Customer Reviews

Transformers: War Within Volume 2 (v. 2)

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I really enjoyed the entire War Within Series, mostly because the focus is on the Trannies and not on humans or Earth. It's nice to see them on their planet and in their element.

Furman does his usual stellar job with writing a mythology into what often becomes a "book about a toyline" title.

If you like Cybertron or the Transformers Origins Mythology, try this one out!

Overall, the story of Vol 2 is solid and will not disappoint any mature TF fan. Vol 1 of the series sets up the stage for conflict, and Vol 2 picks up the action some time later. Prime and Megs have gone missing, and with their absence both sides have split into multiple factions. I like this idea a lot, it adds many more dimensions to the simple theme of heroic Autobots vs evil Decepticons. Added to the chaos is the Fallen, a mysterious figure that appears to be manipulating all sides for his own agenda.

The are issues that bring down the overall rating to 3 stars. Like an earlier reviewer has mentioned, the conclusion is anti-climatic. I won't spoil anything either, but the situation gets resolved at the end a little too easily. Amazon also incorrectly listed the artist as Don Figueroa when it is really Andrew Wildman. While Wildman's artwork is decent, it doesn't compare to the awesomeness of Figueroa, who did Vol 1 and is hands down the greatest TF comic artist of all time. And perhaps worst of all, I believe this version is a re-print that came out right before the TF movie. My friend has another version of Vol 2 (with Fallen on the cover as opposed to Jetfire) that contains extras for the WW universe, such as a faction chart and WW concept designs. These extras were brutally removed in this version in favor of a comic book preview/prequel to the TF movie. While the artwork of the prequel is great (done by none other than Fig himself), I got this book for the War Within features and I feel they should have left in all the WW extras. I'm not sure if the upcoming WW Omnibus will contain these extras.

So overall, War Within vol 2 is a solid read, but I recommend getting the other version over this one, if you can find it.

I have "Transformers War Within" Volume one and that was a well written book so I decide to purchase Volume Two through Amazon and I have not been disappointed at all with this book. Good book and great story line. My son likes me too read this story to him before he goes to bed and it is a good way to have a little father son bonding time. I highly recommend this series if y'all are looking to catch up on the Transformers or just to re-live your happier times as a child.

Prime and Megs are taken out of the picture from the start, simultaniously releasing a new vastly powerful evil. The Fallen is one of the original 13 who abandoned their beliefs to become a follower of Unicron and Chaos. It doesn't get much more intimidating then this guy, an incredible design. It's too bad that the end is really anticlimatic. I won't spoil it, but just so you know ahead of time, don't get your hopes up for an epic battle.

Otherwise, this title is a showcase of popular G1 character reimagined in cybertronian forms. Ratbat, The Wreckers, Bludgeon, and the special teams (Devastator and Defensor) for starters. It also introduces the interesting idea of both Autobots and Decepticons splitting up into multiple factions without their proper leaders. The main character in the story is Jetfire, who is the only person that realizes the true threat.

A decently written story, but otherwise it's just there to show as many characters as possible. A recommened to anyone who isn't already familiar with the transformers universe.

The best part of the War Within series is the Cybertronian modes for the various iconic characters of the Transformers universe. Ironically, some of the least inspiring are those for the most popular characters - Prime, Megatron and Starscream all have lackluster alt-modes, although their robot modes are interestingly reimagined. Kup, Astrotrain and others are particularly delightful.

The story is a bit take-it-or-leave-it, but satisfying overall and a fun read.

yeah prime and megs are taken out this time and the warring factions on cybertron go their own ways we get to meet bludgeon and bugly before the pretender process and mindwipe before the headmaster bondage cool cause we get to xsee how they got their powers and shockwave computes logically that bludgeon is a forve to reckon with love the story grimlock clashes with jetfire who learned the secrets of unicron bad points not enough starscream but all this is a giood read for any transformers fan.