Transformers: The War Within Volume 1 (Transformers (Titan Books Paperback)) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

by Simon Furman (Author), Don Figueroa (Author)

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Product Description
This is the epic tale of Optimus Prime's first days at the forefront of the Autobot/Decepticon civil war on Cybertron. It's the untold story of The Transformers as they were, before they came to Earth.

Also features a complete cover gallery, sketches, and additional bonus material!
Featuring the Transformers, one of the most popular toy lines in history!
The property is seeing a massive resurgence in interest due to 1980s nostalgia.
The Transformers have been top-selling comic books, toys, movies, animated TV series, and more!

Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Dreamwave; illustrated edition edition (June 29, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0973278609
• ISBN-13: 978-0973278606
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,922,151 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Cool Storyline, Sweet Characters, Amazing Drawings,! , January 18, 2005

A Kid's Review

Writer: Kole
Storyline: The storyline rocks, Megatron has ripped the spark out of the Autobots old leader, Sentinal Prime. And the future Optimus Prime, is just a desk clerk. Bluestreak talks about how there was peace moment, and the next- war and destruction. And how fighting just isn't in the Autobot blood.
At Hub Capital, Iacon... Optimus is made Optimus Prime by the high counsil giving him the Matrix. Meanwhile, Grimlock was sort of the leader of the Autobots When prime shows up. Optimus wants to abandon Cybertron but no one likes the idea. Megatron and Prime have a long while showdown and it's quite obious that Megatron is better, It's the Matrix and Optimus's "has to win because he's the good guy"ness that saves him.Optimus goes through some wierd things and the matrix even takes him and Megatron into the future. Meanwhile, the rebelious Starscream sort of takes command while Megatron is off fighting Prime. In the end,{of the first comic book} Grimlock gives Prime a sword, and says to go back and finish Megatron, but Optimus dosen't, he says he did what had to be done. {I don't get it} Then throws somthing into outer space that the high counsil gave him {I think, and I also think it's the golden disc, that from t.v. series Beast Wars Transformers} and says, "I choose my own path" the disc shows a reflection of himself in the future.

Characters: The characters are the same famous G1 characters. Grimlock dosen't respect Prime much, still talks like, "Me Grimlock love to crunch Decepticon metal!" Only not as stupid as in G1. Megatron hasn't changed a bit nor Starscream. Bumble bee isn't as big as in the shows though. Optimus is the same heroic Prime but isn't as determined as he needs to be.

Drawings: The drawing rock in this, Detailed with awsome poses. Smashing crashing explosions! So much stuff you will not get over it, this comic book is well worth ten bucks, so if you can, BUY THIS COMIC!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recomended!!, September 9, 2003

By	David V. Shook "Wizard66" (High Point, NC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Dreamwave with Simon Furman (writer on the Marvel Transformer comics) redefine the backstory to the Transformers. Dreamwave's comics do not follow the marvel comics or the cartoon so you have to let go what took place in those mediums. The War Within tells of how Optimus Prime came to be and what Megatron real reasons for starting a war with the Autobots. The story takes place millions of years ago at the beginning of the war on cybertron. The art is fantastic and shows the war in a realistic fashion with robots being blown left and right (no major characters get killed don't worry). We also get to see Grimlock commanding his own personal platoon (not the dinobots sorry). We also see the development of Grimlock's contempt/respect relationship with Optimus Prime through out the story.

the "Good but not G1" review was wrong about the Transformers licence moving to Devil's Due (GI Joe). Dreamwave has many new transformers products on the way including a Generation 1 On-going series and the War Within sequel coming this October so don't be afraid and give this book a good read.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good price for a must have, August 19, 2003

By	"starconvoy" (Chalfont, PA United States) - See all my reviews

If you are a true fan of the original Transformers line of the mid-eighties, this is an absolute must have. The story & art are are really that fantastic, and nothing beats a complete package.

Not to mention this is an absolute steal at [money amount]...