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IDW’s Transformers Comics for February 2009

Written by Big Bot on November 19, 2008 | Comics,IDW Publishing,News,Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | Tags: ,

Another busy month for Transformers comics in February 2009, with lots of stuff for fans new and old.

In IDW’s main continuity, there is The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #8 from Shane McCarthy and Guido Guidi, and The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots #3 from Simon Furman and Nick Roche. There are also two TPBs, The Transformers: Revelation TPB, which collects Spotlights Cyclonus, Hardhead, Doubledealer and Sideswipe, and The Transformers: All Hail Megatron TPB, Vol. 1, which contains issues #1-6 of the series.

In the movie-verse, there are the continuing prequel stories, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel: Defiance #2 and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel: Alliance #3.

The reprints for the month include one from the Marvel days and one from Dreamwave. The Transformers Best of the UK: City of Fear #1 comes from the UK story of the same name, whilst The Transformers: War Within Omnibus collects together the two complete War Within story arcs in one big book.

Comicsnewi.com have covers for some of the titles.

IDW Comic Releases – 19/11/08

Lots of new books this week, however, none of them are completely new to dedicated readers.

Firstly there are 3 reprints of IDW’s cartoon screencap series of Transformers: Animated books, Transformers: Animated Vol. 1 [3rd printing], Transformers: Animated Vol. 3 [2nd printing] and Transformers: Animated Vol. 4 [2nd printing]. Next up is also a 3D version of Spotlight: Optimus Prime (with 3D glasses), which came out mid 2007.

Finally, the real deal this week is Transformers: The Reign of Starscream TPB, the official sequel comic to the 2007 Hollywood blockbuster. It comes with a whole host of extra material, and will prepare you for IDW’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen prequel series, starting next month.

Chris Ryall has the covers for 3D Optimus Prime and ROS TPB.

IDW Transformers Comic Releases – 29/10/08

Written by Big Bot on October 27, 2008 | Armada,Comics,IDW Publishing,News | Tags: , ,

Time for a blast from the recent past, with the reprint of Dreamwave’s Transformers Armada Volume 1 TPB, collecting issues #1-6 of the series.

The comic takes the story in a different direction to the cartoon, so is worth picking up if you cannot stand the animated series. The book is drawn by James Raiz and written by Chris Sarracini.

Chris Ryall again has the cover for your viewing pleasure.

IDW Transformers Comic Releases – 22/10/08

Written by Big Bot on October 20, 2008 | Comics,IDW Publishing,News | Tags: , ,

Just 2 Transformers comics this week, the first being The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #4, continuing the Decepticons reign of Earth, and Transformers: Animated Volume 5, the screenshots of the cartoon series.

Chris Ryall again has the covers for the issues, 2 for All Hail Megatron and 1 for Animated Volume 5.

IDW Comic Releases – 08/10/08

Three releases this week, with some new and some old material. Firstly the new stuff, completing the revelation saga is The Transformers Spotlight: Sideswipe, coming from Simon Furman and E.J. Su and Animated fans there is Transformers Animated: The Arrival #3, which continues the short, in-continuity stories.

For old material, we have 2 trade paperbacks, The Transformers Best of the UK: Space Pirates TPB, a reprint of the Marvel story and The Art of IDW’s Transformers TPB, which is the paperback version of the hardcover that came out last year.

Chris Ryall again has some covers for these titles on his blog.

Spotlight: Blurr Coming 5th November

Written by Big Bot on October 4, 2008 | Comics,IDW Publishing,News | Tags: , , ,

Chris Ryall has answered a question on his blog about the release date for The Transformers Spotlight: Blurr, which will be in comic stores on 5th November. Be sure to keep checking Denton J. Tipton’s blog for an updated releases.

November sees a range of comics for sale, including The Transformers Spotlight: Optimus Prime 3-D Edition, The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #5, Transformers Animated: The Arrival #4, Transformers Movie Sequel: The Reign of Starscream TPB and Transformers Best of the UK: Time Wars #4.

IDW Comic Releases – 1/10/08

Written by Big Bot on September 29, 2008 | Comics,IDW Publishing,News | Tags: , ,

Three new releases this week. The first is a reprint of Dreamwave’s More Than Meets The Eye Volume 1, containing the first four issues of the series. Next is Transformers: Saga of the Allspark #4, the final (for now) reprint of Titans Transformers UK series (containing issues #7 and #8). Finally, the last reprint for the week is Transformers Best of the UK: Time Wars #3, collecting more of the Marvel UK Time Wars series.

Chris Ryall has posted the covers for Saga of the Allspark #4 and Time Wars #3 on his blog.

Update IDW Schedule for October 2008

Written by Big Bot on September 17, 2008 | Comics,IDW Publishing,News | Tags: ,

IDW Editor Denton J. Tipton has posted an updated schedule for IDW’s Transformers comics. Unfortunately, there are no more releases in September after today, but October looks to be a busy month. The Revelation saga ends with Spotlight: Sideswipe, Art of Transformers gets a paperback release and Dreamwave’s first 4 profile books are re-released as More Than Meets the Eye Vol 1. TPB, hopefully with enough copies so that more than 10 people can own it.

1st October
Saga of the Allspark #4
Best of UK: Time Wars #3
More Than Meets the Eye Vol 1. TPB

8th October
Spotlight Sideswipe
Animated: The Arrival #3
Best of UK: Space Pirates TPB
Art of Transformers TPB

22nd October
All Hail Megatron #4
Animated Series Vol. 5 TPB

Transformers Comics For December 2008 From IDW

Written by Big Bot on September 15, 2008 | Comics,IDW Publishing,News | Tags: , ,

December looks like being a good end to the year for Transformers comic fans with 6 releases from a verity of stories and continuities.

First up is Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel: Destiny: Alliance #1, which wins the award for longest title ever. This is the first of 8 issues that will connect the first film to the sequel.

The Transformers: Maximum Dinobots #1 is Simon Furman’s continuation of his IDW story, following on from Spotlight: Grimlock, but this time featuring all the Dinobots. The Transformers: All Hail Megatron #6 concludes the first half of the Shane McCarthy written series.

Transformers Animated: Arrival #5 is the final issue in the series based within the cartoon universe, and given the positive reaction to the series, expect more in the future.

The Transformers: Best of the UK: Time Wars #5 completes the reprint from the Marvel UK story of the same name.

Finally, there is Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Vol. 2 TPB, which is a reprint of the second half of Dreamwave’s MTMTE series from 2003.

Covers and full details can be found at Comicnewsi.com

IDW Comic Releases – 06/08/08

After a couple of weeks without any new comics, August looks like being a busy month.This week there is only 1 new release, Transformers: Saga of the Allspark #2, which collects issues #3 and #4 of Titan’s Transformers UK comic, featuring stories from the movie-verse.

Chris Ryall has posted an image for the cover to the comic on his blog.

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