Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook
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The Beast Wars Sourcebook is a 3-issue limited series by IDW Publishing, featuring expanded profile entries for most pre-Beast Machines Transformers from the Beast Era toy lines (including both US, Japanese, micro-verse, fast-food and convention exclusive characters). Entries are in a format roughly borrowed from the Dreamwave Productions' More Than Meets the Eye profile books from a few years earlier and organized alphabetically.
Vital Statistics
Writer: Simon Furman and Ben Yee
Artists: Robby Musso, Marcelo Matere, Don Figueroa, Nick Roche, Guido Guidi, Dan Khanna
Pagecount: 48pp
Issue #1 profiles
Items of note and errors
- The Dark Eggbeasts are notably and intentionally absent from the book, as is 'the "Lion Head Optimus Primal" figure'. Boo.
- The line art for Blackarachnia's profile pictures show her in her Transmetal 2 form, but the images are colored gold and black, like her original body. BB, meanwhile, is just colored entirely gold for no apparent reason. And dude, why the hell is Dinobot purple, green, brown and yellow?
- Cybershark's profile features a picture of his Transmetal 2 robot form but his original organic beast form.
- Quite a few characters with triple-changer abilities do not have their tertiary mode pictured.
- Thus far, characters who have had multiple bodies such as Cheetor and Blackarachnia are depicted with an inconsistent mishmash of their respective bodies' modes, in no cases showing each mode of each body.
- The credits section up front has numerous inaccuracies. Notably, Blackarachnia is credited to Dan Khanna but was probably drawn by Nick Roche. Dan was also credited for Dinobot, but he says what ended up in the book sure as hell wasn't what he drew.
