IDW held a panel at SDCC today highlighting the future of their comic properties. The huge story arc titled Revolution will kick things off tying in all properties into one continuity. Some highlights from the panel (courtesy of Newsarama’s coverage):
- Revolution will bring all of IDW’s toy properties together: Transformers, G.I. Joe, M.A.S.K., Action Man, Rom, The Micronauts, and more.
- Revolution centers around Ore 13, you may remember this from past Transformers books.
- Mairghread Scott discussed Transformers: Til All Are One, mentioning that the Transformers will primarily crossover with the Micronauts during Revolution.
James Roberts took to Twitter as well to clear some details up regarding the fate of More Than Meets The Eye:
- The MTMTE Revolution tie-in is written by Roberts and Nick Roche . The Last Stand Of The Wreckers team reunited after six years!
- MTMTE will be called TRANSFORMERS: LOST LIGHT. It will be “MTMTE” season 3 with a new title.
- There will be SPOILERS floating about that will spoil the ending of Dying Of The Light. Comics Alliance has coverage of these reports. READ AT YOUR OWN SPOILERS-RISK.
- Jack Lawrence and Alex Milne will both be working on the new book, providing artwork on alternating arcs.
- Colors will be handled by Joana Lafuente.
In addition to Roberts’s discussions on Twitter, Comics Alliance sat down with him for an interview in which they discuss the future of MTMTE (and SPOILERS):
- Scavengers will be featured in the MTMTE tie-in with Revolution in an Earth-based story.
- No plans for the main cast of MTMTE to travel to Earth post-Revolution.
- Numbering and name changes don’t affect past, present, or future parts of the story.
- Season 3 will take everyone in strange directions.
- Movie-inspired stories have been on the back burner and Roberts hopes to implement them into the new series organically.
- No remorse for making fans cry over Chromedome and Rewind.
Mairghread Scott was also interviewed about Till All Are One and Windblade and where she fits into all of this:
- Iacon the only habitable city on Cybertron currently.
- Scott wants to tell the story from different points of view such as Onslaught and Starscream in addition to Windblade.
- Till All Are One is about the messiness of people from all walks of life.
- Trying to build new stories that feel real enough to readers without being “too” real or too close to actual current events.
Optimus Goat
Rodimus' new deco….the colours of Cyclonus and Tailgate….
*braces self for upcoming horror*
Haywired
I'm sad to see Griffith go.
Autovolt 127
Probably because they want people to get into something new hip and cool.
It's all a rebranding, it still gonna be the same comic.
No this is G2 Rodimus.
File:HotrodG2Marvelcomic.jpg – Transformers Wiki
soundwaverulls
Wait, MTMTE is getting rebranded? So if I were to read through Titans Return, I could say I've read through all of MTMTE, and simply not pick up Lost Light. Or I could just count TR as its own thing, and pretend Dying of the Light is MTMTE's end. Yeah, I'm going with the latter.
G1 Warpath
It's G2 Rodimus.
Fenrys
For those moaning about Optimus being one of the thirteen, I've said this before but the seeds for that were sown back in autocracy when Orion pax got the matrix from metroplex. Seriously reread the dialogue from metroplex at that part. Wether you like that book or not autocracy is canon
Autovolt 127
Lost Light is a legit great name replacement for MTMTE.
I do wonder what the deal is with Rodimus's new deco and why he's got it.
So Barber's Ongoing is now going to be Optimus Prime…..ugh. Give me a break.
Glad Alex Milne isn't getting sacked.
Sockie
All that's been said about movies is that Roberts has some "movie-inspired stories" that he's had on the backburner for a while now when asked about doing stories with different genres in LL. And he doesn't say that any of the movies are Transformers ones.
Also, what's up with the front page article not mentioning the Optimus book at all?
kaijuguy19
They said that the Lost Light book will have elements from the movies right? If so then I'm very curious to see what they'll have in there and it's very fitting if they also take elements from the Last Knight since that's very much focused on Knights and the goal in the MTMTE comics ia fter all finding the Knights of Cybertron.
grindcore138
OK, but how is it confusing? The only people that might actually be confused is someone who's, like, drifted away from comics for a while and decided to come back post-relaunch. I get being a bit annoyed but it's still the same comic at the end of the day. It means nothing.
Comic books do this all the time anyway:
It might be a bit annoying but, well, not much point getting angry about it.
And this. #1's always generate more sales and interest.
Probe
Because putting out a new #1 will make more money.
Chronix
The answer to that is simple.
Don't renumber it. That just makes things confusing too. Why not just continue instead of randomly resetting the issue number for seemingly no reason?
Omegashark18
Exactly this.
grindcore138
The expanded IDW-verse is the IDW Transformers universe, so no one's going anywhere, including the Scavengers.
Confusing in what way? If anything it's less confusing that it has a new subtitle what with it being renumbered as well.
And it's less of a mouthful "Hey, did you get Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Volume 2 #1 in last week?"
Chronix
Why rename MTMTE? Are they trying to make things more confusing or something?
Windsweeper II
Cant seem to find the Unicron thing, but i think its a bad idea unless he stays behind the scenes for a long long time and eventually after a long long long long long time gets to eat the IDW verse, cause it'll be major anticlimax if its a batlle against Unicron again.
Yeaay for the Scavengers, the more Scavenger centric stories we get the better.
Good new name for mtmte but exRID should have become Cybertron or something, OP feels to specific.
Nis Randers
As an European citizen, who was sleeping while they annouced the new Transformers Comics and who now goes on Twitter and TF Forums:
I am not going to set any prejudices or bias. It will happen anyway. I wonder how Rodimus got purple. I hope the Scavengers will be still in the new universe.
Megastar
Liking what i'm hearing so far.
Murasame
Awesome! Not reading the spoilers tho
ZombehDino
Glad to hear that we won't have to wait long for more action with the Scavengers!