by Psychout » Sun Jan 04, 2015 6:53 am
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I used to review the comics here for Siebertron so I'll give you a (very abridged) version of what I can remember, expect a metric f*ckton ton of spoilers.
Almost exactly 3 years ago the comics split into 2 lines; More Than Meets the Eye (MTME) and Robots in Disguise (RiD).
MTMTE was an ensemble-style space adventure starring Rodimus, Ultra Magnus and a crew of previously-underused Autobot characters (and Cyclonus). Very comedic in style, it covers some of the best storylines modern transformers has seen (IMO), including the inception of the DJD and the first actual full 'relationship' between two characters. The entire series was very much a welcome departure from the usual good vs evil war story mechanic the franchise has had for the last 30 years.
Then Chaos happened, and they all came back to Cybertron.
RiD on the other hand was a much drier but more typical Transformers line. The war was over, Prime quit and Bumblebee was left in charge of Cybertron and it all goes horribly wrong for him. This line focused mainly on Prowl, Arcee and Starscream with cameo's from many of the other decepticons and wheeljack, but was mainly driven around Bumblebees total ineptitude as a leader, and Starscreams unstoppable desire to rule. This line is responsible for the addition of another 3 fembots (guardians of Metroplex), and for the RIDICULOUS notion that PROWL could take over from Scrapper as the final member of the Contructicons.
TheN Chaos happened, and it ended with Bumblebee dead and Starscream still in charge of Cybertron.
Then a whole bunch of 'Chaos' things happened around the same time, roughly connected to each other.
Both Prime and Megatron returned.
Shockwave tried to destroy the universe.
The Dead Universe did its thing and it all went to ****.
Dead universe was defeated, as was Shockwave.
Lots of dead characters came back to life (except Scrapper who is still dead.)
Then there was a trial and...
Megatron joined the Autobots (yeah, WTF, right?)
Now its back to two lines.
MTMTE blasted off again, this time with Megatron as part of the crew, and are currently off time-travelling.
And the other line, back to being just 'Transformers', is back on Earth picking up from where the Spike Whitwicky/Blackwatch/fleshbag stuff was going on back in the days of Escalation and such, with Galvatron now running the decepticons who have 'allied' with the humans.
Obviously I have missed a ton out as that's a 3 year summary in a few lines, but that's what I can remember off the top of my head. I'm sure the others will correct me if I'm wrong or have missed a bit.