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Date: Wednesday, February 14th 2007 6:14pm CST
Category: Comic Book News
Posted by: Hotrod |
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A five page preview of G.I.Joe vs. Transformers Vol.IV #2 has been posted online by Devil's Due. This issue is due out February 21, 2007. Here is what Devil's Due posted about this issue:
"G.I.Joe vs. Transformers vol.IV #2
by: Tim Seeley & Andrew Wildman
The unbelievable double-sized conclusion! The G.I. Joe team and the Autobots face the most bizarre and unbelievable threat they’ve ever faced! Cobra-La strikes, and with them comes the devourer of worlds – UNICRON! How does Joe Colton fit into all of this? The fate of millions depends on if Cobra-La's insidious plans can be stopped! Plus – the unrevealed origin of UNICRON!"
Check out the five page preview of G.I.Joe vs. Transformers Vol.IV #2 by clicking
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Date: Thursday, February 1st 2007 4:50pm CST
Categories: Comic Book News,
People News
Posted by: Raymond T. |
Credit(s): wildwords.wordpress.com
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Andrew Wildman has updated his
blog with another inkline preview to Devils Due's GI Joe vs Transformers: Black Horizon. The
page on display features the god of darkness himself, Unicron.
The following text has been taken directly from
Wildman's post.
"
Wow. Internet. Who needs it? Well me actually. Had a big breakdown with the network over here at WILDideas so have been offline for some time. The GIJoe/Transformers project is now complete and in the bag and should be going to the printers very shortly. As a bit more of a taster of how its all looking here is another page of pencils. This has been an amazing project to work on. Tim Seeley’s script is so complete and well paced. I think you are going to love it
More soon
AW"
Date: Sunday, January 28th 2007 1:44pm CST
Categories: Site News,
Comic Book News,
Site Articles
Posted by: Hotrod |
Credit(s): Darth Bombshell
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This week Darth Bombshell has decided share another of his articles with us. Last week Darth Bombshell shared his thoughts on Dreamwave's Generation One More Than Meets The Eye Profile Series. In this weeks article Darth Bombshell shares his thoughts on Dreamwave's Armada More Than Meets The Eye Profile Series. If you missed last week's article check out
Seibertron.com's Article Section. Without further delay here it is the latest article by Darth Bombshell:
Armada MTMTE Overview
Throughout 2003, Dreamwave released the eight issue “More Than Meets The Eye” series. Despite the numerous problems that the series had, it was well received. It was perhaps this response that encouraged the staff at Dreamwave to create a sequel of sorts by writing a series based on the other Transformer franchise that the company was writing at the time: Transformers Armada.
Because of the vastly different scope of the series, changes had to be made in the way it was presented. Instead of eight issues, Armada MTMTE would instead be done in three, no doubt due to the fact that Armada has less than a third of the characters that the Generation One series had to cover. Instead of drawing on previous writings, the biographies and tech spec quotes for most of the characters had to be invented by the writers, since only a select few had officially written bios. And since this series was drawing on both a completed comic and cartoon series, the creators had to attempt to cover elements of both series, while maintaining the fact that they have to try to arrange it all in the comic universe.
All of these changes were perhaps made to make the series more understandable, since the information presented would be fresh in the fans’ minds. Unfortunately, this probably lead to it being as convoluted and confusing as its predecessor.
The first and most obvious problem that the series has was the previously stated attempt by the writers to somehow manage to take elements from both the comic and cartoon and find a way to make them both work. Three bios in this series show how disastrous that attempts was: Galvatron, Nemesis Prime and Sideways. Galvatron, with the exception of the toy comics, was never a part of the regular comic to begin with, was somehow given a life as part of the regular comics, although the conditions and time that this occurred are purposely left vague, no doubt meant to cover up the fact that they have no actual way to describe it. The biography for Galvatron, narrated by Leader-1, gives a very interesting insight to the character. It is just a shame that it is not really part of the comic universe.
Like Galvatron, Nemesis Prime also falls into the category as a toy character needing to have an comics origin. Unlike Galvatron, who was given a believable, yet implausible, comics life, the writers of the comic saw fit to merely rehash the plot of the Armada episode “Puppet”, trying to incorporate the events that occurred in the episode to the comic timeline. This doesn’t work for two reasons: there was no way that this event could have occurred in the comic, and they made the mistake of incorporating Run-Over, the Mini-Con partner who came with the Nemesis Prime toy that never appeared in the episode in question, into the character’s history. By all rights, Nemesis Prime should not be in the comic at all. Much like Galvatron, the only reason for his inclusion in this series was because he was a toy character who needed to be explained.
Sideways, however, falls into a different path. Unlike Galvatron and Nemesis Prime, Sideways actually was in the comic. Yes, it was in two very brief appearances, but he was there. I expected that his biography would state that he was a mercenary playing both sides of the Transformer war. And I was right. That is how he was presented However, they made the big mistake of including elements of the cartoon into his bio, and said that he was a servant of Unicron. This makes no sense as far as the comic goes, since his first appearance was a good four issues before Unicron’s presence was ever confirmed, and his second was during Unicron’s ill-fated attack on Cybertron cowering with a bunch of Decepticons. This especially makes no sense, because if he was truly Unicron’s herald, would he not be rampaging around causing chaos?
The writing, as previously stated, had to draw heavily on the imaginations of the writers of the series since, with a few exceptions, there were few “official” biographies made for the Armada characters during its run. This lead to a great many of the characters having fairly unsuited character biographies and tech spec quotes that sound incredibly horrendous. I do believe that a great many of these will be making an appearance on the Trannies “Worst Tech Spec Quotes” ballot next year.
The artwork in the series, like in the Generation One MTMTE, is another round of “one good for every five bad” deal. Ironically, much of the good art in this series has made appearances on the toy boxes or promotional art made during the run of the toyline, also drawn by the various artists in this series. A good deal of this art takes up much of the space in the books, making me wonder why the artists were lazy enough to include this art. Couldn’t they do new artwork for this series? Isn’t it what it was meant to do?
Another problem this series has in its artwork is the fact that the Mini-Con teams that were repainted during the toyline each had two pages of artwork devoted to them, one for the color in which they were first released and their “powerlinx” recolors. I found this to be an incredible waste of page space, with the only acceptable color changes coming from the Road Assault (Race) Team and the Star (Dark) Saber sword, since the bios for these weapons state that the characters would change color depending on how long they were held by an enemy.
Finally, much like the Generation One MTMTE, the Armada MTMTE had a prologue and epilogue story designed to explain they reason why this information is being presented. Unlike the story in G1 MTMTE, the Armada one is meant to be part of the actual timeline. The prologue explains that a machine by someone that Alexis has possession of and is using to be prepared for the return of the Transformers. The epilogue explains that the device was left by Over-Run, who wants to prepare Alexis for the return of the Transformers. This would appear to make Alexis the focus of the Energon story, a fact we know to be false, as it is Kicker whose fate is ultimately linked to the Energon story…at least in the cartoon, anyway.
The Armada MTMTE was written shortly after the end of the series, with Energon firmly in the minds of the people behind the Transformers. This fact, combined with the haphazard way that the series was written and the apparent poor production values, have lead many to look down upon this series. It could have been better, though, had it been written later. But as it is, it exists merely as a way for Dreamwave to earn an dollar by any means.
After all, it’s what they’re known for.
Date: Thursday, December 21st 2006 10:26pm CST
Category: Comic Book News
Posted by: Seibertron |
Credit(s): Devil's Due
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You saw it here first! We're proud to give all of you good little Seibertronians out there an early Holiday gift from Devil's Due and SEIBERTRON.com. Check out this exclusive 5 page preview of the upcoming GIJoe VS Transformers #4: Black Horizon mini-series. Enjoy and Happy Holidays!
G.I. Joe Vs Transformers IV: Black Horizon #1 [of 4]
Author: Tim Seeley (Forgotten Realms, Hack/Slash, G.I. Joe)
Artist: Andrew Wildman (Transformers, G.I. Joe, X-Men Adventures)
Cover Artist(s): A – Tim Seeley B – Tim Seeley
Anything can happen when the G.I. Joe team and the Transformers meet, and this time - everything does! Joe Colton and Bludgeon! Colonel Hawk and Destro! Optimus Prime and Flint! And, waiting in the wings: Unicron and Cobra-La! No holds barred in this new -- and bizarre -- chapter in the war between worlds!
Date: Tuesday, October 17th 2006 7:23pm CDT
Category: Comic Book News
Posted by: Hotrod |
Credit(s): ComicNewsI.com
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It looks as if G.I. Joe Vs Transformers IV by Devil's Due will be coming out faster then we thought.
ComicNewsI.com has received Devil's Due's solicitations for January. Among the January releases is G.I. Joe Vs Transformers IV: Black Horizon #1. Here is what the solicitation said:
"G.I. Joe Vs Transformers IV: Black Horizon #1 [of 4]
Author: Tim Seeley (Forgotten Realms, Hack/Slash, G.I. Joe)
Artist: Andrew Wildman (Transformers, G.I. Joe, X-Men Adventures)
Cover Artist(s): A – Tim Seeley B – Tim Seeley
Anything can happen when the G.I. Joe team and the Transformers meet, and this time - everything does! Joe Colton and Bludgeon! Colonel Hawk and Destro! Optimus Prime and Flint! And, waiting in the wings: Unicron and Cobra-La! No holds barred in this new -- and bizarre -- chapter in the war between worlds!"
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Date: Saturday, September 30th 2006 9:12am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
Event News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): TFormers.com, Allspark.com
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Next on today's BotCon agenda is the IDW Publishing panel. Simon Furman, Don Figueroa, and Chris Ryall will be answering questions on Transformers Comics: Past, Present and Future.
TFormers.com and
Allspark.com covered the event. You can read thier full reports by clicking on the links above.
Summary
- No plans for any Beast Wars spotlights. It will just be G1 for now. However there are more plans for Beast Wars, which will be more than a one shot.
- IDW plan to reprint the Beast Wars covers in a big art book showing all the cover artwork, like they did with the Infiltration cover art book.
- Yes there will be more evolutions series, but mostly likely not until after the movie. They don't want to many different continuities.
- Stormbringer does not tie into the Dreamwave stuff. The Dreamwave material is all tied up in legal stuff and has to be resolved before they can think about finishing it off. That is if it is ever be resolved?
- However IDW will be reprinting the War Within books.
- Nick Roche doing is all the one-shots and Hot Rod’s redesign has been inspired by I Robot.
- They have considered doing a on shot Megatron Origins story.
- Furman will not connect Cyclonus and Scourge back to Unicron.
- The Beast Wars profile series is being written by Ben Yee and Simon Furman. Art by various artists including Don, Guido, Nick Roach and new talent!
- Furman revealed that the Predacons will be appearing in in the IDW comics. However the presence of the Headmasters in the comic books is denied despite Furnam letting it slip yesterday.
- Furman also says we will probably see stories that harken back to the Trasnformers past, like War Within did.
- Artist Robby Musso will be working on the Ultra Magnus oneshot.
- Chris Ryall and Furman are set to do a 4-part prequel for the movie dubbed 'Prime Directive'. Art by Milne, writer TBA.
- Originall Bob Budiansky was not interested in doing a new original Transformers story but after the movie adaption it seems to have wet his appetite. He may take past stories and do a 'Greatest battle' type title.
- Some of the Marvel UK stories will be reprinted in Transformers Generations.
- No denial or confirmation on the Transformers/Justice League crossover rumor.
- IDW are looking to do their own GIJoe/TF crossover, but only if its done right.
- IDW cannot do an Alternators comic book due of licensing restrictions.
Check out all the BotCon 2006 News Coverage
here at SEIBERTRON.com
Date: Wednesday, August 23rd 2006 11:21am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
Toy News
Posted by: Alex Kingdom |
Credit(s): Fan2Fan
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Fan2Fan have posted the following new information on Takara Tomy's distictly Japanese Kiss Players line and its accompanying comic strip printed in Dengeki DAIOH magazine:
The villian in Chapter 1 is a Decepticon that has a very Megatron-like head known as Legion. Some additional info to this "twisted" TF world is that the setting is right after the "Unicron War" where Rodimus Prime (or Rodimus Convoy) succeded Optimus Prime (or Convoy) as the new leader. And different from the E.D.C. formed in the Binaltech world, this E.D.C. was formed to counter Transformers, the formation was due to an incident that happened on Earth during the Unicron wars, details might be revealed as the story progress.
They have posted a few
sample pages featuring 'Legion' as well as explaining:
the part where Atari was told to kiss Autolooper, thereby "fusing" with Autolooper, supercharging the robot allowing even limbs that were lost in battle to regrow, as one will notice, both Autolooper and Legion are not purely mechanical beings but seemed to also consists of bio parts, making them seems more like what you see from EVANGELION.
Read the full article an view sample pages at
Fan2Fan.
Date: Thursday, May 18th 2006 6:26pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
Press Releases
Posted by: Seibertron |
Credit(s): IDW
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IDW Presents The TRANSFORMERS Return to CYBERTRON!
San Diego, CA (May 18, 2006)—The TRANSFOMERS make landfall on CYBERTRON this July with The TRANSFORMERS: Stormbringer. The whirlwind creative team that unleashed BEAST WARS: The Gathering, Simon Furman and Don Figueroa return the home world of the “ROBOTS IN DISGUISE” with gale force.
This is series that TRANSFORMERS fans have been clamoring for—cover-to-cover, no-holds-barred, giant robot action on an epic scale! So far, in The TRANSFORMERS: Infiltration, there have been tantalizing hints about the state of play elsewhere in the TRANSFOMERS universe. Now it is time to return to where it all began, CYBERTRON itself. A dark, dark chapter of the planet’s history is unlocked—a chapter that will impact the AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS with the might of an unrelenting tempests.
“No UNICRON, no UNICRON. That was my mantra. Stormbringer had to be fresh, exciting and, most importantly, feature a ‘big bad’ that wasn’t the TRANSFORMERS franchise’s ever-reliable, planet devouring nemesis,” declares Stormbringer scribe Simon Furman. “But then, change and innovation have been the watchwords of the IDW TRANSFORMERS line, the intent always to create something fresh and accessible. That’s as true for Stormbringer as it is for Infiltration and the upcoming Escalation, and so… expect the unexpected, take nothing for granted. We’re back on CYBERTRON, sure, but boy have things changed… and not for the better. Expect big action, lots of giant robots and, yes, planet-shaking events. But no UNICRON.”
The TRANSFORMERS: Stormbringer #1, the first issue of an all-new TRANSFORMERS 4-issue miniseries, premieres in July 2006 with a 32-page full-color comic book with a suggested cover price of $2.99.
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, and Konami’s Metal Gear Solid. IDW has films in development at Sony Pictures, Dimension Films, and Paramount Pictures.
ABOUT THE HASBRO PROPERTIES GROUP
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.
You can view an image of the cover from the Press release by using the links below:
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Date: Tuesday, May 16th 2006 8:34pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
People News
Posted by: Hotrod |
Credit(s): Unicron.com
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On Free Comic Book Day, May 6, 2006,
Unicron.com was able to sit down with Transformers fan and artist, Don Figueroa, at Shinder's in Burnsville, Minnesota. Don answered several questions about his collection and his work on Beast Wars and Stormbringer. Check the interview out
here.
Date: Wednesday, October 27th 2004 8:05pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
Press Releases
Posted by: Darth Bombshell |
Credit(s): Dreamwave
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Greetings! below you'll find the images and information about January shipping books including the long-awaited WARLANDS and BEAST WARS! Enjoy!
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TRANSFORMERS BEAST WARS # 1
Story by James McDonough & Adam Patyk
Art by Don Figueroa
Unleash the beasts!
Start the 10th anniversary celebration for BEAST WARS early by sinking your teeth into this new mini-series from the creators behind the monthly adventures of TRANSFORMERS GENERATION ONE! Picking up right where the hit TV series left off, this TRANSFORMERS tale goes beyond the show to reveal what really happened to the MAXIMALS and PREDACONS after the BEAST WARS.and how that war is far from over! Celebrating the classic, mega-popular toy line and computer-animated cartoon which helped catapult the TRANSFORMERS franchise back into the spotlight, this super-charged series reveals the destiny of all your favorites: OPTIMUS PRIMAL, MEGATRON, RHINOX and more!
FC $2.99 32pp Monthly
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TRANSFORMERS ENERGON #31
Written by Simon Furman
Art by Alex Milne
REVELATIONS!
Just who is (or rather, was) ALPHA QUINTESSON, and what are his true plans for CYBERTRON, Earth. and UNICRON? While seeming to serve the chaos-bringer, the multi-faceted alien has been developing a world-shattering agenda of his own, one that bridges worlds and dimensions. Now, at last, ALPHA QUINTESSON begins his 'endgame,' and first in his sights is the MINI-CON OVER-RUN!
FC 32pp $2.99 Monthly
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TRANSFORMERS/G.I. JOE: Divided Front #4
Written by James McDonough, Adam Patyk
Art by Pat Lee
AUTOBOT vs. AUTOBOT!
It's a robot riot as the new Cold War over the TRANSFORMERS really starts to heat up! The G.I. JOES and their AUTOBOT allies try to reconcile their opposing views and unite against COBRA.but can they? They're not the only ones whose tempers are flaring, as members of COBRA prepare to foil their increasingly deranged leader's top-secret project.if the mutineers can make it past FIREFLY and the elite CRIMSON GUARD, that is!
FC 32pp $2.99 Monthly
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TRANSFORMERS GENERATION ONE #13
Written by James McDonough, Adam Patyk
Art by Don Figueroa
2005 is here-and the battle for the universe begins!
Created by the sinister UNICRON, the lone CYCLONUS has been dispatched to search the galaxy for the missing Alpha herald, SCORUGE. But when his mission leads him to a top-secret storage facility on Earth, will CYCLONUS find the end of his quest or the business end of several high-caliber EDC-issued blasters?
This initial arc-"Detection"-kicks off the biggest, baddest GENERATION ONE storyline ever! Get in on the ground floor for a front-row seat to the beginning.of the apocalypse!
FC 32pp $2.99 Monthly
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TRANSFORMERS WAR WITHIN Vol. 3: "THE AGE OF WRATH" #5
Written by Simon Furman
Art by Joe Ng
HE'S BACK!
OPTIMUS PRIME, right? Well. maybe. But then again. maybe not! BLASTER's desperate bid to free the enslaved AUTOBOTS lies in ruins, his and his entire team's lives MEGATRON's to take at will. But in their darkest hour, a hero returns to the fray, a force too powerful to be contained even by death 's dark dominion. Prepare to be shocked senseless all over again!
FC 32pp $2.99 Monthly
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And here are the respective covers for the books mentioned above!
BEASTWARS_01_CVR_A.jpg
BEASTWARS_01_CVR_B.jpg
BEASTWARS_01_CVR_C.jpg
BEASTWARS_01_CVR_Incentive.jpg
TFG1_13.jpg
WarWithinVol3_05.jpg
TFGIJOEII_04.jpg
TFEnergon_31.jpg
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