Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending
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Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending is a comic book miniseries originally published in from October 2007 to January 2008 by IDW Publishing. It is a sequel to Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering.
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Overview
Notes
- Like its predecessor, the miniseries was reprinted in Titan's UK Transformers comic.
- The story is quite vague about who Shokaract is and where he and Angolmois came from, which is a problem as they're the plot! Titan's "Previously" summaries would, in two issues, call Shokaract "the ghost of Unicron" to help kids out.
- North American direct market sales were 14,223 for #1, descending to 11,493 for #4 - half the sales of Gathering #4. Ouch. Sales on the Titan reprint were higher, ensuring an extra 20,000 readers saw the story.
Creative team
The Ascending, like its predecessor, was penned by Simon Furman, pencils & inks by Don Figueroa and colours by Josh Burcham. However, due to Figueroa's hiatus from the Transformers franchise, Guido Guidi filled in on penciling duties for the final issue. Additionally, Mark Bristow, Andrew Elder, Jeong Joo Park, Liam Shalloo and Josh Perez filled in for Burcham for pages throughout The Ascending.
Collections
- Transformers: Beast Wars: The Ascending TPB (February 13, 2008) ISBN 1600101585 / ISBN 978-1600101588
- Bonus features includes the covers from each issue.
- Also contains Transformers, Beast Wars: The Gathering and the Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook.
