Transformers: Worst Bot Ever; Meet Ballpoint!

He’s the littlest Decepticon with the biggest dreams to take down the Autobots – Meet BALLPOINT in Transformers: Worst Bot Ever, a new adventure graphic novel for young readers!

The Decepticons are known for being bad...but Ballpoint is truly the worst –the biggest failure of them all. After the latest attempt to take down the Autobots goes horribly wrong, he’s kicked out of the Decepticons, for good!

Will Ballpoint be able to prove his worth by defeating the Autobots all by himself? Or will he keep failing and find that being the “best” is More than Meets the Eye?

Brian “Smitty” Smith (Pea, Bee, and Jay) and Marz Jr. introduce middle-grade readers (ages 8-12) to the misadventures of the bot who is mightier than the sword in TRANSFORMERS: WORST BOT EVER: MEET BALLPOINT.

Brian "Smitty" Smith is a former Marvel Comics and DC Comics editor. He is the cocreator and writer behind the New York Times bestselling graphic novel The Stuff of Legend, the cartoonist of Tree Mail, and the winner of the Kids Read Comics "Most Epic Adventure" award. Smitty lives in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Marz Jr has been an illustrator for over twenty years. He has worked with clients from the New York Observer to Yokohama tires. He has worked as a storyboard artist on variety of projects including Emmy-award winning series Tumble Leaf. His paintings have hung in galleries in New York, Los Angeles and Singapore. Once, he hit two homeruns in a little league game! He lives in Seal Beach, CA where he has seen a seal but never on the beach.