PREVIEWSworld updates our August solicitations coverage with the 5-page preview of a special title originally scheduled for July arrival, Transformers Best of The Rarities curated by TFNation 2022 guest James Roberts.
Score this publication at your favorite local comic shop, then sound off with fellow readers on the 2005 boards!
Includes some of the greatest hard-to-find Transformers stories from the series’ almost 40-year and over 1,500-issue history! This collection includes never-before-reprinted material from the U.S. and the UK!
Bass X0
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T-Hybrid
Haven't read it yet, but bought it solely because the guy at my regular comic haunt described it as "some weird shit."
I was like "f**k yeah I love that kinda stuff hand it here." Looking forward to cracking open a beer and opening this bad boy up tonight.
It's something we need more of in the world. Writers and designers willing to have some fun with the concept.
Mark is that guy for the toyline at the moment. Or at least the most outwardly that guy.
Hooper_X
That strip describing all the Decepticon leaders is a treat. The rest are.. it's very weird to see TFs doing gag-a-day strips of this sort, especially now when all these Tentpole IP Franchises are so deathly serious.
Nemesisprime1975
Love it. Can't beat proper marvel tf comics. Even at its height idw just couldn't create that atmosphere that marvel uk/us had.
I'm just old school I guess
BattleUpSaber
I'm surprised it's taken until now to put out a trade like this. You'd think a collection of rare, obscure TF comics that have never been reprinted would be a hot seller with fans, and something IDW would have jumped on years ago.
Omegax80
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In this case, a collection of rarely or never-before reprinted material. Did you read the solicitation?
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Pteraxadon
What the hell is a rarity
Lore Keeper
This is easily the best "best of" release they've done so far, as all the others contain stories that have seen modern reprints from IDW themselves. I know it's a pipe dream, but I wish someone would publish and canonize Alignment. It was such a perfect end for G2, I'd love to see it become more than just pseudocanon.
Bass X0
That’s what happens when you don’t have an active TFWiki to refer to. Furman was getting frustrated at the time at all the different characters Hasbro was releasing as toys that he and Budiansky kept writing themselves into corners as they could not predict what toys were being released in following years that they had to write into the comics. The original plan was that the movie was the actual future of the then present day comics, only events happened that it had to be relegated to an alternate future as Budiansky chose to ignore it but Furman didn’t.
If Transformers did not have a toyline to sell, the comic books would have gone completely differently.
BB Shockwave
LOL these are funny! I laughed so much when Prime started explaining continuity. That\'d make everyone\'s head hurt, and he did not even mention Ratbat\'s leadership period!
Happy Miracle
Lol
Bass X0
Oh hey, an actual good preview for a change. Five pages from the start, action and transforming shown. I’m fine with them being mini stories. I take it they were intended as half page advertisements in other comics to get those readers updated and interested in the Transformers comics. (Edit: Ah, yes – they’re listed as being Sunday Times strips.)
I still hold the Marvel era stories in high regard, and these short stories please me. Modern comics just don’t capture the same feelings I have towards the old Marvel comics. The old Marvel comics only take a page or a few panels of setting the scene before the story actually begins, as opposed to half a book that modern comics do.
AzT
IDW's Transformers Best of The Rarities, 5-Page Preview – Transformers News – TFW2005
jackgaughan
Uh huh.
Happy Miracle
saddle up pardner
Pteraxadon
That's a funky lookin horse
Tetratron
Yeah, Su's always been my low-key favorite TF artist since I read Infiltration.
T-Hybrid
So….see you again in a month?
Happy Miracle
Wow, sounds tiring.
SPLIT LIP
Also can we all just appreciate how amazing Su’s art is? That’s all pencil, on paper, even the logo. No digital touching up or adjusting composition/colours. This was a one-and-done and it looks absolutely stunning. Dude is a class of artist all his own.