Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac is a lusty happy love-letter written to Transformers Wiki for our carnal pleasure. The AllSpark Almanac is an encyclopedic examination of the entire Transformers Animated storyline universe. It presents exhaustively thorough character profiles and summaries of the first two seasons of the cartoon and the Animated Arrival comic book...all written completely in-universe, in the form of "interviews" with the characters or excerpts from their journals and other in-story media. "Interstitial" interludes are presented out-of-universe and describe the design process behind the art, animation, and locations, as well as brief story summaries of the Titan Comics Animated issues. Elements of toy design are covered as well, but comparatively briefly. There are also an insane number of obscure references to Transformers minutiae culled from the 25-year history of the brand, as well as other sci-fi and entertainment franchises as well. Basically, all proper nouns and names refer to something or someone, even if that someone is a possibly non-existent character only mentioned once in a letters page of a foreign comic. And that's before we start talking about the numbers: Almost every seemingly incongruous alphanumeric string is a reference to another franchise, be it a Star Trek stardate or a Terminator's official designation. And that's just the content in English—about a third of the book's pages have large stretches covered in Cybertronix. Deciphered, these are all revealed to be non-Transformers-related passages, including song lyrics, catchphrases, memes, map coordinates and extensive, verbatim quotes from diverse sources ranging from Tennyson's Ulysses to Max Headroom. In particular, the book has a noticeable number of hidden references to Iron Maiden, courtesy of author Bill Forster, a massive fan of the band. 2*220 Page