The Transformers Continuum

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The Transformers Continuum: The Definitive Chronology

If IDW won't even read their own material when they're getting paid for it, why should we give them money to read it?
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.

Summary

Take the IDW timeline, put it in a blender, add some spelling errors, and you've got Transformers Continuum. New descriptive prose accompanying reused art from appropriate moments leaps wildly between truncated generalization of long arcs with many important plot points left out and over-detailed recollections of irrelevant minutiae. At the very end is what is intended to be a chronological listing of IDW's Transformers comic books and promotion for their Transformers trade paperbacks.

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.
  • It's implied that Thunderwing was still alive (rather than a reanimated corpse), and no mention is made that he was a puppet under Bludgeon's control.
  • Bludgeon is misspelled on page 7. Also, it seems to imply that he learned Pretender technology from Shockwave, when it was actually Thunderwing who discovered it. It's also said that Bludgeon acquired the technology [i]during[/i] the events in Stormbringer, when it was actually before it.
  • 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 immediate 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 Reading Chronology in the back orders this correctly.)
  • 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.
  • The entirety of Spotlight: Wheelie seems to take place before All Hail Megatron, even though Viewfinder dies in it (he's fine in AHM) and the events of the issue take place over a very long period of time.
  • 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.
  • On page 23, there should be a space between "every" and "day."

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.
  • Unfathomably, despite covering Spotlight: Wheelie—one of the most 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...
  • One of IDW's forum moderators quit over the reaction to this issue, calling everyone morons and giving the two-finger salute: [1]

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