The year was 2005. The treacherous Decepticons and their heroic Autobot counterparts descended upon the Earth and unleashed a new era of Transformers comics through IDW publishing. Thirteen years and hundreds of issues later, that universe has come to a close. Transformers historian Chris McFeely distills the entire history into one handy guide as we
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! It sure doesn’t happen very often: both the East and West Coast branches of Binary System actually saw a movie before it left the theaters. But it was a Transformers movie, and the reviews were great, so how could they NOT
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Well, that didn’t take long, did it? Not that we’ve fallen behind on our podcasts by accident, oh no. We knew it would freak out our listeners if we actually stayed ahead of schedule for too long, so we went back
Due to the recent Tumblr ban of all adult content (and all the snafus with the algorithm flagging posts by mistake) a lot of artists are heading out for greener pastures. This may or may not be the end for the platform, so just in case, here’s a fanart roundup featuring pieces we first found
The Binary System Podcast has been wondering for weeks (months?) when we’d get details on the Transformers reboot over at IDW: who’s drawing it, writing it, what’s it going to focus on, when will we get it? And we finally have an announcement! See below for the PR story that came out today. We’re hoping
You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! SPOILER ALERT. Last week IDW released Optimus Prime #25, the very last issue of all the current Transformers series, after this the entire universe reboots. Seeing as how this podcast could easily be the All Transformers All The Time Network (if
It’s finally here: the final issue of IDW’s Transformers (this current incarnation anyway, the reboot is scheduled for next year sometime.) I can’t really talk about the issue without spoilers, so if you haven’t read it yet you might want to go read the issue first. (And you should read it even if you don’t
It’s the final issue of the Unicron saga, and I was going to say “it’s the end of an era” but we’re not quite there yet: Optimus Prime #25 comes out next week and will finish up the IDW Transformers books. I think I would’ve liked the Unicron book to be the final chapter in
(Massive great big spoilers below.) Kathryn …how the heck do we start a conversation about this one? Elizabeth Probably with what you told me when you finished it. “Siiigh. All the feels.” And then I’ll say “Man oh man.” Kathryn Yes, and I’ll add “I had no idea what to expect from this issue. Never