I recently picked up copies of the Titan Hardback TPBs of Dark Designs and Rage In Heaven (an early Christmas present from my GF that she had no chance of wrapping and hiding) and I have spent the last couple of days immersing myself in the G2 story.

My knowledge of G2 is perhaps better than that of G1 (in all its guises) because of the hours spent reading articles on the TF Wiki as research for my own Comic writing (which weaves a single, uniting story from the very beginning with The One, Primus and Unicron, through G1 and G2, to the Beast Wars era, some 300 years after the signing of the Pax Cybertronia). However, none of that time spent reading the Wiki pages truly prepared me for the early-90's goodness that was waiting for me.

As we all know, G2 was cut (very) short of what Mr. Fuman perhaps had in mind for it, but be that as it may, he did well to create a self-contained story with the time he had - and small facets of the story have played out on larger stages in the years since its writing, namely the Vok, from Beast Wars, being an evolved form of The Swarm.

But speaking of Evolution, I believe this to be the strongest theme of the G2 story - one that would have played out to a much larger degree had the comic-run continued. I think Mr. Furman had some very big evolutionary steps in mind for the Transformers race that never got to see the light of day.

The full introduction of the Liege Maximo and the Hub on the final page of Issue #12 gives us a tantalising glimpse of what may have laid in store for the reader. Talk of balance between light and dark, grand counter-forces, and evil being infinite... Couple that with an entity of great power being turned into a force for Creation (The Swarm), there were some large steps and large stories to come.

Thoughts?