Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen Comic Prequel

Ok, so I'm a little behind on my comic reading, and by 'a little' I mean at least a few months out, but last night I finally got around to issue #1 of the new Transformers 2009 movie prequel comic. IDW has gone a bit out of their way to make this run confusing - the overall title of the comic run is "Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel: Destiny" which is broken into two 4-issue halves of 'Alliance' and 'Definance'. I started with Alliance #1, as should you.

While I have sadly already biased myself against the new film based on my low opinion of the 2007 effort, I have to admit they certainly pushed all my G1 buttons in this prequel issue! Granted the ability to ignore most movie-relevant plot points helped with the enjoyment, but a few panels in particular made this issue solid gold. It's definitely worth picking up and playing the 'how many references can I catch' game, and I have to really give a tip of the Preserve hat to writer Chris Mowry and artist Alex Milne for the beautiful job they did unveiling Prime's new holographic driver. You'll know it when you see it provided you're a big enough Tf nerd (big thanks to tfwiki.net for having the image available!). If that carries over to the movie, I will be so happy, and it may just be awesome enough to save the rest of the movie from the jaws of dislike!
Posted by charlie on February 2nd 2009, 05:54 PM
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