Botcon IDW Panel Coverage
Lots of good stuff here - some new artwork too, check out the frontpage too for that in a little while.

- All Hail Megatron and Revelations will have different story threads and won't intersect too much.
- All Hail Megatron will establish a new status quo for the TF comic universe, no magic reset button will be pushed at the end to make things go back to how it was.
- Coming up - no more Masters (Target, Power, etc), but look forward to Combiners and Pretenders of a sort (they may mean the holo-humans). No plans for Predaking or Piranacon / God Neptune, though.
- The original 13 mini has slipped back to 2009.
- In All Hail Megatron, there will be no Autobots on Earth at all.
- Denton Tipton apologised for the errors up to this point, he is working to make them a thing of the past.
- No more TPBs of the club comics.
- No more Evolutions minis are planned.
- There has been talk of doing more Beast Wars stuff, but there are no plans to visit any of the other series, like RiD.
- Starsabre may show up in the first 13 miniseries - IDW are currently negotiating to see what they can and cannot use.
- The Titan UK comics from now on will all carry on the continuity laid out in the Twilight's Last Gleaming story.
- Simon Furman's next IDW project will be Maximum Dinobots, and will feature a lot of battles, Scorponok, the Machination, Sunstreaker, etc. Coming in October.
- A second hardcover collection of IDW issues is planned.
- The Dead Universe cast are all undead, zombie Transformers, and consist of Galvatron, Jhiaxus, Nemesis Prime, Cyclonus, and two others who will be revealed in Spotlight Cyclonus.
- Some more of the legends and history will be told, but mainly they want to move forwards with the stories. Nothing like War Within covering the past is planned.
- The Animated comic is going to be in continuity with the show, issue #1 will retell the pilot episode, with scenes that were dropped and from the perspectives of different characters, giving a different view on the story. It is set during season 1, and Oil Slick will show up in issue #3.
- The Animated comic will include some 5 page backup stories, for example in issue 2.
- The Fallen can be used by IDW, and may show up in the 13 mini.
- Reign of Starscream #1 will retell the Movie from Starscream's perspective, show you what he thinks of Megatron, etc.
- Wheelie in his spotlight will not be the show Wheelie, but they will explain why he rhymes after a fashion.
- Best of UK will continue with Time Wars, and the stories leading up to it.


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It seems apparent now that Furman's original story is indeed taking a back seat. What makes me all the more curious is Furman's Sunstreaker/Maximum Dinobots story later this year. Won't that tie in with AHM? I mean, for AHM to be in continuity as they maintain, Sunstreaker and co. would've been alive and struggling for that entire year.

I'm not sure if they can coordinate such consistency. The 13 storyline is probably what interests me most.

Not so sure about the Animated comic. I don't mind watching it for free but the comic would have to be very good for me to collect it. Otherwise, I'm sticking to TPBs. Only G1 will ever convince me to buy single issues.