If, while watching the end credits of Transformers (2007) and waiting for your hearing to return, you saw Starscream blasting off into space and wondered just what happened next, then the answer is to be found within the pages of “The Reign of Starscream”.

Things like “prequels” and “adaptations” usually reek of cash-ins, adding dead weight to overburdened
bandwagons. Usually. Chris Ryall joins veteran scribe Simon Furman to turn in a fast-paced script with considered depth.

“First Contact”, the first five-issue storyline of Dreamwave’s Transformers Armada comic, introduces the reader not only to a host of new characters but an entirely new fictional universe. Many of the original Transformers concepts remain, but one major new facet of the Autobot/Decepticon war is added—a third faction known as Mini-Cons.

“First Contact”, the first five-issue storyline of Dreamwave’s Transformers Armada comic, introduces the reader not only to a host of new characters but an entirely new fictional universe. Many of the original Transformers concepts remain, but one major new facet of the Autobot/Decepticon war is added—a third faction known as Mini-Cons.