iTunes has posted a preview for IDW Publishing’s upcoming comic Transformers Holiday Special, which is written by John Barber. This set of three stories can be downloaded through iTunes on your computer, or it can be downloaded through iBooks on a Macintosh or iOS gadget.
The description is as follows:
“HOLIDAYS IN THE STARS! Three stories about three casts and three unique holiday adventures! You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll never look at CYBERTRON—or the holidays—the same way again!”
It sounds like this may be the perfect Transformers comic to get into the holiday spirit! Check out the preview pages attached to this post.
BattleUpSaber
Best thing ever.
All hail the Chosen One!
Autoboty
*cue everyone scowling and glaring at Starscream*
WilyMech
I had to admit RatTrap putting the throne on stage is a laugh
moreprimeland
Hip! Hip! Hooray! Chosen One Day!
"Making sure not to Scowl, and sure not to Glare"
BumblebeeFan71
Oh wow, Starscream looks so adorable in it that it makes me just want to hug him. XD I should buy this.
Bumblebee2000
Well I'm hoping Barber and Roberts do better than these three pages, but 'Dead Bumblebee' guarantees a purchase.
G.B. Blackrock
Here are a few I did on my own some years back (no art)
A Christmas Thought (parody of "Twas the Night Before Christmas")
Have Yourself a Megatron-y Christmas
Primus the Planet (parody of "Frosty the Snowman")
Sliverstreak (parody of "Silver Bells" from the era when "Bluestreak" wasn't available to Hasbro)
Driskull98
Eh.
Show me the MTMTE and RID stories and then we'll talk.
RobotKnight95
The robots are smiling, the buildings are smiling, even the f*cking SUN is smiling. What the f*ck is going on?!
Also, Ghost Bee is adorable. :3
Autovolt 127
I'm amazed that this Scott's writing, this might be her best work yet.
I am loving the Grinch parallels.
colky7
Guess Scott's writing just isn't for me as I couldn't stand it and saw nothing funny in it, yet most everyone else seems to like it and find it funny. Ah well, glad others are happy, though i won't be paying for this (like all Scott's work since that terrible first Windblade mini), I've still got my MTMTE, SOTW and exRID this month
Really don't like the art style either…
Sockie
Someone needs to edit the news post about this… Barber's only writing one story in the special (which isn't the one in the preview) while Roberts and Scott are writing the other two.
Dark_T_Zeratul
Screw all you haters, this looks hilarious and awesome and the art fits it to a tee.
HuffR_WFCTX_91135
D'you reckon?
Nonetheless, this is certainly different to the normal fair, so much so that I doubt it'll gel with the normal overtly serious nature of the comics.
scrapmetaru
Not sure why an unrelated piece of bad art would turn you away from this comic. Wait, shit, do you mean this art? It's not exactly fitting for a serious TF comic, but it's not bad art.
noble_prime
I was looking forward to this. Then I saw that God awful art, and decided no.
Veritas Prime
That was pretty cute and I can't wait to see what the other holiday stories are like.
Grimwing
Oh hey Obsidian. Nice to see him hovering around.
Who's the unicorn one on the first page? Some recolor of battle unicorn?
Usually this style makes the characters indistinguishable. But a more comical take on the darker mainline story may be refreshing.
Warzonebeta
So Screamer starts Transformer Christmas…. or well the dictator version.
So now im betting because Optimus steals limelights it turns to Prime-mas Day. The Scavengers hear about it and make Transformers Kwanzaa.
And on the Lost Light, Megatron invents Transformers Hanukah….
Everyone laughs, has a blast, learns a lesson, and carves up some holiday enerham.
Digilaut
Yeah, wasn't a fan of this artist on the Windblade series itself, but the style works great for a story like this. Just hope there won't be many empty backgrounds in this one.