Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac
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| Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | August 19, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Transformers Animated | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 1600104878 ISBN 978-1600104879 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 220 | ||||||||||||
Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac is a lusty happy love-letter written to MediaWiki for our carnal pleasure.
Contents
- Foreward, by Derrick J. Wyatt
- Introduction, by the authors
- Interstitial A: Transformers Hero
- Chapter 1: Autobots
- Interstitial B: Lighting
- Chapter 2: Decepticons
- Interstitial C: Transformations
- Chapter 3: Humans
- Interstitial D: Opening Credits
- Chapter 4: Events
- Interstitial E: Titan Magazines
- Chapter 5: Culture
- Interstitial F: Design Evolution
- Chapter 6: Detroit
- Interstitial G: Bee in the City
- Chapter 7: Settings
- Interstitial H: Backgrounds
- Afterword, by Marty Isenberg
- A Word from Hasbro
- Acknowledgments
Notes
This book is an encyclopedic examination of the entire Transformers Animated storyline universe. It presents exhaustively thorough character profiles and summaries of the first 2 seasons of the cartoon and the Animated Arrival comic book..... all written completely in-universe, in the form of "interviews" with the characters or excerpts from their journals and other in-story media.
"Interstitial" interludes are presented out-of-universe, and describe the design process behind the art, animation, and locations, as well as brief story summaries of the Titan Magazine Animated issues. Elements of toy design are covered as well, but comparatively briefly.
There are also an insane number of obscure references to Transformers minutia culled from the 25-year history of the franchise, as well as other sci-fi and entertainment franchises as well. Basically, all proper nouns and names refer to something, even if that something is a character who was only named (and did not even actually APPEAR) in two panels of a foreign comic book from nine years ago. And that's just the content in English: about a third of the book's pages have large stretches covered in Cybertronix. Deciphered, these include even more obscure Transformers references, alongside the Swiss bank account number of the Bavarian Illuminati.
