Editing Transformers (section)

====''Transformers: Generation 2'' (1993–1995)====
{{Main|Transformers: Generation 2}}
It was five issues<ref>{{Cite comic | writer = [[Larry Hama]] | penciller = [[Andrew Wildman]], Stephen Baskerville, Chris Batista, Jesse Orozco, William Rosado | story = Unfoldings!, Realignments, Goin' South, Sucker Punch, Final Transformations | title = G.I. Joe | issue = 138-142 | date = July–November 1993 | publisher = [[Marvel Comics]]}}</ref> of the ''[[G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel Comics)|G.I. Joe]]'' comic in 1993 that would springboard a return for Marvel's Transformers, with the new twelve-issue series ''[[Transformers: Generation 2]]'', to market a new toy line.

This story reveals that the Transformers originally breed [[Asexual reproduction|asexually]], though it is stopped by Primus because it produced the evil [[Swarm (Transformers)|Swarm]].<ref>{{Cite comic | writer = [[Simon Furman]] | penciller = Manny Galan | story = The Power and the Glory | title = [[Transformers: Generation 2]] | issue = 5 | date = March 1994 | publisher=[[Marvel Comics]]}}</ref> A new empire, neither Autobot nor Decepticon, is bringing it back, however. Though the year-long arc wrapped itself up with an alliance between [[Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Transformers)|Megatron]], the final panel introduces the Liege Maximo, ancestor of the Decepticons.<ref>{{Cite comic | Writer = [[Simon Furman]] | penciller = Manny Galan | Story = A Rage in Heaven! | Title = [[Transformers: Generation 2]] | Issue = 12 | date = October 1994 | Publisher = [[Marvel Comics]]}}</ref> This minor cliffhanger was not resolved until 2001 and 2002's Transforce convention when writer [[Simon Furman]] concluded his story in the exclusive novella ''Alignment''.<ref>{{cite web | title = Alignment | publisher = Transforce | url = http://www.transforce.org.uk/alignmentbook.swf | access-date = 2007-02-22 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070704093841/http://www.transforce.org.uk/alignmentbook.swf | archive-date = 2007-07-04 }}</ref>