I've Tweeted Derrick J. Wyatt and asked him if he's involved and he said it's Jose Lopez who he's known for years and they both have similar influences.

I eventually got into animated and enjoyed it, the super kiddy irritating characters bugged me, like professor princess etc.

Prime would have to be my favorite transformers series so far. I will be interested to see where they take this next series, I'm going to opt out of the toys for now, primarily on a space requirement. I'll probably end up caving like I did with Animated but for the moment I'm sticking to my guns barring a couple here and there.