The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone main Decepticon base on a distant planet. Ratchet and Drift travel to the planet only to be shot down by Decepticons. Drift recalls to when he used to be Deadlock and discovered the place with a fellow Decepticon. Drift and Ratchet team of with the group leader to stop Gigatron from discovering an ancient stone army for his own evil purposes. The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone The Transformers: Drift - Empire of Stone is a miniseries in IDW Publishing's "The Transformers that focuses on the IDW original character of Drift. After being banished from the Lost Light crew
The Transformers (IDW Publishing) Maximo also made their first appearance in the "First Strike" and "Till All Are One" series respectively. Furman also expressed interest in re-inventing Japanese-exclusive characters and female Transformers, exploring the challenge of rationalizing sex/gender in giant robots. Furman addressed the issue of gender in Transformers in a "Spotlight" issue on Arcee, rationalizing them as a failed attempt to introduce gender into the Transformer race by Jhiaxus. Elita One and a few other female Transformers later appeared in the "Megatron Origin" mini-series. The miniseries titled "" (which is the finale of IDW's "Transformers" comics) started being published on May 5, 2018.