Thanks to artist Priscilla Tramontano’s webpage, we’ve got our first look at the cover art to IDW’s Windblade #6 issue. The cover, which is a stunning piece of art, features Windblade and Chromia with weapons in hand staring into the horizon as a beast creature flies off. The big question is who is the beast creature?
Hit the discussion link below to share your thoughts!
optimaliii
Looks like a bat to me, so I'm guessing either Nightscream, bat Optimus Primal, or Onyx Primal. Could be someone else, but any of those three would be the most surprising.
Verno
Ok, let's see…
Red Arrow is pointing to Airazor's beast head. If you zoom in, you can actually see a little bird beak on the end.
Blue Arrow is pointing to Airazor's tail feathers.
Green Arrow is pointing to an object that isn't attached to Airazor. It could be another character, or indeed a ship or a missile, as the Purple Arrow seems to be pointing to some kind of exhaust fumes.
Verno
I can only surmise that because this isn't the official cover yet (with the IDW logo and such still to be added), they're keeping the identity of the sky-bound figure a mystery.
JDK
So is this intentionally ambiguous, is it just bad, or is there something attached to this animal that we can't fathom because we don't know the story? Or some other explanation? It's causing me great distress over here.
SPLIT LIP
Actually, looking really hard at the cover, there's definitely some kind of thing blotted out by the sun sticking out from underneath the left wing.
Maybe it really is Terrorsaur or Airazor, as it could be the beak, with one of the two "eras" being the crest if it's Terrorsaur, and the other "ear" as random kibble perhaps?
Verno
Sorry, I missed the word 'though' off the end of my sentence.
The wings certainly aren't reminiscent of the TM2 Sonar toy, as they had claws. My money is still on it being Airazor, though.
SPLIT LIP
You just quoted them saying that the beast modes would look different, then say that the wings not matching the toy is evidence that it's not Sonar?
Maybe it's a non-TM2 Sonar? Airazor just barely resembles her show deisgn, Tigatron's also redesigned. Clearly the old designs aren't really good evidence to go off of.
Verno
The Women of Transformers panel at SDCC told us:
The wings certainly aren't reminiscent of the TM2 Sonar toy, as they had claws. My money is still on it being Airazor.
T-Hybrid
Wait, Beast Wars Sonar is a she now? That's cool!
Botch
My money is on Nightscream from Beast Machines.
Autovolt 127
Oh god no. X_X
Well Windblade will more or less become Till All Are One next year so don't worry.
I didn't know she'd be in it.
PyjamaPrime
The planet is called Eukaris. It's essentially the Beast Planet, but not really. This planet has a whole bunch of BW characters and is likely where Onyx Prime landed to settle (since every colony has an associated Prime who colonized the planet)
PyjamaPrime
Nightscream? I'd be down with seeing what he would have looked like pre-reformating.
Newholl
A nice cover art would leave room for the logo.
This cover art does not.
If anything, it's a nice pin-up poster.
Toolverine
This next planet of the 13 colonies is home to the dragon inspired TF: Prime predacons.
QLRformer
Nice. First the ladies went to the Speed Planet and now the Jungle Planet.
SPLIT LIP
Also, pterasaurs don't have bat ears, which the cover critter clearly has. Or seems to have at least.
kaijuguy19
Yeah they did and I agree that it's likely Sonar on the cover. The shape indicates a bat and so far we have one confirmed bat former which is Sonar.
SPLIT LIP
Wasn't it already confirmed that Sonar would be in it?
My guess is her.
WO3004
Please please please let this be Animatron from the UT!