DECEMBER 2016 Transformers comics and books

[griffin]

Posting up this month's comics listing, with updated release dates for the TPBs...

-- Till All Are One Volume 1 (issues 1-4) - December 27th (was January 3rd) (the only date change that is actually earlier than before)
-- Titans Return (One-shot, MTMTE 56-57, Transformers 56-57) - January 24th (was January 10th)
-- Transformers Robots in Disguise Animated: More Than Meets The Eye (2 episodes) – January 17th (was June 28th, then August 2nd) (seven months late... so far)
-- Autocracy Trilogy HC (Autocracy, Monstrocity, Primacy) - January 24th (was December 27th)
-- Revolution: Transformers (MTMTE Revolution, Transformers Revolution, TAAO Revolution, 2015 Holiday Special) - March 7th (was February 14th)
-- IDW Collection Phase 2 Volume 5 HC (Primacy, RID 19-22, MTMTE 17-22) - March 7th (was February 21st)
-- Classics UK Volume 6 (issues 181-214) - March 21st (was January 24th)


Plus two new items...
-- Transformers Vs GIJoe the Quintessential Collection HC (all 13 issues - 420 pages) - April 11th
-- Till All Are One Volume 2 (issues 5-9) - July 11th

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Out this week should be the first issue of The Lost Light and Optimus Prime.

TRANSFORMERS LOST LIGHT #1 (also shipping Subription cover A, B, Blank, 1-in-10,25 and 50 variant covers)
(W) James Roberts (A/CA) Jack Lawrence
Five years ago, Rodimus and a collection of traumatised, lovelorn and/or sarcastic Autobots set off on a quest to find Cyberutopia. So far, they’ve made a right hash of it. They’ve misplaced their map. They’ve lost their ship, the Lost Light, to a mutinous escapologist. Oh, and they’re dead.
• The crew from MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE might be dead, but the LOST LIGHT lives on!
• Incredible artist Jack Lawrence (Skylanders, Micronauts) makes his Transformers debut with returning writer James Roberts (Transformers: MTMTE)!
TRANSFORMERS TILL ALL ARE ONE TP VOL 01
(W) Mairghread Scott (A/CA) Sara Pitre-Durocher
Starscream rules Cybertron. He and Windblade vie for control of the Council of Worlds, each aligning themselves with as many long-lost colonies as they can. But Starscream’s secret police keep increasing the tension, destabilizing the fragile peace that has been established. Collects issues #1-4.
OPTIMUS PRIME #1
(W) John Barber (A/CA) Kei Zama
REVOLUTION is over-but the danger to Earth is just beginning. As OPTIMUS PRIME pulls Earth into the larger universe, he’s painted a target on Earth… and a new alien incursion begins when a corkscrew shaped craft drills into our world!
• The next evolution of TRANSFORMERS is here!
• OPTIMUS PRIME’s past on CYBERTRON haunts his present on Earth!
• Amazing artist Kei Zama (Scarlett Witch) makes her debut with veteran writer John Barber (Transformers)!