Love to see my favorite franchise get some representation! I’m really hoping Skybound can put out the Marvel years in a new omni. I missed out on volumes 3 onward, and really want to see them back in print.
I remember as a very little kid reading the issue with Circuitbreaker and thinking it was the same lady in Superman 3 movie who gets turned all robotic
These videos inspired me to start doing my own video showcases of Transformers comics. I did my Action (Superman) collection already (from the late 50s to the mid 80s) I did do the Target 2006 comics-but I am thinking about doing more
I love the original Marvel comics. I was born in '88, but G1 is still by far my favorite era, and I've collected all of those Classics TPBs. It's kind of a matter of pride that I didn't spend exorbitant prices to get them, lol. I've still never read any of the UK-only stories because those TPBs were discontinued long ago.
Correction on the Hachette. While they came out in a pretty random order the issue number (sticker on the front) wasn't the same as the volume number (on the spine, shelf order). On the shelf they go Marvel (following the UK order with UK stories where they fit between US stories), Dreamwave, IDW with only some odds and ends out of order at the end that weren't part of the original 80 book run but part of the 20 book extension. A couple of thing not ideally placed but it's all pretty much in reading order.
Well I've kept my Titan printings as well, partly for the original colours rather than the redone IDW files, but 93 is included in the Second Generation volume of UK material from Titan. I don't have a full set of the B&W digests of the later material and some of those have gotten pricey, now have all the stories with colours by JP in the Hachette volumes of course but have the nostalgia for them in the original format. Still need to replace the last of the original run of UK annuals since my original copy has never turned up, again pricey when it shows up now, might have to grab the IDW Rarities floppy just to have a placeholder copy of Another Time and Place.
@@thepartworkscomicsreader9488 Yes, me too! 😁😁 I've been slowly recollecting the original issues - I now have most of those issues with the free gifts still intact... including #1! The ones I had as a kid got destroyed. :(
Things are still the wrong way round in some books though, due to them wanting to prioritise the meatier story. It’s annoying. And the colours and repro are terrible. I went back and forth regarding selling my Titan editions. I think had IDW not cancelled the UK classics books (despite their atrocious repro), I’d have kept them.
Really wish the next publisher would do a Marvel US/UK numerical order hardcover series that is not super difficult to get in the US. Edit: those William Johnson issues were so beautiful. I love the Ratchet camping issue so much.
If they do, hope it’s better than Hachette’s partwork, which despite being edited by the bloke who wrote most of it STILL had stuff in the wrong order. Quite how they all managed that, I’ll never know. (And the repro was bloody awful, using the new and horribly botched IDW recolouring disaster.)
I've said somewhere else I would love Marvel to get back the publishing rights so we could have these issues remastered properly in an omnibus. I would love the US issues to be collected the way they were originally printed in the UK title i.e modified to incorporate the events of the British stories. I don't know if it's even possible. One can only dream.
This was a fun walk down memory lane. My first issue was #36. I cut out the subscription page and sent it in. I remember those subsequent issues getting >gasp< folded and dropped through our mail slot. Then I discovered comicbook stores in ads in those Transformers comics. I called one of the stores listed and asked if they had Transformers back issues. I had my parents drive me out to Eagle Rock (about an hour away) and I bought Transformers #1 for what seemed like a lot of money >gasp< $10. Eventually, I caught up on all the back issues. I've been tempted to have all those issues bound.
Absolute loved (and over 30 years later I still do) the Transformers UK comic. Simon Furman and Geoff Senior in particular became legends in that run, not forgetting Bob Budiansky
Been waiting for this video for years. Loved every minute Geoff seniors art is burnt into my memory and I've never read how the American saga finished so thank you.
Good work posting these. I don't have the compliations because I still have my collection of US and UK Transformers comics from Marvel (In Canada, we could get both. I think it was the ideal place for it-the UK collection was sold all over the commonwealth, but in other places, buying the US comics was harder (either because of distance like in Australia and New Zealand), and/or because of governmental reasons (South Africa didn't have a lot of different media from other lands because Black people were in positions of authority in said media and apartheid South Africa didn't want people seeing that) One thing that the compliations neglect to include are letters to the editor. I always loved reading those-especially in the UK comic where you got to write to a character. (I remember writing to Soundwave a few times as a kid, but what I didn't realise is that with the weekly UK comic, all letters came from the British isles simply because there was no time to wait for mail to arrive from oversees (this was pre-internet, and it probably took over a week for mail to go from Canada to England, so the next issue was already written and printed)
Transformers Marvel UK issue 45 is what got me into comics. A good book to get for lots of info on the Marvel comics is Transform and Roll Out the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Transformers Franchise 1984-1992 by Ryan Frost and published by Telos.
Great overview Omar. The IDW collections US and UK) are some of my favorite books in my collection. The earlier Titan Marvel G1 & G2 reprints are quite nice too. They also contain the Spiderman and Circuit Breaker issues, and the covers of each pair of volumes (1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc) for the entire collection act as connecting covers. I'm still disappointed that TF Classics UK didn't finish the UK run... here's hoping that the new publisher will!
I’ll admit, I’m not that into Transformers nowadays. But in the 80’s, I was getting those comics monthly. I remember the shock of the end of issue 4 and my shock seeing issue 5 on the shelf.
Sweet, great video, Omar. Being an old guy this is by far my favorite era of Transformers comics, especially the latter half or so by Furman. Fingers crossed that Kirkman collects all of these in either omnis or OHCs.
Can you make videos like this about Justice League Odyssey? (or just Starfire's), and Aquaman's, and one of Damien Wayne's, and maybe one of Darkseid's as well, and if you could also add during the video their reading order in trade paperbacks
Awesome to see you finally do a TF reading order. I didn't know you were such a big TF fan until I saw your house moving video and saw all your toys :-) I got into the toys and comics after buying a Combiner Wars toy with pack-in comic back in 2016 and now have 400+ figures and 5 short boxes with the Marvel, Dreamwave, and IDW singles, plus IDW Phase 1 collected editions and about 80% of the TFUK in various collected editions. Why are there no more giant robot universe comics out there? Maybe you can do a top 10 robot/sci-fi universe comic list soon? Thanks for all the great content Omar!
Been waiting for this one, Omar! I have *most* of the IDW trades, but not all of them. One small addition would be 'Classic GI Joe' Vol. 14, which includes the second Joe/Transformers team-up (and leads into Gen2). Also OP and getting harder-to-find, natch!
I can't wait for possible new collections - TF was one of my favorites as a kid but I got rid of those issues long ago; also have heard so much good word on the IDW line that I really look for ward to that as well (and the upcoming Reading Oder video!)
Any Brits here old enough to have got the Marvel UK TF comic first time round? I used to bloody LOVE that. But I also found it weird when it went from really nice art to crappy art. Only years later did I fully understand what was going on with UK originals and US reprint! (Spider-Man and Zoids was another from that era. I really with Zoids had have continued. That was doing interesting things from Grant Morrison by the end, even if he was ripping off a bunch of movies the young me had yet to see.)
I collected it from issues 45 through to issue 332. I also bought Action Force and The Real Ghostbusters and London Editions reprints of Batman and Superman. Of course it also introduced me to Iron Man, Machine Man, Hercules and Rocket Raccoon thanks to the back up strips.
@@TheYoungDoctor The back-up strips often felt a bit out of place, but I vividly recall being baffled by Rocket Raccoon in particular. It was so… different.
I have them! (Not a Brit-I hope a Canadian will do!) My favourite backup feature isn't even remembered by many-it was Mike Krazybird's The Chromobots! That was basically a Transformers story with the robots being toy sized.
I've got the first first 45 or so issues of Transformers in scraggly condition somewhere in a box here. I remember when those Titan reprints were first announced and it was a big thing in the Transformers community back then. I ended up getting, I think, 6 volumes from that... back when no one could have imagined Transformers would get more and more printings as the years went on. Also... Andrew Wildman of X-Men Adventures... and issue 1 of the X-Men Collector's Edition Pizza Hut comics... ?!?! 😮
I can't recall if it was ever explained why the US never used the movie characters? Their loss was the UK's gain, as those 'future'/time-jumping stories are some of the very best Transformers comics of all time.
I think that by that time Bob was losing his mind just including all the characters he had to include. For one thing, Simon Furman (UK writer) had a weekly comic so he had more of a chance to include other characters (breaking it down, the main feature in the UK comic was half the size of a US comic, and with the reprinting being done half the month, he was basically writing the exact same amount, but he could include other stuff since the contemporary times was covered in the US), and he also was more excited by the characters (being younger and not as wore out) then Bob who this was always "just a job" for him
Transformers Marvel US / G.I. Joe was Marvel Earth-91274 and TF Marvel UK / Action Force was Earth-120185). US issue 43 (UK issue 180-181) was a adaptation of the cartoon episode The Big Broadcast of 2006 which features some of the movie cast. When the UK reprinted it they used a framing story (as a prologue to Space Pirates) the story was shown to be in Wreck Gar's imagination so not to conflict with UK continuity.
I have the entire collection-I'll have to look you up! I know I was in correspondence with Liane Elliot for awhile. She wrote regularly to the US comic in the later issues. I always wrote to the UK comics since they answered in character
Transformers UK was my childhood. To say it has a special place in my heart is an understatement. I remember my life's events from that period in terms of what issue number was out. I have no interest in any Transformers comics that don't relate to the US/UK continuity or not written by Furman. When you look at other UK liscenced comics at the time the difference is amazing. Pretty much every other publisher of UK liscenced material created childish forgettable material. Ian Rimmer (the UK Transformers comic editor from issue 22 to at least 100) doesn't get enough credit. He was visionary enough to allow Furman to write stories that were unlike what pretty much every publisher was creating for their liscenced titles. I reread the comics from time to time and appreciate the jokes and references I didn't get at the time.
The first IDW trades aside from not being able to reprint the Spider-Man and Circuit Breaker issues were also of poor printing quality as they simply scanned the original comics. The second collection attempt that IDW did is of better quality.
Neo-Knights only ever appeared in these Transformers issues. Theybare owned by Marvel though, somehow! There was even an intention to make a Marvel UK mini, I believe, but this never happened. A cover was made with some new character designs.
The Titan reprints are the best quality reproductions of the original comics. The “remastering” destroyed some fine line work (examples on TFwiki) and the recolouring/corrections were unnecessary and a bit inconsistent. Highly recommend the Titan set.
Omar, have you ever delved into the Japanese G1 comics? I've read that all the pack in comics with the Japanese United/Legends/Unite Warriors toys had comics. Have you ever read this expanded content? Any idea if it's all translated somewhere?
Love to see my favorite franchise get some representation! I’m really hoping Skybound can put out the Marvel years in a new omni. I missed out on volumes 3 onward, and really want to see them back in print.
Im just hoping that whoever gets the rights does a good job printing everything
Skybound announced that they will reprint both the Marvel and the IDW runs and I am excited!
I remember as a very little kid reading the issue with Circuitbreaker and thinking it was the same lady in Superman 3 movie who gets turned all robotic
I never thought of that until you mentioned it, but I can see that idea
These videos inspired me to start doing my own video showcases of Transformers comics. I did my Action (Superman) collection already (from the late 50s to the mid 80s) I did do the Target 2006 comics-but I am thinking about doing more
Till all are one.
I love the original Marvel comics. I was born in '88, but G1 is still by far my favorite era, and I've collected all of those Classics TPBs. It's kind of a matter of pride that I didn't spend exorbitant prices to get them, lol. I've still never read any of the UK-only stories because those TPBs were discontinued long ago.
Correction on the Hachette. While they came out in a pretty random order the issue number (sticker on the front) wasn't the same as the volume number (on the spine, shelf order). On the shelf they go Marvel (following the UK order with UK stories where they fit between US stories), Dreamwave, IDW with only some odds and ends out of order at the end that weren't part of the original 80 book run but part of the 20 book extension. A couple of thing not ideally placed but it's all pretty much in reading order.
This is true - they miss out TFUK #93 though! Not a key story by any means, but even so...
Well I've kept my Titan printings as well, partly for the original colours rather than the redone IDW files, but 93 is included in the Second Generation volume of UK material from Titan. I don't have a full set of the B&W digests of the later material and some of those have gotten pricey, now have all the stories with colours by JP in the Hachette volumes of course but have the nostalgia for them in the original format. Still need to replace the last of the original run of UK annuals since my original copy has never turned up, again pricey when it shows up now, might have to grab the IDW Rarities floppy just to have a placeholder copy of Another Time and Place.
@@thepartworkscomicsreader9488 Yes, me too! 😁😁 I've been slowly recollecting the original issues - I now have most of those issues with the free gifts still intact... including #1! The ones I had as a kid got destroyed. :(
Things are still the wrong way round in some books though, due to them wanting to prioritise the meatier story. It’s annoying. And the colours and repro are terrible. I went back and forth regarding selling my Titan editions. I think had IDW not cancelled the UK classics books (despite their atrocious repro), I’d have kept them.
Really wish the next publisher would do a Marvel US/UK numerical order hardcover series that is not super difficult to get in the US.
Edit: those William Johnson issues were so beautiful. I love the Ratchet camping issue so much.
If they do, hope it’s better than Hachette’s partwork, which despite being edited by the bloke who wrote most of it STILL had stuff in the wrong order. Quite how they all managed that, I’ll never know. (And the repro was bloody awful, using the new and horribly botched IDW recolouring disaster.)
I've said somewhere else I would love Marvel to get back the publishing rights so we could have these issues remastered properly in an omnibus.
I would love the US issues to be collected the way they were originally printed in the UK title i.e modified to incorporate the events of the British stories. I don't know if it's even possible.
One can only dream.
Marvel Transformers Omnis would be AMAZING.
This was a fun walk down memory lane. My first issue was #36. I cut out the subscription page and sent it in. I remember those subsequent issues getting >gasp< folded and dropped through our mail slot.
Then I discovered comicbook stores in ads in those Transformers comics. I called one of the stores listed and asked if they had Transformers back issues. I had my parents drive me out to Eagle Rock (about an hour away) and I bought Transformers #1 for what seemed like a lot of money >gasp< $10. Eventually, I caught up on all the back issues.
I've been tempted to have all those issues bound.
Bob Budiansky is a legend. He did so much for the Transformers
But he seems to hate it now cuz no one is writing him a check for all his work being reused. Or maybe he's kidding I don't know
Really hope they find some way to keep the idw hardcovers in print and finish out phase 3
Absolute loved (and over 30 years later I still do) the Transformers UK comic. Simon Furman and Geoff Senior in particular became legends in that run, not forgetting Bob Budiansky
Been waiting for this video for years. Loved every minute Geoff seniors art is burnt into my memory and I've never read how the American saga finished so thank you.
Good work posting these. I don't have the compliations because I still have my collection of US and UK Transformers comics from Marvel (In Canada, we could get both. I think it was the ideal place for it-the UK collection was sold all over the commonwealth, but in other places, buying the US comics was harder (either because of distance like in Australia and New Zealand), and/or because of governmental reasons (South Africa didn't have a lot of different media from other lands because Black people were in positions of authority in said media and apartheid South Africa didn't want people seeing that)
One thing that the compliations neglect to include are letters to the editor. I always loved reading those-especially in the UK comic where you got to write to a character. (I remember writing to Soundwave a few times as a kid, but what I didn't realise is that with the weekly UK comic, all letters came from the British isles simply because there was no time to wait for mail to arrive from oversees (this was pre-internet, and it probably took over a week for mail to go from Canada to England, so the next issue was already written and printed)
Transformers Marvel UK issue 45 is what got me into comics.
A good book to get for lots of info on the Marvel comics is Transform and Roll Out the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to the Transformers Franchise 1984-1992 by Ryan Frost and published by Telos.
Great overview Omar.
The IDW collections US and UK) are some of my favorite books in my collection.
The earlier Titan Marvel G1 & G2 reprints are quite nice too. They also contain the Spiderman and Circuit Breaker issues, and the covers of each pair of volumes (1 and 2, 3 and 4, etc) for the entire collection act as connecting covers.
I'm still disappointed that TF Classics UK didn't finish the UK run... here's hoping that the new publisher will!
I’ll admit, I’m not that into Transformers nowadays. But in the 80’s, I was getting those comics monthly. I remember the shock of the end of issue 4 and my shock seeing issue 5 on the shelf.
Sweet, great video, Omar. Being an old guy this is by far my favorite era of Transformers comics, especially the latter half or so by Furman. Fingers crossed that Kirkman collects all of these in either omnis or OHCs.
This is by far the best Transformers comics video 🥰
Wow, thank you!
that mp-01 is a blast from the past
Titan comics reprinted the most popular marvel uk comics in a magazine sized trade paper back maybe 20 years ago. Glad i have most of them
Can you make videos like this about Justice League Odyssey? (or just Starfire's), and Aquaman's, and one of Damien Wayne's, and maybe one of Darkseid's as well, and if you could also add during the video their reading order in trade paperbacks
Awesome to see you finally do a TF reading order. I didn't know you were such a big TF fan until I saw your house moving video and saw all your toys :-) I got into the toys and comics after buying a Combiner Wars toy with pack-in comic back in 2016 and now have 400+ figures and 5 short boxes with the Marvel, Dreamwave, and IDW singles, plus IDW Phase 1 collected editions and about 80% of the TFUK in various collected editions. Why are there no more giant robot universe comics out there? Maybe you can do a top 10 robot/sci-fi universe comic list soon? Thanks for all the great content Omar!
Been waiting for this one, Omar! I have *most* of the IDW trades, but not all of them. One small addition would be 'Classic GI Joe' Vol. 14, which includes the second Joe/Transformers team-up (and leads into Gen2). Also OP and getting harder-to-find, natch!
Oh yeah. Thank you for that addition. It does lead into Gen 2. Which I will talk about next time.
I can't wait for possible new collections - TF was one of my favorites as a kid but I got rid of those issues long ago; also have heard so much good word on the IDW line that I really look for ward to that as well (and the upcoming Reading Oder video!)
I just have all the original marvel us g1 comics. I even have the headmasters, gi joe, movie, and universe comics, I need to get g2 now
Yo imar the story of how death head gets to regular size is collected in death's head volume one ...great video btw.
Great review! Glad I could help out lending you some of my trades/hardcovers :)
Any Brits here old enough to have got the Marvel UK TF comic first time round? I used to bloody LOVE that. But I also found it weird when it went from really nice art to crappy art. Only years later did I fully understand what was going on with UK originals and US reprint!
(Spider-Man and Zoids was another from that era. I really with Zoids had have continued. That was doing interesting things from Grant Morrison by the end, even if he was ripping off a bunch of movies the young me had yet to see.)
I collected it from issues 45 through to issue 332. I also bought Action Force and The Real Ghostbusters and London Editions reprints of Batman and Superman. Of course it also introduced me to Iron Man, Machine Man, Hercules and Rocket Raccoon thanks to the back up strips.
@@TheYoungDoctor those comics must be expensive now
@@robd1329 Wish I still had them.
@@TheYoungDoctor The back-up strips often felt a bit out of place, but I vividly recall being baffled by Rocket Raccoon in particular. It was so… different.
I have them! (Not a Brit-I hope a Canadian will do!) My favourite backup feature isn't even remembered by many-it was Mike Krazybird's The Chromobots! That was basically a Transformers story with the robots being toy sized.
I've got the first first 45 or so issues of Transformers in scraggly condition somewhere in a box here. I remember when those Titan reprints were first announced and it was a big thing in the Transformers community back then. I ended up getting, I think, 6 volumes from that... back when no one could have imagined Transformers would get more and more printings as the years went on.
Also... Andrew Wildman of X-Men Adventures... and issue 1 of the X-Men Collector's Edition Pizza Hut comics... ?!?! 😮
Great spotlight. Thanks for doing this.
Thank you for watching/
I can't recall if it was ever explained why the US never used the movie characters? Their loss was the UK's gain, as those 'future'/time-jumping stories are some of the very best Transformers comics of all time.
I think that by that time Bob was losing his mind just including all the characters he had to include. For one thing, Simon Furman (UK writer) had a weekly comic so he had more of a chance to include other characters (breaking it down, the main feature in the UK comic was half the size of a US comic, and with the reprinting being done half the month, he was basically writing the exact same amount, but he could include other stuff since the contemporary times was covered in the US), and he also was more excited by the characters (being younger and not as wore out) then Bob who this was always "just a job" for him
Is Dreamwave also in part 2? Also what Optimus is that in the opening screen? Is that the Masterpiece?
Transformers Marvel US / G.I. Joe was Marvel Earth-91274 and TF Marvel UK / Action Force was Earth-120185).
US issue 43 (UK issue 180-181) was a adaptation of the cartoon episode The Big Broadcast of 2006 which features some of the movie cast. When the UK reprinted it they used a framing story (as a prologue to Space Pirates) the story was shown to be in Wreck Gar's imagination so not to conflict with UK continuity.
Excellent video
If you still have your original copy of issue #64, you will find my letter printed in the Trasmissions letter page!
I do!
I have the entire collection-I'll have to look you up! I know I was in correspondence with Liane Elliot for awhile. She wrote regularly to the US comic in the later issues. I always wrote to the UK comics since they answered in character
Looking forward to this reading order
Are we gonna get another full collection tour before the year ends? So much has come out this year i'm dying to see your updated collection!
Transformers UK was my childhood. To say it has a special place in my heart is an understatement. I remember my life's events from that period in terms of what issue number was out. I have no interest in any Transformers comics that don't relate to the US/UK continuity or not written by Furman.
When you look at other UK liscenced comics at the time the difference is amazing. Pretty much every other publisher of UK liscenced material created childish forgettable material.
Ian Rimmer (the UK Transformers comic editor from issue 22 to at least 100) doesn't get enough credit. He was visionary enough to allow Furman to write stories that were unlike what pretty much every publisher was creating for their liscenced titles.
I reread the comics from time to time and appreciate the jokes and references I didn't get at the time.
The first IDW trades aside from not being able to reprint the Spider-Man and Circuit Breaker issues were also of poor printing quality as they simply scanned the original comics. The second collection attempt that IDW did is of better quality.
New Publisher should release marvel us/uk G1 & G2 in Omnibus format. Maybe in uk release order or best placement for certain stories.
Neo-Knights only ever appeared in these Transformers issues. Theybare owned by Marvel though, somehow! There was even an intention to make a Marvel UK mini, I believe, but this never happened. A cover was made with some new character designs.
The Titan reprints are the best quality reproductions of the original comics. The “remastering” destroyed some fine line work (examples on TFwiki) and the recolouring/corrections were unnecessary and a bit inconsistent. Highly recommend the Titan set.
Thank u
I wonder if it would have been cheaper to buy collected editions rather than what I did by hunting each individual g1 issue
You mean that the Rights might be bound to the sky?
Hahaha
Is there a chance the original marvel series will be reprinted in epic collection format
For real....whats the hold up with an Omnibus
Omar, have you ever delved into the Japanese G1 comics? I've read that all the pack in comics with the Japanese United/Legends/Unite Warriors toys had comics. Have you ever read this expanded content? Any idea if it's all translated somewhere?
Now I want these. Hoping all the Transformers stuff gets reprinted by the new publisher soon.
I’m so disappointed that IDW didn’t get to finish phase three. Now I have an incomplete run and I hate that.
Can you do an Aquaman reading order
Could you do one for TMNT and GI Joe?
Denny o Neil came up with the name Optimus prime. Not shooter.
Just checked Patreon, looks like the documentation for the reading order isn't up yet?
HOLY SHIT IS THAT AN OMNIBUS???
Nice video, new subscriber here... what about "transformers the IDW collection"? are those to be read later on?
Thanks for subscribing. That is its own universe which I’ll be talking about in part 3. But yes, years later.
Omar - have you managed to read any UK stories that IDW failed to collect? Like Space Pirates and Time Wars?
Not yet. I’m hoping here we get more one day.
Is there a reading order about wonder woman?
Any chance we'll get a Batman reading order part 5?
hi,any plans doing a reading order with avengers?
One day for sure
Omar Is Weapon X #11 1st Appearance of Boomer, Not heard of Tabitha Smith, where can i Find The Comic?
Secret wars 2 #5
IDW really failed at collecting the older transformers and gi joe comics
where can i get a copy of the Transformers Marvel Omnibus, the one you have on the upper right of your books, the one you dont talk about lol?
OMAR YOURE NOT EVEN GONNA MENTION THE CUSTOM MARVEL OMNIBUS SITTING ON YOUR LEFT
You saw nothing! :)
What figure is that in the beginning
The original MP Prime.