I had a 22RI before I sold off all my IDW books. I may have bought mine from IDW as well. Years ago IDW was selling nice sets of variant books on eBay. Instead of tape on the back of the bag/board they would have a IDW seal on the back, I think it was a small sticker if I remember correctly. Thats where I had gotten my full set of 4 Nightbeat Spotlight books. Im sure someone on this thread bought them from me.
Off topic but I was able to confirm that I do have a full set of Dreamwave books including all variants, they put out some really beautiful signed books for Volume 1, not sure of many people know about them. The missing book for me for a while was issue Vol 3 7B & 7C by Pacific Productions. As I was sorting some loose books I found that at one point I had bought a 7C, no idea from where, but its finally over.
Unless someone can prove me wrong, I really enjoy the Dreamwave stuff.
I remember when IDW used to sell those sets. I ended up with a bunch of them. Stormbringer, Devastation and a bunch of Spotlight incentive sets. As far as Dreamwave went, outside of the questionable business model, I remember enjoying G1 Vol 2 and Vol 3 along with the War Within stories. It would have been nice to get some closure in the stories.
The Dreamwave books are what brought me back into collecting comics. Im not really active anymore, more of a Transformer toy collector again. I'll never forget going from Marvel G1 art, to seeing that DW Superion vs Devastator cover, I was in love.
I'd really like to see a story conclusion to vol 3. Would be nice if IDW would complete, or release the books that were already written/drawn up. I actually own one of the unpublished art pages.