Transformers Volume 2: International Incident

You get the sense that Mike Costa really didn't have a lot for his Cybertronians to say. That's not a metaphor. Panels are large, dialogue relatively terse and the stories are fairly decompressed compared to where IDW would eventually end up with in Barber and Roberts' writing.

There are a few interesting ideas here: +1 star entirely due to Thundercracker's budding fascination with Earth culture. Ultimately though, this book is probably one of the weakest parts of IDW's run. Anytime humans have drastically more pages of dialogue than Cybertronians, you're more unlikely to get a compelling Transformers story.