G2 is the best of these (by some considerable margin), but honestly I think I’d’ve preferred it if if the G1 story had just ended where it ended.

I mean, US#80 was a pretty strong way to conclude the story already. Some things should just be left alone.

 

It was a comic book to sell toys and a new toyline had just come out.

If it was a comic book first without a toyline, many things would have been different.

 

I’ve never read another time and place. I’d love to get my eyes on the illustrated version.

 

G2 for me. Looking back, Megatron was portrayed more like his popular Machinima self.

That said, I didn't like the design of the Liege Maximo. When I first read the G2 comic, I did think the Liege Maximo was going to turn out to be Overlord. What with Liege being another word for Lord and Grimlock asking if Liege Maximo was a person or a place since Overlord has a base mode.

Also the blurb on the back of the Overlord/Motorvator boxes depicted Overlord as a new breed of Decepticon on the edge of known space which is how the G2 Cybertronians were portrayed.

Regeneration was sadly disappointing. Wildman's art was terrible. Megatron was reduced to a one dimensional villain and Spike was reduced to a third rate version of Circuit Breaker, herself a third rate villain.

Regeneration's main flaw was ignoring the G2 comics. The ending was terrible since it killed off most of the Transformers.

The only things I liked in Regeneration were Rodimus Prime, Blurr being a bad ass and Guido Guidi's artwork.

 

That adaptation Andy Turnbull did* should still just be up on the TMUK site or DeviantArt or something... Ah, found it: Another Time and Place » Page One
Anyways Another Time will probably always be the best ending to me--aside from #80 itself--just because it feels the most like an actual ending for the comic, instead of one of long series of superseding sequels with their own separate stories.

 

Either Another Time and Place or Generation 2. Regeneration One was sadly a huge letdown on almost every level. Hopefuly, Transformers 84 #0 is gonna be just a fun one off...

 

Thanks for all of these posts with ATAP! I’ve wanted to read this for....dang. Almost 30 years!

 

G2.

 

Well out of the two I’ve read, I’m gonna go for RG1.

 

Now I can see where RG1 was Different Time & Place and G2 combined and re-hashed. No wonder most People didn’t go for it.
I dunno. My in canon ending is likely G2.

 

You fools, it never ends. But out of the above probably g2 for the art and some of the concepts

 

As others have stated, G2.

 

Meh, I liked where #80 ended. I treated the rest as What If’s, with ATAP being the most in-keeping with the original run.

I like Furman, but when he’s not under an editor he tends to go “full Tomino” aka Kill ‘Em All, and perhaps forgets that the point of bringing the characters back sometimes is because fans want some adventures with old favourites, not a depressing, dark slaughter-fest for the sake of shock and awe (which rarely works when you just obliterate the entire cast). Subsequently I found little to enjoy in either G2 or RG1. Arguably the best issue of RG1 was where Blaster featured against a new Mayhem Attack Squad. It felt fun and even had elements of humour, unlike the rest of the dour run.

So yeah, I like how it originally ended - open to the possibility of new conflict, but with a decisive enough victory to feel satisfying and earned for our favourites.

 

The comics rocked

 

G2 for me. I've never read another time or place but between RG1, G2 and the original issue 80, i prefer G2.

#80 is left technically open-ended. G2 is too but that's more due to the Leige Maximo cliffhanger as everything else was closed up nice and tidy.

I get the meaning but which author is Tomino that has that rep?

 

Yoshiyuki Tomino is the director of numerous 80’s Gundam series in which he consistently kills off the majority of the cast. He also directed Space Runaway Ideon which is largely considered one of the most bloodthirsty anime of all time - these series earned him the nickname “Kill ‘Em All Tomino” which became a trope in anime circles.

Like Tomino, Furman has a knack for giving his characters a distinctive voice and then creating bloodthirsty finales to wipe out swathes of characters - see Time Wars, End of the Road, G2, RG1 etc.

I write a lot about anime elsewhere so it kinda informs all my other hobbies these days too  

 

I have Space Runaway Ideon sitting on an external drive. I really need to check that out one of these days (especially now after reading that).