Bumblebee

Few characters carry the weight of a beloved franchise on their shoulders quite like Bumblebee, who strides into the Modern Age with James McDonough and Adam Patyk's 2003 Dreamwave Productions launch of Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #1. Sharing the pages with titans like Optimus Prime, Megatron, Grimlock, Hot Rod, and Jazz, this is a character embedded in the very heart of Transformers mythology. The run — spanning guidebooks and generation-spanning companion titles — speaks to just how central Bumblebee is to the lore Dreamwave was carefully cataloguing and celebrating during its early 2000s tenure. A compact but meaningful presence in the catalog, Bumblebee here is exactly where fans of the classic saga will want to look for that era's definitive character documentation.