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IDW Editor Denton J. Tipton has posted an updated schedule for IDW’s Transformers comics releases for the beginning of August.
6th August
Transformers Movie Sequel: Saga of the Allspark #2
13th August
Transformers: The Reign of Starscream #4
Transformers Animated: The Arrival #1
Transformers Best of U.K.: Time Wars #1
All that’s left for August is ROS #5, Spotlight Doubledealer and All Hail Megatron #2.
The release of Transformers Spotlight: Wheelie last month completed the third set of Spotlight issues, but has left fans wondering who would be in the next set of 5.
IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has posted a teaser for the main character in the next Spotlight issue. The picture shows a close up of the characters head. The picture is drawn by Casey Coller, who has been signed up to draw the whole issue after his work on Apocalypse Comics’ variant cover for All Hail Megatron #1. The issue will also be written by All Hail Megatron writer Shane McCarthy, with a scheduled release date of December.
Competition time people, and a simply one at that. Writer Chris Mowry is offering fans a chance to win the original drafts and other bits of material from Reign of Starscream #1, copies of the finished issues #1, #2, and #3 and the scripts for the issues. All you have to do is take a picture of Starscream by 31st July. Simple. Full details can be found on Mowry’s blog.
So that’s the contest! Send me your photos of Starscream (in toy form… any version) visiting somewhere on our planet. Would he go back to Ohio to seek out the fembots of Botcon? Would he be hiding at a local coffee shop? Finally learning about human physiology at the beach with Barricade? Of course, he wouldn’t travel far without a copy of his comic book, now would he? IT’S UP TO YOU!!!
If the previous preview from Chris Ryall hasn’t convinced you to purchase Transformers: The Ark II this week, maybe this new preview from IDW Editor Denton J. Tipton will.
On his blog, he has posted 5 pages from the book, including the contents page, which should give you an idea of the material that will be included in the 208 page guide. There is also a clean, high resolution version of the cover by Nick Roche.
Paramount Home Entertainment have now sent out the cover for the transforming Megatron DVD case. In a similar style to the Optimus Prime version, it will contain the Two-Disc Special Edition of the Transformers movie, unlike the Bumblebee and Optimus Prime masks, which come with the 1 disc package.
The Megatron packaging is due out in North America on 2nd September, with no news on an international release.
Transformers Megatron Transforming DVD Case
Transformers: The Ark II is coming out this week, featuring character models from the Japanese Generation One series, and to give you an idea of what to look for in your local comic store, IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has posted the final cover for the issue and a copy fo the Fortress character page.
The book is highly recommmend as a reference guide for artists and anyone interested in seeing Hasbro/Takara’s official images from back in the day.
Dario Brizuela, the artist for IDW’s upcoming Transformers: Animated series, has posted more inked pages from the first issue, Transformers: Animated: Arrival #1. The issue, as you can probably tell, recaps the events from the animated special, “Tranform and Roll Out!”
The story is written by Marty Isenberg with art by Dario. and is due for release in August.
After last weeks relatively empty Transformers release list, there’s a better range of comics for Transfans to choose.
First up is The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #1, the start of IDW’s new direction for the main Transformers continuity. Set 1 years after the events of Transformers: Devastation, the series focuses on Earth ruled by the Decepticons. Chris Ryall has posted a 6 page preview from the first issue.
Transformers: The Ark, Vol. 2 is the second compilation of character models, locations, humans etc from the Japanese exclusive Generation One series.
Transformers: Saga of the Allspark #1 is a reprint of the first 2 issues of Titan Magazine’s exclusive UK comic, originally released last July and August 2007. This is the perfect opportunity for North American based fans to pick up the material.
Finally there is Classic Transformers, Vol. 2, featuring many tales from the Marvel series.
Chris Mowry has given a heads up to fans on his latest series, Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream, that the fourth issue has just been approved by Hasbro and sent for printing in Korea. He guesses that the issue should be out in the first 2 weeks of August. The issue was originally due for release in June. To make the wait ore bareable, he has posted a panel from the issue.
ROS #3 is due out next week.
The Reign of Starscream writer Chris Mowry has posted on his blog about a proposed viral marketing campaign that would have promoted the series.
But because with most things (simply not enough time) we had to scrap it. What was funny is that here in the States, 2008 is an election year. At IDW, we’ve got this series that focuses on Starscream and then All Hail Megatron. So the thought was that we’d be able to have these two characters and people could vote throughout the year on who their favorite Decepticon leader would be. At the end, that character would get some kind of exclusive artwork or something along those lines.
He has posted one of the pieces of artwork that would have been used, on his blog.
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