The Matrix, however, was made of sterner stuff, and after some time reactivated alongside Thunderwing's body and the Autobot shuttlecraft on the surface of a planet. Out of Time! As time passed, and though only the "barest spark of life remained," it healed Thunderwing's body, eventually allowing it to transform and escape. It (they) now hungered for revenge! The Void! Although successful in appealing to TFUK’s older readers, Papadopoulos could do nothing to stop the US comic being cancelled with issue #80 — although it’s worth noting that for a time, thanks to Furman and the likes of UK artists Geoff Senior, Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville, it looked like TFUS might enjoy a longer run than anticipated. It’s all but certain that had it survived, TFUK would have continued too, the two destined to be coterminous. Transformers Classics #1 100 Penny Press at". Tfaw.com. 6 July 2011. Archived from the original on 12 January 2016 . Retrieved 6 August 2014.

Devil's Due Publishing experienced success with their revived G.I Joe series under license by Hasbro. Both companies produced their own six-issue mini-series detailing a crossover between the two with permission from Hasbro, but Dreamwave had the exclusive license to produce Transformers comics, while Devil's Due had the exclusive license to G.I. Joe; hence the two different miniseries from both companies with two different ideas behind each company's respective franchise. A second series followed in late 2004, followed by a third in 2005, and a fourth in 2006. Not to be confused with More Than Meets the Eye (The Transformers) or The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye. In latter years reprints were done courtesy of Titan Books who published reprints in 14 volumes. [5] The X-Files: Conspiracy (2014) — Another multi-brand crossover, this time involving The X-Files series, whose Transformers-specific issue takes place in the present day of the Hearts of Steel universe. This argument — that TFUK Monthly had a decent future — rests on two sets of facts, both of which deserve close consideration. The first relates to the continued publication of Transformers specials, the second to the launch of the short-lived Transformers: Generation 2 toy line.

The Ark and its secrets must never fall into enemy hands, so I plotted an alternate course that would take us on a suicidal heading... directly into the third planet of this system. Farewell, my friend. Though we die, at least our enemies are taken with us." The Transformers toyline, spotlighting the Autobot Cars, Autobot Mini Vehicles, Decepticon Planes, and Mini-Cassettes. There is some confusion over when issues first appeared, due to changing practices regarding the cover dates. When the comic began in 1984, Marvel issues were normally cover dated four months ahead of their going on sale. This was partially a hangover from the days of fierce newsstand competition when each company tried to make its comics look newer than its rivals and partially a mechanism to compensate for slower distribution on newsstands and overseas sales. In 2017, a version of the Hearts of Steel story was retroactively folded into the main IDW universe via Revolutionaries; the first two stories listed here are also canon in the ongoing G1 continuity.

Each year's BotCon box set of toys also included a full comic issue, telling a story featuring that year's crop of toy exclusives. Many were "jumping off" points for later prose stories or magazine comics, and even included all-new continuities, most notably the "Shattered Glass" "mirror universe" series. Most years, these comics were reprinted with extra ancillary material and sold in comic shops later in the year. A four-issue mini-series [26] introducing new characters that were incorporated into the ongoing series (issue #38) at the conclusion of the mini-series. The series introduces the Headmasters, Targetmasters, some of the movie Transformers, Monsterbots, Horrorcons, Technobots and Terrorcons.

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The rivalry was heated but short-lived: in 1987, 2000AD would pull ahead, hitting a circulation peak of 112,000 in late 1988, while TFUK would suffer a gradual but irreversible decline in readership until its cancellation in January 1992, seven and a half years after its launch. Mass-market Transformers comics more or less took a hiatus in English-language markets until after the turn of the century, but Japan would see a brief resurgence in the late 90s. Following the success of their imported version of Beast Wars, Kodansha published serialized manga in their Comic Bom Bom monthly anthology book for the Japanese sequel series Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, and Beast Wars Metals (Takara's version of the latter half of Hasbro's Beast Wars franchise). But sales of all three series were low and getting lower all the time, and Takara took another break from mainstream Transformers comics for a few years. Transformers: Galaxies #1–12 (2019–2020)— An anthology of side stories, focusing on adventures far away from the action on Cybertron.

In Japan, the rights to produce comic material for this new Transformers line went to Kodansha, the publisher of several different monthly comic compilations and magazines for kids. The Transformers: Regeneration One (2012–2014) — A limited series set in the main Marvel Comics continuity that continues on from the final issue of the Marvel's original Transformers series 21 years later, ignoring the events of both of the Marvel UK material and the Generation 2 comics. Unusually — in fact, very possibly uniquely — TFUK readers knew that the comic’s days were probably numbered. In 1987, IPC had fenced off its comics division, renamed it Fleetway, and sold it to Robert Maxwell. Inspired by the success TFUK (and M.A.S.K., which it had inherited from IPC), Fleetway would go on to launch several licensed titles between 1987 and 1993, some successful ( Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Red Dwarf Smegazine, Thunderbirds, Sonic the Comic), some not ( Supernaturals, Ring Raiders, Toxic Crusaders).

In addition to its main "Generation 1" based series, IDW put out mini-series based on other then-current Transformers media, including the live-action film series, Transformers Animated, the "Aligned" continuity (primarily Prime and Robots in Disguise)... and even a "sequel" series to the original Marvel comics continuity, separate from Generation 2 because... reasons. And on top of that, numerous out-of-continuity mini-series crossovers with non-Hasbro properties. The comic shows us a what if there is a Dinobot combiner and the comic can only obtained in Transformers G1 DVDs set split into two comics Titans Return Thunderwing is a retool of Titan Master Fangry, with a new die-cast metal head mode face based on Thunderwing's Pretender Shell face, and a torso shared with Titan Master Rodimus Prime. The robot mode face is based on Don Figueroa's Stormbringer design. The events of Earth-120185 occurred in the Marvel UK publications based on commercially licensed properties created by Hasbro Toys. Notably, the Transformers and Action Force (UK version of G.I. Joe). The stories themselves were expansions of the Marvel US titles of the same commercial characters, whose universe has been designated Earth-91274. The cover corner box, a staple of Marvel's covers from the 1970s through the mid-1990s, features a character model of Optimus Prime. A new, more dramatic pose would debut with the first ongoing issue ( issue #5).

After some troubled times and steadily declining readership, the series was finally canceled at issue #80. A combination of factors was likely responsible: the Transformers toyline had become yesterday's fad, the core readership had grown older and moved on, and Hasbro seems to have pulled the plug. While the decision-makers at Marvel UK could not have known in late 1991 that Generation 2 was on the horizon, TFUK was nonetheless selling enough at the time of its demise to warrant continued investment in the license in the form of the aforementioned holiday specials. The series established the Marvel Comics continuity, which would form the basis for several successor stories over the years. Marvel would publish the Generation 2 series only two years later, and IDW Publishing would later reunite several Marvel creatives for both Regeneration One, a continuation of the original Marvel comic, and the Transformers '84 prequel miniseries. In the beginning, Marvel Comics held the rights to Transformers comics in the US and UK, owing to their hand in developing the characters and story for Hasbro. The original The Transformers comic ultimately ran monthly from 1984 to 1991, spanning 80 issues with multiple extra mini-series in the US. The UK The Transformers comic was weekly, and added a ton of extra stories woven into and around the reprinted US stories but it too ended not long after the US series did. Question Why do you feel continuity suffered more instead of less, between Marvel UK and US when you took over the US book?"Transformers: The Movie (Though published by Marvel in the US and UK, is only related in the UK canon) Spin-offs during this period included The Transformers: Bumblebee #1–4 (2009–2010), The Transformers: Ironhide #1–4 (2010), The Transformers: Drift #1–4 (2010), The Transformers: Infestation #1–2 (2011) and The Transformers: Heart of Darkness #1–4 (2011); the last two of which, by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning, set up the final arc of the Costa ongoing, leading into another "soft reboot" of sorts. However, the title would last only for three issues due to low sales. The first strip to be published in the magazine was 'Burnout' written by Simon Furman. Another strip in the first issue was an adaptation of the episode ' Blast from the Past', using stills from the show as comic panels. Something else changed when Real Ghostbusters went monthly, something which presumably would have differentiated it from a TFUK monthly. The title was reclassified as a nursery comic, and started to feature adverts for the likes of Care Bears and Thomas the Tank Engine. It lasted eight reprint-only issues in its new format, ending with issue #193 (September 1992).