Kistler on The Transformers: Movie vs. Cartoons/Comics

This is a companion piece to an Interview with Optimus Prime, in which Peter Cullen talks about the upcoming movie.

A while ago a bunch of toys came out called the Transformers. To help advertise, a cartoon show and a Marvel comic book series came out featuring the characters in parallel but distinctly different continuities. Later on, a few different comic book series followed, each with their own take on continuity. The cartoon TRANSFORMERS: BEAST WARS showed us the descendants of the beings from the original cartoon series and even later than that, other cartoon series (ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, ARMADA, ENERGON and CYBERTRON) were created that re-envisioned the Transformers universe from scratch. And we’re not even talking about the U.K. and Japanese versions or the alternate universe G.I. JOE/TRANSFORMERS series that’s going on to this day.

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