Generations Selects Special Comic

Japanese G1 continuity Generations Selects « Hasbro « TakaraTomy » Toyline Comic

Lesson One: That's not Earth. Lesson Two: That's not Unicron. Good luck.

Generations Selects Special Comic (ジェネレーションセレクトスペシャルコミック) is a series of comic strips showcasing the adventures of a time lost Optimus Prime and Galvatron in the mysterious world of the Primus Vanguard. It is published online to promote TakaraTomy's contributions to the Generations Selects toyline, namely in the TakaraTomy Mall listings for the toys themselves.

Overview

Who are all these people? Don't worry, Optimus doesn't know either!

Equal parts Dragon Ball Z and Lost, the Generation Selects comic sees Optimus Prime and Galvatron battle each other and an ever increasing number of new toys challengers as they try to discover where they are, when they are, who sent them, who's trying to kill them, and just maybe, what they mean to each other.

The parties so far:

• Primus
• Optimus Prime/Star Convoy
• Galvatron/Super Megatron/Ultra Megatron/Ultra Megatron Omega/Megatron Omega: Perfect Form...
• The Seacons
• The Cooler Seacons
• The Primus Vanguard (most of them)
• The Straxuses
• The Purple Order
• Primacron and the Three Wise Ones
• The Dinobots
• The Terrorcons
• The Golden Age

Creative team

While the series is primarily helmed by writer/artists Shin Sasaki and Hayato Sakamoto with a notable fill-in by Hidetsugu Yoshioka, many others have contributed:

• Kouji Nimura (series editor)
• Josh Perez (color)
• Gufu Kandagawa (color)
• Lebanon Sugi (color, additional art, ink)
• Ricken (color, additional art, ink)
• Kamizono (color)
• Ichi zero three (color)
• Tasuku Tajima (ink)
• Kyarara Rena (color)
• Rui Onishi (color)
• Yuki Ohshima (color)

Guest artists

Generations Selects has played host to guest illustrations from a variety of prominent artists from throughout the franchise:

• 
  Matt Frank
• 
  Casey W. Coller
• 
  Ban Magami
• 
  Akira Amemiya

Continuity and timeline

The world of the Primus Vanguard exists in a unique place in the Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity. Outside of traditional space and time, the "Precursor World" is an ongoing narrative that is visited by Cybertronians from various eras, often decades apart. For simplicity's sake, the major eras involved are listed below.

• 2011:
  • Era of Optimus Prime and Galvatron
• 2020:
  • Era of Turtler and his Seacons
• 2050:
  • Era of the Dinobots and Terrorcons
• The Distant Future:
  • Era of the Space Pirate Seacons

External links

• Generations Selects at Mohair Translations