The Transformers universe has never felt richer than under the guidance of John Barber and James Roberts, who are taking the property into a long anticipated direction.
Following the events of the Chaos storyline, Optimus Prime finds himself lost and isolated on a post-war, primordial version of his home planet, with nothing but two halves of a depleted Matrix of Leadership lying before him. While the remaining Decepticons have been inhibitor-chipped and imprisoned, the Autobots scramble to deal with an escalating refugee crisis from Cybertron’s returning civilian population: numbering in the thousands and referred to as Nails, their distrust and hatred for the “warlike” doesn’t distinguish between Autobot and Decepticon.