The 2022 Transformers event War's End to weave together the past, present, and future of the franchise

Transformers: War's End #1 cover
Transformers: War's End #1 cover (Image credit: Angel Hernandez (IDW Publishing))

The Transformers' home planet of Cybertron will once again be plunged༺ into war in 2022 with the event series Transformers: War's End - with embers from a previous war catching✨ fire once again, but in a time where Megatron and the Decepticons are slowly rising to power.

Scheduled to debut in February 2022 and run for four monthly issues, Transformers: War's End will run side-by-side and is set in the same era o🅷f continuity with the main ongoing Transformers comic book series, both written by IDW's longtime Transformers head writer Brian Ruckley. He'll be joined by frꦏequent Transformers artist Jack Lawrence, fresh off the current limited series.

"War's End is about unfinished business: for both the characters and for Cybertron as a whole," says Ruckley. "It's the return of Cybertron's traumatic past 💞to upend its present... and answers the question: If your planet has at its core the collective Spark of your entire civilization, just how vulnerable might that make you?"

But one major thing has chang🌟ed since the first war; whereas Megatron helped fight Exarchon then, in this story he's older and is on a path of his🌳 own evil machinations with the formation of the Decepticons. 

"Up to now, my Transformers work has been post- or pre-war, so with War's End, I'm excited to contribute to the Cybertronian war itself," says Lawrence. "This story is, understandably, darker and grittier than what I've worked on before, so I'm looking forwa♐rd to going shadowy and ominous with it."

Transformers: War's End is described by IDW eꦗditor David Mariotte as the weaving together of the Transformers' past, present, and future that he, Ruckley, and IDW have been building to since 2019.

Transformers: World's End #1 💎♔goes on sale in February 2022, with covers by Angel Hernandez, Lawrence, and EJ Su.

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Chris Arrant covered comic book news for Newsarama from 2003 to 2022 (and as editor/senior editor from 2015 to 2022) and has also written for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic 🎐Industry Awards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the American Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Round Table. (He/him)