Original Marvel run was great, I also really liked All Hail Megatron though.

 

After rereading it, I have to give it to The Death of Optimus Prime.

 

This was tough for me as there are a lot of individual issues and arcs that I have enjoyed over the years. However, when thinking about issues that immediately come to mind when Transformers comics are discussed, I always think back to Marvel Issue #78. As a Galvatron fan, this issue has one of my favorite panels from throughout all of Transformers (the blood red rage one), an awesome cover, and a Galvatron vs Megatron confrontation/alliance (as brief as it was). Ratchet, arguably the main character in the run, is given a sendoff and the comic marches towards its final issue. While not the greatest issue it's one that always comes to mind and one that I could consider a favorite of mine.

 

The Death of Optimus Prime was the first issue of the IDW run I ever read.

I was just so impressed to read (in Comic Shop News) that the death in question was of the Optimus Prime identity and what it meant to Cybertronians, rather than the character dying, I had to pick it up and read it.



My copy is the Livio Ramondelli RI-A Marvel Comics #1 homage cover.

Based on the strength of that one issue I never missed a single issue from then on and I bought all the hardcover volumes covering Infiltration through to Chaos, to catch up on what came before.

I think, taking into account everything that stemmed from that one purchase, The Death of Optimus Prime would have to be my sentimental favourite, followed so, so closely by More Than Meets the Eye #1.

~L~

 

Quality wise, Wreckers trilogy.
Favorite would go to MTMTE/LL, despite its many flaws.

Read some Marvel US and UK, they're pretty great too.

 

From Marvel, issue 50. Starscream cleans house!

I liked AHM. That was Transformers at its best for me.

 

Original Marvel Run 75 for this scene.

 

Marvel Zarak/Scorponok was a really great character.

 

More than Meets the Eye, specifically issues 6,21, 40, and 50. G2 is a guilty pleasure as well.

 

I view this version very differently than the other iterations of Scorponok. This Scorponok had deep character growth, changing from a stock villain to a really realized individual. It was a shame the way they later reset him during Regeneration.

 

IDW's Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2012) by John Barber up to Dark Cybertron, and Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye/Transformers: Lost Light in its entirety. Optimus Prime from The Falling story arc onward and Transformers: Unicron as well. I also really enjoyed Transformers: Windblade and Transformers: Till All Are One too.

Who am I kidding? The entirety of IDW's Transformers main continuity, not counting crossovers, from 2012 to 2018, plus Last Stand of the Wreckers.

 

Hands down The Dreamwave G1 ongoing. So many fun character nods and intriguing ideas and far and away the best consistent art TF has ever received. Wish we could have at least got to the end of whatever the main storyline was going to be (and AFAIK the creators have been pretty cagey about sharing nay of the details)

after that late marvel G1 (and UK)followed by Furman’s IDW, had a lot of good ideas that really started to come together, it was a shame the wrap up got truncated.

Edit: oh yeah, last stand of the wreckers was super good, my complete and utter disappointment in Sins of the Wreckers and abhorrence for basically everything Roberts wrote after that may have colored my memories...

 

Marvel UK and Furman's US run.

 

MTMTE/ lost light

 

John Barber's run across RID, OP and various mini-series. Started out solid and honestly just just better and better over time, culminating in the Unicron mini-series, which is probably my favourite ever Transformers story in any medium.

Back when IDW Phase 2 started, it was MTMTE that got me into reading the comics monthly and it became my favourite for a long while, but after about issue #40, the series' started getting weaker and weaker, eventually to the extent that I actively dislike the vast majority of the relaunched Lost Light series. So while I do still have a place in my heart for the series' first few years, as a complete run I find it sadly flawed.

 

Yeah, I'm gonna second the Barber run. If MTMTE/LL is the Transformers equivalent of Justice League International, then the Barber Saga (RID, OP, Revolutionaries, Unicron, et al) is like Morrison Batman - an epic long-term story that some might have been considered “too complicated” as it was coming out but will ultimately (hopefully) be looked back on as one of the best runs ever for the characters.

 

so brutal, particularly when you remember that there's a man inside there

 

Currently only read All hail megatron so that but I am gonna start reading this new idw era and just bought idw1's first drift centric comic.

 

I am a BIG fan of the Ruckley’s run so far.....but nothing can compete with season 1 of James Roberts and Alex Milne’s MTMTE.

 

Maximum Dinobots, not the “best story” but it’s got a ton of my favorites at their best. Scorponok’s rampant god-complex, Hot Rod mocking Scorponok while being brutally tortured, Shockwave out gambling some human fools and straight-up attempting to leave as soon as the bomb was disarmed, Hunter/Sunstreaker showing why Headmasters rock, Monsterbots being badass cannibals and Grimlock’s character development shows a rare side of the big guy that at the time wasn’t as pronounced.