The Transformers: Stormbringer

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This article is about the IDW mini-series. For the Generation 1 Decepticon, see Stormbringer (G1).

</td></tr></tbody></table> [[Image:|right|230px|thumb|A cast of thousands]] The Transformers: Stormbringer is a 4-issue limited series published by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/IDW_Publishing" title="IDW Publishing">IDW Publishing</a> and set in the main <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/IDW_continuity" title="IDW continuity">IDW continuity</a>. Occurring roughly during the same period of time as the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Infiltration" title="Infiltration">Infiltration</a> arc, it establishes the situation of <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a> and the rest of the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Autobot" title="Autobot">Autobots</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Decepticon" title="Decepticon">Decepticons</a> not on <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a>.

It is issues #7–10 in the IDW overarching "sub-numbering" (shown by a number in an Autobot-sigil shaped shield beside the barcode on each issue).


<table style="margin: 0pt auto;" id="toc" align="center"> <tbody><tr> <th align="center" bgcolor="#6699cc"><font color="white">Stormbringer issues:</font> </th></tr> <tr align="center"> <td> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Stormbringer_issue_1" title="Stormbringer issue 1">#1</a> | <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Stormbringer_issue_2" title="Stormbringer issue 2">#2</a> | <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Stormbringer_issue_3" title="Stormbringer issue 3">#3</a> | <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Stormbringer_issue_4" title="Stormbringer issue 4">#4</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> Preceded by: <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Infiltration" title="Infiltration">Infiltration</a><br> Followed by: <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Escalation" title="Escalation">Escalation</a>




<a name="Overview"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Stormbringer_%28comics%29&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Overview">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline"> Overview </span></h2> Stormbringer gives readers their first look at the larger war beyond Earth. <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Cybertron_%28planet%29" title="Cybertron (planet)">Cybertron</a> is a dead, wasted world, victim of some distant cataclysm that elder Transformers, including <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Optimus_Prime_%28G1%29" title="Optimus Prime (G1)">Optimus Prime</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Megatron_%28G1%29" title="Megatron (G1)">Megatron</a>, were present at. Prime's musings establish that the long war between the Autobots and Decepticons was directly responsible for the cataclysm, and in flashback we discover that a single demonic figure was somehow the focus for or avatar of the event; this being was so powerful that only the combined might of the Autobots and Decepticons could stop it.

Both Autobots and Decepticons appear to have large, star-spanning armies. Similar Decepticon infiltration cells to the one portrayed in Infiltration are seen on the planets <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Nebulos" title="Nebulos">Nebulos</a> and <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Varas_Centralus" title="Varas Centralus">Varas Centralus</a>. The Autobots' main base is a space station orbiting a planet at least nineteen megacycles away from Cybertron via <a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Foldspace&action=edit" class="new" title="Foldspace">foldspace</a> travel, and they possess at least one space battle cruiser, the <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Xantium" title="Xantium">Xantium</a>.

Stormbringer was proudly advertised with the tagline "NOTHING BUT ROBOTS ON CYBERTRON", seemingly in response to fandom outcries over <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hunter_O%27Nion" title="Hunter O'Nion">those</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Verity_Carlo" title="Verity Carlo">horrible</a> <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jimmy_Pink" title="Jimmy Pink">humans</a> who had infested IDW's initial Infiltration storyline. Nice goin' there, fandom.



<a name="Creative_team"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Stormbringer_%28comics%29&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Creative team">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Creative team</span></h2> Stormbringer was scripted by Transformer veteran <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Simon_Furman" title="Simon Furman">Simon Furman</a> and penciled by <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Don_Figueroa" title="Don Figueroa">Don Figueroa</a>—the pair also worked together on <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dreamwave_Productions" title="Dreamwave Productions">Dreamwave Productions</a>' <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_War_Within" title="The War Within">The War Within</a> and IDW's <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Gathering" title="The Gathering">Beast Wars: The Gathering</a>.


<a name="Collections"></a><h2><span class="editsection">[<a href="http://tfwiki.net/w2/index.php?title=Stormbringer_%28comics%29&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Collections">edit</a>]</span> <span class="mw-headline">Collections</span></h2>

Bonus material includes images of each cover and concept art of

many characters, several of which would not appear in the story. It wields the number #2 on its side.

Includes Infiltration, Stormbringer, Escalation and the contents of the first <a href="http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spotlight_%28comics%29" title="Spotlight (comics)">Spotlight</a> collection.
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