IDW Transformers Comics - Unicron Teaser and Information
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Posted by Va'al on September 10th, 2017 @ 3:58am CDT
Information we have so far can be found here:
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ike/38993/
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... dcc/38998/
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ers/39063/
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ion/39487/
Posted by Agent 53 on September 10th, 2017 @ 5:11am CDT
Posted by Kurona on September 10th, 2017 @ 5:28am CDT
Posted by Rodimus Prime on September 10th, 2017 @ 6:15am CDT
Posted by KingofVIZ on September 10th, 2017 @ 9:54am CDT
Posted by Kurona on September 10th, 2017 @ 10:10am CDT
KingofVIZ wrote:Who's that in front of Starscream?
Given the kibble - and marketing reasons - probably Arcee.
Posted by Randomhero on September 10th, 2017 @ 11:30am CDT
Kurona wrote:Well, I guess they had to bring him back eventually. It was a good... *looks at watch* 4 years while it lasted, though.
Yes because Bumblebee was so poorly handled, poorly written, no character development, no real story development in the slightest. Oh wait that's been rodimus for the passed 5 years of IDW where we've had 3 or 4 occurrences where he's said "it's time to get serious, I need to be better" and then he sees a lightning bug and forgets everything he just said and starts chasing it.
Posted by Kurona on September 10th, 2017 @ 11:31am CDT
Posted by EunuchRon on September 10th, 2017 @ 11:34am CDT
Posted by Randomhero on September 10th, 2017 @ 11:39am CDT
EunuchRon wrote:I'm not diggin the new look for the big U. He's all rocky and stuff, and what's with the asteroids for his ring? I always thought that was like his warp drive or somethin, the way it powers up in the movie after he ate Lithone.
It's one picture. There's no context at all.
Posted by Microraptor on September 10th, 2017 @ 12:23pm CDT
Oh how I've missed you.
Posted by EunuchRon on September 10th, 2017 @ 1:44pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:EunuchRon wrote:I'm not diggin the new look for the big U. He's all rocky and stuff, and what's with the asteroids for his ring? I always thought that was like his warp drive or somethin, the way it powers up in the movie after he ate Lithone.
It's one picture. There's no context at all.
Well, duh. I don't need no context to not like how it looks.
Posted by Randomhero on September 10th, 2017 @ 1:58pm CDT
EunuchRon wrote:Randomhero wrote:EunuchRon wrote:I'm not diggin the new look for the big U. He's all rocky and stuff, and what's with the asteroids for his ring? I always thought that was like his warp drive or somethin, the way it powers up in the movie after he ate Lithone.
It's one picture. There's no context at all.
Well, duh. I don't need no context to not like how it looks.
Yeah just judge that book by that cover. Ignorance is bliss and everything needs to be just like it was 30 years ago.
Posted by EunuchRon on September 10th, 2017 @ 2:09pm CDT
Posted by Hans on September 10th, 2017 @ 3:25pm CDT
Posted by YoungPrime on September 10th, 2017 @ 3:36pm CDT
.....A Unicron story that continues to shoe horn in Hasbro's other struggling franchises instead keeping the focus on actual TRANSFORMERS?
NOPE!
Posted by Kurona on September 10th, 2017 @ 3:43pm CDT
Hans wrote:And did anyone notice the very painful silence after he tried to get everyone excited for it?
'Painful' is the right word. Yeesht...
Posted by YoungPrime on September 10th, 2017 @ 3:44pm CDT
EunuchRon wrote:Man, who peed in your cheerios? I said I didn't like the LOOK, as in the APPEARANCE. I never said nuthin about the story. Chill, bro!
To be honest the APPEARANCE looks like Planet EGO had a child by DOOMSDAY.
Too organic...
And I don't really care what the story is about if G.I.Joe, Rom and Mask have a part in what should be Galactic battle with no Earth restraints.
Have Arcee team up with Shipwreck and Rom to stop Cobra's Weather Dominator in one of THEIR comics!
Posted by YoungPrime on September 10th, 2017 @ 3:54pm CDT
Agent 53 wrote:Does anyone else notice who's standing to the right of Optimus? I may be wrong but it looks like Bumblebee!
Fingers crossed that it's Sunstreaker since this Unicron hint comes at the end of First Strike.
Posted by YoungPrime on September 10th, 2017 @ 4:04pm CDT
Randomhero wrote:EunuchRon wrote:Randomhero wrote:EunuchRon wrote:I'm not diggin the new look for the big U. He's all rocky and stuff, and what's with the asteroids for his ring? I always thought that was like his warp drive or somethin, the way it powers up in the movie after he ate Lithone.
It's one picture. There's no context at all.
Well, duh. I don't need no context to not like how it looks.
Yeah just judge that book by that cover. Ignorance is bliss and everything needs to be just like it was 30 years ago.
OR....They could make a cover that reluctant readers actually like! How about that???! This Rocky looking Unicron reminds me of TF: Prime's version. I hated that lazy interpenetration of him that Bay seems to be following as well. And there's no good reason for it in the IDW-verse.
There's also no "ignorance" when you've been seen IDW crap the bed with majority of their crossover events in the first place! And this forced Hasbro-verse is not helping things in slightest either! So spare us the lame manipulation of "read it first" when common sense tells us otherwise!
Posted by Sunstar on September 10th, 2017 @ 8:40pm CDT
I almost think the one in front of Starscream is Skywarp - kinda hard to tell.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on September 11th, 2017 @ 9:00am CDT
Posted by Insurgent on September 11th, 2017 @ 11:00am CDT
Heck, I'm more interested to see Quintessa deal with Unicron in TF6 than I am this now.
Posted by Soundwave902 on September 11th, 2017 @ 2:51pm CDT
On the Bumblebee appearance, please let that be Goldbug, don't bring someone back from the dead, I like Bumblebee just whispering into Starscream's ear, gives a more tragic occurrence.
As for the other Hasbro properties, have the Transformers and Rom (since a space empire might want to stop a planet-eating monster) fight on Cybertron, while Action Man, MASK, Joe, Micronauts, and Visionaries fight Unicron's heralds on their own turf, with power levels varying on the property. You want mostly Transformers fighting Unicron, it's there for you. You want the other properties to beat up someone, there's that to. Best of both worlds.
Posted by ScottyP on September 13th, 2017 @ 12:56pm CDT
To those worried about the look: it's promotional material. Nothing says Unicron will actually look like this. Their first promo shot from SDCC was very different. Besides, a Luna 1/Necroworld/Rung hybrid would probably be messy at the outset anyhow. Armada Unicron was a rocky moon before becoming Sideways' Gentlemen's Lounge For Wayward Mini-Cons And Definitely Not A Trap.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on September 15th, 2017 @ 10:30am CDT
Posted by ScottyP on September 18th, 2017 @ 7:55am CDT
I think so. Given that Dark Cybertron's finale had a Unicron tease considered for inclusion at some point, I'd go so far as to say this is more likely than not.D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I'm thinking and wondering: will this tie in to the destruction of LV-117? I mean, I'm pretty sure a lot of us can agree that that was a Unicron teaser
Posted by Bronzewolf on November 3rd, 2017 @ 3:04am CDT
Check out the full video below, read Seibertron.com's review of this issue here, and tell us in the comments what you thought of Unicron's entrance into IDW!
Posted by Va'al on November 3rd, 2017 @ 5:08am CDT
Posted by EunuchRon on November 3rd, 2017 @ 9:37pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on December 14th, 2017 @ 1:25pm CST
Transformers comics from IDW have participated once before, with the first issue of ReGeneration One, but it looks like 2018 is bringing us an even bigger splash in the Hasbroverse. According to Newsarama, IDW Publishing will be releasing our introduction to Unicron, who was awakened at the end of First Strike #6, in Unicron: The Darkest Hour #0! Written by John Barber, with interior art by Alex Milne and cover art by Sara Pitre-Durocher, you can give a read at the blurb below, and check out the cover, and the new logo in particular!
TRANSFORMERS: UNICRON: THE DARKEST HOUR #0
(W) John Barber (A) Alex Milne (CA) Sara Pitre-Durocher
Not a whimper, nor a bang-the end comes with a squall of entropy shrieking from the ravenous maw of death itself. The message is clear: Unicron has arrived. The Transformers lock into a desperate bid to save Rom’s homeworld from the world-killer — but why has Unicron chosen this world on his path to Cybertron... and Earth? The biggest story in the history of Transformers starts now: for Unicron’s arrival can mean nothing less than the end of a universe.
Rating: TEEN
32pgs, FC FREE!
Posted by TreyTable on December 14th, 2017 @ 2:07pm CST
Posted by ScottyP on December 14th, 2017 @ 2:08pm CST
Posted by Rodimus Knight on December 14th, 2017 @ 2:30pm CST
Posted by Flashwave on December 14th, 2017 @ 3:09pm CST
TreyTable wrote:Bumblebee back from the dead?
That ld be Centurion,
Posted by partholon on December 14th, 2017 @ 5:24pm CST
why the hell is it become so hard to figure out how to follow an IDW event?
revolution baffled the hell out of me when i was still buying monthly and i STILL havent bought it in trade yet, let alone first strike
even their ordinary series when collected end up packaging an annual in with the numbered run so god knows how this is all going to be collected for the event proper.
i do like the idea of ROMS home world getting attacked as his crossover with the TF has been the most sucessful so far and given from how anytime ive seen him he's never bloody there we can have a genuine doubt as to whether itll survive or not. which is handy on the drama front. so it sounds good.
but ill wait till its collected so i dont end up getting something twice (like what im facing with vol 2 of Optimus Prime.)
on the vid further up the page i am somewhat baffled as to why james riaz had to go looking for work like that though. i mean jesus the art on the books has gone RIGHT down hill the last few years. . i thought IDW would be calling up everyone they ever employed to see who'll come back to the fold.
i mean is EJ Su Don Fig et al potentially laying aobut by the sidelines doing nothing cause no one in editorial thinks to ring them?
Kinda mad.
Posted by Randomhero on December 14th, 2017 @ 7:38pm CST
partholon wrote:stuff like this makes me glad ive gone trade as ive absolutely NO idea how the hell im meant to collect it in terms of reading order.
why the hell is it become so hard to figure out how to follow an IDW event?
revolution baffled the hell out of me when i was still buying monthly and i STILL havent bought it in trade yet, let alone first strike
even their ordinary series when collected end up packaging an annual in with the numbered run so god knows how this is all going to be collected for the event proper.
i do like the idea of ROMS home world getting attacked as his crossover with the TF has been the most sucessful so far and given from how anytime ive seen him he's never bloody there we can have a genuine doubt as to whether itll survive or not. which is handy on the drama front. so it sounds good.
but ill wait till its collected so i dont end up getting something twice (like what im facing with vol 2 of Optimus Prime.)
on the vid further up the page i am somewhat baffled as to why james riaz had to go looking for work like that though. i mean jesus the art on the books has gone RIGHT down hill the last few years. . i thought IDW would be calling up everyone they ever employed to see who'll come back to the fold.
i mean is EJ Su Don Fig et al potentially laying aobut by the sidelines doing nothing cause no one in editorial thinks to ring them?
Kinda mad.
Yeeeeeeeeeeeah about that. Hate to break it to you but you’re never gonna see Don back on transformers probably ever and it’s not because IDW doesn’t call him. It’s becuase IDW won’t call him but because he’s not reliable and he refuses to. He doesn’t want to draw transformers anymore and IDW doesn’t need him walking out like he's done twice.
Don has seriously walked out on IDW not once but twice. Halfway through the beast wars second mini he said he was done and didn’t want to draw anymore transformers. He was tired of being only known for transformers so they had to have Guido Guidi finish the series. Jump a couple years later and the ongoing happened and Don was back with his over complex redesigns with monster faces because he really wasn’t that good and wasn’t doing anything else and once again halfway through a big story he walked away again and said he was done with transformers and they had to get Alex Milne to come on and finish the story.
Posted by Insurgent on December 14th, 2017 @ 11:41pm CST
Posted by Va'al on December 15th, 2017 @ 3:17am CST
Insurgent wrote:So if we can't get to a comic shop on that particular day, we'll miss Unicron's debut? That's a bit naff. And why is bottom left blacked out? I do like the look of the chaos bringer.
Full image from IDW:
The issue will obviously be included in any collected trade at a later date, and is not a full 20 page issue, in any case. More of a long teaser, really.
Posted by Insurgent on December 15th, 2017 @ 6:55am CST
And who is that between Starscream and Prime?
Posted by Randomhero on December 15th, 2017 @ 7:50am CST
It’s also an IDW comic. They usually don’t sell out on free comic day. I managed to get to regeneration one and transformers vs Gi Joe a week or so later
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 15th, 2017 @ 9:47am CST
Insurgent wrote:And who is that between Starscream and Prime?
I think a weirdly drawn Arcee
Posted by ScottyP on December 15th, 2017 @ 10:11am CST
I would bet money it gets reprinted in the backs of other books later on like the Revolution and First Strike "0" issues. Or at the start of issue 1 of the actual series, like what happend with Action Man and Rom a couple years back.Insurgent wrote:So if we can't get to a comic shop on that particular day, we'll miss Unicron's debut? That's a bit naff.
In general, there is something really funny to me about comments on a news story about a free comic being so terrible and negative, but maybe that's just me.
Posted by Randomhero on December 15th, 2017 @ 11:05am CST
ScottyP wrote:I would bet money it gets reprinted in the backs of other books later on like the Revolution and First Strike "0" issues. Or at the start of issue 1 of the actual series, like what happend with Action Man and Rom a couple years back.Insurgent wrote:So if we can't get to a comic shop on that particular day, we'll miss Unicron's debut? That's a bit naff.
In general, there is something really funny to me about comments on a news story about a free comic being so terrible and negative, but maybe that's just me.
There’s something to be said about the negativity over a certain show that’s completely free and optional to watch to watch and people treating like it like the worst thing ever and feeling entitled to more.
Posted by Insurgent on December 15th, 2017 @ 12:33pm CST
And no, i wasn't saying it was terrible abd negative,simply that it it would be nice if the first appearance of such a major character wasn't in something that gave you one day to get it without resorting to secondary market BUT I UNDERSTAND FROM A MARKETING REASON WHY.
Bye.
Posted by Va'al on February 18th, 2018 @ 5:29am CST
https://www.seibertron.com/transformers ... ytf/40719/
We are wrapping up current IDW continuities this year, Unicron is coming to devour everybody. The intention is to continue after that, whatever comes next. Towards end of year we should know more, but we will collaborate on more stories.
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on February 18th, 2018 @ 5:40am CST
If Unicron devours the Organic side of IDWverse... No great loss...
Posted by Va'al on February 18th, 2018 @ 12:01pm CST
The images are mirrored below, but please be aware there are some spoilers concerning a well known Transformers character on the second page, alongside Rom the Space Knight, Optimus Prime, Pyra Magna, Arcee, and Wheeljack. With the recent news that the IDW continuities currently running may be coming to an end, do you think this is its beginning? Join the discussion!
Not a whimper, nor a bang-the end comes with a squall of entropy shrieking from the ravenous maw of death itself. The message is clear: Unicron has arrived. The Transformers lock into a desperate bid to save Rom’s homeworld from the world-killer — but why has Unicron chosen this world on his path to Cybertron... and Earth? The biggest story in the history of Transformers starts now: for Unicron’s arrival can mean nothing less than the end of a universe.
Posted by Randomhero on February 18th, 2018 @ 12:34pm CST
I’m very bummed after hearing from the QnA panel that everything is coming to an end this year for IDW. I know they also said the comics will continue but it’s still sad to know we’re probaly more than likely getting rebooted next year.
I blame ScottyP...this is all your fault dude. Wanting Unicron for so long
Posted by ZeroWolf on February 18th, 2018 @ 12:36pm CST
Though I think this will lead up to a similar place as cybertron (the animated series) I. E. Unicron becomes a massive black hole in whatever continuity follows this reset. Allowing the possibility that Unicron may return for another event