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2. Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers

IDW is the most underrated comic book company going right now. They've been killing it on the license property comics for some time.

Their work with the Transformers franchise is a good example. IDW's ongoing universe has seen bitter violence, charming characters, and deeply affecting drama. In the last five years, I've cried more at Transformers comics than at any other series.

The real grim ‘n’ gritty one was Transformers: The Last Stand of the Wreckers, a brutal miniseries about the horrors of war. After a prison known as Garrus 9 was thrown into revolt and the vicious imprisoned warlord known as Overlord took over, Autobot high command sent in an elite squad to take care of business. That squad? The Wreckers, a Delta Force team with an insanely low survival rate. They went in, teamed up with some brand new members and one stowaway human, and things went horribly wrong.

A war story as horror story, it was scary, brutal, and sad - a story about good people who died in stupid, pointless ways.