Is there more than meets the eye to Transformers #1?
It's been heavily teased for the last few months and now the first issue of Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers comic for Skybound is here. Thankfully, it lives up to the hype.
This opening issue wastes no time in re-introducing us to the robots in disguise, ditching the continuity of both the Marvel comics and the more recent IDW years and opting for a winningly back-to-basics approach that will feel familiar to anyone with even a passing knowledge of the franchise.
That's not to say that it doesn't have a couple of surprises up its sleeves. One in particular deserves a big old...
Transformers #1 opens with an intriguing page that juxtaposes several events key to this opening instalment. Military helicopters. A crashing starship. A dead or dying man. Optimus Prime's broken face. A doomed space shuttle launch...
Then we're with Spike, a familiar character from the '80s animated series, given a different and far darker backstory here.
In the TV show 14-year-old Spike worked happily (if probably illegally, given his age) with his father on an offshore oil rig. The version we meet here is older (he's planning to study at Berkeley) and is dealing with both the death of his brother Jimmy, killed in that disastrous shuttle launch, and his father's descent into alcoholism following the tragedy. Spike wants to be an astronaut too, but that's a difficult subject to bring up with the old man right now.
Hanging out with Spike is Carly, another familiar character given a bit of a refresh here. She's broke, but hoping to go to art school. But then the ground opens up beneath them and their world is changed forever.
The pair fall into a derelict spaceship, just in time to witness its inhabitants slowly come to life.
Jetfire is the
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