Snaptrap is the leader of the Seacons, the most expensive of the team and the one that, quite literally, holds the entire group together.

IDW’s ongoing Transformers title continues in earnest this month. Issue 10 is available in print in comic shops while all 9 preceding issues are available for your iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch!

The fifth of the Seacon mini-robots (the designation “SE5″ on the package drops a huge clue) is Tentakil, an evil pink and turquoise squid-stroke-octopus.

It’s an Ironhide double-dip this week. The last, presumably climactic, issue of Transformers Ironhide hits your local comic book shop while the previous issue of the mini-series is made available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Skalor is one ugly son of a fish! In monster mode, the combination of turquoise, light pink and dark magenta coupled with a hideous fish-head and scaled body make this one catch that should be thrown back into the sea.

Nautilator, a particularly creepy looking Seacon, is perhaps the most realistic looking of the set. Well, as realistic as a toy robotic lobster can get, to be fair.

The second member of the Seacon team, Seawing (SE2), takes flight under the waves as a turquoise, black and grey robotic manta ray. A manta ray with legs, that is. It’s a very stylised look, with the wing span forming a near perfect half-circle. Seawing is certainly the sleekest looking Seacon.

Overbite, designation SE1 on the packaging, assumes the form of what the instructions charitably refer to as a “monster”. Actually, it looks a lot like a shark with arms and legs. In fact, the Marvel UK comics do depict the character as a (limbless) mechanical shark. But they also call the character Jawbreaker. So what do they know?

Every Transformer by the name of Dirge these last 25 years has always been a newly coloured and/or newly modified version of Starscream. So with the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen NEST sub-line, something completely novel and unexpected has happened: Hasbro has released an all-new, virgin mould Dirge!

Just one Transformers comic this week (Transformers Nefarious #5), and the trade paperback collection of the Transformers: Bumblebee mini-series. The Nefarious series is proving to be worth reading so far, despite slipping under the radar of most Transformers comic book readers.