Transformers: Drift Episode 1

Transformers: Drift is a hero biography outside the main IDW Transformers storyline, telling the story of how Deadlock, a warrior of Decepticon origin, is transformed and becomes Drift, an Autobot swordsman wielding twin swords. Deadlock was once one of the coldest members of the Decepticons, but after battle after bloody battle he begins to doubt everything he has sworn loyalty to; abandoned by his comrades and nearly killed on a desolate planet, he is pushed onto another path. He begins to seek a way of atonement, becoming a lone swordsman who wanders the galaxy, fighting for the weak and against the strong, showing no mercy to former comrades who stand in his way. Yet this narrow path is not easy: many Autobots refuse to believe this convert with blood on his hands, the Decepticons are certain he has ulterior motives, and his ranger-like self-exile instead brings him face to face again and again with the faults of his past. The core appeal of this book is not grand war but how a warrior struggles with his own past: cold-weapon duels, the loneliness of drifting across the sea of stars, and the heavy questioning of the proposition of "making oneself anew" give the whole work a rare wuxia quality. The plot is relatively independent of IDW's long main storyline and has a low threshold for reading. This entry is Episode 1 of Transformers: Drift, that is, the opening content of the series; in terms of book publication, it corresponds to the simplified Chinese edition of Transformers: Drift published by Sichuan Fine Arts Publishing House.