So the preview issue: "Focus on the Decepticons" was released this week, giving us some interviews from Writer Shane McCarthy and artist Guido Guidi, some profiles for the Decepticons that will be appearing in "All Hail" and an 8 page preview.

The interviews are pretty good, the new Decepticons are great, and Guido's art is outstanding as always.

Spoilers are below:

The story is set 1 year after the end of the "tion" stories, and "All Hail" will be in complete continuity, even though the seekers have changed their Alt modes.

The newly introduced Decepticons are: The Insecticons, and the Constructicons. Soundwave, Rumble (RED), Frenzy (BLUE), Ravage and Laserbeak all will appear as well. The Battlechargers stay dead.

The art is fantastic, the 8 page preview gives us something we have never ever seen before in a comic... human casualties. It isnt anything overly explicit, not mangled bodies lying around, but there is blood, bodies face down on the dirt, and so much destruction that unseen casualties must have occured.
Starscream seems to be more talk, less action in All Hail, while Megatron is all action and destruction.


This story looks to be good, continuing on from the -tion series quite nicely.