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Marcelo Matere has updated his DeviantArt Page with the cover for IDW’s Transformers: Animated Arrival #3 comic. The comic, due out in October, is written by Marty Isenberg with art from Dario Brizuela and Boo.
The cover was originally revealed with the October 2008 comic list and last week at SDCC.
After the announcement of Transformers: Destiny, the 5 part prequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Chris Mowry has talked to MTV about the series and how it will link his current series, The Reign of Starscream, to the film sequel. He goes on to confirm what Simon Furman mentioned, that The Fallen is in the sequel.
“[We’re going to] explore the background of The Fallen — the main villain of the movie — as well as expand on the ‘Reign of Starscream’ story that we’re doing and tie everything in to what this next movie is going to be,” explained writer Chris Mowry, who partners on the book with artist Alex Milne. “The next movie starts out with just tons of action and there’s obviously going to be a lot of questions, so we’re hoping to answer some of those beforehand.”
IDW had plenty of panels at last week’s San Diego Comic-Con, and announced some new titles coming in the next year.
Lots of art was shown for All Hail Megatron, Spotlight: Blurr and Simon Furman’s new series, Maximum Dinobot, a 5 issue series, which is previewed in the following image:
As far as new series, Transformers: The 13 will celebrate the 25th year by telling of the original 13 in another origin series. The series will be written by Simon Furman with involvement from Hasbro, which can be considered good or bad.
Continuing the Transformers movie universe, Transformers: Destiny will act as a prequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. The 5 issue series will start in December 2008. Chris Mowry and Alex Milne will pair up again to produce the series. Simon Furman will work on the Transformers 2 adaptation.
Chris Ryall and Simon Furman were also interviewed by Comic Book Resources. BEWARE, there is a major spoiler for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Alex Milne, who is the artist for IDW’s Transformers: The Reign of Starscream, has posted his cover for the 5th and final issue of the series on his DeviantArt page. The issue is due for release in August, but will probably come out in early September.
Reign of Starscream #4 is oiut on 13th August.
Shane McCarthy has updated his blog with news on some of IDW’s new Transformers books. A brand new character will be appearing in IDW’s All Hail Megatron series, called Drift. All that is needed is final confirmation from Hasbro.
Also on his blog is the cover for All Hail Megatron #4 by Trevor Hutchison. The simple design is meant to convey “sorrow, solitude and defeat”. The issue will be out in August.
IDW Publishing have announced their Transformers comic line-up for October 2008. The only disappointment is that the Maximum Dinobots series from Simon Furman will not start until the following month. In total there are 7 books, consisting of IDW’s main continuity, the Animated, Armada and Movie continuities and reprints of Marvel UK’s stuff.
The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #4
Transformers Animated: The Arrival #3
The Transformers: Armada, Vol. 1
Transformers Movie Prequel: Saga of the Allspark #4
Transformers Best of the UK: Time Wars #3
The Transformers: Best of the UK: Space Pirates TPB
Art of Transformers
Chris Mowry has updated his blog with the news that the 5th and final issue of Transformers: The Reign of Starscream has been approved for print. Hopefully the issue can make it’s August release date, or at least early September.
Issues #1-3 have already been released, with issue #4 coming on 13th August.
If you plan on attending the San Deigo Comic-Con this week, Chris will be at the IDW booth from Wednesday night to Friday, and will be giving out new bits of information.
After IDW Editor-in-chief Chris Ryall posted a teaser for the next Spotlight issue, lots of guesses were submitted and one character seemed more popular than others, Blurr. Well, it turned out to be true, with the fastest talker in the universe being confirmed in his own Spotlight issue in December.
The issue will be written by Shane McCarthy with art from Casey Coller and colours by Joana Lafuente. The cover and first 3 pages can be found below:
With Transformers Spotlight: Hardhead out tomorrow, Simon Furman has decided to post his thoughts on the issue he wrote. The second in the Revelation saga continues the story Dead Universe plot and picks up some details from Spotlight: Nightbeat. If you can’t wait until tomorrow, read Simon’s blog post for more plot details.
To wet your appetite for the release tomorrow, Newsarama.com have posted a 4 page preview of the issue.
Only two comic releases this week, but both play important roles in IDW’s main continuity and the movie continuity.
Transformers Spotlight: Hardhead
Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream #3
Chris Ryall has also posted both covers for The Reign of Starscream #3.
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