IDW Spotlights Dinobots in New Miniseries
IDW releases the long-awaited, full-fledged modern day debut of the Dinobot team in The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots arriving in store tomorrow.
Bringing some of the most popular characters from the original cartoon back to life with a fresh take are Transformers über-scribe Simon Furman, artist Nick Roche, and colorist Josh Burcham, with cover art by Marcelo Matere and Roche.
The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots brings together the team for the first time in thousands of years, but it’s far from a happy reunion. And out to spoil the party further is SCORPONOK and his Machination/HEADMASTER army. But he has two AUTOBOTS hot on his trail in SUNSTREAKER and HOT ROD.
The story enhances the rich tapestry of TRANSFORMERS lore for long-time readers, but also is friendly for new readers – anyone can start at Page 1 and not miss a beat according to an IDW release.
The Dinobots have suffered from multiple origins from differing comic book publishers all of which are at variance with the animated incarnation.
At first, the Marvel Comics Dinobots were quite different from their television counterparts. Later, the Dinobots appeared in Dreamwave’s reimagining of the Generation One Universe with yet a different backstory. When Devil’s Due gained the Transformers license, they appeared in the second G. I. Joe vs. the Transformers miniseries.
As the licenses transferred to IDW, the Dinobots made their first reappearance in The Transformers: Megatron Origin #3.