NOVEMBER 2018 Transformers comics and books

[griffin]

Unicron #6 should be out this week, a month late, and a preview can be seen here.


It leaves us with just one comic issue left in IDW's first Transformers comic universe.

[i_amtrunks]

Unicron #6 should be out this week, a month late, and a preview can be seen here.


It leaves us with just one comic issue left in IDW's first Transformers comic universe.

With the last issue of Prime to mop up all the Shared Hasblow-verse mess they forced upon the best Transformers continuity ever.

At least we can tell whose who in the preview, most of the art in the Unicron series has been ordinary at best and a jumble at worst. At least this seems to be all happening in order instead of jumping all over the place and trying to tie into the Prime series, the other series micro issues and a gumboot...

Alas, it will all end with a whimper and not a bang, but at least it'll stick to the ol' reliable IDW release schedule till the very end!

[griffin]

Well this is it... the final issue of IDW's Transformers universe, after 13 years (and a couple of months).
Out this week is Optimus Prime #25, with a preview here.


Until something else is announced by IDW, it just leaves us with the Star Trek crossover as our only source of Transformers comics for the foreseeable future.

[griffin]

It's not looking good for the future of IDW, with release delays blowing out by about a month, and the end of their Transformers comic universe with nothing yet announced to replace it... now it has been revealed that they have cancelled the release of remaining UK Hard Cover compilations.
They released 5 of the 8 expected volumes, covering up to issue 180 so far, but after two years of delays, it was officially cancelled.
This means that the newly coloured UK comic issues that would have been first released in these volumes (and their only release in the US 30 years after they were originally printed in B&W), will now only end up being released in the UK Hatchett series... and fortunately for us in Australia, we will still end up getting them, while the US will miss out.

[KELPIE]

I hope IDW loose the TF license to be honest.

The way they've treated it over time has been nothing short of deplorable.

They lucked out with Roche/Roberts, however they kept looking for the cheapest talent to put on the books.

Couple that with variant covers for every issue, constant renumbering and the dreaded Hasbroverse... they can stay away from Transformers please.

Give it to Boom Studios.

[Paulbot]

now it has been revealed that they have cancelled the release of remaining UK Hard Cover compilations.
They released 5 of the 8 expected volumes, covering up to issue 180 so far, but after two years of delays, it was officially cancelled.

Oh what? I missed this news. That latest volume has been sitting in my ordered list for ages but I had hoped it would still come.

[griffin]

James Roberts, the author of the Lost Light / More Than Meets The Eye comics, has talked about the Transformers comic in an interview here, and the challenge of giving it a good ending.