IDW's Dead Universe? And where should I start, to catch up? (spoilers)

[Verno]

Cheers Trunks. I'm out of my depth so any pointers from knowledgable fans is handy.

[i_amtrunks]

Cheers Trunks. I'm out of my depth so any pointers from knowledgable fans is handy.

In all honesty I'd get #125 and start from Jan 2012. Play catch up when you can afford it, starting with Last stand of the Wreckers and the Spotlight Collections (particularily Collections #1, #2 and #3) only the Ramjet and Mirage ones are worthless entries.

From there collect: Infiltration, Escalation, Devestation, Revelation (collection of spotlights) then decide if you want to continue with Maximum Dinobots and then AHM and the ongoing. The final ongoing collection #7 would also be worth getting. Stormbringer is also a decent story to collect.

Hope that helps, it certainly wont help your bank account. Hopefully bookdepository has them in stock, that will save you a packet.

[Verno]

Cheers again Trunks.

Yes I was going to ask where people might recommend I track them down. ComiXology has been mentioned earlier and now book depository, are they the best (cheapest) bets?

[i_amtrunks]

With the $Au being stronger against the $US than the Pound, bookdepository is the cheapest bet, but they dont always have all the issues in stock.

For example Last Stand of the Wreckers is out of stock, as is Spotlight #1 and Stormbringer.
However:
Infiltration
Escalation
Devestation
Revelation
Spotlight #2
Spotlight #3
Maximum Dinobots
are all in stock for around $20 a piece, and you may find the sngle issues for the others at comixology or elsewhere.

Or you could try and kill mutliple birds with one stone: Hardcover Premiere Edition #2 collects Devestation, Revelation and the Spotlights 2 and 3 collections for about $93 in hardcover. Seems that Volume 1 is out of stock.

Goodluck!

[Cat]

I differ from IAmTrunks, in that I'd recommend the 'IDW Collection' hardcovers over the Premier Editions. (Sidenote: Did I already post this here, or was that somewhere else? Please excuse me if I've doubled up)

Better value than the trades, easier to read than the Premier Editions. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my Premier Editions, but when I want to read them, I grab the IDW Collection hardcovers over the Prem Editions or the trades/singles etc.

Larger print, hardcover, works out cheaper than buying individual trades.

'Last Stand Of The Wreckers' is also getting a hardcover edition soon, which I believe will have all the extras, including the material that wasn't included in the tpb, but was in the single issues, so it's the most complete version, if you care for that.

[Verno]

Those 'IDW Collection' books look like the way to go.

Why have I never heard of this Book Depository place before?! Looks pretty good.

[Cat]

Those 'IDW Collection' books look like the way to go.

Why have I never heard of this Book Depository place before?! Looks pretty good.

I've never used it myself, but my sister uses it for almost all book purchases, so she's obviously happy with them, I'd assume.

EDIT: And if you're frugal and check your prices online, you should be able to pick up the first 3 volumes of the IDW Collection for under $120.

I was able to get them for slightly more than that the other week, for part of Arcee's Xmas present. The only reason it cost me slightly more was to ensure they got here in time for Xmas, otherwise I could have probably got them all for closer to $100.

[Arcee]

Why have I never heard of this Book Depository place before?! Looks pretty good.

According to UltraMarginal apparently Book Depository is fast and cheap, but very careless in the way of their packing, so has damaged several of his orders, but they do have a decent customer service as they refunded (or exchanged, I can't remember) his damaged books.

[i_amtrunks]

I differ from IAmTrunks, in that I'd recommend the 'IDW Collection' hardcovers over the Premier Editions.

Completely forgot about their existance, thanks for the heads up!

[Verno]

I got a free copy of Spotlight: Shockwave when I downloaded the Transformers app from IDW, and I have a question.

We see Shockwave seeding (what turns out to be) Earth with (what I assume is this miraculous) Ore-13.

However, would Earth not already be seeded with Energon by the Vok? Or is IDW not moving towards a Beast Wars future?

Or perhaps they're moving towards a different BW future, one devoid (no pun intended) of the Vok, where BW Megatron goes back in time to get the raw Energon from Earth which everyone knows is there.