My copy of the first issue of Transformers: More Than Meets The Eyes arrived this morning and I’ve been rather impressed with what I found inside. The book, which bears a strong resemblance to a comic book, is the first of a series of eight such books which provide detailed profiles and images of nearly every G1 transformer. Issue one covers transformers with names starting with A-C, with the names of gestalt teams taking precedence over the names of team members. The book also contains profiles on other characters who never appeared in the original series such as various Armada characters and even several Pretenders. Sadly, several “minor” characters, who add a tremendous amount to the Transformers mythos despite never appearing in toy form or occupying much screen/page time, are absent. However, chances are most people won’t realize neither A-3 nor Beta (who toppled the Guardians and drove the Quintessons from Cybertron, as seen in TF74: Forever Is A Long Time Coming… Sorry.) is anywhere to be found. The highly detailed art, produced by the same artists who work on all of Dreamwave’s Transformer comic line, is fantastic. The text itself, which consists of biographical information, weapon details, and the strengths and weaknesses of each transformer, is rather trivial. Overall, the book is highly enjoyable and I strongly recommend it to all the other Transformer fans who read this site (all zero of you). Hopefully subsequent issues will include other characters like Orion Pax and Unicron who, despite having yet to appear in Dreamwave’s comic series (I assume they haven’t appeared. I try to stay as far away from that mess as possible.), are extremely important characters in the Transformers universe.

I deeply apologize for the increased amount of Transformer nerdery leaking into my updates as of late, it happens every now and again. But a little Olde DORK Club style rambling never hurt anybody. Except that one guy.

Also: be sure to wish me luck before I venture to Target tomorrow to try and convince the poor employee manning the electronics department to give me a Gamecube demo disc for free. Basically, I intend to point out that each disc has the words “NOT FOR RESALE” clearly printed on its back. Failing that, I intend to sulk and beg. Should be an entertaining experience for all parties involved.