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After reading all the Marvel comics (US&UK) for me the Marvel continuity is the continuity I think of now when refering to G1 but that's my preference only.

In my oppinion the continuity there is so much better than the cartoon and it also adds precedence as the comic is older and by the admittance of Sunbow and Marvel, the cartoon opening episodes (MTMTE) is an adaptation of the original G1 Marvel 4 issue comic miniseries. They went into radically different paths after that but the comic still has precedence and is every bit as much 'G1' as the cartoon.

It is up to the individual to choose which 'path' they wish to follow when it comes to Transformers but its hard to deny that the comics have both precedence and are every bit as much 'G1' as the cartoon and based on the legacy of a given continuity. It also could be argued that comics have more influence than the cartoon itself since the modern mythos grab much from the Marvel comics as its background with bits and pieces of the cartoon continuity (which aside from the Season 3 Quints/Unicron origin) as well being heavily influenced by the characters portrayed. This of course does not make the G1 cartoon redundant either as mythos from it have also been carried over and adapted throughout the G1 story such as Vector Sigma, Quints and the Matrix (as a solid object rather than a mystical program originated in the comics).

At the end despite which continuity one prefers to follow or which feels like the more influential; its hard to deny that both of them belong to a greater whole which now all modern mythos are based upon.