On Free Comic Book Day, IDW released Unicron, Issue #0.
Heavy Spoiler Alert! MASSIVE.
If you read the issue, you have read and realized certain hallucinations are not so dead after all. Even though we saw a certain fan-favorite alive and well after 2017’s TransFormers Annual, we continued to see him a “mental projection.”
The issue kicks off with a mighty big bang as Unicron has arrived and we join the action as the planet Elonia, the homeworld of Rom the Space Knight is in peril. Optimus Prime and crew attempt to find a way to stop the threat.
This is Unicron. In the IDWverse, the Transformers have not encountered him yet. They don’t even know who or what he is. Windblade arrives later on to clue us in on the IDW version of the Chaos-Bringer, but it’s too little, too late.
There are causalities, and I’m talking major casualties.
If you are reading this review, then you must also know by now, IDW has announced the end of the current Transformers Universe in comic-form. I am as surprised as anyone else, since the saga of the Cybertronians have been the bread and butter of IDW for over a decade. The stories, the art, have been overall fantastica and enjoyable. Many times I have felt like I was a kid back in the eighties, reading my favorite issues over and over again.
IDW needed a way to bring it all to an end, and in order to end a world, they bring in the one being in Transformers Lore who EATS THEM.
It’s as though someone said to IDW… “Hey, bet you can’t come up with anything to wreck a universe…”
IDW replied:
“… Hold my beer.”
It’s the end of the road. Unicron #0 was available on Free Comic Book Day, and will no doubt be available again in reprint or a future trade paperback.
My jaw dropped and hung open while reading the final pages of the issue. This is not the Unicron from my childhood…
…He’s more evil than ever.
