Transformers: The Movie (Marvel comic)
| This article is about the bizarre 1986 adaptation by Marvel comics. For the slavishly faithful 2007 adaptation by IDW Publishing, see, see Transformers: The Animated Movie. |
Transformers: The Movie is a three-part mini-series adaptation of The Transformers: The Movie, published by Marvel Comics in 1986.
| Transformers: The Movie issues: |
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| #1 | #2 | #3 |
Overview
It's the movie. There's a huge fight, all your favorite characters die, Unicron eats moons, the Autobots have some adventures, then blow up Unicron. You've seen it.
Although the essentials of the movie's story remain intact, quite a few details vary between comic and screen; there is very little that isn’t different in some way. Though the first issue was released at the same time as the movie with issues #2 and #3 being released after the film disappeared from theaters, it is uncertain just how much time and access the comic creators had to view the finished film when writing the adaptation, if any -- the comic appears to have been written using a not-quite-final draft of the script.
There are many places where the comic incorporates elements from the original script that didn’t make it to the finished film. Characters’ dialogue is much more exposition-heavy, partly a necessary evil to the truncation that accompanies the transition of mediums, and partly due to the general eccentricities of writer Ralph Macchio, whose comic work regularly featured this sort of "self-narrating" dialogue long after it had passed out of widespread use. A good deal of material has been removed simply due to the space restraints of fitting the movie into three issues. Finally some things seem clearly added due to the comic creators’ own initiative.
Creative Team
The book was written by Ralph Macchio, adapted from the movie script.
