After the convention and "fan club" rights were taken from 3H, they were transferred to Fun Publications, the company that had been producing the official G.I. Joe convention and newsletter for many years prior. Like with 3H, the focus of Fun Publications' comics (and other media) was primarily to promote their current selection of convention- and club- exclusive toys. As they were not beholden to any single franchise or continuity (basically anything but the live-action film series was fair game, fictionally), Fun Publications had perhaps the broadest range of story settings of any "comics" publisher. Virtually all of their media was put under the umbrella name Timelines.

Although successful in appealing to TFUK’s older readers, Papadopoulos could do nothing to stop the US comic being cancelled with issue #80 — although it’s worth noting that for a time, thanks to Furman and the likes of UK artists Geoff Senior, Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville, it looked like TFUS might enjoy a longer run than anticipated. It’s all but certain that had it survived, TFUK would have continued too, the two destined to be coterminous.The soft-plastic spikes on United Thunderwing's arms are much softer than either his Generations counterpart or Sky Shadow's. In 2002, the comics got a major rebirth when Hasbro granted comic rights to Dreamwave Productions, who capitalized heavily on the current "nostalgia boom" that saw renewed (and short-lived) interest in many 80's toy-based properties. Dreamwave made ongoing Generation 1 comics in a more "adult" tone, as well as Armada and Energon books for the then-running kids' series. Though they were a huge success, the Dreamwave era was very short, as the company imploded in 2004 owing a lot of people a lot of money. The "-ations" (2005–2009) — Simon Furman returned to reboot the Transformers continuity with a series of miniseries; The Transformers: Infiltration #0–6, The Transformers: Stormbringer #1–4, The Transformers: Escalation #1–6, The Transformers: Devastation #1–6, a number of The Transformers: Spotlight one-shots, culminating in the " Revelation" arc, and The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots. The Transformers toyline, spotlighting the Autobot Cars, Autobot Mini Vehicles, Decepticon Planes, and Mini-Cassettes.

Salmon, Will (14 June 2023). "Skybound roll out a new shared Transformers and G.I. Joe universe - and it starts today!". gamesradar . Retrieved 10 September 2023. Furman, Simon (2004). Transformers: The Ultimate Guide. DK Publishing Inc. p.70. ISBN 1-4053-0461-8. So, Starscream, you strike at me because you think isolation makes me vunerable? You have obviously never flown in the face of my glass-gas gun!"In issue #319, it’s interesting that Blaster felt confident enough to assure readers that TFUK would continue for the rest of the year. At this point, the comic’s average weekly circulation had dropped to 19,839 — a far cry from its heyday. But after shedding an average of 10,000 readers every six months since January 1988, there were, by now, signs of welcome stabilisation: in the 12 months from July 1990, only 4,025 readers had jumped ship. Thunderwing only transformed out of his humanoid shell mode once in the entire United States run of the Marvel Comics series. Even then, it was into his non-combined shell-only jet mode, leaving no hint that he had an inner robot mode at all. The only time we see his inner robot mode is in his first appearance, the Marvel United Kingdom story, " The Big Shutdown!". On May 22, the first Usenet post about Transformers is posted by Ted Nolan to net.comics, regarding this issue. Capsule review? "Worst comic of the year." A four-issue mini-series [26] introducing new characters that were incorporated into the ongoing series (issue #38) at the conclusion of the mini-series. The series introduces the Headmasters, Targetmasters, some of the movie Transformers, Monsterbots, Horrorcons, Technobots and Terrorcons. The Transformers ran for 332 issues, and a number of annuals, which featured stories that were reprints of the US material, and original content which built on or expanded the US run of the title.

A possible future: had the comic continued it would most likely have switched to the TF logo seen on the 1992/93 toy range Each issue comes with a free gift. #1 had dog tags with Autobot or Decepticon logos on them, #2 had removable tattoos, #3 had a keyring, which would be either the Autobots or Decepticons logo, and #4 had 4 badges.The last line is interesting in hindsight. In 1991 Marvel UK had a new Editor in Chief, Paul Neary, who had been tasked with revitalising the company. As we shall see, the writing was on the wall for several of the licensed titles, TFUK quite possibly among them. Perhaps the behind-the-scenes push-and-pull over the comic’s future began much earlier than the mixed messages in its final issues suggested. The exact reason for this change is that doing new strips would've meant spending money, and Marvel UK's then-head Paul Neary didn't want to spend it on what he considered a 'dead end' of relying on licensed material. It's also possible he saw cancelling the comic as a way to shake things up. (He would later tell Comics World #33, regarding Death's Head's original self), "I didn't think there was much future in Transformers-based robots". Interestingly, Furman hadn't been asked to write the planned new tales and we don't know if that was due to timing or someone else would've been tapped. [6] Cover dates Optimus Primal/Megatron Mini-Comic – "Beast Wars" ". Archived from the original on 4 November 2015 . Retrieved 24 February 2013. Infestation 2 (2012) — The sequel to Infestation. This time, it's Lovecraftian demons that invade the various licensed properties. The Transformers-specific issues take place in the Hearts of Steel universe.