Revelations

 

Writer: Forest Lee

Publication dates: February/March – April/May 2006

Although Fun Publications maintained the license to publish official Transformers tie-in fiction until 2016, the canceled Universe comic and Dawn of Future's Past epilogue marked the end of their continuing advancement of the post-Beast Machines timeline. Universe #3 ended on a cliffhanger, with no resolution to its primary storyline: the resurrected Optimus Primal's quest to stop Unicron from abducting Transformers from across the multiverse and using their sparks to power his return.

That resolution came in the form of a two-panel flashback in the second chapter of Revelations, a serialized comic set in the Unicron Trilogy continuity (Transformers: Armada, Transformers: Energon, and Transformers: Cybertron) and published in issues seven through twelve of Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club.  

 

Revelations is the second story arc in this magazine, following Balancing Act in issues one through six. I didn't read Balancing Act and I've never watched Armada, Energon, or Cybertron, so I was completely lost reading the first two chapters of Revelations. I recognized Sentinel Maximus from the end of The Wreckers and Omega Prime from the end of Universe, but that was it; when it came to the characters I assume were native to this universe, I had no idea who any of them were or what they were trying to do. I suppose that's my own fault or skipping the source material, but I just wanted to know what happened to the Beast Wars characters.

Well, here it is:

 

They were fighting Unicron, and then Unicron randomly vanished, and Omega Prime ended up here in the Unicron Trilogy universe with no clue as to what happened to Optimus Primal and the others. That's it. That's all you get.

 

Oh.