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Beginning as a simple reimagining of the traditional Generation 1 continuity family under the pen of Simon Furman, the IDW Generation 1 continuity has evolved over the course of thirteen years into the single longest-running continuity in the history of the brand, spanning numerous ongoings, miniseries, and one-shots. Almost every work ties into the overarcing timeline, telling a single unified story that starts at the dawn of time, moves through to the Great War and eventually into a new era of post-war reconstruction. Naturally, such a long-running work of fiction is bound to contain occasional storytelling and artistic inconsistencies, though certain writers have actively sought to correct these mistakes over the course of their careers.
In 2016, IDW Publishing announced the formation of the Hasbro Universe, a shared comic continuity retroactively encompassing the Transformers, G.I. Joe, other Hasbro properties such as Rom the Space Knight, and, in a stranger development, the events of the largely forgotten Hearts of Steel miniseries. This chronology focuses largely on the adventures of the Transformers as they relate to the timeframe of the larger Hasbro Universe, with characters from other properties only dealt with in passing.
