Transformers Comic is a British

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 Comic published monthly by Titan Magazines

Titan Magazines

Titan Magazines is the magazine-publishing division of Nick Landau's Titan Publishing Group. Titan also owns several Forbidden Planet specialist comics and collector stores .Titan Magazines' publishing director is Chris Teather.TPG also owns Titan Books,...

. It often features strips re-printed from American comics and graphic novels. The first issue was released in July 2007 to tie in with the film. As of October 2011 is has ran for four volumes.

Publication history

Volume 1 ran for 25 issues before the second volume began in 2009 to tie in with the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is a 2009 American science fiction-action film directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. It is the sequel to the 2007 film Transformers and the second installment in the live-action Transformers series...

. Volume 3 began in 2011 to tie in with the third film and a forth has just launched for the new animated series; Transformers: Prime

Transformers: Prime

Transformers: Prime, also known as Transformers: Prime –The Animated Series, is an American computer-animated television series based on the Transformers toy franchise by Hasbro. It airs on the The Hub in the United States...

. For the last few issues of Volume 1, the Transformers: Universe

Transformers: Universe

Transformers: Universe is a line of toys that consists of re-painted and re-released toys from various Transformers lines of toys. For the comic book series see Transformers Universe .- Toy line :...

 toy line logo was on the cover.

Strips

During the first volume, the comic printed three strips per issue. These included brand new strips written by Simon Furman

Simon Furman

Simon Christopher Francis Furman is a comic book writer, particularly associated with of a number of notable Transformers comics for Marvel UK, Marvel US, Dreamwave, and most recently, IDW...

 (his work continued into volume 2) and some re prints such as the Beast Wars

Transformers: Beast Wars

Transformers: Beast Wars is a Transformers toyline released by Hasbro between 1995 and 2000, and a Daytime Emmy Award winning full-CG animated television series spawned by it that debuted in 1996...

 series (also by Furman) and the Movie Prequel. By volume 3, the magazine had a lower amount of pages and only one strip was usually seen. The most recent strips from volumes 3 and 4 are written by Robin Etherington.

Free gift

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.

Transformers Animated Comic

In 2009, Titan released a comic based of the animated series Transformers: Animated

Transformers: Animated

Transformers Animated is an American animated television series based on the Transformers toy line. The series debuted on Cartoon Network on December 26, 2007 and has been shown on NickToons in the UK since February 2008. It is produced by Cartoon Network Studios and animated by Japanese animation...

 however, it only lasted for three issues due to low sales.
The first strip to be published in the magazine was 'Burnout' and was written by Simon Furman

Simon Furman

Simon Christopher Francis Furman is a comic book writer, particularly associated with of a number of notable Transformers comics for Marvel UK, Marvel US, Dreamwave, and most recently, IDW...

. Another strip in the first issue was an adaptation of the episode 'Blast from the past'.