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threatened to suck in the universe.
into bankruptcy. However, IDW
because a director doesn’t
Only by upgrading and going
soon picked up the license and
like making a movie doesn’t
around collecting things could his
started their own reboot of G1 a
mean he won’t keep making
evil be defeated. Also by Optimus
year later, with the Autobots and
them for millions of dollars.
throwing in Megatron-cum-
Decepticons having a cold war on
Galvatron (again) and almost dying,
Earth which quickly went hot. IDW
The comics and movie weren’t
thus ended the Unicron Trilogy.
would also publish adaptations
all that was going on for
of the live action movies.
Transformers though, with
About the time that the anime
Transformers Animated making
began, a relative newcomer to
a debut in 2008. The art style was
comic books, Dreamwave, picked
was an explosion-filled action
revealed well in advance and hated
up the licence from Hasbro to
movie which pitted Optimus
by almost everyone, especially
produce Transformers comics.
Prime and his Autobots against
after the somewhat-realistic CGI
They created a Generation One
the Decepticons as they tried to
of Cybertron and the too-realistic
comic as well as tie-in comics
retrieve the life-giving AllSpark.
live-action movie. However, the
to the anime. They got Simon
Megatron ended up dying when
show ran for three seasons and
Furman to explore Cybertrons
the AllSpark was shoved into
was very well received. Optimus
past with three War Within
his chest, although Optimus
Prime and the Autobots were
miniseries’, showing the start of
offered his life up pretty quickly
not an elite leading/fighting
the Great War between Autobots
showing, once again, just how
squad as in the past, this time
and Decepticons. All of the
much he loves to die. It introduced
they were accidentally at war
series were well received, until
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Released in 2007, Transformers
us to a Bumblebee that spoke
with the Decepticons after they
Dreamwave stopped paying its
literally through radio sound
had come across the AllSpark
writers and artists, crashing
bites and the concept that just
whilst repairing a spacebridge.
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