NOVEMBER 2018 Transformers comics and books

[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.