DigitalBrave3 wrote:*grabs the comic that came with CW First Aid* Uuuhhh... I'm looking at the bottom left corner of the inside cover, where it clearly says in large bolded letters, Transformers Combiner Wars #12. So yeah, it does say what issue it is. Am I the only person on the planet who found out that the issue numbers are on the inside covers in large bolded letters?
Sorry if I'm beating a dead horse here, but they are never referred to as "Combiner Wars 1-20" anywhere outside of the packed in comics. They did the same thing with the Dark Cybertron comics, calling them Dark Cybertron 1-12 during Thrilling 30, but at least those were similarly labeled in the trade copies I think even while the individual issues were RID XX and MTMTE XX. The problem is that the pack-in Combiner Wars comics comprise more than the 6-issue Combiner Wars comic series, they actually are excerpts from all over RID, including some stuff that actually came out
before Dark Cybertron. The full Combiner Wars pack-in comic list is:
Alpha Bravo and Vortex: RID #8
Skydive and Brawl: RID #9
Firefly, Quickslinger, and Blast Off: RID #11
Dragstrip and Swindle: RID #12
Breakdown: RID #13
Offroad: RID #14
Air Raid: RID #15
Dead End and Brake-Neck: RID #16
Streetwise: RID #33
Rook: RID #34
Blades: TF (formerly RID) #35
First Aid: TF #36
Prowl: TF #37
Sunstreaker: TF #38
Ironhide: TF #39 AKA Combiner Wars Opening Salvo
Mirage: Windblade #1 AKA CW #1
Trailbreaker: TF #40 AKA CW #2
Wheeljack: Windblade #2 AKA CW #3
Hound: TF #41 AKA CW #4
Smokescreen: Windblade #3 AKA CW #5
And according to the inside covers these are known as Combiner Wars 1-20. See the confusion?
Agamemnon wrote:Don't forget that CW wave 1 was all international packaging, so we didn't get the first four issues of CW comics. (Well, #3 came in Quickslinger...)
As you can see from my list above, they reprinted the first wave comics to be included with the Combaticons, and additionally, Dragstrip was included in some wave 2 revisions with his comic. Despite the trouble at the outset, we got all the comics in the end. I suppose if they hadn't had to reprint those first four with the Combaticons, we might have gotten the Combiner Wars Epilogue issues (TF 42 and Windblade 4) and the Combiner Hunters one-shot, but I don't know what the fourth comic would have been.
Also, addressing a misconception I saw earlier, the MSRP for Combiner Wars Deluxes was $14.99 for waves 1-3, and $16.99 for waves 4-6. I don't know why it went up halfway through the line. On HasbroToyShop, restocks of earlier wave figures reflect the higher price, but they're also on sale or price cut right now for $3 off so they're $13.99. Except Air Raid for some reason.
Bringing this back to Titans Return, I think it was confirmed that TR figures will all be coming with stat cards instead of comics, which I think is super neat.