I loved that book as a kid. The Little Golden Book with Grover I mean. This is a new comic…that came out during my needed slowdown because all the good announcements happen on a week I’m not able to write about it.

It’s also an odd way for Skybound to confirm that they indeed are the new home of Transformers, which has been speculated soon after it was learned IDW was losing the license (took way too long if you ask me). Void Rivals #1, a story that has nothing to do with Transformers, features a cameo by Jetfire, found by the two marooned enemies (somebody saw Enemy Mine recently) stumble across what they think is a crashed vessel only to activate Jetfire, who concludes he’s been out of action for millions of years and runs off, leaving them to continue the series.

This is the beginning of what Skybound is calling the “Energon Universe”, not to be confused with Transformers Energon from the Unicron trilogy and making this another title reuse by the franchise. The universe will include a Transformers ongoing, a GI Joe ongoing, and Void Rivals. Skybound is of course responsible for The Walking Dead franchise and Invincible, but they also did the all-ages Super Dinosaur. However, I’m betting this will be closer to Invincible than Super Dinosaur, thus denying kids yet another Transformers series. Sorry, original target age group, all you have is the mediocre EarthSpark series. Seriously, I’ve watched the first season and it’s like a weaker version of Transformers Prime if you ask me. The adults get to play with the good toys now. So what about this “Energon Universe” and is it a good sign or a bad sign?

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