Transfomer Rock

As a kid i grew up with out cable and had to rely on the good old 3 basic Networks for my cartooning pleasures. Back then the classics were He-Man, Fat-Ablert, and the smurfs. Gi-Joe unfortunatly was on cable as well as Transfomers, i remember begging my parents to stay at my grandparents house on friday nights so i could get up and watch satureday morning cartoons on USA network. Thus my hole introduction to the Transformers universe. I soon got the toys, and not many of them, since they were costly back then and i was raised you watch your money and spend it on what you need and not what you want. As a child i had freinds that had parents that thought other wise, one freind in paticualy Joe Ramsey. Joe's dad had past away and his family had a large amount of money and his mom bought him every transformer that was released at that time. I would spend hours at his house playing with all and admiring his collection of transformers. Today i wonder what Joe did with all those toys, since i look on EBay and i see he could have made a fortune selling them, or be admired in the toy collector world for having this collection of all Generation 1 toys.
Back the piont, Transformers kick ass! The concept is simple, aliens for another plant crash landed on earth. They have the abilty to transform there bodies to shapes and styles. The hole story of what happens after they land on earth and and return to there planet is an interesting one, with a Leader of good and evil battling thru out the cosmos. Thanks to the internet i have found the door way to what happened before they came to earth, or at least i thought i had. These days they play the transformers cartoon on Cartoon Network on saturdays, but they are not the same, they are new stories that are far more fantasy then possiblity. There are many new univierses now, all different stories with the same caractors, kinda kills the hole story and enterainment of the seris but poeple wish to make money.
Personaly my favorit was G1, so i discovered there were comics release of the battle that happend before they left cybertron... so i got them and read them. I purchased two volumes, and the third, well i was sadden when i found that the comic book company that published the books has folded up.. DreamWeaver had closed it doors in Sept 2004... boy do i feel retarded.. i started reading a comic way after it was released, and now i find out i can't read any more becuase there are no more! this sucks.. but transformers rule!