Where would anons recommend to start the transformers comic? The classic Marvel runs, the Dreamwave run or the ongoing IDW run?
Where to start with Transformers Comics
Jacob Edwards
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Nathan Reed
They're all shit, stick to the cartoons.
Benjamin Ramirez
Try the Marvel run. It gave Unicron a more coherent origin than the cartoon did. Seriously, a space monkey? Avoid Dreamwave. Dunno about the first IDW run but it gets stupid near the end
Nolan Nguyen
US or UK?
Hudson Hill
AUS
Evan Sanders
Now the question goes to which cartoons?
Tip: avoid Prime/RiD2015 like the plague.
Ian Peterson
I've read the 7 issues of the IDW reboot. It's so slow. All talking & build up but no pay off. Most that happens is a audience viewpoint character getting killed. I wouldn't recommend it.
I definitely would not recommend the previous IDW comics. Those are all propaganda for identity politics & gay shipping. Just watch the cartoons.
Parker Watson
Beginning of the IDW run is a good place to start. That's Transformers:Infiltration and then you can go in publication order from there. Fair warning, though, it gets bad later but it also gets good again. It has its ups and downs.
Marvel is good (US and UK). The problem is that it's a real rough start but power through it long enough and you can get to good stuff.
Gabriel Hill
The previous IDW run is good for reading.
My favorite periods were the "-ations" era and the Phase 2.
I liked how Furman created the universe and how and Roberts and Barber expanded the history and culture of Cybertron and the Earth respectively.
I here to my opinion on shared universe Hasbro:
Although I agree that Revolution was not great, Revolution was a good crossover, and it and First Strike were better than previous Transformers events (Chaos, Combiner Wars and Titans Return) and about the other comics that came out after Revolution: Revolutionaries and Rom were great, GI Joe and Micronauts were good and only Mask and Visionaries were bad . Besides Optimus Prime and TAAO have a good quality (OP has the same quality as exRID, so the crossovers did not affect anything and TAAO was considered better than the mini-series of Windblade), in fact all the comics are good to and the only one that may have gotten worse was LL and was the only one unaffected by the crossovers. And the comics from other franchises do not affect the comics of Transformers, you're not required to read them to understand the comics of Transformers, and Revolutionaries is practically a comic of Transformers because of the 4 main characters 3 are characters of Transformers ex-RID, and also have two Transformers (and the writer is Jon Barber). Even the GI Joe characters that appear in Optimus Prime are pretty much the same characters that were part of EDC, just changed the name of the organization and they have GI Joe stickers on some of the military vehicles. And about the crossovers only Revolution and First Strike you have to read to understand Barber's comics (although Revolution is not 100% mandatory but your comics contains some references to it) and they are good. The crossover with Rom is great and the with Visionaries is awful. And Unicron it was a comic of Transformers since the characters of other franchises only appeared as extras.
Adam Foster
Can someone storytime the new number 7?