IDW panel at SDCC.

[griffin]

Details from here
http://www.tformers.com/article.php?sid=9904
And here
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?p...ticle&id=17412

***SPOILER WARNING*** in that second link to comicbookresources, there is supposed to be plot info from the movie that is quite revealing.
The info below is copied form the first link, and still mentions the movie comics, but not in a major way. I have still highlighted it for anyone wanting to avoid Movie spoilers to skip past.

IDW PANEL

chris Ryall, Josh Perez, Klaus Schwinsky, Shane McCarty, Denton J. Tipton, Alex Milne, Marty Eisenberg, Marcello Matre, Chris Corey, steve Mcarthy, Robbie Musso

All Hail Megatron

1ST ISSUE is out. They have good feedback and passionate criticism.
They like debates over the comics.
Issue 2 will be out in 2 weeks
Issue 1 is almost sold out wtih a possible 2nd printing.
New characters revage and a "Frenzy Moment" coming in issue 3.
It is not just about Decepticons.
Was described as an all galaxy wide extravganza.
Should get good with Prime down.

New Character Drift

He will be a Japanese drift racing car.
he will be made into an action figure.
1st IDW toy to be made

Revelation

With Sideswipe and Simon Furman writing and EJ Su is drawing.
Special cover by Nick roache


Animated

Comes out Augat 13
Issues 2 cover by Elrini Maramba
Interiors by Dario and Liam


Animated the Arrival

5 issue mini-series
Takes place in Season 1 of the show.
Lots of things that happen in S1, or are related.
First appearence of Oil Slick.
Recap of piot with diff points of view
Each issue will have 2 stores, 11 pages each.

Start of Potential Movie Spoilers
TF Movie Return of Starscream

On its way to America
Issue returns Decepticon to Cybertron.
Starscream has a plan in motion.
Rebuliding facsimle of Allspark.
Things go wrong, but in a surprizing waY,
Still Starscream, the nasty commander type.
Soundwave was supposed to be in issue 2.
He was removed because of appearence in movie.

Coming Soon

Destiny

Chris Mowry, Alex Mine, Josh Perez
Ties in with prequel with next movie... hopefully
Coming December 2008
Will cover things like fall of sector 7 back on earth and how some chars changed for next movie.

End of Potential Movie Spoilers

Maximum Dionbots

Furman not going any where.
Alex Milne & Nick Roche on covers.
Threads from Headmasters works up to a story climax.


Spotlight on Blurr

New approch to character, but keeps the edge.
Make him more relevant, but give some new life.
Blurr is not comedy relief.
Stoy set up before the Great War.
They are back on Cybertron befoe every thing went to hell.
Blurr postion and who he is. He's a prick.


The thriteen

Origns of the firt 13 Transformers
Simon furman is working with Hasbro on it.
No release or artist assigned yet.
Date not set yet, coming in 2009.


spotlight Cosmos

Chris Mowry and Andrew Griffth art.
Some time in 2009.
Tie in with Acsention / All hail timelines

GI Joe

A New Beginning
Robert Atkins - editor
Larry Hama - Writer
Andy schmit - art

Some updating with a classic look.
Inking comcis now.
Retailer incentive cover with art by Ben Templesmith of 30days of Night

Reprints of the classic Marvel Comics.
Movie Universe comic.
Movie Adaptation.
4 issue prequel series
4 issue adoptation
Robert Atkins on Art
Larry Hamma will be writing - He Knows them pretty well.

Larry Hama

Is excited becauae has a chance to do lots of things he wanted to, but never got to do.
Take characters in more gritty and modern direction.
Loves working with IDW. Thinks their art work is fabulous.
Dont get confused by "Classic"Lots of times they want "old way." But his work evovls and changes. So he's
not doing waht he did 25 years ago.
He wants to do better with a different understanding of characters
He wants to make the series more accessible to wider range of people.


Robert atkins
Loves GI joe.
Wnats to get a grasp of characters and show them how they act and interact with each other.
GI Joe design is visually good, so they dont wnat to mess with it.
Wants to take favorite aspects and add some modernization to them.
Art should work pratically. If can be done in real life, it should be drawn that way.
Chars have been revised a few times.
October #0 issue
January Issue #1
16 pages of story
Sketches notes and behind the scenes for #0
Destro furry red collar? Yes!



Questions & Answers

Cartoon Cobra com is wimpy. How will yours be?
Larry says he is just totally bad ass.
Whole new depth of evil for him.
Has to balance with destro.

Who's your fave character?

Robert, always liked vehicle and gear. Sky striker, Hiss tank.
Andy Stalker is way cool. Only guy who could kick anytones butt.
Hama - Snake eyes, becuase he's easy to write for.

Will there be Ninjas?
Stories can get sidetracked by charter popularity. They can take over.
Some chars are not as popular as others.
Have to bow to pressureof why isnt there more and are trying to work it out.

Is this a relaunch og GI joe or continues from Devils Due?
This is a relaunch and want to stay away from DD story.
Working with clean slate and new ideas.
Toys dont have so much infuence on story now that they are out.
Retelling story from day 1. Be as faithful to chars as possible
Have to deal with 25 years and work it as new with same guys

How many Marvel comic reprints?
All Marvel comics.


TF Questions
Any other IDW chars in toys? Not at the moment.

New Animated series next spring.

Why the dumb Grimlock in the toon? Dumb Grimlock Funnier.