The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers

The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers is a 5-issue limited series from IDW Publishing, set in the 2005 IDW continuity, and a sequel series to 2010's The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers. The first issue was released in November 2015.

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Overview

When Prowl goes missing, nobody gives a monkey's ass about him but the dark secrets he holds, if revealed, could potentially re-ignite the war. The only clue is a threatening message sent to Prowl by Verity Carlo and the only thing the manipulator told anyone was to hire Springer if he's ever missing. When Springer is revived, a new ad-hoc Wreckers team is assembled and finds themselves facing the Chimeracon revolutionaries of Mayhem, a traitor in their own ranks, Prowl's forgotten ally...

...and their own sins and mistakes.

Creative team

Nick Roche returns as the series artist and writer, and Josh Burcham reprises his role as colorist.

Collections

• The Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers (August 24, 2016) ISBN 1631406698 / ISBN 978-1631406690
  • Collects Sins of the Wreckers #1–5.
  • As with the previous Wreckers collection, this one is chock full of extras. Bonus material includes:
    • Alternate covers.
    • Details on Josh Burcham's coloring process.
    • Noisemaze Logic: Various story commentary and ideas that were not used.
    • Something Naughty: artists' character sketches with commentary by Nick Roche.
  • Trade paperback format.

• Transformers: The Wreckers Saga (July 4, 2018) ISBN 1684052211 / ISBN 978-1684052219
  • Collects Last Stand of the Wreckers #1–5, Sins of the Wreckers #1–5, and Requiem of the Wreckers.
  • Bonus material includes all of the covers, the 11-page prose story "Bullets", the Transformers: Mosaic: "Dead Men's Boots", the 2-page comic "Escape", the 5-page prose story "Zero Point", the 1-page comic "In Word and Deed", and profiles for Rotorstorm, Pyro, Guzzle, Ironfist, Impactor, Snare and Overlord.
  • Trade paperback format.

• Transformers: The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 69: Sins of the Wreckers (September 18, 2019)
  • Collects Sins of the Wreckers #1–5, and The Transformers Holiday Special.
  • Bonus material includes a cover gallery and introduction by Simon Furman.
  • Hardcover format.

• The Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 10 (January 1, 2020) ISBN 1684055849 / ISBN 978-1684055845
  • Collects Windblade (2015) issues #6–7, The Transformers (2012) issues #44–45, Combiner Hunters #1, Sins of the Wreckers issues #1–5, More than Meets the Eye issues #45–47 & #48–49, The Transformers Holiday Special: "Choose Me" & "The Thirteenth Day of Christmas".
  • Hardcover format.

• Transformers: Best of the Beasts (July 13, 2022)
  • Collects The Gathering #4, Windblade (2015) #6, Synergy: "Of Flying and Falling", Beast Wars #9: "Thicker Skin", and Sins of the Wreckers #3.
  • Also includes a reprint of the "Optimus Primal vs Megatron!" toy pack-in comic.
  • One-shot format.

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  Sins of the Wreckers – cover art by Nick Roche and Josh Burcham
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  The Wreckers Saga – cover art by Nick Roche
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  The Definitive G1 Collection Volume 69: Sins of the Wreckers – cover art by Don Figueroa and Nick Roche
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  The IDW Collection Phase Two: Volume 10 – cover art by Marcelo Matere
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  Best of the Beasts – cover art by James Biggie

Notes

• The look of the Chimeracons was taken from Jack Lawrence's Beast Wars Transmasters UK fancomics (with permission from Lawrence). Back there, done before the show made it to the British Isles, Lawrence had the Beasties 'rip' through their flesh, which hangs off them in robot form.