The Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye (2012)

The book that convinces people a robot comic can make them cry. James Roberts sends Rodimus and a shipful of misfit Autobots across space hunting the legendary Knights of Cybertron, then spends much of its 57 issues on the crew rather than the quest: their friendships, their regrets and what peacetime does to soldiers. Alex Milne draws dozens of characters you learn to tell apart by posture alone. It is the funniest entry here and, issue for issue, the most moving. It does pick up from IDW's earlier continuity, but the opening arc explains what matters, and the cast is new to most readers anyway. Start at issue #1, and if you get hooked, its sequel Lost Light finishes the story.