Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. There have been three main publishers of the comic book series bearing the name. This was followed by a second volume titled transformers. Wreckers and a continuation of beast machines entitled transformers. Beast wars is a comic book series by idw publishing, based upon hasbros toy line and the original television series. Jun 20, 2018 comic book was made by fun publications. Generation 2, which ran for 12 issues starting in 1993. No longer restricted by hasbro, furman was allowed to kill off as many characters per issue as the story demanded.
Beast wars sourcebook is a 4issue limited series by idw publishing, featuring expanded profile entries for most prebeast machines transformers from the beast era toy lines including hasbro, takara, microverse, fastfood, and convention exclusive characters. I have no problems with this aspect of beast wars the gathering. In 2007, a second edition was published, increasing the page count from 144 to 152 visibly different by having a reflective background on the cover instead of white. Beast wars universe with this collection of the gathering, the ascending, and the beast wars sourcebook in the gathering, razorbeast and his fellow maximals prevent rogue predacon leader magmatron from raising an army on earth to wage war against cybertron. Art by don figueroa, nick roche, guido guidi, and dan khanna. When 3h productions held the rights to botcon they produced a number of stories set in and around the beast wars and beast machines cartoons, mostly but not exclusively featuring their own exclusive toycharacters. Idw publishing though not a part of their main continuity, idw publishing picked up the ball from dreamwave and has published two beast wars miniseries and a profile book. Since this comic was developed before the television show, it remains as an interesting artifact of beast wars history, representing a time unaffected by the tv show that would air months later.
Oct 01, 2011 transformers shattered glass part 1 comic book duration. He is rescued by a lone predacon, dinobot, before teaming up with optimus primal and the rest of the crew to try and escape to gnashing teeth of the marauding. The term generation 1 covers both the animated television series the transformers and the comic book series of the same name, which are further divided into japanese and british spinoffs, respectively. These stories were, like the later tv magazine comics, unique stories in a separatebutsometimessimilar continuity from their cartoon counterparts. The first comic book was printed in 1986 by marvel comics as a character guide, while later series printed by 3h enterprises contained fiction for the transformers. The first series was produced by marvel comics from 1984 to 1991, which ran for 80 issues and produced four spinoff miniseries.
Jul 21, 2015 here the beast wars sourcebook witch has everything characters from tv shows anime toys and botcons and is a pretty good find as well. Comic bom bom would not get a regular serialized transformers comic until the late nineties, with the japanoriginal beast wars ii manga, and the following series. Transformers shattered glass part 1 comic book duration. Cheetor is out of his depth as a hoard of sharkticons invade cybertron. It was good story of the beast wars series but has a darker tone. Bumblebee movie prequel and mike johnson the most prolific star trek comic book writer of all time. Popular features include daily news, toy galleries, a message board, a. New transformers reboot reportedly based on beast wars series. To those that would like to hear the climatic story of the beast wars comics then this is the one you may look for. Yes, manga is too, but manga lacks the detail that this comic has. The beast wars universe book, working off interviews and notes from the series writers, says that the voks experiments on earth were part of an attempt to further evolve humanity, as the vok had destroyed the human race while existing as the swarm, and they wished to rebuild all the races theyd destroyed. Transformers computeranimated tv series, with the second taking place in the bumblebee movie universe. Many characters have been killed on both sides in their fight against unicron and his servants, but luckily the heroes were able to defeat this menace. Contentsshow convention comics 3h botcon comics the first postcartoon beast wars material.
Transformers based on the toy lines of the same name. Jan 30, 2020 the cbc comic book cast is an online geek culture community. This special series will be comprised of three 48page, adfree editions. Beast wars is an american animated television series. A few years after the original transformers comic had ended its run, marvel published a new 12 issue series entitled transformers. When 3h held the rights to the botcon they produced a number of stories set in and around the beast wars.
If this is beast wars vs all the good guys and bad guys of transformers, transformers wins easily. Eventually these folded together with all the other 3h storylines into. While its position in the transformers continuity has previously been unknown, the idw publishing comic book miniseries beast wars. Transformers film said to be beast wars transformers news. Predacon general magmatron travels back to the era of the beast wars on prehistoric earth. Loosely based off the toyline of the same name, the series was written by simon furman, with art by derek yaniger and manny galan. Kenner year 1997 transformers beast wars fuzors series deluxe class 7 inch tall robot action figure heroic maximal tracker robot silverbolt with 2 missilesclubs beast mode. The gathering and ben yee consultant on the beast wars tv series continue to present an allencompassing, unifying resource book highlighting the characters, worlds and technology from all generations and incarnations of beast wars with the third volume of this informative collection. With 2016 being the 20th anniversary of beast wars i thought it would be fun to revisit this comic book and include scans for your viewing pleasure.
This covers the various television series including the japanese anime, and many of the action figures. Eventually these folded together with all the other 3h storylines into the transformers. It will have a few minor defects and will generally appear to be in slightly used but not roughly used condition. The comics included tales from the beast wars 2 issues, transformers. The series was set in the future of the original transformers universe as a sequel to the first transformers series which has since been rebooted. They would have both unicron and primus on their side. Dreamwave productions planned a beast wars comic book series entitled shell game, but the company declared bankruptcy in 2004 with only one sneakpeek story published. Dreamwave productions planned a beast wars comic book series. Transformers film said to be beast wars transformers. During the beast wars, rhinox was the defensive strategist, and second in command of the maximals. But in the ascending, magmatron, now a disembodied entity. The transformers series is one of the more popular franchises in all of media, but not everyone is aware of the awesome tv show beast wars. Transformers developing beast wars, bumblebee universe movies.
Here the beast wars sourcebook witch has everything characters from tv shows anime toys and botcons and is a pretty good find as well. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. The prior transformer television series, comic books and toys became known as generation 1 or g1 retroactively, and are now officially. This contains a character page for virtually every character to ever appear in the transformers.
The series takes place after season 2 of the beast wars animated series and features characters that had toys produced but were not featured in the cartoon. Beast wars sourcebook is a 4issue limited series by idw publishing featuring an encyclopedia of over 150 character profiles in beast wars. His alternate form was a brown rhinoceros, and he carried two powerful machine guns. Sequels followed, such as the generation 2 comic book and beast wars tv series, which became its own. A number of comics set in the continuity of the beast wars cartoon have been published since the shows end, most notably two miniseries and a profile book by idw comics. When 3h held the rights to the botcon they produced a number of stories set in and around the beast wars and beast machines.
The gathering was released in 2006 as a fourissue series written by the stormbringer team of furman and figueroa. The gathering and ben yee consultant on the beast wars tv series continue to present an allencompassing, unifying resource book highlighting the characters, worlds and technology from all generations and incarnations of beast wars with the second volume of this. Transformers in canada, is an americancanadian computer animated television series that debuted in 1996 and ended on march 7, 1999, serving as the flagship of the transformers. Transformers beast wars sourcebook 2007 comic books. The series is set incontinuity with the television series, but also uses characters that were made into toys but not featured in the series.
There have been three main publishers of the comic book series bearing the. Transformers shattered glass part 2 comic book duration. Beast wars is a transformers toyline released by hasbro between 1995 and 2000, and a daytime emmy award winning fullcg animated television series spawned by it that debuted in 1996. Transformers computeranimated tv series, with the second taking place in the bumblebee movie universe deadline reports independence day. Transformers universe is the title of several comic book series based on the transformers series by hasbro. Beast wars is a comic book series by idw publishing, based upon hasbros toy line and the. The cbc comic book cast is an online geek culture community. Three fanfavorite transformers beast wars books in one the gathering, the ascending, and the beast wars. The noholdsbarred saturday morning mashup continues. Written by two titans of their respective properties, john barber optimus prime, transformers. Paramount pictures and hasbro are developing two new transformers movies, with two different writers penning the scripts. Unity the botcon 2016 beast wars anniversary comic book that should have been, pages 1 to 4.
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