The World of Transformers: Generation One (Taken from back cover) Gifted with amazing ability from robots to vehicles, weaponry and other mechanical forms the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons have waged an endless war on their homeworld of Cybertron. Now, after eons of conflict, the battle has spilled to Earth where these sentient machines fight on as the first generation of robots in disguise...
They are the TRANSFORMERS.
-War & Peace-
Having stopped Megatron's rampage after reactivation on Earth, this arc opens up to an all out brawl between both forces on the Tundra. The battle is cut short when a mysterious craft yields a rogue Transformer who is quickly cut down by the ancient Transformer Shockwave. Originally one of Megatron's top lieutenants, the Decpticon seems changed, and proclaims that Cybertron is now at peace... both factions have laid down their arms and united under his new order of a unified Cybertron! this new regime has marked not just Megatron, but Prime's forces as rogues and war criminals! Shockwave's Cybertronian's quickly neutralize Megatron and 'recruit' the rest of the decepticons at gun point for 'rehabilitation'...
Prime and the Autobots manage to escape but quickly get drawn back into Shockwave's plans when he dispatches their comrade, the Autobot hero Ultra Magnus to bring them in! Confused with this apparent betrayal by someone so close, Prime starts to wonder if Shockwave was telling the truth and decides to surrender to Magnus.
On Cybertron, its evident that things aren't quite like Shockwave had claimed... old tensions still ride underneath the surface of peace and unity. Magnus begins to doubt Shockwave's truthfullness with him, especially after he states his intentions of DEACTIVATING Prime and his Autobots! Thankfully Prime took percautions, as the cavalry arrives, all hell breaks loose across Cybertron as Shockwave's scheme comes clear. He intends to use the powers of Alpha Trion, the 'first' Transformer along with the super computer Vector Sigma to help shape Cybertron to his will and increase his own powers tenfold!
With broken alliances and splinter factions everyone, can the Autobots unite in time to stop one insane Transformers agenda that will affect their very homeworld?
-Review-
Less humans! More Transformers! Lee's art has refined itself and it shows! The stars of the show look absolutely stunning! A whole showcase of classic Transformers make cameos, reintroducing fan favourites in new, exciting ways! The story is solid! A different writer then Prime Directive's, Brad Mick shows he knows his characters and his lore of transformers! Shockwave gets particularly longwinded at one point, but that's not all THAT bad... and the amount of characters both the writer and the artist juggle is a testament to the skill of each. One qualm: Shockwave professes at one point to having the ability to control the energy distribution and allocation to every transformer on Cybertron... one wonders why he doesn't simply drain everyone of the unruly punks!
Tasty, tasty, foreshadowing: A key scene reminiscent of the Transformers movie and a horde of characters from it point to one looming story.... UNICRON!
