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8 Reddit comments about Transformers: IDW Collection Phase Two Volume 1:

u/cynic79 · 9 pointsr/transformers

It depends on what you want to read.

If you want to read the 80's Marvel comics, pick up the Classics trade paperbacks.

If you want to read the new IDW comics, I would advise you to start with the IDW Collection Phase Two. It collects the first few issues of the More Than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise (now just "Transformers") comics. These are the current ongoing books, and the ones everyone talks about today, so it's a good place to start if you want to catch up with the current storyline.

If you want to start at the beginning of the IDW comics, you can pick up the Phase One collection. It's good, but the story is a bit of a slow burn.

If you're a G1 cartoon fan, you could start right in the middle with All Hail Megatron. The art is mostly spot on for the cartoon, and it's easy to pick up for a new reader, but the story overall is a bit...meh.

There are other collections besides the ones I linked to if you don't want to splurge on a hardback. Those collections are just a good start if you're interested in the comics.

u/Tigertemprr · 8 pointsr/comicbooks

Start with Last Stand of the Wreckers and then go into the More Than Meets the Eye & Robots in Disguise main series. MTMTE is surprisingly really good comics, even to non-fans.

The Phase Two IDW Collections put it all into one neat hardcover collection.

u/optiprimas · 3 pointsr/transformers

start off with more than meets the eyes and robots in disguise you can get collected issues with both on amazon

u/HexManiak · 3 pointsr/transformers

r/idwtransformers would be able to go into things in more detail and would be the more on-topic location for this.

Basically, though, there are three 'eras' of IDW. If you're looking to start from the very beginning, that's what the IDW TF collections are for. They collect all the stuff in order. Furman's IDW run of Spotlight issues and miniseries, All Hail Megatron and the ongoing that span out of that, and then the More Than Meets The Eye era of IDW (this is all the post-war stuff, the adventures of the Lost Light, Starscream as a political figure, Windblade, Autobot Megatron, and so on).

I call them three eras because Furman's stuff feels different than AHM onwards (which is designed as a jumping on point), and this in turn feels different from MTMTE and Robots In Disguise, which are also designed as jumping on points for the third 'era' (these two ran at the same time).

If you want all the things, pick up the collections starting at volume one of Phase One. (amazon link to make it easy to tell which book I mean)

All Hail Megatron starts with volume 5 of the 'Phase One' collections (amazon link). Aside from being a soft reboot, the main variation is that Furman's line focused more on the 'in disguise' content and presented Earth as just one front among many, with an overplot involving the 'Dead Universe'. All Hail Megatron has the Decepticons conquer Earth and kind of brings things back to an Earth-centric focus.

If what you're looking for is the post-war stuff, the content most people talk about when they say IDW, that's helpfully noted in the collections as Phase Two. Pick up volume one of that (amazon link) and start from there.

It's worth noting that the read order with these collections can be a little jumpy, especially in Phase Two where the intended chronological read order means it has to juggle two largely unconnected ongoings and also the various miniseries. It's still perfectly readable and everything and is far from a major issue, you'll just go from the adventures of these guys to those guys to these other guys and back again a lot.

u/greasyjonny · 3 pointsr/TMNT

Phase one is older stuff, phase 2 saw the launch of 2 series, more than meets the eye and robots in disguise. both take place with the war over. More than meets the eye follows rodimus and ship full of other bots across the universe in search of the knights of cybertron. Robots in disguise follows bumblebee trying to form a government on cybertron. The phase 2 collection collects both series in tandem. here’s a link to the first book. You can jump right in. No need for phase 1

u/Nawara_Ven · 2 pointsr/transformers

I might specifically recommend IDW Phase 2 Volume 1 for best value, or simply More than Meets the Eye Volume 1 if you want somewhat less of a commitment.

I started with Phase 2 and it's just a good spot; everything is established, characters are familiar but out there doing interesting and different things; definitely worth a read.

I might go back to phase 1 some day, but I still haven't caught up to the present releases.