Category: Comics and Books

Obviously, SPOILERS.

Newsrama has an interview with IDW Comics’ editor/writer John Barber and writer Mairghread Scott about next year’s Combiner Wars comic crossover event series.

Info like the art being done by Livio Ramondelli and Sarah Stone is interesting, as those two artists’ current Transformers comics art styles couldn’t be much further apart in most ways.

The comics will treat Combiner Wars as an arms race, and the search for new colonies may start to bear fruit.

And is “Transformers: Robots in Disguise” getting renamed just in time for the new cartoon of the same name?

Read all this and more on Newsrama.

 

Again courtesy of Comics Continuum comes news of a new publication by IDW: Transformers Legacy, A Celebration of Transformers Package Art.

Jim Sorenson, Bill Forster

Remember the thrill of tearing open the wrapping on Christmas morning, discovering a brand new TRANSFORMERS toy in a shiny new box? While the toys were amazing in their own right, what made the packages stand head-and-shoulders above the competing action figures on shelves was the stunning box art. Transformers: Legacy collects hundreds of beautifully airbrushed paintings from the iconic first decade of The Transformers. Essays and interviews from the original illustrators give unprecedented insight into the process behind the art. This book is chocked full of extras, including never before seen artwork from toys that never were, original design sketches, catalog artwork, and more.

300 pages, $49.99.

Courtesy of Comics Continuum, we now know what storyline will follow Dark Cybertron. To preserve future plot developments for those who don’t wish to be spoiled, details will be posted below the break.

Courtesy of Newsarama, we have a preview of this week’s More Than Meets the Eye #25, or chapter six of Dark Cybertron.

TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE #25
A HERO FALLS-AND ONE RETURNS! The struggle in the DEAD UNIVERSE heats up as ORION PAX-the ‘bot who was once OPTIMUS PRIME-and RODIMUS struggle with the legacy of PRIMES! Meanwhile, the Lost Light is under attack in deep space-and SHOCKWAVE and the terrifying NECROTITAN threatens CYBERTRON!

This issue is due in stores on Wednesday, January 15th.

Tom Scioli, John Barber, IDW, The Transformers, GI Joe, ongoing, starting next summer.

Oh, you want more? The thumbnail to the right clicks to view the full-sized image.

You still want more details? Below is the official IDW press release.

Two of the most popular comic book franchises of all-time, TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, will be going head-to-head in a brand-new ongoing series debuting next summer! Written and drawn by comic luminary Tom Scioli (Godland, American Barbarian) with co-writer and TRANSFORMERS veteran John Barber (TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, FALL OF CYBERTRON), these classic characters will explode off the page like never before! Continue reading Transformers / GI Joe Ongoing Comic Series Coming Next Summer

The Autobots are dispersed across the galaxy and an ancient prophecy is looming to come to fruition…Dark Cybertron is near. Taking place in both of IDW’s Transformers Robots In Disguise and More Than Meets The Eye, the Dark Cybertron event will bring the two factions of Autobots together, but at what price?

Newsarama recently spoke to the Dark Cybertron event architects John Barber and James Roberts as they delve into some of what has been going on with the Transformers leading up to the event starting next month with Dark Cybertron #1 and rotating between both Transformers titles until the finale in March. We got all the secrets that Hasbro and IDW would let loose, and have a sneak peek inside the special first issue.