Antarctica wrote:http://www.idwpublishing.com/product/revolution-road-revolution-100-page-special-1/
Also it looks like this issue which is just reprints will be key item in figuring it all out.
As much as it might print 'key issues', you may need more than that to make sense of the current TFverse. Summary companions have not been the strong point of IDW crossovers... however!
Antarctica wrote:One basic question it seems the Autobots and Decepticons are no longer divided by their groups and all mixed & working together.
How did that happen?
A big mess happened, with a giant creature from a place called Dead Universe threatened to destroy everything. We had glimpses of this in Infestation. Megatron sort of but not really sacrificed himself to fight against it. Then Optimus Prime had a bit of an identity crisis, as the used the Matrix to stop the thing. The Matrix split in two, one half was given to Rodimus one half to Bumblebee. Rodimus left Cybertron with a ship (the Lost Light) and a select crew of hundreds (this is the More Than Meets the Eye series).
Bumblebee stayed on Cybertron with Prowl, Starscream and newcomer Metalhawk, a non-affiliated Cybertronian who had left before the Transformers started their war millions of year prior. With Metalhawk, many other non-affiliateds return to Cybertron. More messy things happen, but essentially, Starscream is now the elected/appointed ruler of Cybertron, Megatron came back, Shockwave tried blowing up the universe, helped by Galvatron and more Dead Universe characters, Optimus and Megatron stopped them, Megatron is trialled and made to become an Autobot - this story continues in More Than Meets the Eye. More non-affiliated characters show up from Titan colonies (again, pre-war explorers), including Windblade. (Titans are now a fairly big part of all the stories.)
Galvatron convinces Soundwave to keep up the Decepticon dream in the Solar System, then tries conquering things on Earth. Optimus heads to Earth, to stop Galvatron. On Cybertron, Windblade, Starscream and other ex-colony characters establish the Council of Worlds (story in Till All Are One), Optimus forcefully annexes Earth to the Council (story in The Transformers), Soundwave joins him against treacherous Galvatron, and now an old foe from the past shows up, Sentinel Prime, and starts beheading people he does not deem worthy of his own vision, and Prowl may be up to something (as a rule, Prowl is always up to something). We are now in Titans Return, a crossover between The Transformers and More Than Meets the Eye. Till All Are One will continue the Cybertron side of the story once Revolution happens.
And from what I have determined from looking at interviews it seems like the entire GIJOE idw continuity has taken place after Megatron killed billions. So the GIJOE story is much shorter then the Transformers one in in continuity timeline. It seems in the Prelude that it hints through the Adventure Team reference
That some Transformers on Earth had some interacting in 1970s. If they are keeping Adventure Team still in 70s which could be changed.
Yes and no. The IDW GI Joe continuity did not make sense to be sharing stories with TF, because of that storyline (All Hail Megatron) in which the Decepticons almost conquer Earth, but definitely kill A LOT of humanity in the process. The question was: where were they? How are the two compatible? The preview I linked to earlier tries appeasing the missing bits.
