Go-Bots (comic)

This article is about the re-imagining of the Tonka GoBots property. For the tie-in comic for Transformers: Go-Bots, see Aero-Bot Flying Fists. For a list of other meanings, see GoBots (disambiguation).

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Go-Bots is a five-issue comic mini-series released by IDW Publishing in 2019, written, drawn, colored, and lettered by visionary creator Tom Scioli, that re-imagines the long-dormant GoBots franchise in wild new ways.

	Go-Bots issues:
#1 #2 #3 #4 #5

Transformers connections

Having previously reinterpreted Transformers in the pages of Transformers vs. G.I. Joe, Scioli brought his pen to the franchise's one-time rival, GoBots. Scioli's series recast the alien cyborgs as mechanical servants created by humans on Earth — servants that ended up rising up against their masters and creating a new world, Gobotron.

While initially seeming to be standalone, without the connections to Transformers previous media made, the final issue of Go-Bots saw the newly peaceful Gobotron taking off to create a multiverse's worth of new planets, while Road Ranger and Bug Bite set about creating "optimized" successors to themselves — and the remains of the deceased Cy-Kill and Leader-1 are repaired and combined into a familiar-looking red, grey and blue jet. Though never stated outright, the implication is that the Go-Bots would go on to create the Transformers multiverse and all the versions of Cybertron that populate it — though in many cases, this lies in contradiction to past fiction.

Still — after years of arguments over whether GoBots are Transformers, we can now start arguing over whether Transformers are, in fact, Go-Bots.

Collections

• Go-Bots TPB (June 25, 2019) ISBN 1684054745 / ISBN 978-1684054749

• Collects issues #1–5.
• Bonus material includes concept art of the characters, covers, and deleted scenes, two of which flip the Transformers connection on its head; the first has Cy-Kill saying that Wreck-Gar is his father while naming Road Ranger as a "son of an Autobot" and the second featuring Leader-1 exploring a crashed Ark and declaring the stasis locked Megatron to be his great-grandfather.

External links

• Go-Bots at the GoBots wiki