New Avengers/Transformers
New Avengers/Transformers is a crossover miniseries between comic book companies IDW Publishing and Marvel Comics.
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Overview
Megatron had recently come to Earth to put down insubordination of the infiltration team there led by Starscream. After crippling Starscream and bringing the rest of the team in line Infiltration, Megatron reestablished infiltration protocol and initiated phase two. Escalation issue 1 Phase two involves the destabilization of global politics with the goal of having national powers fight each other to reduce their ability to resist in later stages. Megatron's first course of action is to establish a base in the Eastern European country of Latveria and attack the neighboring country of Symkaria knowing the Symkarians would blame the Latverians and likely start a war over the matter. He also stole the Psycho-Prism from Doctor Doom which has the effect of increasing hostile tendencies of nearby humans, which would further escalate tensions.
Both the Avengers and Autobots investigate the disturbance....
Creative team
The title was written by Stuart Moore and illustrated by Tyler Kirkham. Moore would later write the Spotlight issue for Ramjet, who made his IDW debut in this series.
Notes
- The best place to locate this series in the IDW Generation 1 continuity is during the latter part of Escalation issue 1, after Megatron is last seen in his Cybertronian tank form (he is in gun form in this series). Megatron had gathered his troops together at that point to secure his leadership and oversee the reestablishment infiltration protocol. Ironhide and Sunstreaker were off driving Hunter O'Nion, Verity Carlo, and Jimmy Pink home at that part of the story which would account for their absence in this series. Spotlight: Ramjet, which takes place after this series, begins during Escalation issue 2.
- In the Marvel comics continuity, the events happen sometime before the Civil War storyline. However, and we might be veering dangerously off-topic if we were to point this out, but it should probably be noted that despite appearances, this story isn't congruent with the mainstream Marvel Comics universe ("Earth-616"), even beyond the fact that Transformers are present. At the time this story is intended to take place (between the first two story-arcs of New Avengers, circa mid-2005), Doctor Doom is supposed to be dead, and Carol Danvers was not wearing the costume or going by the codename used in the series. With that said, we now return you to your scheduled dosage of space robots.
Collections
- New Avengers/Transformers TPB (January 16, 2008) ISBN 978-0785127901
- Bonus material includes issue cover art (no text).
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