Coming in January, expect to see ‘Transformers’ come back to the small screen, with a brand spankin’ new cartoon to show up on the Cartoon Network.

Hollywood Reporter has the scoop on some of the…creative departures that the show will be taking:

Cartoon and Hasbro execs said the new series, “Transformers Animated,” will be significantly different than the others, adding humor, never-before-seen characters and a new premise in which the Autobots fight evil humans in Superhero fashion much more frequently than they battle the Decepticons — the traditional “Transformers” lore since the property launched as a toy in 1984.

“We’ve used the basic Transformers and characters as a springboard, but then we’re pretty much reimagining the whole thing,” said Bob Higgins, senior vp programming and development at Cartoon Network. “What we’re doing with it is basically turning it into a superheroes story. We’re really excited that we’re able to take this decades-old property and hopefully turn it into something that kids haven’t seen or expected from a Transformers series before.”

Now, I’m probably the only guy in my generations who didn’t watch Transformers.  Don’t ask me why, and don’t take my geek card…I just never got into them.  But even I can see how such a radical departure of taking the Decepticons away as the main antagonists would be something that would send fans into a frenzy.  And, come on…fighting humans?  A well placed step would send any pesky human the way of a cockroach.

Sounds like a stupid, stupid idea to me.