Transformers: Galaxies

Transformers: Galaxies is an anthology comic book series by IDW Publishing. It is a spin-off to 2019's Transformers comic book, featuring various stories about many other characters outside the main storyline.[1] The series began on September 25, 2019.[2]

Transformers: Galaxies
Cover for issue #1 by Livio Ramondelli.
Publication information
PublisherIDW Publishing (licensed by Hasbro)
ScheduleMonthly
FormatOngoing series
Genre
Publication dateSeptember 25, 2019 — present
No. of issues6
Creative team
Letterer(s)
  • Tom B. Long
  • Val Lopez
  • Jake Wood
Editor(s)
  • David Mariotte
  • Tom Waltz

Premise

Transformers: Galaxies is set in the same continuity as the 2019 Transformers comic book. It features several characters being affected by the tragic events on Cybertron prior to the inevitable war between the Autobots and Decepticons.

Publication history

Transformers: Galaxies was firstly announced on June 2019, with the first story arc based on the Constructicons, and is set to be written by Vox Media co-founder Tyler Bleszinski, with art by Livio Ramondelli, and is set to be released on September 2019.[3]

Bleszinski says he has “dreamed of the day that I could somehow be involved in the Transformers universe. Humanizing the Constructicons in a refreshed origin story with Livio Ramondelli – one of the most talented Transformers artists ever – will be one of the highlights of my life and will give me the opportunity to share my passion for these incredible creations with my kids’ generation. This is truly a dream come true.” According to IDW Editor David Mariotte, “Transformers: Galaxies delves into what’s happening away from Cybertron. Tyler and Livio are working on a story about broken promises and lost futures — about those who fall by the wayside to maintain a utopia.”[1]

During San Diego Comic-Con on July 18, 2019, IDW announced three other story arcs based on Cliffjumper, Arcee, Greenlight, and Ultra Magnus.[4]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the series remains on hiatus until June 10, 2020.

Characters
Main article: List of Transformers comics characters

Characters in bold are new to the series.

  • Abominus
  • Accelerator
  • Arcee
  • Blast Off
  • Bombshell
  • Bonecrusher
  • Brainstorm
  • Brawl
  • Bumblebee
  • Chromia
  • Cliffjumper
  • Cyclonus
  • Elita-1
  • Deathsaurus
  • Devastator
  • Gauge
  • Greenlight
  • Heretech
  • Hook
  • Kickback
  • Long Haul
  • Megatron
  • Mixmaster
  • Nominus Prime
  • Natalus
  • Onslaught
  • Orion Pax
  • Prowl
  • Scavenger
  • Scrapper
  • Sentinel / Sentinel Prime
  • Shockwave
  • Shrapnel
  • Shutter
  • Soundwave
  • Starscream
  • Termagax
  • Vortex
  • Wheeljack
  • Windblade

List of issues
Issue # Title Written by Drawn by Coloured by Publication date
1 "Constructicons Rising! (Part One)" Tyler Bleszinski Livio Ramondelli Livio Ramondelli September 25, 2019
After the War of the Threefold Spark ended, Termagax recruited the Constructicons (Scrapper, Bonecrusher, Scavenger, Mixmaster, Hook, and Long Haul) to rebuild the damaged cities, despite Wheeljack insisting on demolishing those buildings permanently. Over time, the Constructicons found the Enigma of Combination on Rivets Field, allowing them to combine themselves into a "Combiner", but at the cost of initially losing control. Termagax asks Scrapper and the others to focus on their inner wishes, so they can have control on themselves during the Combination. Time later, the Constructicons continue their duties on the planet Mayalx, while worrying about how other people are afraid of them. Meanwhile, Bombshell secretly watches them, as he has a hidden agenda for them.
2 "Constructicons Rising! (Part Two)" Tyler Bleszinski Livio Ramondelli Livio Ramondelli October 30, 2019
While the Constructicons try to focus on training in an attempt to control their Combination, Bombshell (who is working for the Rise) takes advantage to tell them about his origin: Bombshell and his Insecticon partners were forged with an unstoppable appetite for raw materials, so they were sent to metabolize Energon for Cybertron. They were promised to be celebrated and rewarded, but when the War happened, the Insecticons consumed dead Transformers, causing the current Senate to become afraid of them. So the Senate sent the Insecticons to a remote colony, without any promise of returning to Cybertron. Bombshell also insists the Constructicons that they were sent away for that same reason, and he promises them freedom.
3 "Constructicons Rising! (Part Three)" Tyler Bleszinski Livio Ramondelli Livio Ramondelli November 27, 2019
A long time ago, the Constructicons helped the Senate build most of Cybertron's buildings, despite being sceptical at the start. Despite losing control of their Combination several times, they earned the Senate's trust. Following the War, Nominus Prime orders them to search for new Energon reserves on the planet Mayalx, at the cost of leaving Cybertron.
4 "Constructicons Rising! (Part Four)" Tyler Bleszinski Livio Ramondelli Livio Ramondelli February 19, 2020
The Constructicons are disappointed about how Cybertron abandoned them out of fear and combine into "Devastator" by using unstable Energon supplied by the Insecticons. Devastator destroys Nominus Prime's statue and kill several security guards. The Insecticons take advantage of the victims' corpses. Several cycles later, the Constructicons collected Energon from Cybertron and delivered it to the Rise, and Shockwave left them on another location, in hopes to recruit them in the future. The Constructicons now feel the same fear the Cybertronians had against them, but also admit they are now free.
5 "Wannabee, Part One" Cohen Edenfield, Kate Leth Alex Milne Josh Perez March 4, 2020
On planet Probat, Deathsaurus has made his routine as the planet's Ambassador to collect Energon for the Senate. One day, he needs Cliffjumper to temporarly substitute Bumblebee as part of a meeting with Natalus, the Probats' foreman. As Bumblebee helped the Probats to install an Energon refinery in the past, those people literally worship him. Therefore, when Cliffjumper arrives, the Probats mistake him as Bumblebee, which reminds him of all his previous misunderstandings because of his similar appearance. However, Cliffjumper learns that the Probats have evolve after being exposed to Energon, and have been using their own organic waste to harvesting new Energon supplies; therefore, only Deathsaurus uses the refinery to provide Energon crystals. At the same time, Deathsaurus finds out Natalus was hiding other Energon cubes in case of a disaster and kills him as punishment. When Cliffjumper arrives, he tells Deathsaurus about the hyper-refined Energon, but gets shocked by the latter's motives to kill the Probats in order to create more Energon for himself. Following this revelation, Deathsaurus threats Cliffjumper to help him.
6 "Wannabee, Part Two" Cohen Edenfield, Kate Leth Alex Milne David Garcia Cruz March 25, 2020
When Cliffjumper threatens to report the Senate about his actions, Deathsaurus pile-drives him straight through a wall until leaving him unconscious. Deathsaurus takes the advantage to publicly expose Cliffjumper's identity and frame him for Natalus' murder. After escaping a misguided mob of Probats, Cliffjumper meets a young Probat girl who tells him what happened in the past: when Cybertron colonized Probat, the natives were forced to strip their wings away. She then believes Cliffjumper is innocent and helps him find Deathsaurus, who plans to burn down the Probats' several homespires and steal their Energon crystals, so when the city gets rebuilt, he will repeat the same action for every mega-cycle. During their fight, the Probat girl grabs a chunk of the crystal and jams it into Cliffjumper's dashboard, enabling him to become energized enough to incapacitate Deathsaurus into a coma state. Back on Cybertron, Cliffjumper lies to Prowl and Chromia about the planet's Energon resources being dried up, so that nobody returns. Meanwhile, the Probats celebrate their freedom of flying, and present a new statue that honors Cliffjumper.
7 "Gauging the Truth, Part One" Sam Maggs Bethany McGuire-Smith Josh Burcham July 8, 2020
Gauge is a Curate of the Reversionists, lead by their Planery, Heretech. She is also considered the youngest of all Cybertronians, and learned all instrctions of chore and devotion that were given. The Reversionists left Cybertron through the Exodus after a new war started.[note 1] However, Gauge has recently discovered a mysterious code with a hidden message inside the ship, which leads her to suspect of Heretech's motives. Gauge then decide to search for the restricted engine room, where she finds Arcee and Greenlight, the responsibles for sending her that message.
8 "Gauging the Truth, Part Two: A Truth for a Truth" Sam Maggs Bethany McGuire-Smith, Umi Miyao Josh Burcham August 12, 2020
Arcee and Greenlight used a psychic patch on Gauge to restore her memories. She remembers being the youngest Cybertronian under the care of Arcee and Greenlight, but after they arrived on the Exodus, the Reversionists captured her and altered her memory to maker her one of their own. Arcee and Greenlight warn Gauge that Plenary Heretech is planning something. Gauge gets in the mainframe for find information and frees Arcee and Greenlight while escaping from Accelerator's guards. They soon heard Heretech's announcent: he is planning to kill every Transformer on Cybertron so the Reversionists can take over the planet.
9 "Gauging the Truth, Part Three" Sam Maggs Umi Miyao Josh Burcham August 26, 2020
10 "Storm Horizon, Part One" Brandon M. Easton Andrew Griffith Thomas Deer September 9, 2020
11 "Storm Horizon, Part Two" Brandon M. Easton Andrew Griffith Thomas Deer September 9, 2020
12 "Storm Horizon, Part Three" Brandon M. Easton Andrew Griffith Thomas Deer October 21, 2020

Reception
Comic Book Roundup[5]
Issue Publication date Rating Reviews Ref.
#1 September 25, 2019 7.4/10 7 [6]
#2 October 30, 2019 5.6/10 3 [7]
#3 November 27, 2019 6.6/10 4 [8]
#4 February 19, 2020 8.1/10 3 [9]
#5 March 4, 2020 8.3/10 4 [10]
#6 March 25, 2020 3 [11]
#7 July 8, 2020 7.6/10 5 [12]
#8 August 12, 2020 TBA TBA TBA
#9 August 26, 2020 TBA TBA TBA
#10 September 9, 2020 TBA TBA TBA
#11 September 9, 2020 TBA TBA TBA
#12 October 21, 2020 TBA TBA TBA
Overall 7.4/10 25 [5]

Collected editions
Title Volume Material collected Pages Publication date ISBN Ref.
Transformers, Volume 2: The Change in Your Nature 2
  • Transformers #13−18
  • Transformers: Galaxies #1−6
 280 August 25, 2020 1684056756, 978-1684056750 [13]
Transformers, Volume 3: All Fall Down 3
  • Transformers #19−24
  • Transformers: Galaxies #7−12
 280 December 15, 2020 1684057396, 978-1684057399 [14]

References

Notes
  1. As depicted in Transformers #12.

Footnotes
  1. "CONSTRUCTICONS Get 'Year One' Treatment In New TRANSFORMERS Spin-Off, GALAXIES". Newsarama. June 20, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
  2. Spry, Jeff (August 22, 2019). "CONSTRUCTICONS RISE IN IDW'S FIRST-EVER TRANSFORMERS SPINOFF, GALAXIES #1". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
  3. "Constructicons Rising - The Bold New Era of Transformers Expands with Monthly Galaxies Series". TFormers.com. June 20, 2019. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
  4. Terror, Jude (July 19, 2019). "Kate Leth, Sam Maggs, More Creators Revealed for Transformers: Galaxies". Bleeding Cool. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  5. "Transformers: Galaxies Comic Series Reviews". Comic Book Roundup. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
  6. "Transformers: Galaxies #1 Reviews". ComicBookRoundup.com. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  7. "Transformers: Galaxies #2 Reviews". ComicBookRoundup.com. Retrieved November 2, 2019.
  8. "Transformers: Galaxies #3 Reviews". ComicBookRoundup.com. Retrieved November 28, 2019.
  9. "Transformers: Galaxies #4 Reviews". ComicBookRoundup.com. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  10. "Transformers: Galaxies #5 Reviews". ComicBookRoundup.com. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  11. "Transformers: Galaxies #6 Reviews". ComicBookRoundup.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  12. "Transformers: Galaxies #7 Reviews". ComicBookRoundup.com. Retrieved July 24, 2020.
  13. Transformers, Vol. 2: The Change in Your Nature (Transformers (2019) Hardcover)
  14. Transformers, Vol. 3: All Fall Down (Transformers (2019) Hardcover)
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