The Transformers: Best of

2010's The Transformers: Best of Megaton

The Transformers: Best of are collections of reprinted material by IDW Publishing. The collections were released at various points in IDW's run, and can be grouped loosely into four "phases".

The first incarnation of "Best of" took place in 2007. IDW released 2 collections of reprinted material. These were for writer Simon Furman and artist Don Figueroa, both early "rock stars" of IDW, as well as the previous publishing company, Dreamwave Productions. Titled The Best of Simon Furman and The Best of Don Figueroa, the collections were hardcovers and consisted of material throughout their professional Transformers careers. Covers featured previously released art from Figueroa.

"The Best of" moniker would next be used as a series of single-issue comics reprinting Marvel UK material. Titled The Transformers: Best of UK, the series consisted of five arcs (six with Target: 2006, which didn't use the "Best of" moniker) which were released from 2007–2009, and themselves collected in trades, as well as an omnibus. The covers for these alternated between retro art and new covers by Nick Roche and others.

In 2010, the next use of "Best of" would take the form of four trade paperbacks, each focusing on a major character, again consisting of material from Marvel Comics, Dreamwave and IDW. Covers would be by then-newcomers Livio Ramondelli and Klaus Scherwinski.

The final incarnation of "Best of" would take place much later, at the end of IDW's license for the brand in 2022. Similarly titled as the 2010 series, but as "Transformers: Best of", rather than "THE Transformers: Best of", IDW returned to individual (but oversized) comics that again spotlighted major characters. The four characters from the 2010 series were featured once again, but with different material, as well as seven other characters. This final "Best of" collection focused more heavily on IDW material, with the exception of Transformers: Best of the Rarities, collecting a trove of hard to find (and previously unreleased) material spanning multiple decades. This 11-issue collection featured covers by James Biggie.

	The Transformers: Best of collections:
2007: The Best of Simon Furman The Best of Don Figueroa 2007-2009: Best of UK: Target: 2006 Dinobots Space Pirates Time Wars City of Fear Prey 2010: Optimus Prime Megatron Grimlock Starscream 2022: Optimus Prime Megatron Hot Rod The Beasts The Rarities Bumblebee Starscream Arcee Grimlock Shockwave Windblade

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  The Best of Simon Furman
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  Best of UK: Time Wars
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  Best of Optimus Prime
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  Best of Shockwave