Primeval Dawn

Primeval Dawn is a comic-format story published by 3H Productions. It is set on prehistoric Earth, shortly after the events of the Beast Wars cartoon.

Overview

Primeval Dawn debuted at BotCon 2001 as a backup strip published in issue #1 of The Wreckers. 3H intended to continue the story in motion comic format, beginning with Primeval Dawn II, screened at several 2002 conventions, but this approach was ultimately abandoned in favor of further backup comic strips, of which two debuted at OTFCC 2004. The fourth installment was planned to conclude the story, linking back up to the start of the main Wreckers storyline, but 3H Productions lost the Transformers license before this ever happened.

The story is set in the aftermath of the Beast Wars on prehistoric Earth; Tarantulas is still alive, having captured the power of the Vok, and has built himself a small squadron of troops. The Vok themselves restore Tigatron and Airazor to life, and create Primal Prime from various remnants of the Beast Wars. The two sides battle for control of the Matrix, which Tarantulas intends to present to his dark master.

Artist Dan Khanna posted a quick summary of the (largely unscripted) end to "Primeval Dawn" in the Allspark message board in 2007: unsurprisingly, Primal Prime would defeat Tarantulas and then take various characters (including Waspinator) to future Cybertron.^[1] The only thing close to a wrapup in canon material was "Sideways" in Ask Vector Prime claiming that he drove off Ravage and combined a dying Tigatron and Airazor back into one entity so he could play "the long con" on Primal Prime. Ask Sideways, 2015/06/06 Seriously, that's the best you'll get. "War Against the Destructons" would dream about getting an off-hand, unreliable mention on Facebook.

Creative Team

Primeval Dawn's script was begun by Bob Forward, and continued by Simon Furman; the story was illustrated by Dan Khanna and Makoto Ono.

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