Transformers Has Justified Bringing Back G1 by Exposing How Dark It Would Actually Be

Warning: Spoilers for Transformers #3Image Comics’ controversial decision to start Skybound Entertainment’s new Transformers comic during G1 has surprisingly been justified in its first two issues and even the preview pages of the upcoming Transformers #3. After the original 1980s cartoon that launched G1, no one ever thought that setting any spin-off series on Earth with human children again would be a good idea. Michael Bay’s movies may have been successful, but they mostly shied away from the kid-friendly stories that the G1 stories focused on in the 1980s. Bringing that dynamic successfully into other mediums, especially comics, was unlikely.