It’s the showdown you’ve been waiting for, just not the one you expected! Will a Maximal-Predacon alliance be enough to defeat a new enemy that threatens both teams? The Beast Wars rage on! After the Maximals' assault on the Predacon base, both sides are looking for a win. But they find more than they anticipated, as a treasure trove of energon and the secret behind the aggressive mutant animals that inhabit the planet are unveiled and the Children of the Vok make themselves known! Can Optimus Primal and Megatron bring their teams together, or will Cheetor, Nyx, Waspinator, Blackarachnia, Rattrap, and the rest fall one by one? Plus, before the epic climax, see how the Cybertronians spend their days, with three stories of life away from the front lines! Collects Beast Wars issues #13–17, plus the 2022 Annual.
Author
Erik Burnham is a Minnesotan writer and artist that first broke into comics with a series of humorous short stories in the Shooting Star Comics Anthology. These stories featured his original creation, Nick Landime, and culminated in a one-shot: Nick Landime vs. the World Crime League, published by Shooting Star in 2005. Off and on, in this same time period, Erik also produced a short run of an online strip, The Down Side, until technical issues wore him down. He aims to return to the strip one day. In 2007, Erik found produced work for two other anthologies – a short humor piece for History Graphics Press’ Civil War Adventures #1, and a horror story for Gene Simmons’ House of Horror #3, produced by IDW Publishing. This lead to several other projects for IDW, up to and including his critically acclaimed run on the ongoing GHOSTBUSTERS comic book. Erik has worked on other projects not related to comic books, and hopes one day to share those with the public at large. In the meantime, he still lives quietly in Minnesota; any rumors about this being because he’s completely afraid of the forty-nine other states (and Canada) remain unverified at this time.
