Comic review - Transformers: Deviations

[Paul Agnew]

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.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Any good then?

Or fanfiction quality?

[Paul Agnew]

Any good then?

Or fanfiction quality?

A little of both.

Let me put it to you this way. It's as if someone at IDW discovered a cancelled Dreamwave comic, sprinkled a little Combiner Wars into the mix, and published it. The comic's certainly not terrible (I really want Hasbro to make a Megascreamus Maximus now), but feels as though there should've been more.

[snaketales]

It disposed of characters a bit cavalierly and certainly wasn't a classical piece of writing, but I enjoyed it as a breezy read.
I certainly didn't take it too seriously like some commenters on TFW2005 have.

And now I want to make a Megascream

[ZoonMaster5000]

The only thing I didn't quite like is how little it deviated from the movie script. still a enjoyable read but I just feel that little thought and time was put into it.

Wasnt impressed with the name megascream but I thought his new body looked pretty awesome, and the bit at the end where hot rod saves prime was a nice touch.

[BigTransformerTrev]

I found this overall to be a lackluster read. I was hoping for more in pretty much all departments.

Still, guess it makes you appreciate how good the real script of the old movie was