Transformers Spotlight, Volume 4: Revelation

Transformers IDW #10

by Simon Furman, E.J. Su (Illustrator), Nick Roche (Illustrator)

Following the events of Transformers: Devastation, long-lost Cybertronians are returning from a dead dimension with plans to set off a cosmic event that could mean the end of our universe as we know it! Can the Autobots retrieve an all-knowing, all-seeing artifact before the coming apocalypse, despite having a double agent in their midst? But would that even save them from Nemesis Prime's master plan? Originally presented in one-shots featuring Cyclonus, Hardhead, Doubledealer, and Sideswipe.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Comic Book

104 pages, Paperback

First published February 4, 2009

About the author

Simon Christopher Francis Furman is a British comic book writer who is best known for his work on Hasbro/Tomy's Transformers franchise, starting with writing Marvel's initial comic book to promote the toyline worldwide, as well as foundations for both Dreamwave Production's and IDW Publishing's takes on the Generation 1 minifranchise.

Reviews

[Martin Lund · Rating 2 out of 5]

The "spotlight" conceit is getting a bit tiring at this point, because few of these books spitlight the characters from which they get their titles. Instead, they drive the scattered main plots forward in a way that makes the multi-stranded narrative more confusing than it has to be. With each of the stories collected here pulling in such different directions and with such different tones and art styles, it's hard to see either thw spotlight or the stage.

[Jiro Dreams of Suchy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really love the artwork for the final issue and the Roche covers, interesting work that really captures the SPACE ROBOTS idea and makes it feel like high art.

The stories are less engaging because they require a bit more of background knowledge (or having read the other collections) sadly for me the library doesn’t own several of the works so I have to jump around. The stories add A LOT of background information about the universe jumping abilities of the bots and who the characters are. I enjoyed it but did feel lost for a decent portion of the reading.

[Don · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a pretty good story but very hard to follow. It's like you're dropped in the middle of the plot where the first part is missing. I did eventually figure it out and thought it tied together pretty well. Had fun, but this could've been better. They still left a bunch of stuff hanging at the end as well which was annoying.

[James Bowman · Rating 2 out of 5]

A disappointing finale for one of Simon Furman's two major plotlines for IDW's Transformers. The character spotlights are only OK, and gradually give more and more time to the Dead Universe metaplot; by the final spotlight story, for Sideswipe, little time is spent on Sideswipe himself. And said metaplot is wrapped up far too quickly, failing to satisfy. A major let-down after the build-up from previous installments. (C+)

[Eckohns · Rating 1 out of 5]

Several different points of views from 10s of different characters, which I had a hard time identifying in a plot that I couldn't follow at all. It just felt like mess.