Transformers: Movie Prequel

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by Simon Furman, Chris Ryall, Don Figueroa (Artist)

Before the live-action Transformers movie spectacularly explodes onto theater screens next summer, read the official beginning of the story right here In this four-part prequel to the film, travel from Cybertron to Earth as we see for the first time what momentous events led to the Transformers bringing their war to our world.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction

120 pages, Paperback

First published June 19, 2007

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Simon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was really good and I really enjoyed it. Having no real connection with the original Transformers, I fully enjoyed this prequel to the awesome movie. I got some back story and got to see the characters I liked growing up and in their back lives.

It is never explained how Bumble Bee came to Earth and to see that here was great and enjoyable. The back story with everyone is well represented here and it has kick ass graphics to boot.

[Matt Richter · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent little prequel story to the 2007 film. I liked the last 3 issues are better than the first. I still prefer the classic transformer designs to these new ones -- the new ones worked ok in the film, but not as good in comics/animation as the originals ;)

[Don · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one was pretty cool. Nice back story to the first movie, which I think is still the best. Got better the further in you read.