“The ‘90s comics were so focused on staying energetic and exciting and in your face and that’s something that we’re trying to bring back to comics,” Kirkman says. We’re trying to broom the boring out of comics as best we can.” With the Energon Universe, Skybound Entertainment’s successor to the Hasbro Comic Book Universe, Kirkman is building on keystone properties such as G.I. The starlit intergalactic space opera that is Kirkman’s Transformers run unfolds just as any longtime Kirkman fan would guess: with twists, turns, and a complicated story. Specifically naming Void Rivals co-creators Andrei Bresson and Lorenzo De Felici, current artist Connor Hughes, and incoming artist Frank Mazzoli, Kirkman praised the comic’s varied art teams.