Book Review: Transformers: Dark Cybertron vol #1

Book: Transformers: Dark Cybertron volume #1 by James Roberts, John Barber, Phil Jimenez (Illustrations), Andrew Griffith (Illustrations), Brendan Cahill (Illustrations), James Raiz (Illustrations), Atilio Rojo (Illustrations), Livio Ramondelli (Illustrations)

Source: Borrowed from Publisher/NetGalley for an honest review

Publication: April 29, 2014

Description:

THE END OF EVERYTHING!

Shockwave makes a move millions of years in the planning — an ultimate strategy to remake Cybertron and destroy both the Autobots and Decepticons!


Rating: 3 1/2 stars

Review:

Reading this was like watching an episode from the 80s Transformers cartoon series. It was nice seeing familiar characters as well as being introduced to new characters. I like that a lot of my favorite characters were shown in this. Transformers: Dark Cybertron was a fast paced story that made me want to know why Shockwave was going to such extremes to try to take over Cybertron and if anyone will be able to stop him (most likely in future issues).

In this, there are three interconnecting stories:

The first has Shockwave working on his plan to take over Cybertron which may or may not coincide with a prophesy. The second story has Starscream trying to protect Cybertron from a Titan. As the newly elected leader of Cybertron the citizens are counting on him but will he be able to help them. But he's not alone in trying to protect the planet because in a separate incident, a small group of Autobots that are lead by Bumblebee were trying to go up against the Titan they even got some help from a small group of Decepticons that were being lead by Soundwave. The third story had Optimus Prime (who is going by his original name of Orion Pax) joining up with a traveling fleet of Autobots.

This is one of those books where unless you know who these characters are and what's going you will probably be lost. However, it is written in a way that someone who may be a bit new to Transformers may still be able to follow along with the story.

I thought this was a fun read the only problem I have is I wish the story was longer. But it did leave me wanting to read more.