The Ark II — A Compendium of Japanese Character Designs

Transformers: The Ark II - A Compendium Japanese Character Designs is a follow-up volume to The Ark volume 1 featuring Japanese character models. Authors Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster covered all major Japanese G1 series: The Headmasters, Masterforce, Victory, Zone, Battlestars, and Operation Combination.

It is put out by IDW Publishing. Despite having an even narrower audience base than the first volume, it broke #10,000 on Amazon.com's sales rankings.

ISBN 1600101809

Trivia

 * The cover features God Ginrai and Victory Leo - the same character, intentionally evoking similar imagery to the cover of volume 1, the creation of Galvatron

Eternal Links

 * The Ark II on Amazon
 * Comments by Jim Sorenson about the cover