The TPBs had new cover art Andrew Wildman, who illustrated several issues toward the end of the original ongoing series.
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Written by Bob Budiansky, the miniseries was devised to introduce the characters from the 1986 Transformers movie and the 1987 toyline into the ongoing comic, which happened in issue #38.
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Alpha Trion is mentioned by Optimus Prime as the Great Autobot Historian who preserves Vector Sigma.
He is probably best known from his roles as Black Vulcan in Super Friends, Blaster in The Transformers, Doc in G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero and Winston Zeddemore in The Real Ghostbusters (replacing Arsenio Hall) and later Extreme Ghostbusters.
He wrote numerous episodes of GI Joe: A Real American Hero, The Transformers, Thundarr the Barbarian, Jem, Inhumanoids, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Tiny Toon Adventures, Tarzan and the Super 7 (the Web Woman installments), Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light, and Teen Wolf.
The Transformers: Devastation, a six-issue comic book miniseries, published by IDW Publishing, based on the Transformers
In the second season of The Transformers, electrum is an element that allows the Autobots and Decepticons to become virtually invulnerable to enemy firepower.
Falling off a Clef (2004) is the first full-length album by Vince Dicola, composer to the music score of The Transformers: The Movie.
His more recent work includes The Transformers: Spotlight issues on Galvatron and Mirage, profile art for the Beast Wars: Sourcebook series and the final issue of Beast Wars: The Ascending, as well as work on issue 5 of Titan UK's Transformers magazine.
It has often been theorized by fans that Marissa was the daughter of Flint and Lady Jaye, and on the commentary track of The Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary DVD, it was confirmed by Flint Dille, story consultant on the Transformers movie as well as a writer, story editor and producer on G.I. Joe.
Vince DiCola, 1975, composer, keyboardist, and arranger, noted for movie soundtracks Rocky IV and The Transformers: The Movie
His best remembered creations are Tom Thug and Pete and His Pimple for Oink! comic (1986), which outlasted that comic and continued into Buster comic, and Combat Colin the halfwit hero who featured in Action Force and The Transformers comics.
Motormaster first appeared amongst Megatron's gathering of gladiators that would eventually become the Decepticons in IDW Publishing's The Transformers: Megatron Origin.
Shin's most well-known accomplishment is his direction of the television series The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie.
The single "Hunger" was written by members of the Canadian metal band Kick Axe and was released by them in 1986 in The Transformers: The Movie soundtrack album, under the made-up name of Spectre General.
Stan Bush is an American singer-songwriter and musician whose most notable work includes the songs "Dare" and "The Touch" from the soundtrack to the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie, and "She's Got the Power", featured in the American voice dub of the animated series Sailor Moon.
Stan Bush's The Touch from The Transformers: The Movie is heard at the climax of part two when Optimus unleashes the Matrix of Leadership.
The Autobots rally to find his corpse, but the Machination prove more than ready for Jazz and Wheeljack.
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Hardhead was part of Optimus' crew, first seen in Stormbringer.
Written by long-time Transformers writer Simon Furman, it is a new origin for the Generation 1 Transformers.
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Infiltration heralded the start of IDW's new continuity based on the Generation One characters, allowing Simon Furman to finally write his version of the Transformers without any continuity baggage whatsoever.
It was also highly requested by many people to be featured in a DVD Special episode of the hit Japanese television show GameCenter CX (known outside of Japan as Retro Game Master), which was seriously accepted by the show's staff.
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The movie details the final epic battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron, during which Optimus sustained fatal injuries.
Revelation was written by Simon Furman, who has written most of IDW's Transformers series.
Despite his apparent death in The Transformers: The Movie, Wheeljack returned during the death of God Ginrai/Birth of Victory Leo saga, along with Perceptor from the original series, with God Ginrai and Minerva from Transformers: Super God Masterforce returning too.
# "All We Need Is A Little Energon, And A Lot Of Luck" – 3:44 (The Transformers: The Movie)