More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada

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More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada is a three-issue limited series profile book, published by Dreamwave Productions in 2004, that introduced readers to every character within the Armada franchise.

It profiled all the characters that appeared in the Armada product line between 2002 and 2004, as well as background essays on subjects like humanity's involvement in the Armada conflict and the Mini-Con Moonbase. The profiles follow the Dreamwave storyline in its Armada comic book series, but also take cues from the Armada cartoon in various places, sometimes to fill in the stories of characters who did not get a lot to do in the comics, or simply in order to cannibalize the most popular elements of the cartoon characterizations: Starscream's wavering loyalties and Sideways's role as a servant of Unicron are both alluded to, for instance, despite being completely absent from the comic, while the Armada episode "Puppet" is summarized in describing Nemesis Prime. Indeed, the series generates whole cloth some scenarios which are completely irreconcilable with the Armada comic book, referring to character transformations and a "second year" of the Earth conflict that never actually happened.

This series also possesses above-average strength and intelligence.

Issue #1

Adventure Team through Hot Shot and Jolt. Also contains a three-page intro story with a grown Alexis recapping some of their earlier adventures but feeling useless due to lack of knowledge—knowledge she plans to get now so she won't feel that way again.
Originally published: March 10, 2004

Issue #2

Jetfire and Comettor through Sideways and Crosswise and Rook.
Originally published: April 7, 2004

Issue #3

Skywarp and Thunderclash through Wheeljack and Wind Sheer. Also contains encyclopedia-type entries (similar to issue 8 of the original series), as well as a 1-page follow-up strip of Over-Run observing Alexis using the machine he left for her to read the files.
Originally published: May 5, 2004


Errors and critiques

  • Some of the Photoshop editing in this series is less than satisfactory. In issue 2, for example, the tops of Mirage's tires and his foot have been cut off.
  • It is hard to tell immediately, but some of the profiles have grammar and spelling errors in them. You'd have to be diligent to find them.

Collections

A TPB collecting all 3 volumes was planned (ISBN 1897105126, ISBN 978-1897105122) to be released in March 2005, but never saw the light of day due to Dreamwave's demise in January 2005.

More Than Meets The Eye: Energon

This was a planned three-issue guidebook following the format of the earlier G1 and Armada books. The series was left incomplete (in that no issues actually got released) due to the insolvency of Dreamwave Productions in late 2004.

  • Unpublished; planned 3-volume series beginning in January 2005. Some finished artwork has appeared on the web from artists who worked on the project, but the status of the text is unknown.
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