iTunes has just posted the short, three-page preview for Windblade #5! We’ve mirrored the pages here for your viewing pleasure after the jump (beware of spoilers).
“Transformers: Windblade Vol. 2 #5
RACE AGAINST THE LIGHT! On VELOCITRON, racing isn’t a sport—it’s a matter of life and death! WINDBLADE and BLURR put the pedal to the metal to save CYBERTRON—and their own lives.”
Be sure to pick up the full issue when it’s released on July 22!
Hyoumaru
The difference being in G1 they were just a thing with no given explaination, here we have the potential for (and possibly already have) buildup, so you can't particularly say it's predictable when it'd be a different setup altogether
You can say "oh this again", but given IDW Chromia and Ironhide aren't direct copies of their G1 selves, it's not entirely something we've seen before, hence why I said "their IDW personalities".
But hey, could just be me, what do I know
Rakzo
I knew there was more people thinking the same, Scott hasn't been particularly subtle about this.
Honestly, I don't care about this relationship in the slightlest. I was hoping that since this was a new universe, we were going to see new kinds of relationships (just like Arcee has more dynamic with Prowl instead of with Hot Rod or Springer as tradition would dictate). It just makes Scott's characterization and overall writing pretty predictable and boring.
Hyoumaru
Is anybody else kind of hoping there's actual buildup to Ironhide and Chromia getting together being written here?
I want to believe it's not just me, and given their IDW personalities it could make for an interesting situation.
Autovolt 127
It's gonna make reading tradeback very strange. Combiner Wars already looks bad enough.
Exactly. Truck Ironhide FTW!
ultramagnus1
Sarah has to get better first and Im sure she will
Haywired
To be honest, Ironhide's alt mode isn't much more boxy than his WFC self.
Unless he was lucky enought to transform into a truck, his alt modes always kinda sucked…
N_M_S
From what? Those look remarkably like someone shooting at them…
And I guess that was actually Ironhide and Blurr, not Ironhide and Chromia.
Josh
speed lines
N_M_S
So are those supposed to be sunbeams "shooting" at Ironhide and Chromia? If so, physics fail.
Sockie
Yeah, MTMTE is probably out on the 29th.
Nocturne
Scott is fast become a firm favourite of mine ^_^ her dialogue sounds so natural and fun to read. The art is growing on me, it's quite cute but I really hope we get Stone back at some point. Perhaps the two artists could alternate issues?
Mort
If there is no iTunes preview, MTMTE is unlikely to also be out on the 22nd.
Autovolt 127
Why exactly does IDW think its a good idea to have both Windblade and MTMTE out on the same day. Windblade totally come out on another week…and then the wait would be a little lesser unbearable.
Mort
The art is not bad in itself I guess, but it looks like it's aimed at younger readers. The story is still fun.
Coffee
I'm glad we have an artist that's trying to make the book more colourful, but I'm still not 100% behind it. There were some really bad moments in the last issue, and this one still has that problem of having a city built for racers being comparatively smaller than Tokyo considering how big Windblade looks standing next to it.
Brave Magnus
What? Awww *eats book while waiting* ok
Sockie
July 22.
Autovolt 127
This is why I prefer Ironhide as a truck.
at least this issue art aside looks like it'll be fun.
Brave Magnus
When is this new issue release?
Natephoenix
I'm loving the art, I think it's a nice stepping stone from Sarah Stone's artwork to the more standard art of, say, Alex Milne or Casey Collier.
I think the Ironhide alt mode is definitely his WfC body, which he's had all the way through RiD (AND WE STILL NEED A DELUXE TOY OF PLEASE HASBRO), just further stylized/simplified in Corin's pencils.