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By Bob Budiansky, Jose Delbo & Jim Fern (Titan Books)
IBN: 1-84576-008-5
The collection of Marvel’s highly readable Transformers franchise reprints issues 51-55 of the US comic series just in time for the giant robots’ twentieth anniversary. No longer trapped on Earth, space-faring Autobots Landmine and Cloudburst must contend not only with Decepticons Dreadwind and Darkwing but also the pernicious Mechannibals, who are intent on reducing the heroic robots to table scraps!
This volume also sees the first appearance of the Micromasters, who play such an integral role in the Dreamwave version of the saga of the Autobots. (New readers might be a little baffled here, but just wing it, the stories are easy to follow and designed to clue you in on the fly).
This is the last of the US reprints in this format and the Diamond edition features a superb pin-up gallery from some of the biggest names in comics as well as the usual behind the scenes features. It is a great package and a perfect series for luring the young and disinterested into comics.
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