Dreamwave Productions

Dreamwave was a fairly unknown independant comic book publisher when it received the Transformers license in 2001. For a time, there was gigantic buzz surrounding Dreamwave's relaunch of the Generation 1 title, even pushing it past Marvel and DC's top titles. Many comic book fans had been away from Transformers for a long time and were overjoyed to see highly detailed manga-style art driving a childhood favorite. Dreamwave published a good deal of Transformers books, including many varied miniseries, before capitulating to the notoriously fickle comic-buying public. At the very end of 2004, Dreamwave declared bankruptcy, and there were no Transformers comics to be had for more than half of 2005.