![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ralph Macchio and Jim Salicrup do a good job of juggling the large cast and there’s even a guest appearance by Spider-Man (in his black costume) to show that the series takes place in the Marvel Universe. The age-old conflict, the crashed Ark, the renewal of hostilities on a new world - it’s all here. Regardless, the series was crucial for setting into place the building blocks that would underpin the entire franchise. This wasn’t helped by many characters being inconsistently drawn and colored, leading to unintentional comedy as characters switch color schemes, and gain and lose body parts between panels. Characters introduce themselves and describe their powers in great detail, while Frank Springer’s artwork portrays most characters as close to their toy forms, rather than the more expressive, humanized features that they would later adopt. Despite its significance as readers’ introduction to the Transformers, these four issues can’t help but feel rather basic, with a tone somewhere between an info dump and a toy commercial. ![]()
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