Transformers: Earthforce

This article is about the Titan Books trade paperback. For the Autobot team and continuity snarl-up, see Earthforce.

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Transformers: Earthforce
Publisher	Titan Books
First published	23rd December 2005
Writer	Simon Furman
Art	Jeff Anderson, Staz, Andy Wildman
Pencils	Pete Knifton, John Marshall, Staz
Inks	Stephen Baskerville, Michael Eve, Pete Venters
Letterers	Stuart Bartlett, GLIB, Peri Godbold, Sophie Heath, Helen Stone
Editor	Chris Francis, Euan Peters
Continuity	Marvel Comics continuity
TPB ISBN	ISBN 1-84576-061-1
Price	£5.99
Printed in	Italy

The fourth Titan Books trade paperback to reprint black and white Marvel UK stories, Transformers: Earthforce features stories detailing the arrival of Doubledealer, creation of Arcee and the formation of the Autobot Earthforce.

Contents

• "(Double) Deal of the Century!"
• "Prime's Rib!"
• "Starting Over!"
• "Two Steps Back!"
• "Break-Away!"
• "Desert Island Risks!"
• "Once upon a Time..."
• "Life in the Slow Lane"
• "Snow Fun!"
• "Mystery!"
• "The Living Nightlights!"
• "The House that Wheeljack Built!"
• "Divide and Conquer!"
• "The 4,000,000 Year Itch!"
• "Makin' Tracks!"

Cover

• Grimlock punches a table. Detail from the cover of issue #263, by Stephen Baskerville.

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Notes

The black and white Titan TPB digests contain a collection of UK stories from the post-Time Wars era. These are placed into themes rather than been a chronological collection of the UK tales as they were published. This volume covers some of the UK tales from issue #234 to #281. The page count inevitably means some of the TPB collections are more coherent than others. Some of these stories sit well within the wider Marvel continuity, some are in the Earthforce continuity while some are from the Marvel UK future timeline. There are no changes from the original prints so the teaser at the end of one story/ arc usually doesn't relate to the next story in the book. For instance, 'Makin' Tracks' (issue #281) ends with 'Next: Golden Silence', only to be followed by 'Prime's Rib' (issue #234). Also the small size of the books (7½ by 5 inches - less than half the original A4 format) means that some of the fine detail is lost.