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TRANSFORMERS @ 20 III: BEAST WARS
by Benjamin Ong Pang Kean
The war has begun, and it can only get bigger and hotter as Hasbro and Dreamwave Productions celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Transformers.
The Autobots and the Decepticons brought their century-old intergalactic war to earth in 1984. A successful toy line, an animated series and countless spin-offs and versions later, including US and UK comics based on the fan-favorites robots, the Transformers franchise remains alive and well in the minds of the hardcore fans of the robots.
While Dreamwave抯 Transformers: Generation One miniseries renewed interest in the Transformers brand two years ago, the seeds of rebirth really started in the nineties with Beast Wars, a computer-generated animated series created by Mainframe Entertainment. Two new warring factions, the Maximals headed by Optimus Primal and the Megatron-led renegade group of Predacons, continued the tradition started eons earlier by their robotic ancestors.
This summer, Dreamwave is expanding its Transformers universe with Robots In Disguise (written by Adam Patyk with art by Rob Ruffs and covered in yesterday抯 article) and Beast Wars in May抯 Transformers Summer Special, a 48-page one-shot combo that also includes a G1 tale by Brad Mick and Pat Lee, and Energon by Simon Furman and James Raiz.
The creative team handling the nine-page Beast Wars story is current Generation One creative team of writer Brad Mick and artist Don Figueroa, who is also DW抯 Transformers designer.
揈ach version of Transformers has its own stand-out characters or plot points, but I抎 probably have to say Beast Wars is my favorite,?More Than Meet The Eye抯 Adam Patyk said. 揑n terms of story, that series brought everything to the table with a consistent plot and all-new characters with gr |
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