I don't have the issue in front of me, but I'm pretty sure it is explained that Rodimus doesn't come back to Cybertron until after all the other Transformers have also passed away from old age. He says that he is the last of their race when he collapses. It doesn't specify how much time has passed, so it could be eons after they left Cybertron.

So no more G1 style Transformers left in this universe... the only thing left is whatever emerged from the cocoon.

 

I think that the Re-Generation One wasn't about the Cybertronian's we had followed in the Marvel/UK continuities but is in fact about what is born in the passing of the Ancients of Cybertron... A New Generation. The 1st Generation. Free from Manipulation of Gods of Light and Dark. And Free from the chaos of the Great War.

 

You are not wrong.

 

I will give it a read. In couple months and wait to see if I can get it used.

 

Darn...after reading most of the reactions here, I think I won't be picking up the tpb. In the last few years, I've been buying trades because I like to read an entire series at once...or within a few days.

I think I will just treat the original run as the 'definitive' run of the Marvel TFs. At the most, its up to G2 for me.

 

Botanica is the only known living Transformer at the end of the comics?
Thanks, Furman.

 

Issues 1-80 > 80.5-100. I enjoyed RG1 but it would have been a more satisfying experience if it didn't feel so rushed. Condense the story to a few key ideas or extend the series another 20 issues to give everything room to play itself out properly. Overall, not a disappointment and maybe I was expecting to much due to anticipation and unrealistic expectations.

As far as this being the final comic based in the Marvel G1 universe... I doubt that. If there is money to be made, it will be back.

 

Moderately disappointing, but I fully expected to be. I'm of the mind that G1 fiction is a product of the 80s, and can't really be replicated properly. Still, this came closer to feeling like real G1 than anything labeled as G1 since.

So now there are no TF comics worth reading coming out. Thank Primus for back issues and reprints.

And when the suggestion was made that the RG1 universe had to die so that the rest could eventually forma more perfect whole, I had a thought:

Aligned/WFC/Prime is meant to be a distillation of the concepts of what came before. Could Aligned be the "whole"?

Perhaps the pods that Rodimus spawned upon his death contained the Aligned version of the Twelve. Which would make RG1 Rodimus the Aligned version of Primus . . . Now I need to count the pods and see if there were a dozen.

 

I wouldn't let the most reactionary board in the universe put you off! It actually reads better in trades for me. Just rereading now and there's a nice line from Optimus to Rodimus during his training that echoes beautifully in those last few pages.

 

Rodimus didn't spawn those pods. They were the demon creatures. They curled up into those cocoons at the end of issue 99.

 

I personally really liked it. It captured the feel of older comics while trying to tell the story of G1 in the modern age. We had all the classic fights, the wonky devices, and epic twists to the story. The Underbase being addressed, Galvatron being addressed, the heads of the original Headmasters being addressed, and so on. The idea of what is order, the preservation of the plan through the next generation of Transformers (transitioning to Beast Wars which I think was Furman's intention). Lots of awesome ideas. I loved it though Transformers fandom is going to make it very divisive, so your mileage will very. Give it a shot and make up your own mind. Don't let people scare you away from this concrete conclusion to the series.

 

I gathered my issues together- all 21.
$25. Shipping extra.

 

you should charge more.

 

If you really want to sell them, contact board member Weirdwolf. He had to stop part way through and I'm sure he'd pick them up at that price.

 

I remember getting #1, 2, and 3 in the mail as a kid. Those were the days, everything was simple, Bumblebee was getting repaired in Spike's garage, and that's it. Oh, and all the Autobots getting decapitated and Ratchet fighting Megatron. I wasn't a follower when the series closed in the 90s(?) so I have a sizable gap in my understanding of what happened except that most of humanity was extinguished at some point.

The ending in #100 was a surprise for me - I mean, that the series was coming to an end. I picked up Regen # 80-something awhile back and was like, "Cool!" So I guess I'm sad about the finality of it. It is beyond clear that it's over. As far at the method of wrapping it up, two things: Heavy Metal magazine, and the multiverse/time travel trope.

The end had a very Heavy Metal feel to it, H.R. coming to his knees among a field of stars, pondering the universe. So there's that. I think it's a heroic, stoic way to die, good enough. And to Multiverses: all the tropes around on this subject all have one truism - that these paths lead to very untidy endings and too many paradoxes. It's like painting oneself into a corner. The series had grown rather complicated, so might as well end it as the author did.

THE END

(?)

 

Nope.

 

Huh? Why nope? They did curl up into cocoons. Grimlock even asked what they were up to. It's no coincidence those pods at the end of 100 look just like the pods they curled up inside of.

 

Those pods were the demons. It is funny that Primus's plan is still in the works. It just... transforms! Har har har *Optimus Primal joke*

 

Thanks for the tip.

 

Er, yup.