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Trying to decide whether I should buy the TPB versions of the Robots in Disguise series…

Holy shit my dudes

Volume 1-5. Cool. Fine. It’s called Robots in Disguise, and it’s got issues #1-#22. All good.

Where are issues #23-#27? Oh, they’re in Dark Cybertron Volume 1 and 2, obviously, along with More Than Meets the Eye issues #23-#27.
Okay, no. It’s cool. Crossover event. I love that shit.

Next is Volume 6. It’s called Robots in Disguise, and it’s got issues #28-#32. Nothing amiss there.

Now here’s where it gets really weird:
Volume 7 isn’t called Robots in Disguise, it’s called Combiner Wars; First Strike. Name changes, yay. but it’s got issues #33-#38 of the comic formally known as Robots in Disguise, so fine. I can deal.

BUT NOW IT GETS WEIRDER
You want to read issues #39-#41? You gotta read Transformers: Combiner Wars. Which incidentally also has Windblade, Volume 2, issues #1-#3. Another crossover event? Who knows! I sure as hell don’t!

Volume 8… Volume 8 isn’t called Combiner Wars, or Robots in Disguise, or anything. It doesn’t get a name. None of the the remaining Volumes get a subtitle, because fuck continuity
So Volumes 8-10 of Transformers: Robots in Disguise Combiner Wars has issues #42-#55.

But wait, there’s more!
There’s still two more issues to go
Where are they?
Oh, they’re collected together with More Than Meets the Eye issues #56 & #57 in Transformers: Titans Return.