As part of IDW's 5 week What If-type event, Brandon Easton and Priscilla Tramontano explore your very own childhood fanfiction with Transformers: Deviations. A world where Optimus Prime turned the tide and won his epic clash with Megatron in Transformers: The Movie.

It goes without saying there are Spoilers ahead, so you've been warned.


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This comic... is an odd one. Hot Rod comes across as suicidal throughout the story, characters are killed off senselessly (including most of the 'new' Autobots who were ironically created to replace the 84-85 cast), and the climax involves Starscream going all Combiner Wars on Optimus.