20th Anniversary Transformers Summer Special
Dreamwave Summer Special was a special one-shot issue containing four unrelated stories from different corners of the Transformers mythos released in summer 2004 from Dreamwave.
Each story had a single page of information listing the crucial characters, and recapping the plot of the series thus-far to make each story more accessible to newer readers. As usual, there was a Wavelengths page, this time with a note from the desk of Don Figueroa.
Readers then had the opportunity to fill out a card to vote wether Beast Wars or Robots in Disguise would get a miniseries the following year. Beast Wars won by a large margin - however the miniseries was never finished because of Dreamwave's closing.
A 'Winter-special' follow up was planned, featuring a story about Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus, and several character profiles, however like many Dreamwave projects, this was never released.
The stories included were Generation 1's "Welcome to the Jungle", Energon's "Perspective", Robots in Disguise's "Ultra Magnus... to the Rescue?", and Beast Wars' "Ain't No Rat".
Trivia
- A press release regarding the Summer Special claimed that the stories within it would never be reprinted anywhere else. With Dreamwave's bankruptcy, this has proved to be accurate.
