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What do we actually know about Regeneration One story?
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Not much, and tfwiki has a few preliminary details... and is probably the best place to keep checking back on any new plot details as they are known.
Just picked up IDW US Classics Vols 1 & 2 and just started reading them.
But I had a quick flick through and noticed the date of the later issues in volume 2 are post the '86 movie, yet they don't seem to include any of the characters from the film. Without giving too much away (first time reading these comics), do the comics eventually follow in the footsteps of the film or do they continue to be completely independent story lines?
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Not really.
There was a miniseries done at the time by Marvel, of the film, but that was it, it wasn't in continuity.
Otherwise, the US comics just continued as was. Hot Rod was basically just another soldier.
The UK series did a lot more with the concepts we see in the movie, and had some great stories.
There was also an issue (#43) that was a straight adaptation of a post-movie cartoon episode (The Big Broadcast of 2006). Totally random since the US comic was not based on the cartoon. Titan didn't reprint it in their collections (except for a two page summary in the Space Pirates UK collection) so I'm not sure if IDW has/will.
The US comic continues in real time, so the 1986 and 1987 characters show up in the eighties rather than 2005-6. Kup, Hot Rod, Blurr, Galvatron and Unicron are still important characters in the US comics, but Cyclonus, Scourge, Wreck-Gar, Arcee and Springer are not. Ratbat is a much bigger character in the US comics than he is in the cartoon.
The post-movie characters who do appear in the comics only do so when the story jumps to the future world of 2006-08, and when characters from that future travel back to present day 1986-87. Wibbly wobbly timey wimey.