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A review by adelaidemetzger_robotprophet
Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 1 by Simon Furman, Eric Holmes
5.0
Some up-front info: As of January 2015, I haven’t read any TF comics prior More Than Meets the Eye, so these are all a first for me as I slowly work my way backwards through the series (not my choice, believe me, it was a birthday gift accident to start me off with Dark Cybertron but I regret nothing). This neat collection contains: Megatron Origins; Spotlights-Blurr, Cliffjumper, Nightbeat, Shockwave, Soundwave, Hot Rod; and ends with Infiltration.
Spotlights
I really liked a lot of the material in this collection. In fact, I liked ALL of the spotlights except for the Nightbeat, Hot Rod, and Soundwave issues which I was surprised I didn’t like them because they were written by Simon Furman (who is an experienced comic book writer veteran and responsible for reviving the Transformers comics). Furman got his credibility by taking the Transformers seriously and realistically. The Shockwave Spotlight was great but I don’t know why I wasn’t interested in the other three. Not enough emotion I guess.
My favorite spotlight was Cliffjumper’s. No spoilers, but this issue kind of explains why the Autobots care about us, the humans (well, the Autobots that DO care). I always felt kind of weird about how WE are the chosen species and we're so special and blah, blah. But this shows that the Autobots are open to kindness and fairness to any sentient species and believes that they deserve freedom. The Blurr spotlight was my second favorite. Really interesting to see how the fastest bot on two wheels actually struggled to find an identity after the war started. Both of these issues were written by Shane McCarthy.
Volumes
Okay, Megatron Origins. I can finally understand more behind this version of Megatronespecially with the recent nega-hype on Megatron becoming an Autobot in the current Dawn of the Autobots arc . He’s a strange character to look at because he starts out as an energon miner who “accidentally” murdered out of anger which he said he didn’t mean to do but one thing leads to another and we get the rage-frothed, war-mongering Decepticon that we all know and love.
Infiltration I really enjoyed! Whadyaknow? Hoomins! Ratchet was the highlighted character in the bit that they shared in this first collection. Because his job is to heal and protect he naturally takes it as his responsibility to “father” the three humans he breaks protocol to protect them.
IDW! Why are these collections so expensive! At least Amazon.com has them for almost half the retail price. Some advice that I didn’t know about before I got this book: These aren’t in chronological order. It would’ve been really cool if they were but when it came down to the decision to put every comic ever together, the editors decided to mix n’ match chronological and publishing date to get kind of an anthology of Cybertronian history. But I still enjoyed it. I need the rest of these collections—like, now!
Spotlights
I really liked a lot of the material in this collection. In fact, I liked ALL of the spotlights except for the Nightbeat, Hot Rod, and Soundwave issues which I was surprised I didn’t like them because they were written by Simon Furman (who is an experienced comic book writer veteran and responsible for reviving the Transformers comics). Furman got his credibility by taking the Transformers seriously and realistically. The Shockwave Spotlight was great but I don’t know why I wasn’t interested in the other three. Not enough emotion I guess.
My favorite spotlight was Cliffjumper’s. No spoilers, but this issue kind of explains why the Autobots care about us, the humans (well, the Autobots that DO care). I always felt kind of weird about how WE are the chosen species and we're so special and blah, blah. But this shows that the Autobots are open to kindness and fairness to any sentient species and believes that they deserve freedom. The Blurr spotlight was my second favorite. Really interesting to see how the fastest bot on two wheels actually struggled to find an identity after the war started. Both of these issues were written by Shane McCarthy.
Volumes
Okay, Megatron Origins. I can finally understand more behind this version of Megatron
Infiltration I really enjoyed! Whadyaknow? Hoomins! Ratchet was the highlighted character in the bit that they shared in this first collection. Because his job is to heal and protect he naturally takes it as his responsibility to “father” the three humans he breaks protocol to protect them.
IDW! Why are these collections so expensive! At least Amazon.com has them for almost half the retail price. Some advice that I didn’t know about before I got this book: These aren’t in chronological order. It would’ve been really cool if they were but when it came down to the decision to put every comic ever together, the editors decided to mix n’ match chronological and publishing date to get kind of an anthology of Cybertronian history. But I still enjoyed it. I need the rest of these collections—like, now!