When Robert Kirkman launched Void Rivals No. 1 in 2023 as backdoor way to introduce a shared comic universe featuring Transformers and G.I. Joe, he wasn’t sure how it would be accepted. After all, the licensed comics featuring those two Hasbro properties had been published almost continuously for almost 30 years via companies such as Marvel, Devil’s Due and IDW. They were relatively sleepy but reliably steady sellers. Kirkman, known for two of the indie comic world’s biggest hits, The Walking Dead and Invincible, wanted to shake it up by combining the two franchises not just for a rare occasion, like it had been done intermittently before,…
