{"id":1286,"date":"2011-09-22T14:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T22:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2011-09-22T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T22:05:31","slug":"the-future-of-transformers-the-death-of-optimus-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/comicsandbooks\/1286","title":{"rendered":"The Future of IDW&#8217;s &#8220;Transformers&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New IDW editor John Barber,\u00c2\u00a0Hasbro&#8217;s Senior Global Publishing Manager Michael Kelly and IDW&#8217;s Director of Marketing and Public Relations AnnaMaria White\u00c2\u00a0recently held a press conference to discuss upcoming plans for\u00c2\u00a0IDW&#8217;s Transformers series.\u00c2\u00a0Spoilers abound in the article, so if you don&#8217;t want to know what&#8217;s coming, avoid reading any further.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>IDW Publishing and Hasbro held a press conference call Wednesday to present the future of &#8220;Transformers&#8221; comics &#8212; a future that, it would appear, does not include the famed leader of the Autobots. Following the two-stream &#8220;Chaos&#8221; arc now running biweekly in the &#8220;Transformers&#8221; ongoing series, December will see a one-shot titled &#8220;The Death of Optimus Prime,&#8221; after which the series will relaunch as two separate, ongoing series, &#8220;Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye&#8221; and &#8220;Transformers: Robots in Disguise.&#8221; New IDW editor John Barber led the discussion, with Hasbro&#8217;s Senior Global Publishing Manager Michael Kelly and IDW&#8217;s Director of Marketing and Public Relations AnnaMaria White also on the call.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Follow<a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&amp;id=34521\"> the link <\/a>to read the full article at comicbookresources.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New IDW editor John Barber,\u00c2\u00a0Hasbro&#8217;s Senior Global Publishing Manager Michael Kelly and IDW&#8217;s Director of Marketing and Public Relations AnnaMaria White\u00c2\u00a0recently held a press conference to discuss upcoming plans for\u00c2\u00a0IDW&#8217;s Transformers series.\u00c2\u00a0Spoilers abound in the article, so if you don&#8217;t want to know what&#8217;s coming, avoid reading any further. IDW Publishing and Hasbro held a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/comicsandbooks\/1286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Future of IDW&#8217;s &#8220;Transformers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comicsandbooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1288,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions\/1288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}