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Transformers US Titan Collections #13
Transformers: All Fall Down
Amazon US Exclusive Edition! Face to face with a cultural icon! Inspired by the top-selling toy line, animated TV series and movie, these are the stories that thrilled a whole generation, classic tales re-presented for the first time ever in book form. Voted the third biggest toy license of all time (ahead of Star WarsTM and Spider-manTM) by a survey in USA Today, the reinvigoration of the Robots in Disguise continues. Welcome back to the world of Transformers! The first book in Titan's best-selling series, finally in a handsome hardback edition, and featuring an all-new, exclusive cover by legendary artist Howard Chaykin (American Flagg!, American Century, The Shadow). The hit animated TV shows Beast Wars and Beast Machines introduced a whole new generation to the 'robots in disguise' and now, at last, the stories that came before those shows can be seen again in their world-shaking glory. As in-fighting tears apart the ranks of the heroic Autobots, so the evil Decepticons wage a bitter civil war. The atmosphere is ripe for the coming of planet-eating super-robot Unicron, and for the Transformers...that's doomsday!
144 pages, Paperback
First published July 13, 2001
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Simon Furman
943 books56 followersSimon Christopher Francis Furman is a British comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro/Tomy's Transformers franchise, starting with writing Marvel's initial comic book to promote the toyline worldwide, as well as foundations for both Dreamwave Production's and IDW Publishing's takes on the Generation 1 minifranchise.
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April 10, 2025
I got about 70 percent of the original Marvel run. Never dove into the UK run. How is it ?
February 22, 2018
Synopsis
Unicron is coming. The Autobots are on cybertron. And the infamous civil war between Autobot and Decepticon is full-fledged raging. Will the Autobots be able to stop Unicron before the end-all, be-all planet consumer reaches earth and the planet is no more?
Transformers: All Fall Down by Simon Furman
★★★★
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: October 2002
Source: Half Price Books – Bought
On My Shelf: Yes
If you know me, you’ll know I’m a huge fan of the Transformers. If you don’t, “Hi, I’m Ashly, and I’m huge fan of the Transformers.” So, when I saw this on clearance at Half Price Books, I just had to have it.
I actually ended up liking this a lot. I wasn’t sure about it at first because I felt a little lost, a little disoriented. I didn’t exactly know where this fell in line with the comics and what not. It also threw me off because Furman worked on the original Transformers comics, and he was the one who was doing the reboot of it so I wasn’t exactly sure what was happening at first. But, I believe this story is meant to be a prequel for the ’90’s Transformers television show (and also the original series in general), but please don’t quote me on this. The story that is unfolding is describing the war before the Autobots crash-landed on earth while they were still fighting their war on Cybertron.
This was actually a really interesting and cool concept, and I enjoyed reading about it a lot, but I wish I was more familiar with where it fell in line. When looking more into this comic I discovered this is volume 13, so the only thing that could have made this better for me is knowing where it falls in line and the other story that goes along with this unfolding storyline. This is, of course, mostly my own fault since I decided to pick this up on a whim not knowing anything about it, so… Also, Furman writes a nice introduction at the beginning of this, which did help significantly.
One last thing I want to say is that I loved that this reboot stuck with the original comic storytelling narrative as well as the original art style. That made me really happy. Not that I don’t like new and fresh ideas, I just really liked that this felt like the classics.
Overall, I definitely recommend this, but I also recommend doing some research and familiarizing yourself with the classic comics + TV show to get some grounding before jumping in.
Review originally published on my Wordpress blog Ashly Reads.
Unicron is coming. The Autobots are on cybertron. And the infamous civil war between Autobot and Decepticon is full-fledged raging. Will the Autobots be able to stop Unicron before the end-all, be-all planet consumer reaches earth and the planet is no more?
Transformers: All Fall Down by Simon Furman
★★★★
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: October 2002
Source: Half Price Books – Bought
On My Shelf: Yes
If you know me, you’ll know I’m a huge fan of the Transformers. If you don’t, “Hi, I’m Ashly, and I’m huge fan of the Transformers.” So, when I saw this on clearance at Half Price Books, I just had to have it.
I actually ended up liking this a lot. I wasn’t sure about it at first because I felt a little lost, a little disoriented. I didn’t exactly know where this fell in line with the comics and what not. It also threw me off because Furman worked on the original Transformers comics, and he was the one who was doing the reboot of it so I wasn’t exactly sure what was happening at first. But, I believe this story is meant to be a prequel for the ’90’s Transformers television show (and also the original series in general), but please don’t quote me on this. The story that is unfolding is describing the war before the Autobots crash-landed on earth while they were still fighting their war on Cybertron.
This was actually a really interesting and cool concept, and I enjoyed reading about it a lot, but I wish I was more familiar with where it fell in line. When looking more into this comic I discovered this is volume 13, so the only thing that could have made this better for me is knowing where it falls in line and the other story that goes along with this unfolding storyline. This is, of course, mostly my own fault since I decided to pick this up on a whim not knowing anything about it, so… Also, Furman writes a nice introduction at the beginning of this, which did help significantly.
One last thing I want to say is that I loved that this reboot stuck with the original comic storytelling narrative as well as the original art style. That made me really happy. Not that I don’t like new and fresh ideas, I just really liked that this felt like the classics.
Overall, I definitely recommend this, but I also recommend doing some research and familiarizing yourself with the classic comics + TV show to get some grounding before jumping in.
Review originally published on my Wordpress blog Ashly Reads.
May 23, 2023
By 1990, Hasbro had all but moved on from the first generation of Transformers toys. This included the Marvel Comics series. According to writer Simon Furman, the staff at Marvel knew that Hasbro was no longer interested in the property when the writers submitted an April Fools script that saw the death of all of the Transformers as well as a battle royal between mechanical sheep and warrior nuns! When the toy manufacturer allegedly accepted the script, Furman and crew knew that they were now free to craft the Transformers universe as they saw fit.
Looking to incorporate parts of the 1986 feature-length movie, Furman and crew began what is called 'The Unicron Saga', starting in issue #69. First, Optimus Prime had to be raised from the dead. Even Hasbro admitted that it was a misstep. Although the resurrected version of the Autobot leader was more vulnerable and clunky looking as opposed to his sleeker original shell.
Then writers found a way to incorporate Galvatron; Unicron's updated and far more deadlier upgrade of the Decepticon leader Megatron. With Megatron dead from an explosion, Unicron plucked this version of Galvatron from an alternate future timeline. Not willing to be a lackey to anyone, Galvatron strives to overthrow Unicron by any means possible. Even if that means having to team up with Optimus Prime!
Lastly, the creative team needed a hook to pit all of the Transformers together in order to battle the massive Unicron. The solution: a prophecy from the robots' god-like creator, Primus. According to legend, if all of the children of Cybertron can unite together as one, then and only then can the chaos bringer that is Unicron be defeated. After millions of years of in-fighting and 74 American issues of sequential art, the Autobots and Decepticons seem ready to face the coming onslaught as one!
'All Fall Down' was the penultimate collection of Marvel reprints of the original series that ran from 1984-1991. However, this is book 13 out of a series of 16 volumes. In the early 2000s, Titan Books released a 16-volume set that reprinted all 80 issues of the main Transformers series published by the House of Ideas. The 12 issue sequel series Transformers: Generation 2 is the material that fills volumes 15 and 16. So, even though the next volume 'End of the Road' promises to be the closing chapter to the robots in disguise, like with all good franchises, the stories themselves never really end.
Looking to incorporate parts of the 1986 feature-length movie, Furman and crew began what is called 'The Unicron Saga', starting in issue #69. First, Optimus Prime had to be raised from the dead. Even Hasbro admitted that it was a misstep. Although the resurrected version of the Autobot leader was more vulnerable and clunky looking as opposed to his sleeker original shell.
Then writers found a way to incorporate Galvatron; Unicron's updated and far more deadlier upgrade of the Decepticon leader Megatron. With Megatron dead from an explosion, Unicron plucked this version of Galvatron from an alternate future timeline. Not willing to be a lackey to anyone, Galvatron strives to overthrow Unicron by any means possible. Even if that means having to team up with Optimus Prime!
Lastly, the creative team needed a hook to pit all of the Transformers together in order to battle the massive Unicron. The solution: a prophecy from the robots' god-like creator, Primus. According to legend, if all of the children of Cybertron can unite together as one, then and only then can the chaos bringer that is Unicron be defeated. After millions of years of in-fighting and 74 American issues of sequential art, the Autobots and Decepticons seem ready to face the coming onslaught as one!
'All Fall Down' was the penultimate collection of Marvel reprints of the original series that ran from 1984-1991. However, this is book 13 out of a series of 16 volumes. In the early 2000s, Titan Books released a 16-volume set that reprinted all 80 issues of the main Transformers series published by the House of Ideas. The 12 issue sequel series Transformers: Generation 2 is the material that fills volumes 15 and 16. So, even though the next volume 'End of the Road' promises to be the closing chapter to the robots in disguise, like with all good franchises, the stories themselves never really end.
January 17, 2016
Finally! The art is good and Furman is really beginning to kick up the plotting and characterization, making these a wonderful preview of what this book would become. I'm sure, in another 10-20 issues, he'll be writing classic stories....
March 14, 2012
The Simon Furman run on Transformers is AMAZING!
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