IDW Publishing has released a 5 page preview of Transformers Spotlight Ultra Magnus, due out on 17th January. There are also scans of the four covers that will be released with this issue.
The preview can be found here.
Transformers-themed pub could be Britain’s Best Home Bar
A Transformers-themed pub is in the running to be crowned Britain’s Best Home Bar, in a competition being run by Liberty Games. The winning bar, chosen… [more]
TFNation 2019 Transformers Convention Review
This last weekend saw yet another Transformers convention take over the Metropole Hilton, in Birmingham. These weekends have become a staple of my summer… [more]
Annual Transformers Forum Meet Tour
Every year, since 2011, the nerds from TheTF.Net forum (now a Facebook group, because running a forum proved too much like hard work) have met for a weekend… [more]
Our 2019 Forum Meet took place this weekend, in Cardiff
This weekend saw our annual forum meet being held in the Welsh capital of Cardiff. Each year we meet in a different town or city in the UK, alternating… [more]
Video Footage from Transforce in 2001
Almost 18 years ago (crikey, has it been that long?) we wrote a review of our visit to Transforce in August 2001. It was a seriously hot day, but a great… [more]
IDW Publishing’s Art Du Jour! – Escalation Variant Covers
Over the last couple of days, IDW Publishing have released some new images of the variant covers by Klaus Scherwinski in their Art Du Jour! section. Here is what IDW had to say
01/09/07
Here’s another look at the sketches Klaus Scherwinski makes as he works his way through designing a variant cover for TRANSFORMERS ESCALATION.
Here’s another look at the sketches Klaus Scherwinski makes as he works his way through designing a variant cover for TRANSFORMERS ESCALATION.
01/10/07
Judging from the IDW TRANSFORMERS forum, it looks like everyone has been enjoying these TRANSFORMERS ESCALATION variant cover sketches by Klaus Scherwinski. Glad to see it. Just like you’ll be glad to see this version with OPTIMUS PRIME. Enjoy (and keep reading Escalation)!
Judging from the IDW TRANSFORMERS forum, it looks like everyone has been enjoying these TRANSFORMERS ESCALATION variant cover sketches by Klaus Scherwinski. Glad to see it. Just like you’ll be glad to see this version with OPTIMUS PRIME. Enjoy (and keep reading Escalation)!
IDW Publishing’s Art Du Jour! – Escalation
IDW Publishing have put up an early sketch for a variant cover for Transformers Escalation in their Art Du Jour! section.
01/08/07
It generally all starts with a sketch, and that’s what we’ve got here from Klaus Scherwinski as he works his way through designing a variant cover for TRANSFORMERS ESCALATION. Check out the b/w sketch and be ready for more tomorrow!
Tim Seeley interview at Comic News International
With the start of Devil’s Due’s G.I. Joe Vs Transformers IV Black Horizon 2-issue limited series this month, Comic News International have interviewed writer of the series Tim Seeley about the new project.
The interview can be found here.
Thanks to forum member optimus3_16 for the news.
IDW April Solicitations
Comics Continuum has posted the IDW solicitations for April. There is no less than 8 Transformers titles, ranging from reprints from the 80s to the third Movie Prequel comic.
Transformers Cybertron Balancing Act collects all the Transformers Club comics together. Good news for the majority of the international fandom who felt the Transformers Club membership was not value for money
To sum up what is coming here is the list of titles
Transformers The Movie Prequel #3
Transformers Spotlight Kup
The Transformers Target 2006 #1
Transformers Escalation #6
Transformers Cybertron Balancing Act
Transformers Movie Adaptation TPB
Stormbringer Manga TPB
Stormbringer variant slipcase
TF Generations Vol 1 Released This Week
Transformers Generations Vol. 1 is out this week from IDW Publishing. The TPB collects together the first 5 issues of the Generations series.
A 5 page preview can be found on IDW’s website.
Soundwave Spotlight Preview
What better way to start 2007 than the first look at a couple of uncoloured pages from Transformers Spotlight Soundwave. IDW Editor Chris Ryall has post the images on the IDW Forums to (almost) bring his Q & A thread to an end. Both pages were done by Marcelo Matere.
The Images have been mirrored below.
Transformers Evolutions Hearts of Steel TPB Released This Week
This week marks the release of IDW’s Transformers Evolutions Hearts of Steel TPB in all good comic stores. If you have no idea where this series ties in with the other series (clue it doesn’t) here is the official description of the series:
The Transformers Evolutions Hearts of Steel
Ever wondered what form your favorite Transformers would take if they existed in different eras? Wonder no more, as IDW’s new Evolutions line will look at some special out-of-continuity tales involving the Robots in Disguise. The line makes its debut in June with the four-part Hearts of Steel. In this standalone miniseries, writer Chuck Dixon and Transformers artist supreme Guido Guidi transplant the ‘bots to the Industrial Revolution, where a charismatic hammer-man named John Henry discovers that a steam drill is really an alien robot named Bumblebee. Before he can process this information, the pair are attacked by Decepticons disguised as tanks, trains and walking engines. Is this all part of a larger scheme by Starscream? And if so, will the other Autobots arrive in time to stop his nefarious plans?
A 5 page preview can be found here.
Ultra Magnus Desktop Paper
IDW have put up a wallpaper featuring Ultra Magnus, to celebrate his appearence in the latest TF Spotlight next month
This month, the spotlight falls on ULTRA MAGNUS, the AUTOBOTS’ implacable, upstanding long arm of the (intergalactic) law. But now,in pursuit of his “most wanted” (and elusive) adversary, just how far (outside the law) is MAGNUS willing to go? By Simon Furman (The Transformers Stormbringer) and Robby Musso. Escalation cover artist Klaus Scherwinski provides a variant cover, too.
The wallpaper can be found here in 3 different resolutions.
IDW Movie Prequel Comic Press Release
IDW Publishing have put out a press release for their Movie Prequel
TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE PREQUEL
THEIR WAR. THEIR WORLD. OUR COMICS.
TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE PREQUEL Comic Books Kick Off The Blockbuster Event of ’07!
San Diego, CA (December 20, 2006)- IDW Publishing’s TRANSFORMERS’ universe has spanned from modern-day Earth (The Transformers Infiltration and Escalation) to the far-flung planet of CYBERTRON (The Transformers Stormbringer) and many light-years of time and space in-between. Now get ready for an all-new TRANSFORMERS story that breaks new ground, setting the stage for the highly anticipated summer ’07 blockbuster TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE. And while the movie might not explode onto theater screens until July, IDW Publishing offers your first glimpse of the live-action motion picture ROBOTS IN DISGUISE in the TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE PREQUEL beginning in February 2007.
In the four-part TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE PREQUEL, co-writers Chris Ryall (Zombies Vs. Robots) and Simon Furman (The Transformers Escalation) team up with celebrated TRANSFORMERS artist Don Figueroa (The Transformers Stormbringer) to deliver a special tale that spans centuries, travelingg from CYBERTRON to Earth. This special four-part series reveals the events that lead up to next Summer’s blockbuster movie, directed by Michael Bay and Executive-Produced by Steven Spielberg.
“This is no peripheral movie tie-in,” said co-writer Chris Ryall (who also spends his days as IDW’s Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. “Rather, it’s a fully realized, generations-spanning tale that also sets up and explains much of the backstory in the coming movie. With Paramount and Hasbro’s assistance, we’re able to show you the characters and explain some situations that are integral parts of the movie. It should also assuage any early fan trepidation and show that this prequel and the movie together are going to comprise quite an epic TRASNFORMERS story.”
TRANSFORMERS THE MOVIE PREQUEL is an all-new, four-part series that hits shelves in February 2007 with a 32-page full-color comic book.
ABOUT IDW PUBLISHING
IDW PUBLISHING is a division of Idea and Design Works, LLC, a revolutionary creative service company with a wide range of clients. Among their best-selling titles are Hasbro’s THE TRANSFORMERS; Fox’s ANGEL, Konami’s METAL GEAR SOLID, and FALLEN ANGEL. IDW’s 30 DAYS OF NIGHT film is in development and will be released by Sony Pictures in October 2007. IDW has films in development at Dimension Films and Paramount Pictures, as well.
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The Hasbro Properties Group (HPG), the intellectual property development arm of Hasbro, Inc., (NYSE HAS), translates one of the industry’s richest portfolios of brands into a world of fun and excitement for children and adults globally. Through a host of publishing, digital media, lifestyle and entertainment platforms, HPG is able to surround fans worldwide with consumer products that expand Hasbro�s core brands, such as TRANSFORMERS, LITTLEST PET SHOP, MY LITTLE PONY, MONOPOLY, G.I. JOE, TONKA and PLAYSKOOL.
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