Review: #24
Title: Transformers Animated: The Allspark Almanac II
Series: Transformers Animated: The Allspark Almanac – 2nd volume
Author: Jim Sorenson and Bill Forster
Read Before: no
My Comments: The character profiles of the robots are really awesome, as there were a lot more robots appearing in Season 3, but for like a couple of seconds in total, so you don't get much chance to see them in detail and notice them (they don't even have backstories). So it is really good to see them, and like some other characters that they had drawn but didn't put in the show (most of them tributes some character in previous Transformers series particularly the G1 era), even from beginning of the book, it is so much more interesting than the first one (and the first one isn’t bad either). I think this one wasn't as clogged up with the whole summary of the Season episodes thing (as it only had to cover one season), which left quite a chunk of the book for something else… something way more interesting… Season 4 concepts!! Dude, the ideas are really awesome, now I do wish they had continued (and it would have brought out a ton of good toys as well). The whole process of explaining how an episode was made was really interesting and much much longer than I had expected. The character profiles at the beginning are good as well, but they had some random characters that really didn't appear (or appeared very very briefly), and like they were just the same body but a slightly different head (and not really tributing any well known characters, coz they had like nine of the same Bumblebee type bodies). Just like the first book it had expanded upon the series, which made the whole book really informative, definitely worth a read, and it’s a lot more addictive than the first one (mainly coz of the “it could have been this if we kept going” stuff).
Rating: 7.5/10
Rereadability Factor: 8/10
See also: Transformers Animated: The Allspark Almanac Book Review