of the perceived mistakes made by its economically successful but oft-criticized predecessor. An early sub-plot with [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] having some kind of visions appeared in previews, but was dropped. [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]]'s somewhat perfunctory "death" is retconned as a near-miss, and the overall story veers in a completely different direction.

While not as economically successful as ''Prime Directive'', sales were still high enough to lead to an [[Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave) |ongoing series]].

===Items of note===
* The series was originally to be penned by [[Chris Sarracini]], who wrote the [[Prime Directive|previous volume]].  According to a Wizard's Edge article, Sarracini's plot would have featured [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]] and [[Unicron]].<ref name="wizedge">[http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=1051 Tformers quoting a Wizard's Edge article that hints at the originally intended plot for ''Generation 1 volume 2''.]</ref> When [[James McDonough|<strike>James McDonough</strike> Brad Mick]] replaced Sarracini as the writer, he took the story in a different direction.
* A [[Transformers Volume 2 Preview|preview story]] (written by Sarracini) that was published in the trade paperback collection of the [[Prime Directive|first volume]], featuring a spaceship with a large [[Autobot]] [[insignia]] crashed in the Arctic Ocean and [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] suffering some kind of seizure, was mostly ignored by the actual ''War And Peace'' story. [[New World Order|Issue 1]] only briefly references the events of the preview story in the prologue printed on the inside cover, noting that Prime's vision (the fit he had suffered in the preview story) has brought the Autobots to the Arctic, but the ship is never mentioned, essentially "replaced" with a stasis capsule containing [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]. The mystery of the ship would not be resolved until over a year later, in [[Original Sin|issue #5]] of Dreamwave's [[Transformers: Generation 1 (Dreamwave) |ongoing ''Generation 1'' series]], wherein it was revealed to be the ship that brought [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] and Omega Supreme to Earth, and the origin point for Scourge's capsule.
* ''War and Peace'' contains many references to 1986's ''[[The Transformers: The Movie]]''—[[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] throws an injured [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] out into space; [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]], [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], [[Springer (G1)|Springer]], [[Kup (G1)|Kup]], [[Blurr (G1)|Blurr]], [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], [[Wheelie (G1)|Wheelie]] and the [[Sharkticon (G1)|Sharkticons]] are featured; the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] and [[Unicron]] are seen; even [[Wreck-Gar (G1)|Wreck-Gar]] makes an appearance in the epilogue.
* The series also makes reference to the cartoon with Shockwave's capture of [[Alpha Trion (G1)|Alpha Trion]] and [[Vector Sigma]].

==Creative team==
The series was written by [[James McDonough]] under his pen name of "Brad Mick", and penciled by [[Pat Lee]] and [[Edwin Garcia]].

==Collections==
* '''''Transformers Generation One Vol. 2: War and Peace''''' TPB <small>(Jan 2004) ISBN 0973381701 / ISBN 978-0973381702</small>
:*Publisher: DreamWave Productions

* '''''Transformers: Generation One Volume Two''''' TPB <small>([[March 29]], [[2006]]) ISBN 1933239824 / ISBN 978-1933239828</small>
:*176 pages
:*Publisher: [[IDW Publishing]]

===International collections===
====Japan====
'''''Transformers G1 Vol. 2''''' (トランスフォーマーG1) <small>([[July 31]], 2004) ISBN 4902314649 / ISBN 978-4902314649</small>
*Publisher: [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96 JIVE Ltd.]
*Translators: [[Hiroto Ishikawa]], [[Katsuya Akitomo]]

==Footnotes==
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[[Category:Dreamwave titles]]
[[Category:Generation 1 comic series]]