I have a friend and she want to join transformers fandom but I don't know how to start. What should I recommend her to read or watch first? Can you help me?
The Transformers franchise is so huge, made up of so many radically different series and types of media that it can seem pretty imposing to get into.
Right at this moment in time, it seems to this editor that outside of the live-action movies, More than Meets the Eye has been most successful at bringing in a huge wave of new adult and young adult fans to the brand. Though it’s just had a refresh as Lost Light, I think we all know that you wouldn’t want to start a new reader on LL #1 - the first volume of MTMTE is your best “in” route to the comics, and is a huge component of the fandom here on Tumblr. If your friend enjoys it, then there’s room for her to explore backwards and investigate IDW’s earlier output, and maybe even go back further to the Marvel stuff.
Besides MTMTE, the Transformers Prime animated series seems the safest bet. Arguments about the direction the series took aside, “Darkness Rising” is still legitimately one of, if not the greatest Transformers animated series premiere ever, and still enjoys a significant following on Tumblr that from what I’ve seen certainly seems to eclipse the content related to other high-ranking shows like Animated.
