Thanks to Comic Book Resources, we have our first details of the upcoming IDW Transformers comic Till All Are One. Releasing this June from writer Mairghread Scott and artist Sara Pitre-Durocher (who previously worked on the Combiner Hunters issue), Till All Are One picks up where Windblade #7 left off. Here are the details provided by IDW and CBR:
Transformers: Till All Are One #1—SPOTLIGHT
Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a & c)
PEACE IN OUR TIME! STARSCREAM and WINDBLADE have given everything to bring together CYBERTRON’s Lost Colonies into a Council Of Worlds. But when the increasingly brutal tactics of STARSCREAM’s secret police increase tension among the former DECEPTICONS… how long can the Council maintain this fragile peace?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers: Till All Are One #1—Subscription Variant
Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a) • Priscilla Tramontano (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
• As OPTIMUS PRIME conquers Earth and the Lost Light explores space, life on CYBERTRON heats up!
• Fan-favorite superstars Mairghread Scott (Windblade, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy television show) and Sara Pitre-Durocher (Combiner Hunters, Transformers) reunite!
• WINDBLADE variant cover by Sara Pitre-Durocher!
• WINDBLADE variant cover by Alex Milne!
We’ll know more in the coming weeks, as well as upcoming previews. Discuss after the jump!
jamarmiller
Yes please
BScorpinok75
Can anyone share images of Greenlight and Lancer…from this issue…
AshleyCuadra
This issue is after all hail optimus prime
StarScheme
IDW Transformers universe is weird
Rakzo
I must say that I prefer Stone's work over Pitre-Durocher's despite of my praises. Stone's style is pretty distinctive and creates a lot of interesting layouts along beautiful characters with great range of emotions.
Pitre-Durocher's art is more standard stuff, good looking standard stuff but standard stuff nonetheless.
Haywired
TBH I also prefer Pitre-Durocher art.
Much more suited for comic books and much less cute-ified.
Chaotic
She's been given enough work that I'd hope people would recognize that her art is fully deserving of appreciation on it's own merit.
In many cases(the only exception for me are bots with face-plates and what I've seen of her humans) I prefer Pitre-Durocher's lines over Windblade's original artist. I like the strong, solid feel to her bots and her designs maintain a lovely aesthetic while also remaining recognizable with the toy designs.
(I also feel like she puts less emphasis on certain… physically Feminine aspects that I am of the opinion transformers have little use in possessing, and I definitely count that as a plus)
Now, if they could somehow bring Stone back as a colorist, I'd be eternally grateful.
In other news, M Scott is pregnant! Best of luck to her and her family!
GoLion
I'm talking about the woman who drew the Victorian character models. Her stuff is fantastic.
Collectibot
Sara Pitre-Durocher will be selling posters at BotCon 2016. There's one she can't show yet.
Murasame
While Sara Pitre-Durocher also has nice art, I think Sarah Stone's art is much better and sometimes I have the feeling that people mix them up, because both worked at Windblade and both are called Sara(h).
StarScheme
i dunno why but i keep thinking of this as a companion book much in the way that Jonathan Hickman's New Avengers were to his main avengers book
GoLion
Agreed. I'd like to see Pitre-Durocher as a fill in on MTMTE. I love her stuff. Her style is vibrant and so unique. She's a great artist, one of the best at IDW.
I remember back when Scott was initially brought on to write transformers. I was excited. I couldn't wait for the new blood to help reinvigorate the franchise(I never read any of her Prime stuff). Then I read that first Windblade mini… Man, what a boring let down with such odd character motivation. Chromia misses her home so she decided to commit an act of terrorism. OK!
It just goes downhill from there. Essentially most of Scott's stories are extremely light on story. I mean, most of her stuff could be cut in half and still feel like only half of a story.
Scott has had some glimpses of good writing. She gets some characters right on the money, the problem is that is more of the exception than the rule.
I'm still trepidatiously excited for TAAO, but this is the final straw. If this is just more of the same boring stuff… Well, I've already said what I will do.
Great post. You've pretty much summed up by my feelings about her writing.
Autovolt 127
I'm somewhat interested but my expectations are low.
I'm amazed they're marketing this as that.
star_ling
I have an unfair bias against Scott and unfortunately her writing gives me no reason to change my mind, but I do enjoy the way that she writes Starscream and want to give her the benefit of the doubt. I hesitate because everything and everyone else she writes puts me off, if this was being co written by Barber (whose pre DC Starscream I also really enjoyed) or Roberts then I would feel a bit better.
I will wait for reviews. On a more positive note, the artists they always pair her with are some of my favorites.
G1 Warpath
Wait, I finally get it! They're calling Scott fan favourite because she's evryone's favourite writer to hate on! And it's true.
ezim93
I'm looking forward to this. I really enjoyed the first Windblade miniseries and didn't mind the second one that much even though it wasn't as good. I'm glad we're getting this before Titan Wars though, I always thought one of the second miniseries shortcomings was it's reliance on Combiner Wars.
Spumoni Dingo
Combaticons on the cover?
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ IDW give Bruticus plz
ClatterShards
Yeesh
Since being from the Functionalist Era and surviving through the Great War, you would think that Starscream would take a few notes from those times and do a bit better in trying to meet some of the needs of the people on Cybertron but I guess having a ruthless and brutal secret police antagonizing the populace is the way to go for Starscream.