Daily Comic Book Mission #005: Transformers #29

Welcome back to the ComicBook.beer Daily Comic Book Mission, where today your mission is to read Transformers issue number 29 from the new series from Image and Skybound.

Transformers 29, brand new issue as of this recording. Where is this? February, the February 2026 issue. I never said these were difficult missions. But it's a mission nonetheless.

This one's got a beautiful cover. Optimus Prime and Megatron, beating the crap out of each other, and this one picks up where 28 left off, which was a pretty gruesome ending for those of you who read it. Those of you who may have liked Trailbreaker back in the day, sorry. I'm not sure they can patch him up after that. Anyway, after Megatron basically drinks his blood. He looks like a crazed maniacal psychopath, even more than usual.

So this one's created by the Robert Kirkman Dan Mora team. They've done a good job making Megatron seem like a proper bad guy. We all know Megatron's a bad guy, right? But he's crazy in his last couple issues. And this entire issue is basically just one gigantic fight scene from start to finish. There's always action in Transformers because you know it's Autobots fighting Decepticons. If they got along it would be boring.

So they're always fighting, it's just a matter of what they're fighting about. And in this one, Soundwave is still captured on the Ark by the Autobots. They've captured Soundwave, Megatron wants him back. So Megatron and like this huge force of Decepticons, including Laserbeak and the Constructicons ,attack the Autobots led by Optimus Prime.

Arcee Magnus. You might be confused about that one. Read the last couple issues, you'll figure that one out. Ultra Magnus, well, Arcee got an upgrade too. It's pretty awesome, because Arcee is awesome.

Soundwave in this issue, everybody loves Soundwave. I had Soundwave. Like I had a bunch of Transformers, like not a whole lot. They were really expensive back then. Like the big one that I got was Shockwave. I could choose between Optimus Prime and Shockwave, so naturally I went with Shockwave.

What's that guy? Got one of the other combiners in here. That Bruticus? Thundercracker is now an Autobot.

And they got Rumble in there. Rumble's good. I like the way that Dan Mora draws Rumble. I mean, like the way Dan Mora draws everything. The guy's just remarkable, but there's not too much.

There's not many more things I can say about this issue. It is literally just one gigantic fight scene and it's really well done.

Of course it's well done. The Transformers series, for those of you who may be old school Transformers fans like me, maybe you grew up reading the Marvel comics or just watching the TV shows or whatever, well more recently Image and Skybound have brought back Transformers as part of their Energon universe, which also includes G.I. Joe and now M.A.S.K. And the Transformers is by far the best one. And I'm like a huge Joe fan, but the Transformers series is just incredible. They just nail the art. The coloring on each issue is beautiful.

This one's colored by Sarah Stern. I mean, you really got to pick up one of these issues and just admire the artwork first and foremost. The writing is good too, but I'm always kind of an art-first kind of guy.

Daniel Warren Johnson drew the first couple issues, but he also wrote the entire first 24 issues. Now Robert Kirkman has taken over the series. It's just been absolutely terrific.

Your Daily Comic Book Mission is a fun mission. Go read Transformers 29. You'll probably want to go back and read some of the earlier ones if you haven't been keeping up with the new Transformers series.

Check it out. Daily Comic Book Mission from comicbook.beer.

Now that I'm like an old degenerate, you know what transformer we could really use? Are we on the same wavelength here? I mean, we obviously got cool things like cassette players, boomboxes, jets, even a microscope. We could definitely use a giant transforming beer stein filled with beer that transforms into a robot. And I'm not sure what they would do with the beer, what it would do with the beer when it transforms. Does it consume the beer? And then like, what's it do when it transforms back into beer stein mode?

See now I'm gonna have to think about this.

Can't name it, wait.

Let's come up with a cool name for this Transformer, like Sloppy or something. That'd be fun.

Sloppy would definitely be a Decepticon.