Prime Directive is a six-part miniseries published by Dreamwave Productions in 2002. Its story centers on the revival of the Transformers after a catastrophe several years prior.
[Note: While the series was entitled Transformers: Generation 1 when it was released, it was dubbed Prime Directive when collected in trade paperback form.]
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Overview
The Transformers have been gone from Earth for several years, having all vanished in the destruction of the Ark II ship. The ship was bearing the victorious Autobots and their captive Decepticons back to Cybertron, but exploded after launch. A sinister and SUPER COOL figure named Lazarus has been collecting their intert forms and has found a way to control them, and plans to sell them on the black market. But the US government has plans of its own... as do the Transformers themselves.
Prime Directive was the first mass-market Transformers comic in nearly a decade, an absence reflected in the storyline. The first issue debuted at #1 on the Diamond sales charts and led to a briefly-successful line of Dreamwave Transformers comics. The series was introduced by a six-page preview issue. It was followed by War and Peace, and an ongoing series after that.
The book established a new G1 continuity that draws on elements of the cartoon, but does not fit well into any particular previous story.
Many fans found the series impressive for the great amount of care and detail put into the artwork. The glossy print and Photoshop colors were worlds beyond the newsprint paper and dotted coloring of the original G1 book. Others felt that the storyline was needlessly decompressed (almost two whole issues pass before any of the Transformers actually speak), that the visual storytelling was unclear, and that the overall pacing suffered for the sake needlessly dramatic splash pages.
Creative Team
The series was written by Chris Sarracini and pencilled by Pat Lee and Edwin Garcia.
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