It's no secret that I have a lot of love for Transformers. Whilst the films are mediocre and the TV shows usually good, the one part of the brand that really captured me and continues to amaze is the IDW comic series. They got off to a slow start in 2005 after the previous license-holders went down in a storm of bankrupcy, but after a few years they rebooted the series with a something of a year-long romp, before starting another series with a different author. Around that time an up-and-coming Irish artist and writer Nick Roche pitched in idea for a five-part miniseries. Last Stand Of The Wreckers was born.
Transformers is a brand with some thirty years of history. During that time many new iterations of the brand showed their faces, but the cast of the 1980s cartoon show would be the most endearing and the characters would always inspire those to come. The IDW continuity is specifically based on those characters so this comes across even stronger here. Y'see with transformers there's a very nasty habit of always having the spotlight on that particular group of characters. Part of IDW still falls prey to that. But Wreckers was different. It set out with a simple aim: to make the reader care about a series of new characters as much as they did the old, established ones. And then it set about one of the most brutal plotlines in transforming robot history. It is a story of courage, heroism, and good people dying in stupid, pointless ways.
Quite frankly it's bloody brilliant and even if you don't know Transformers you'll probably get a lot out of this story. The art is really expressive and the writing is so on-point and relatable you'd forget it was robots talking. And that's one of the true merits of Wreckers. It's not just good transformers. It's just good everything.
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