User talk:Jackpot/Sandbox/IDW-G1 recommended reading order - Revision history

Cyberlink420 at 15:42, 11 April 2019

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	==The method behind==		==The method behind==
	So my initial thought was to arrange the books in story-chronological order, as it is [[IDW continuity#Media\|currently presented elsewhere]]. But a counterpoint immediately presents itself in the form of ''Megatron Origin,'' which would be the logical first mini, but would be a TERRIBLE introduction. It's way too dense and far-removed and ultimately irrelevant; ''Infiltration'' is MEANT to guide the reader into this particular universe through audience-surrogate characters and slow reveals.		So my initial thought was to arrange the books in story-chronological order, as it is [[2005 IDW continuity#Media\|currently presented elsewhere]]. But a counterpoint immediately presents itself in the form of ''Megatron Origin,'' which would be the logical first mini, but would be a TERRIBLE introduction. It's way too dense and far-removed and ultimately irrelevant; ''Infiltration'' is MEANT to guide the reader into this particular universe through audience-surrogate characters and slow reveals.

	So the other natural thought is publication order. It's the most objective criterion and the best guide we have to how IDW "meant" for us to experience their universe:		So the other natural thought is publication order. It's the most objective criterion and the best guide we have to how IDW "meant" for us to experience their universe:

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	#'''2008/06/18''' ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]''		#'''2008/06/18''' ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]''
	#'''2008/06/18''' ''[[Revelation (IDW)\|Revelation]]'' #[[Spotlight: Cyclonus\|1]]		#'''2008/06/18''' ''[[Revelation (IDW)\|Revelation]]'' #[[Spotlight: Cyclonus\|1]]
	#'''2008/07/10''' ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 1\|1]]		#'''2008/07/10''' ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron\|All Hail Megatron]]'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 1\|1]]
	#'''2008/07/16 - 08/20''' ''Revelation'' #[[Spotlight: Hardhead\|1]]-[[Spotlight: Doubledealer\|3]]		#'''2008/07/16 - 08/20''' ''Revelation'' #[[Spotlight: Hardhead\|1]]-[[Spotlight: Doubledealer\|3]]
	#'''2008/08/20 - 09/17''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 2\|2]]-[[All Hail Megatron issue 3\|3]]		#'''2008/08/20 - 09/17''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 2\|2]]-[[All Hail Megatron issue 3\|3]]

Deceptitran: BOT: replacing (1) links to "Infiltration" with "The Transformers: Infiltration"

2011-11-05T21:18:04Z

BOT: replacing (1) links to "Infiltration" with "The Transformers: Infiltration"

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	#'''2005/10/19 - 2006/07/12''' ''[[Infiltration]]'' #[[Infiltration issue 0\|0]]-[[Infiltration issue 6\|6]]		#'''2005/10/19 - 2006/07/12''' ''[[The Transformers: Infiltration\|Infiltration]]'' #[[Infiltration issue 0\|0]]-[[Infiltration issue 6\|6]]
	#'''2006/07/19 - 2006/09/06''' ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer \|Stormbringer]]'' #[[Stormbringer issue 1\|1]]-[[Stormbringer issue 3\|3]]		#'''2006/07/19 - 2006/09/06''' ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer \|Stormbringer]]'' #[[Stormbringer issue 1\|1]]-[[Stormbringer issue 3\|3]]
	#'''2006/09/13''' ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''		#'''2006/09/13''' ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''

Deceptitran: BOT: replacing (1) links to "Stormbringer (comics)" with "The Transformers: Stormbringer "

2011-11-05T03:07:04Z

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	#'''2005/10/19 - 2006/07/12''' ''[[Infiltration]]'' #[[Infiltration issue 0\|0]]-[[Infiltration issue 6\|6]]		#'''2005/10/19 - 2006/07/12''' ''[[Infiltration]]'' #[[Infiltration issue 0\|0]]-[[Infiltration issue 6\|6]]
	#'''2006/07/19 - 2006/09/06''' ''[[Stormbringer ~~(comics)~~\|Stormbringer]]'' #[[Stormbringer issue 1\|1]]-[[Stormbringer issue 3\|3]]		#'''2006/07/19 - 2006/09/06''' ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer \|Stormbringer]]'' #[[Stormbringer issue 1\|1]]-[[Stormbringer issue 3\|3]]
	#'''2006/09/13''' ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''		#'''2006/09/13''' ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''
	#'''2006/10/18''' ''Stormbringer'' #[[Stormbringer issue 4\|4]]		#'''2006/10/18''' ''Stormbringer'' #[[Stormbringer issue 4\|4]]

Deceptitran: BOT: replacing (1) links to "Devastation (IDW)" with "The Transformers: Devastation"

2011-11-03T13:58:04Z

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	#'''2007/09/06''' ''Megatron Origin'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 3\|3]]		#'''2007/09/06''' ''Megatron Origin'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 3\|3]]
	#'''2007/09/12''' ''New Avengers / Transformers'' #[[Man and Machine, Part Three\|3]]		#'''2007/09/12''' ''New Avengers / Transformers'' #[[Man and Machine, Part Three\|3]]
	#'''2007/10/03''' ''[[Devastation ~~(IDW)~~\|Devastation]]'' #[[Devastation issue 1\|1]]		#'''2007/10/03''' ''[[The Transformers: Devastation\|Devastation]]'' #[[Devastation issue 1\|1]]
	#'''2007/10/10''' ''New Avengers / Transformers'' #[[Man and Machine, Part Four\|4]]		#'''2007/10/10''' ''New Avengers / Transformers'' #[[Man and Machine, Part Four\|4]]
	#'''2007/10/24''' ''Megatron Origin'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 4\|4]]		#'''2007/10/24''' ''Megatron Origin'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 4\|4]]

Deceptitran: BOT: replacing (1) links to "Escalation (IDW)" with "The Transformers: Escalation"

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	#'''2006/10/18''' ''[[Spotlight: Nightbeat]]''		#'''2006/10/18''' ''[[Spotlight: Nightbeat]]''
	#'''2006/11/15''' ''[[Spotlight: Hot Rod]]''		#'''2006/11/15''' ''[[Spotlight: Hot Rod]]''
	#'''2006/11/29 - 2006/12/20''' ''[[Escalation ~~(IDW)~~\|Escalation]]'' #[[Escalation issue 1\|1]]-[[Escalation issue 2\|2]]		#'''2006/11/29 - 2006/12/20''' ''[[The Transformers: Escalation\|Escalation]]'' #[[Escalation issue 1\|1]]-[[Escalation issue 2\|2]]
	#'''2006/12/20''' ''[[Spotlight: Sixshot]]''		#'''2006/12/20''' ''[[Spotlight: Sixshot]]''
	#'''2007/01/17''' ''[[Spotlight: Ultra Magnus]]''		#'''2007/01/17''' ''[[Spotlight: Ultra Magnus]]''

Deceptitran: BOT: replacing (1) links to "Maximum Dinobots" with "The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots"

2011-11-03T01:44:04Z

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	#'''2008/11/05''' ''[[Spotlight: Blurr]]''		#'''2008/11/05''' ''[[Spotlight: Blurr]]''
	#'''2008/11/26''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 5\|5]]		#'''2008/11/26''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 5\|5]]
	#'''2008/12/10''' ''[[Maximum Dinobots]]'' #[[Maximum Dinobots issue 1\|1]]		#'''2008/12/10''' ''[[The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots\|Maximum Dinobots]]'' #[[Maximum Dinobots issue 1\|1]]
	#'''2009/01/02''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 6\|6]]		#'''2009/01/02''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 6\|6]]
	#'''2009/01/07''' ''Maximum Dinobots'' #[[Maximum Dinobots issue 2\|2]]		#'''2009/01/07''' ''Maximum Dinobots'' #[[Maximum Dinobots issue 2\|2]]

Deceptitran: BOT: replacing (1) links to "Megatron Origin" with "The Transformers: Megatron Origin"

2011-11-02T20:57:04Z

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	#'''2007/04/25''' ''[[Spotlight: Kup]]''		#'''2007/04/25''' ''[[Spotlight: Kup]]''
	#'''2007/05/02''' ''Escalation'' #[[Escalation issue 6\|6]]		#'''2007/05/02''' ''Escalation'' #[[Escalation issue 6\|6]]
	#'''2007/06/20''' ''[[Megatron Origin]]'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 1\|1]]		#'''2007/06/20''' ''[[The Transformers: Megatron Origin\|Megatron Origin]]'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 1\|1]]
	#'''2007/07/05''' ''[[Spotlight: Galvatron]]''		#'''2007/07/05''' ''[[Spotlight: Galvatron]]''
	#'''2007/07/05''' ''[[New Avengers / Transformers]]'' #[[Man and Machine, Part One\|1]]		#'''2007/07/05''' ''[[New Avengers / Transformers]]'' #[[Man and Machine, Part One\|1]]

Nevermore at 10:24, 21 September 2009

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	I'm pretty sure I got everything, and I think my reasoning is tight, but if anyone has any thoughts, feel free to comment or critique. - [[User:Jackpot\|Jackpot]] 02:28, 27 July 2009 (EDT)		I'm pretty sure I got everything, and I think my reasoning is tight, but if anyone has any thoughts, feel free to comment or critique. - [[User:Jackpot\|Jackpot]] 02:28, 27 July 2009 (EDT)
			:Personally I'd love for a clear cut between the "Furman" era and the stuff that comes after it, which would mean putting Spotlight: Wheelie after Maximum Dinobots. That'd mean the Furman era ends with SL: Wheelie, which wouldn't be bad at all! Megatron: Origin and Spotlight: Mirage are collateral damage, but then again, I didn't really like either.--[[User:Nevermore\|Nevermore]] 06:24, 21 September 2009 (EDT)

Jackpot at 16:31, 27 July 2009

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	I still really like ''Megatron Origin'' as a marker denoting the end of the Furman era. ''SL: Mirage'' wasn't actually a Furman story, and I think it works really well as a precursor to ''All Hail'' (what with Mirage's potential traitorhood and all), so I'm happy moving it into the pre-AHM Spotlight batch. In fact, look what happens ~~with a little bit of shuffling~~:		I still really like ''Megatron Origin'' as a marker denoting the end of the Furman era. ''SL: Mirage'' wasn't actually a Furman story, and I think it works really well as a precursor to ''All Hail'' (what with Mirage's potential traitorhood and all), so I'm happy moving it into the pre-AHM Spotlight batch. In fact, look what happens if we swap ''SL: Drift'' and ''SL: Cliffjumper'' and put ''SL: Mirage'' in-between:

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	''Megatron Origin'' takes the reader back to the start of the war, ''SL: Blurr'' shows a time period very soon afterwards, when the choosing of sides is becoming everyone's concern, and ''SL: Cliffjumper'' shows a much later stage of the war when it has spread to other planets and the Autobots have become uncomfortably similar to their enemies. ''SL: Mirage'' continues the theme of blurring the 'Bot/'Con line as it brings the storyline back to the present, laying the seeds for AHM with Mirage's ambiguity. ''SL: Drift'' shows the Decepticon side of the same degradation-through-eons-of-war, and putting it after ''SL: Mirage'' signals to the reader that it's also a present-day story. So Kup has in fact gotten better, and the other Autobots' reactions in AHM to Drift (skeptical) and Perceptor (shocked at his chest-wound-induced change in personality) will make sense because there's been no time for either one to gain acceptance. And then finally, ''SL: Metroplex'' specifically identifies itself as taking place right before AHM#1 in its indicia, and as a bonus it also establishes how Megatron got spacebridge tech and drops ominous hints about how the war may have been already lost.		''Megatron Origin'' takes the reader back to the start of the war, ''SL: Blurr'' shows a time period very soon afterwards, when the choosing of sides is becoming everyone's concern, and ''SL: Cliffjumper'' shows a much later stage of the war when it has spread to other planets and the Autobots have become uncomfortably similar to their enemies. ''SL: Mirage'' continues the theme of blurring the 'Bot/'Con line as it brings the storyline back to the present, laying the seeds for AHM with Mirage's ambiguity. ''SL: Drift'' shows the Decepticon side of the same degradation-through-eons-of-war, and putting it after ''SL: Mirage'' signals to the reader that it's also a present-day story. So Kup has in fact gotten better, and the other Autobots' reactions in AHM to Drift (skeptical) and Perceptor (shocked at his chest-wound-induced change in personality) will make sense because there's been no time for either one to gain acceptance. And then finally, ''SL: Metroplex'' specifically identifies itself as taking place right before AHM#1 in its indicia, and as a bonus it also establishes how Megatron got spacebridge tech and drops ominous hints about how the war may have been already lost. This is admittedly my most subjective call, and I don't really like rearranging the sequence of the Spotlights so much, but the end result just works too well.

	Whew! So that's my take on it all. Here's the final list:		Whew! So that's my take on it all. Here's the final list:

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	#'''2008/06/18''' ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]''		#'''2008/06/18''' ''[[Spotlight: Wheelie]]''
	#'''2008/06/18''' ''[[Revelation (IDW)\|Revelation]]'' #[[Spotlight: Cyclonus\|1]]		#'''2008/06/18''' ''[[Revelation (IDW)\|Revelation]]'' #[[Spotlight: Cyclonus\|1]]
	#'''2008/07/10''' ''[[All Hail Megatron]]'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 1\|1]]		#'''2008/07/10''' ''[[The Transformers: All Hail Megatron\|All Hail Megatron]]'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 1\|1]]
	#'''2008/07/16 - 08/20''' ''Revelation'' #[[Spotlight: Hardhead\|1]]-[[Spotlight: Doubledealer\|3]]		#'''2008/07/16 - 08/20''' ''Revelation'' #[[Spotlight: Hardhead\|1]]-[[Spotlight: Doubledealer\|3]]
	#'''2008/08/20 - 09/17''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 2\|2]]-[[All Hail Megatron issue 3\|3]]		#'''2008/08/20 - 09/17''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 2\|2]]-[[All Hail Megatron issue 3\|3]]

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	#'''2005/10/19 - 2006/07/12''' ''[[Infiltration]]'' #[[Infiltration issue 0\|0]]-[[Infiltration issue 6\|6]]		#'''2005/10/19 - 2006/07/12''' ''[[Infiltration]]'' #[[Infiltration issue 0\|0]]-[[Infiltration issue 6\|6]]
	#'''2006/07/19 - 2006/09/06''' ''[[Stormbringer ~~(comics)~~\|Stormbringer]]'' #[[Stormbringer issue 1\|1]]-[[Stormbringer issue 3\|3]]		#'''2006/07/19 - 2006/09/06''' ''[[The Transformers: Stormbringer \|Stormbringer]]'' #[[Stormbringer issue 1\|1]]-[[Stormbringer issue 3\|3]]
	#'''2006/09/13''' ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''		#'''2006/09/13''' ''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''
	#'''2006/10/18''' ''Stormbringer'' #[[Stormbringer issue 4\|4]]		#'''2006/10/18''' ''Stormbringer'' #[[Stormbringer issue 4\|4]]

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	#'''2007/09/06''' ''Megatron Origin'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 3\|3]]		#'''2007/09/06''' ''Megatron Origin'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 3\|3]]
	#'''2007/09/12''' ''New Avengers / Transformers'' #[[Man and Machine, Part Three\|3]]		#'''2007/09/12''' ''New Avengers / Transformers'' #[[Man and Machine, Part Three\|3]]
	#'''2007/10/03''' ''[[Devastation ~~(IDW)~~\|Devastation]]'' #[[Devastation issue 1\|1]]		#'''2007/10/03''' ''[[The Transformers: Devastation\|Devastation]]'' #[[Devastation issue 1\|1]]
	#'''2007/10/10''' ''New Avengers / Transformers'' #[[Man and Machine, Part Four\|4]]		#'''2007/10/10''' ''New Avengers / Transformers'' #[[Man and Machine, Part Four\|4]]
	#'''2007/10/24''' ''Megatron Origin'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 4\|4]]		#'''2007/10/24''' ''Megatron Origin'' #[[Megatron Origin issue 4\|4]]

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	#'''2008/11/05''' ''[[Spotlight: Blurr]]''		#'''2008/11/05''' ''[[Spotlight: Blurr]]''
	#'''2008/11/26''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 5\|5]]		#'''2008/11/26''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 5\|5]]
	#'''2008/12/10''' ''[[Maximum Dinobots]]'' #[[Maximum Dinobots issue 1\|1]]		#'''2008/12/10''' ''[[The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots\|Maximum Dinobots]]'' #[[Maximum Dinobots issue 1\|1]]
	#'''2009/01/02''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 6\|6]]		#'''2009/01/02''' ''All Hail Megatron'' #[[All Hail Megatron issue 6\|6]]
	#'''2009/01/07''' ''Maximum Dinobots'' #[[Maximum Dinobots issue 2\|2]]		#'''2009/01/07''' ''Maximum Dinobots'' #[[Maximum Dinobots issue 2\|2]]