 Writer Stuart Moore has indicated that it takes place in the regular Marvel continuity between the first two-story arcs of "New Avengers", and it is currently held as semi-continuity for IDW, which entails that, although it will not have any effect on the overall storyline of "Transformers", it will not contradict it either.This is Spider-Man's second appearance alongside the Transformers, as he appeared in the third issue of the original Marvel "Transformers" comic in 1984.However, this will not have any bearing, as the bio for Death's Head in the third issue of the "All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A–Z" (released on March 22, 2006) indicated that all previous encounters with the Transformers took place in an alternate universe, thus separating these stories from existence in standard Marvel Universe continuity.