Transformers: The Ark II
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 God Ginrai and his pet tabby...his tabby of DEATH! | |||||||||||||
| A Compendium of Japanese Character Designs | |||||||||||||
| Publisher | IDW Publishing | ||||||||||||
| First published | July 10, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Written by | Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster | ||||||||||||
| Continuity | Japanese Generation 1 | ||||||||||||
| ISBN | ISBN 1600101801 ISBN 978-1600101809 | ||||||||||||
| Page count | 208 | ||||||||||||
Transformers: The Ark II — A Compendium of Japanese Character Designs is a follow-up volume to the first Transformers: The Ark book featuring Japanese character models. Authors Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster covered all major Japanese Generation 1 series: The Headmasters, Super-God Masterforce, Victory, Zone, Battlestars, and Operation Combination. Nick Roche penciled and inked the cover, colored by Josh Burcham.
It is put out by IDW Publishing. Despite having an even narrower audience base than the first volume, it broke #10,000 on Amazon.com's sales rankings.(Jul-10-08)
Notes
- The cover by Nick Roche features God Ginrai and Victory Leo—the same character, intentionally evoking similar imagery to the cover of the first Ark, the creation of Galvatron. [1]
- This was the first English-language release of any kind to include a mention of Violen Jiger, settling a long-standing debate as to how in the heck his name is supposed to be spelled.
