A page from The Transformers Animated Movie Adaptation #1 has been featured on IDW Publishing’s Art Du Jour!. The page is from early on in the movie. The comic is written by Bob Budiansky, with art by Don Figueroa.
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This Weeks IDW Comic Releases
IDW have updated their website with a list of this weeks releases, due out on 16th August. Included are Transformers Beast Wars TPB, Transformers Infiltration Cover Gallery and Transformers Evolutions #2 Hearts of Steel. Shown is the cover and a 5 page preview.
TF Evolutions Hearts of Steel #2 Preview
IDW have put up a 5 page preview of Transformers Evolutions Hearts of Steel #2, due out next week. Also shown are the covers for this and issue #1.
Nick Roche Interviewed
IDW artist Nick Roche has been interviewed by Transfans.net. Many of you may know Nick from his work on Metrodome’s Super-God Masterforce and Victory DVD covers and IDW’s upcoming The Transformers Spotlight: Shockwave comic.
Stormbringer Sells Out!
IDW Publishing has released a press release stating that Transformers Stormbringer #1 has sold out.
IDW Publishing’s THE TRANSFORMERS STORMBRINGER #1 Sells Out In First Week of ReleaseSan Diego, Calif. (July 28, 2006) – Fans of IDW Publishing’s TRANSFORMERS comics ventured back to CYBERTRON in record numbers. The July release of THE TRANSFORMERS STORMBRINGER #1 sold out in its first week of release, exceeding expectations for this new title.
Spinning out of the just-completed first TRANSFORMERS arc, the Earth-bound “Infiltration,” STORMBRINGER looks in on the TRANSFORMERS’ homeworld of CYBERTRON itself, unlocking a dark chapter in the planet’s history, one that is about to hit the Autobots and Decepticons again… full force!
STORMBRINGER is a four-part miniseries that reunites the fan-favorite TRANSFORMERS team of writer Simon Furman and artist Don Figueroa. The pair is coming off the acclaimed first BEAST WARS miniseries, “The Gathering.” Artist Figueroa is providing a wraparound cover for all four issues of STORMBRINGER, each of which makes up one quarter of a poster-sized image.
Issue 2 of STORMBRINGER will be in stores on August 9.
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IDW Panel at San Diego Comic Con
IDW Publishing had a panel at Comic Con (obviously), and provided some details on their next projects.
Transformers Escalation, the sequel to Transformers Ilfiltration, will begin in November 2006.
The Spotlight series will continue after Shockwave with Nightbeat, then Hot Rod, and Six Shot and probably some other characters after that. These stories will be part of the Escalation universe.
IDW Editor Chris Ryall also mentioned that IDW plans to write a story, most likely a prequel, to coinside with Paramount’s Transformers movie. More details will be announced later this year.
The 1986 movie will also be receiving an adaptation from Bob Budiansky, write of many of the 80s Transformers comics.
A gallery of the panel can be seen at Comics News International.
To find out more news, and see more pictures, visit Comics Continuum.
Preview of TF Spotlight: Shockwave
Fellow UK based site The Hub has an exclusive preview of IDW’s upcoming Transformers Spotlight series, the first, featuring Shockwave. The art is done by Nick Roche, who you probably know from his work on Metrodome’s Super-God Masterforce and soon to be released Victory DVDs.
WildFur News – Latest Batch of Exclusive TF Infiltration #1
WildFur have sent out there latest newsletter about sales of WildFur Exclusive Transformers Infiltration #1
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The second batch of the Exclusive WILDFUR certificated copies of Transformers Infiltration #1 with the Wildman wraparound cover art are now up for auction on eBay. Due to the amazing popularity of the auction of the first five copies we are getting ’em out fast to enable all interested
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IDW Trade Paperback Covers
Amazon.com have revealed the covers for IDWs trade paperbacks of Transformers Infiltration, Transformers Stormbringer, Transformers Beast Wars and Transformers Generations.
You’ll find them all here.
Transformers @ SDCC
The Transformers will be making some big appearances at the San Diego Comic-Con, taking place from 20th to 23rd July. The timetable for Thursday 20th July is up and there is some interesting Transformers stuff to look forward to
3 00-4 00 IDW Publishing and the Transformers More Than Meets the IDW� Next summer the big-budget Transformers movie hits the world! But this summer, you can get an advance look at IDW�s plans for their TF comics leading up to the release of that movie, as well as talk about all the other TF titles in the works for 2006 and 2007! Join IDW publisher/ChrisCharger Chris Ryall, along with editor Dan Taylor, artists Don Figueroa (The Transformers Beast Wars), E. J. Su (The Transformers Infiltration), and other surprise Autobots and Decepticons who might stop by the panel. Room 4
4 00-5 00 Hasbro Transformers� The Hasbro Transformers design and marketing teams take the stage to discuss their plans surrounding their Transformers Cybertron, and Transformers Classics lines and answer your questions. Also, Sony BMG Music Entertainment will be joining Hasbro to talk about their 20th Anniversary Special Edition DVD of Transformers The Movie! Room 4
The full timetable can be found here.
Thanks to TFW2005.com for the heads up.
