Transformers: Last Bot Standing
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Transformers: Last Bot Standing is a four-issue comic miniseries from IDW Publishing that debuted in May 2022. Released to tie in with the end of IDW's tenure of the Transformers comic license, the miniseries acts as a "hypothetical last story" for the Transformers brand as a whole.
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Overview
A post-apocalyptic space western set millennia after the end of the Great War and the near-extinction of the Cybertronian race, Last Bot Standing focuses on an aged Rodimus hiding out on the primitive world of Donnokt. But when a group of remnant Cybertronians turn their sights upon Donnokt, the last Autobot must step up to save the universe one final time.
Creative team
Last Bot Standing is written by Nick Roche, author of the Wreckers trilogy and drawn by E. J. Su, artist of Infiltration. Roche and Su each produced covers for all issues, with Roche's being the standard release and Su's being the retailer incentive versions.
Collections
- Transformers: Last Bot Standing (November 16, 2022) ISBN 1684086302 / ISBN 978-1684086309
- Collects Last Bot Standing issues #1-4.
Transformers: Last Bot Standing TPB; cover art by Nick Roche
Notes
- With IDW Publishing's time on the Transformers brand winding down, Last Bot Standing commemorates seventeen years of IDW Transformers comics by presenting a "final" Transformers story, an imaginary tale in the vein of Old Man Logan (indeed, it was originally pitched with the preliminary title Old Man Rodimus) or Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?. Like those stories, Last Bot Standing was not written to fit into any specific continuity and is not intended to be a "definitive" end to Transformers as a whole; according to author Nick Roche, it can—with a little bit of squinting—serve as a hypothetical "last adventure" for basically any Transformers universe.[2]
- The series was actually pitched before the decision was made not to renew the license.[3]
References
- ↑ Nick Roche, Twitter, 2022/09/22
- ↑ "WHICH CONTINUITY. ANSWER NOW. Any... all of 'em... or none. It's so far flung, it could ultimately be utterly speculative. But squint, and it bolts onto YOUR Transformers canon as the (chronological) last adventure."—Nick Roche, Twitter, 2022/05/03
- ↑ Nick Roche at TFNation 2022, 2022/08/14
