Transformers (2023) (2023)

Daniel Warren Johnson's run, issues #1 to #24 The easiest Transformers comic to hand someone who has never cared about Transformers. Johnson treats the robots' war reaching Earth like a monster movie, with ordinary people caught underfoot, and draws the first six issues himself in a scratchy, kinetic style that makes every punch land. It needs no prior continuity at all, because it launched the whole Energon Universe from scratch. The comics world noticed: it won the 2024 Eisner for Best Continuing Series, and Johnson took Best Writer/Artist the same night. His writing ends at issue #24, when Robert Kirkman takes over, so those two dozen issues read as one complete run.