The Transformers: Evolutions

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The Transformers: Evolutions is a line of alternate-universe Transformers comics published by IDW Publishing.

Series

The only series released under the Evolutions banner was Hearts of Steel, set in a reality where the Transformers awakened in the Industrial Revolution-era USA. Bumblebee and others become steam locomotives, while Shockwave is an ironclad ship instead of a ray gun, and so forth.

	Hearts of Steel issues:
#1 #2 #3 #4

Notes

• While no other stories were released under the Evolutions banner, Infestation 2 acts as a sequel to the Hearts of Steel story. Subsequently in 2017, a version of Hearts of Steel was retconned into being part of the main 2005 IDW continuity via Revolutionaries #5, establishing its characters as unwitting fakes of the actual G1 characters in part of a larger conspiracy.
• IDW would later return to the alternate-universe concept with the Transformers: Deviations one-shot in 2016.