More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada
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| This article is about the Dreamwave-produced bio series. For the Marvel-produced bio series, see Transformers Universe (Marvel comic). |
More than Meets the Eye: Transformers: Armada is a three-issue limited series profile book, published by Dreamwave Productions in 2004, that introduced readers to every character within the Armada franchise.
It profiled all the characters that appeared in the Armada product line between 2002 and 2004, as well as background essays on subjects like humanity's involvement in the Armada conflict and the Mini-Con Moonbase. The profiles followed the Dreamwave storyline in its Armada comic book series, though it took cues from the Armada cartoon for various characters that did not appear in the comic series.
This series also possesses above-average strength and intelligence.
Issue #1
Adventure Mini-Con Teams through Hot Shot and Jolt. Also contains a three-page intro story with a grown Alexis recapping some of their earlier adventures but feeling useless due to lack of knowledge—knowledge she plans to get now so she won't feel that way again.
Originally published: March 10, 2004
- Adventure Team
- Air Defense Team/Air Assault Team
- Jetstorm (2 pages)
- Runway (2 pages)
- Sonar (2 pages)
- Star Saber/Dark Saber (2 pages)
- Air Military Team
- Airazor
- Blurr
- Cheetor
- Cyclonus
- Demolishor
- Destruction Team/Road Wrecker Team
- Emergency Team
- Galvatron (2 pages)
- Hoist
- Hot Shot (2 pages)
Issue #2
Jetfire and Comettor through Sideways and Crosswise and Rook.
Originally published: April 7, 2004
- Jetfire (2 pages)
- Land Military Team
- Laserbeak
- Megatron (2 pages)
- Nemesis Prime
- Night Attack Team
- Optimus Prime
- Overload (2 pages)
- Predacon
- Race Team/Road Assault Team
- Dirt Boss (2 pages)
- Downshift (2 pages)
- Mirage (2 pages)
- Skyboom Shield
- Red Alert
- Rhinox
- Scavenger
- Sea Team
- Oceanglide (2 pages)
- Stormcloud (2 pages)
- Waterlog (2 pages)
- Side Swipe
- Sideways
Issue #3
Skywarp and Thunderclash through Wheeljack and Wind Sheer. Also contains encyclopedia-type entries (similar to issue 8 of the original series), as well as a 1-page follow-up strip of Over-Run observing Alexis using the machine he left for her to read the files.
Originally published: May 5, 2004
Errors and critiques
- Some of the Photoshop editing in this series is less than satisfactory. In issue 2, for example, the tops of Mirage's tires and his foot have been cut off.
Collections
A TPB collecting all 3 volumes was planned (ISBN-10: 1897105126, ISBN-13: 978-1897105122) to be released in March 2005, but never saw the light of day due to Dreamwave's demise in January 2005.
More Than Meets The Eye: Energon
This was a planned three-issue guidebook following the format of the earlier G1 and Armada books. The series was left incomplete (in that no issues actually got released) due to the insolvency of Dreamwave Productions in late 2004.
- Unpublished; planned 3-volume series beginning in January 2005. Some finished artwork has appeared on the web from artists who worked on the project, but the status of the text is unknown.
