Quote Originally Posted by FatalityPitt View Post
Indeed, Marvel were the house of ideas back then. Some of the best Transformers fiction, to me, were the earlier comics by Simon Furman and Bud Budiansky. Some of it was pretty dark, especially the Generation 2 stuff, but the stories had more depth compared to the cartoons. It's a real treat knowing that it's those same people who wrote the original G1 bios.
It was actually Bob Budiansky who wrote most of the G1 tech spec bios and overall groundwork for the G1 canon. He's basically the "father" of G1 mythos.