The First Ever Transformers Annual!

MTMTE Annual #1
cover by Tim Seeley.

Well I recently picked up IDW's  The Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Annual 2012 and it struck me -- this is the first time Transformers has ever gotten an American-style annual! Sure, there's been a tonne of hardcover UK annuals over the years, but never an American-style 'big comic' annual.

So I was kinda excited for it.

The Annual is an oversized (40 page) book, which takes the bold move of actually having a significant plot revelation happen in it -- a part of the ongoing story from More Than Meets the Eye  is resolved here, which is really neat. It harkens back to the old 1960s Marvel comics annuals, which were just over-sized 13th issues for each year.

The unfortunate thing about it, though, is that it's really not very good.