Originally written May 2019. Chromia’s sort of an obscure character, but one that fits in with the rest of Transformers: Siege’s “Early 80’s Cartoon character selection.” Chromia, along with a team of other “Female Autobots” (yes, that’s what they called them, gender...
You know who needs to be in more modern Transformers fiction? Jazz. Back in the 80s, he was Optimus Prime’s second in command, and managed to be one of the few 1984 Autobot Cars to actually get a decent level of characterization in both the cartoon and comics. He...
Originally written May 2019. Like most of the characters in Transformers: Siege, Ironhide’s one of the original members of the 1984 Transformers cast. Unlike some of his fellow Siege Deluxes, which are characters that never had really large media roles, but are...
IDW Comics is probably the best place to go if you want good Transformers stories. One of my favorite ongoing comics they’ve put out over the years was More than Meets the Eye, and its follow up series, Lost Light, both written by James Roberts, and both of which...
Originally written April 2020. Having previously taken a look back at looking at Titans Return Arcee, it’s only fitting that I look at the other figure that fills the same ultra-specific niche: A retooling of Titans Return Blurr into an IDW-specific, fan-demanded...
Generation 2 Megatron’s various technicolor tank toys were always so much more interesting than his usual greys and silvers. I’m glad the modern tradition has been that each new Megatron that changes into a tank gets his usual tired classic colors remixed into a wired...