Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
'For the first time'? 'Always been a mystery'?

Over the 25 years of 'battle between Megatron and Optimus' we've had quite a few 'before they knew each other' and pre-Earth stories.
For them to market this as being the first ever story that tells about the pre-Earth history of the Transformers, entire or not (nothing is ever entire), it is misleading, false advertising.

They should have said that it was just the pre-Earth history of the current series (WfC), as it seems that they are claiming that it will explain the pre-history of the entire 25 year Universe of Transformers (which isn't all in the one continuity anyway).
I thought the same thing, but then generously reinterpreted their words: "the full story of the conflict between the two most famous Transformers—everything that happened before Optimus and Megatron arrived on planet Earth—has always been a mystery . . . until now. Here, for the first time told in its entirety..."

So arguably they're claiming that this is the "full" story, not just bits of it. The bits we saw before weren't "everything" and this is the first time it's been told in its "entirety".

Which obviously isn't going to be true, as you say, Griffin - particularly since even just from the blurb it already contradicts The War Within, the G1 cartoon, the UK annuals etc. But optimistically, perhaps they've at least tried to justify what they're saying, even if it's misinformed. And it could be a good story if it has better editing and a better writer than some of those other attempts at Transformers novels.