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IDW publishing have places a preview for the adaptation of The Transformers movie. 5 pages of exceptionally well-drawn bliss.
In a similar vein, for those who prefer their robots blocky and bright purple, Galvatron has an impressive preview for his Spotlight.
Simon Furman has a new blog entry and some teasing info about his latest script, Transformers Devastation #2. As always, he doesn’t give anything away but gives clues to what might be happening:
Finally, my post-script digressions on Transformers Devastation #2 (first promised a few weeks back I know!). My excuse is, having trailered Devastation as a whole, I wanted a bit of breathing space before I launched into issue #2.
The rest can be read here.
IDW Publishing have put up previews for this weeks two Transformers releases. The first is Transformers The Ark: A Complete Compendium of Animation Models, and does exactly what the title says and the second is The Transformers Spotlight TPB, which compiled the first 5 Spotlight issues, Shockwave, Nightbeat, Sixshot, Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod.
The preview pages can be seen here.
Staff from IDW Publishng are coming to the UK for a signing at Orbital Comics on 9th June.
Chris Ryall, Simon Furman and Nick Roche scheduled for signing at Orbital Comics
If you are in London or the U.K. on Saturday, June 9, make sure to swing by Orbital Comics between 12-1 p.m. for a chance to meet Chris Ryall (Zombies vs. Robots, Transformers Movie Prequel), Simon Furman (Transformers Escalation, Transformers Stormbringer), and Nick Roche (Transformers Spotlight Shockwave, Transformers Spotlight Kup). These fine lads will be signing comics, and showing off hard-to-find variant covers for stuff like Zombies vs. Robots, Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show, the sold-out Transformers Movie Prequel, and much more. Come on by and say “hi.”
June 9, 12-1
ORBITAL COMICS
148 CHARING CROSS ROAD
LONDON WC2H OLB
TEL 0207 2407672
As we all knew, with the Transformers Movie set to take the world by storm (hopefully), companies would want to sell lots of Transformers merchandise to everyone. IDW Publishing are planning to sell Tranformers Movie related comics but also continue their G1 universe with Megatron Origin, Devastation, Spotlights Galvatron and Optimus Prime and produce a new series of Beast Wars.
Well, Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has decided to provide lots of information on these titles and more with an update of IDW’s forum. Here is the Movie related bit
“First, the movie projects. They’re done (finally!) and about to come out. The Prequel TPB and the Movie Adaptation TPB are going to be pretty prevalent, since there will be copies sold outside of just the direct comic book market. You’ll be able to find copies at Target (including an exclusive Target edition of the Prequel with a lenticular cover), J.C. Penny, and some other places. There will be a videogame booklet-sized copy of Prequel #1 in the Activision videogame. A special something in the Bumblebee Unleashed toy (cover art by Klaus Scherwinski). There are special plans being made for the eventual DVD release (one written by me and art by Andrew, among other things) and even the movie soundtrack CD (not finalized just yet). And there will even be an exclusive, all-new 10-page comic (by Simon, me, and Andrew Wildman, with a new cover by Don and Josh) given out at a particular theater chain (courtesy of Target, too). Details on which theater to come, but that will be the only place that comic will be found (other than eBay). There will be 1.5 million copies of these given out. So there will be an amazing amount of Transformers movie comics out in the world as of June 5 and beyond. We’ll talk formally about all these plans soon, but there’s the advance word on what’s been going on. Somehow, Simon and I will have more comics in circulation than anyone else has had in years…”
If that has got you wanting more, head over to IDW’s forums and read the rest.
Simon Furman has posted another blog update, this time talking about the feedback he has received on end of Escalation and providing us with teasers of what to expect in Devastation and the Galvatron and Optimus Prime Spotlights.
The blog post can be read here.
IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has posted some preview pages from July’s Transformers spotlight Galvatron. There are spoilers and a major colouring mistake!
Thanks to forum member clrobe for the news.
IDW Publishing have put up their 5 page previews and complete cover galleries for this weeks releases. On Wednesday, The Transformers Target 2006 #2, the reprint of the Marvel comic, Transformers War Within Vol. 2, The Dark Ages TPB, the reprint of Dreamwaves prequel series and The Transformers Cover Galley Vol. 2, the second collection of all of IDW’s covers printed in one book.
The previews can be found here.
Newsarama have managed to catch up with Eric Holmes and discuss his involvement with IDW’s new Transformers mini-series, Megatron Origin.
Some interesting details and images are provided that should keep you excited until the 1st (of 4) issue is release next month.
A five page preview of the final issue of Transformers Escalation has been posted on the IDW website.
View the preview here.
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