The Transformers Continuum
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| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | November 11, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Andy Schmidt | ||||||||||||
| Illustrated by | Please see individual issues for credits. | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | IDW Generation 1 continuity | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 32 | ||||||||||||
The Transformers Continuum: The Definitive Chronology is a one-shot comic book set in the IDW Generation 1 continuity chronicling the history of the Transformers.[1]
Summary
- TBD
Continuity errors
Unfortunately, instead of correcting errors, Continuum presents the reader with new ones, such as:
- Pre-Decepticon Megatron is said to be a slave, when in actuality, he was a paid energon crystal miner who lost his job. Apparently, Megatron objected to being freed.
- The Autobots' stand against Thunderwing is said to be on Nebulos, when it was actually on Cybertron.
- The Autobots befriended "two young humans." Jimmy Pink no longer exists, even though we see him show up on the page detailing the end of Maximum Dinobots.
- It is said that the "Autobots believed Sunstreaker and Hunter were dead, and thus did not search for them," despite the discovery that Sunstreaker's "body" was a decoy and the subsequent rescue attempt being half the plot of Escalation.
- Scorponok's fight with Ultra Magnus on Nebulos in Spotlight: Ultra Magnus is placed chronologically after Maximum Dinobots, even though it was his run-in with Magnus that decapitated him and led to the events of Maximum Dinobots.
- The Machination and Skywatch are treated as the same group. In fact, the Machination itself is never mentioned. Instead everything that either organization did is credited to Skywatch.
- Megatron is said to have died when Spike Witwicky shot him at the end of All Hail Megatron, despite this never being the case and him being shown to be alive in a later issue.
Notes
- Events in the past are said to be "legend" and "unknown" when almost everyone who experienced those events are still alive and on active duty to this day.
- Amazingly, they get Spotlight: Wheelie completely right, mentioning the opening moments of the issue, but not the rest of the issue's events which happen much later. Viewfinder's death in particular would otherwise conflict with his appearance in All Hail Megatron.
- Unfathomably, despite covering Spotlight: Wheelie —one of the biggest stand-alone Spotlight stories, almost entirely unconnected to anything else going on in the IDW universe— no coverage is given to highly important, relevant, tied-in Spotlight stories like Nightbeat, Hot Rod, Sixshot, Kup, Soundwave, Optimus Prime....
- Nova Prime's matrix-like "Darkness" is now the "Heart of Darkness."
- Swear to god, it's like they're trying to screw with us.
Cover
- Various classic 1985-style Autobots and Decepticons (though with some mild heavier tech detailing) surrounding Spike Witwicky, by Ken Christiansen.
