Transformers and G.I. Joe comics license goes to Skybound

[griffin]

I was at a comic shop in Brisbane today and found issue 1 of the Void Rivals (they were still sitting on about 20 copies of the first printing) and bought it.
Unfortunately I didn't know about the 2nd and 3rd printings until tonight, which all have Jetfire on the cover... which I would have preferred as a Transformers fan. I might have to chase them up online later.
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Void_Rivals_issue_1

At the comic shop I saw that they had issue 2 as well, so I flicked through it to see if there was anything interesting in it, and the final page had a Skuxxoid, from the Season 3 Transformers cartoon... so they are still managing to keep it in a shared universe for now (or just throwing in easter eggs each issue to keep some of the Transformers fans buying that comic series).
https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Skuxxoid

I can't find any hint of Skybound planning to do TPBs, so until I am sure that there will be TPBs that are easier and cheaper for me to chase up, I will buy the individual issues while they are available.

I think this might be the first time I would be buying new-release Transformers comics from a local comic shop since Generation Two in the early 90s. I remember importing Dreamwave and Devils Due comics, and most of IDW's comics I bought online as TPBs... so it has been an interesting experience buying comics in-person in a comic shop again.

[Paulbot]

That cameo is a bit of a deep cut - I couldn't name the alien and only barely recognise it.

I can't find any hint of Skybound planning to do TPBs, so until I am sure that there will be TPBs that are easier and cheaper for me to chase up, I will buy the individual issues while they are available.

It's extremely likely there will be collections. Skybound have had a lot of success with collections of Walking Dead and Invincible and it looks like all of their current comics are being collected. It's very rare these days for any comics to be released without a collected volume coming.

[JJJ]

Yep, Skybound's most acclaimed work of the past few years, Oblivion Song, is collected as TPBs. It'll happen with TF too. That's the least of my concerns...

[KELPIE]

They've already started talking about their brainstorming sessions about what TPB collections they can do from previous publishers.

Personally I'll be skipping void rivals.... Maybe go down the digital path for it if it introduces any required reading for the main TF series.

[JJJ]

Void Rivals has absolutely nothing to offer except the most fervent of TF collectors who have to have absolutely every possible TF appearance.

The only TF content it has is an entirely irrelevant (to it's own story) aside where two shipwrecked pilots stumble across Jetfire, awaken him, and then watch him fly away. Not even 5 pages, and they contain nothing of any meaning to the TF comic that's coming.

[reillyd]

But Jetfire! Skuxxoid!

Oh, I just realised. I must me one of those fervent collectors starved of new G1 content.

[Cat]

It's got me in so far. I've even got the SDCC ashcan and Void Rivals exclusive cover on the way over to me. I'm in deep.