 Transformers IDW collection Phase 1

 Volume 1
 Megatron Origin
 Spotlight Blurr (optional but short and good read to see how the decepticons can be seen as
revolutionists from their pov but terrorist from another’s)
 Cliffjumper (optional but interesting if you want to see how the war not only hurts the
cybertornians (transformers) but also other planets as well)
 Volume 2
 Ramjet (optional if you are interested in how poorly managed the decepticons are)
 Skip to Volume 4
 Volume 4
 Drift
 Spotlight drift
 Volume 5
 All hail Megatron
 Coda: Uneasy lies ahead
 Volume 6
 Last Stand of the Wreckers (optional short story that doesn’t matter in the long run but it’s
good if you like the Rouge 1 and James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad)
 Spotlight: Prowl
 Volume 7
 International incident (optional but please read for thundercracker especially if you are
interested in him from all hail megatron, I love him)
 Revenge of the Decepticons
 Volume 8
 Police Action: Prologue (really interested to see what you think of this one because it has
some of the best storytelling that makes the entire war even more tragic)
 Transformers IDW collection phase 2 (funnily this is where I started when I got into the story)
 Volume 1
 Read everything
 Volume 2
 Autocracy
 Death of Optimus Prime
 Robots in Disguise 7
 More than meets the eye 6 – 8
 Robots in Disguise 8 – 9
 Volume 3
 Spotlight Megatron
 More than Meets the Eye Annual
 Robots in Disguise Annual
 More than meets the eye 9 – 11
 Skip Robots in Disguise 10
 More than meets the eye 12 - 13
 Robots in disguise 11
  Volume 4
 Robots in Disguise 12 – 16
 More than meets the eye 14 – 16
 Robots in Disguise 17 – 18
 Volume 5
 Robots in Disguise 19 – 20
 More than meets the eye 17
 Robots in Diguise 21 – 22
 More than meets the eye 22
 The sound of breaking glass
 Volume 6 - 7
 Read everything
 My favorite artist in volume 6 as well if you wanna take a guess
 Volume 8
 More than meets the eye 35 – 38
 Transformers 35 – 38
 Punishment (optional, only really recommend if you’re interested in optimus character arc)
 More than meet the eye 39 – 40
 Drift Empire of Stone (optional, only if you are interested in drift)
 Volume 9-12
 Read everything
 Volume 10
 Technically you don’t need Choose me or Thirteenth day of Christmas but they are such
fun stories I heavily recommend it
 Transformers IDW collection phase 3
 Volume 1
 Till All Are One 5-8
 Volume 2
 Read everything
 Optimus prime is optional, only good if you’re interested in international politics between
planets, optimus prime or soundwave
 Volume 3
 Lost light 8 – 9
 Optimus Prime 7 – 8 (again pretty optional imo but hey thundercracker is fun in it, they just
don’t do all that much with him)
 Annual 2017 (optional, honestly it’s not that interesting and I would skip it myself, I only like
the Starscream and Bumblebee Interaction in this one)
 Lost light 10 – 12
 Optimus Prime 9 – 10 (optional and really only if you are interested in optimus)
 As a note this is where the idw collection stop because they couldn’t renew their rights to the the IP
 Transformers Lost Light Vol 3 – 4
 Transformers Unicron
  Only read if you are interested in Optimus’ story because it is very worth it if you are into his
character, otherwise a lot o other character arcs gets dropped or in some cases even go
backwards to make the ending work
 This is due to the fact that this version got a rushed ending since it was hard to get into
due to how they keep numbering and renaming things
 Optimus Prime 25
 Epilogue to Unicron (if you didn’t read unicron, don’t bother with this one)