Iwamoto later noted that too much of the pre-publishing work for the volume had been completed when the cancellation was announced, and the plans could not be changed. Alas, the collection was published only one month before the cancellation of the manga, meaning that the final three chapters were not included within its pages. The first six issues of the manga were collected in a graphic novel along with a whimsical "Mission 0" which acted as a "making of" extra. Bom Bom itself did not have much life left in it thereafter, and the magazine was retired a scant two years later. Iwamoto was, at least, given enough lead-in time for the final issue to end it with a double-page spread hinting at all the challenges that lay ahead, providing a dramatic "open" ending to the strip. The manga ended with Optimus Prime and Wing Saber combining and defeating the super-powered Starscream, leaving the stories of Gigantion, Planet X and the concluding battle of the series untold. The series appears to have been intended to run to twelve issues, but with Galaxy Force not performing well in Japan, it was canceled after only nine installments. The series is not drastically different from the cartoon, hitting all the same major storytelling beats, albeit in a more truncated form. The Transformers: Galaxy Force manga, written and drawn by Yoshihiro Iwamoto, ran for nine issues from February 2005 to October 2005 in the pages of Comic Bom Bom when the Galaxy Force cartoon was on air.
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