Reviewer: Jesse Baker
Story Title: NA
Written by: Brad Mick
Penciled by: Pat Lee, Don Figueroa, and Joe Ng
Inked by: Elaine To, Rob Armstrong, Erik Sander
Colored by: Rob Ruffolo
Lettered by: Ben Lee
Editor: NA
Publisher: Dreamwave Comics
OK after several months I finally return to the Transformers Universe as I review Transformers Gen 1 #0, the first issue of a new ongoing Gen 1 series by Dreamwave Comics. So let’s take a look at this issue and see if they’ve improved the writing after Dreamwave’s first two Gen 1 mini-series.
Plot Synopsis
The issue starts as we see the planet Lithone being eaten by Unicron, about two years before schedule. As the planet gets chomped on, we see two robots (most likely the same Lithone robots from the movie, whose names escape me at the moment) watching on in horror at the fate of their species.
While this is going on, we get a narration that lasts throughout the issue basically explaining things to people. Anyway, Unicron has been awakened and is grouchy, which means that instead of 0% chance of being stopped there exists a .007% chance of it waking up. We learn that Unicron is heading towards Earth as we get a tour of the insides of Unicron. The tour leads us to a gestation room inside the planet-sized Robo-God as we learn that Unicron is using the planets he’s eaten to create minions. In this case, Cyclonus. And since the Dreamwave Comic canon is now THE official Gen 1 canon for the Transformers franchise, we have an official answer to the long-running question of whether or not Bombshell or Thundercracker is Cyclonus.
We now cut back several million years as we see Scourge and the Sweeps heading out into outer space to Cybertron, which is in the throughs of the Great Shutdown. Scourge, we learn, reactivated Shockwave and even saved him from the Sharkticons only to be betrayed and shot in the back. We learn that Scourge was Shockwave’s prisoner for quite some time and vivisected and experimented on for some time before escaping to Earth. Where he was captured and vivisected and experimented on by humans.
With this we cut back to Earth and see human scientists working on Scourge and the dismembered Gesalts, Devestator and Superion. We then get a clip of the Earthbound Autobots talking to Prowl while on Cybertron, the Autobot Resistance watches footage of Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus getting repaired while looking concerned. We then get a two-page splash of Unicron eating Lithone while surrounded by clips from the first two Gen 1 mini-series. The Narrator pops back up and talks about how they’ve been able to keep their presence a secret while all of the sh– that has happened as we cut to Quintessa, the home world of the narrators. Here we meet the Quintessons as they announce that their current priority is to find the MIA Megatron and bring him to justice, Quintesson-style.
Finally the book ends with Wreck-Gar bringing home to his houseguest Megatron robot bodies that look a lot like the Seeker Jets. Megatron vows revenges as we hear the crashing sound of an approaching thunderstorm….
My Two and a Half Cents
Basically a lame recap issue with the introduction of the Quintessons as the only real major event in the issue. The decision not to go the obvious route and have Megatron upgraded to Galvatron makes sense though rushing Cyclonus’s introduction as well as removing one of the key elements of the character (IE the fact that he’s an upgrade of Thundercracker or Bombshell) makes zero sense.
