**GET THIS ITEM ABSOLUTELY FREE BY JOINING COMICS AMERICA COMIC SERVICE!** The wait is over--after a 20-year hiatus, IDW proudly returns to the original TRANSFORMERS comic book universe, picking up right where 1991's TRANSFORMERS #80 left off! Optimus Prime, Grimlock, Kup, Hot Rod and all your favorite Generation One TRANSFORMERS characters charge into the future as fan-favorite writer Simon Furman and legendary Transformers artist Andrew Wildman present TRANSFORMERS #80.5! Reflecting back on the dizzying highs and the terrifying lows of the original run of Transformers comics, Optimus Prime watches over a Cybertron that hasn't faced Megatron for decades. But that peace shudders to an end, as we dive headlong into July's TRANSFORMERS #81! Because the Fans demanded it! Thousand of TRANSFORMERS fans signed petitions urging us to make this book--and IDW listened! Created by the same writer, penciler, and inker of TRANSFORMER #80 in 1991! Bonus features make clear IDW's current TRANSFORMERS line of comics, as well as our extensive reprint program!