Simon 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.
Off to a rough start. It's revealed to the Autobots that they've kind of been left behind to most Cybertronians. We also learn that most of the villains from the first series were just a bunch of Decepticon schlubs set to watch the dying husk of Cybertron.