Toy Pack-in Comics

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  1. Zircor, Jun 28, 2015
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    I apologize if this has a) been asked already or b) is obvious, but searching the forum I can't seem to find an answer to my question. I've recently got back into collecting Transformers (both toys and the comics), and have picked up all of the wave 2 Deluxes from Combiner Wars, as well as Optimus. The comics that come with the deluxes are from IDW, correct, and they're reprints of issues from the ongoing series? How can I tell which issues they're reprints of? For the life of me I can't seem to find the title name or issue number anywhere on them. I've been trying to avoid reading them so far as I'd like to read the entire run in order so I know what's going on. I haven't read any of the IDW comics since around the time the third original arc ended (Devastation, Escalation, and ?) - I REALLY loved the Dreamwave comics and could never really get into IDW's stuff.
     
  2. Bass X0, Jun 28, 2015
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  3. Zircor, Jun 28, 2015
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    Thank you.

    Incidentally, after I posted this I once again looked at the small print on the inside cover of the comics and noticed they ARE numbered, but it's not very obvious. However, they don't follow the original comics numbers; they're number "Combiner Wars #6, 7, 8," etc. As I have the 4 main-line Wave 2's, they are numbers 6, 7, 8, and 9. I'm assuming if Wave 1 was 1, 2, 3, and 4, then Quickslinger is 5, and Brake-Neck is 10, assuming they come with comics at all that aren't reprints of the ones that replaced them in the main lineup.

    Can anyone who has the other bots so far confirm or deny?
     
  4. God Ginrai, Jun 28, 2015
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    Quickslinger and Break-Neck come with reprints of Firefly and Dead End's comics, if I'm not mistaken.
     
  5. Zircor, Jun 28, 2015
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    That's what I was afraid of. Or hoping for? That means I'm good to go for getting the Takara versions and not having to worry about missing some of the story. Hell, I know I'm double-dipping anyway - the individual bots have too nice of sculpts to be hiding as combiners all the time :) 
     
  6. God Ginrai, Jun 28, 2015
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    If you want to read the story you could always just buy the RID TPBs.
     
  7. Zircor, Jun 28, 2015
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    Yup, that's the plan. I figured since I was buying the toys anyway, though, I'd go ahead and read those in the meantime