Generation 2 was a medley of old and new Transformers material. The toyline ran from 1993 to 1995 and was a mixture of repaints of G1 toys and several all new molds. The cartoon was rereleased in a slightly repackaged form with a computer animated intro and transitions. But the jewel of G2 was a twelve issue comic that ran from November 1993 to October 1994 in North America. The lead in to the story was printed in G. I. JOE #138-#142 (which at the time was under the name Snake-Eyes). Britain got a simpler revised version of this comic as well but was in this writer’s humble opinion, inferior. Simon Furman, writer of most of the G1 UK comic and the last 25 issues of the US comic, took up his pen again and wrote a dark masterpiece that reshaped the whole history of the Transformers. Art for the first issue was done by Derek Yaniger but his highly detail oriented work took too long to produce so another artist, Manny Galan was hired to do most of the art. Galan’s work was mostly a poor copy of Yaniger’s style and weakens the series somewhat. However, Yaniger stayed on and did a section of the comic called Tales of Earth up to issue 8 and penned all of the covers. Veteran Transformers artist Geoff Senior returned to do Tales of Earth for issues 10 and 11 as well as two of the four parts of the final double issue. The story, though continuing from the end of the G1 comic is largely self contained, and is excellent for new TF readers who are interested in a fairly mature comic (I read G2 having read only a couple issues of the G1 comic and it made perfect sense). That said it is also a must read for all fans of the more serious comic medium.
War Without End It is not a question of good or evil – lesser beings simply have no value to us....
...Autobot, Decepticon – these are outmoded concepts. The war is over....
All or Nothing I’m curious, you see. Was this an arbitrary leap into oblivion or did you plan on dying today?
