Joyride

Emerging from the turbulent pages of Marvel's Transformers: Generation 2 in 1994, Joyride made their debut under the pen of writer Simon Furman and artist Manny Galan — a creative team synonymous with the franchise's most intense storytelling. It's a compact catalog footprint, but one that places this character shoulder-to-shoulder with the biggest names in Cybertronian history: Megatron, Optimus Prime, Starscream, Jazz, and Bumblebee are among the heavy hitters sharing those pages. For collectors hunting the corners of the Generation 2 era and tracking down the Transformers Compendium, Joyride is one of those quietly intriguing finds — a character woven into a pivotal, gritty chapter of the Transformers saga that still resonates with fans three decades on.