Included in the digital version of this week’s Micronauts #7, IDW Publishing has released a five-page preview for the first issue of the new Optimus Prime ongoing, due for release this month. As Optimus reflects on his past as a police officer on Cybertron, events are also transpiring in the present, and you can check it out for yourself in the preview pages attached to this post.
MatrixOfWumbo
Wow! The coloring here is almost Wreckers-quality. This is pretty cool.
SG Roadbuster
technically, Nova was a legitimate Prime. he did have the actual Matrix after all. he just also happened to be a racist dick.
Optimax Prime
cool
Chris McFeely
They wanted control of the Matrix. Nominus wouldn't have given it to them, so they killed him and replaced him with someone who worked for them. Doesn't mean Nominus was a good guy – Functionist Cybertron came into being under his rule.
Toonstrack
I had no interest in this at all, but looking at that artwork, I now may not be able to pass it up.
Digilaut
Guess I forgot! Ima shut up now!
Edit: oh yeah of course, how me so dumb! I now remember when his faceplate gets shot off it does indeed shows his mouth. Oops!
Stryker055
Exactly, but there had to have been some reason they wanted to replace Nominus with Sentinel. If Nominus was 100% on board with the Senate's agenda, there'd be no need to replace him.
Coffee
I thought the reason Nominus was killed was so that the Senate would be able to possess the Matrix through their Head of Security: Sentinel Prime. But when it turned out the Matrix was a fake, they killed Nominus and let Sentinel take over from there.
Sockie
Soundwave and Arcee are all over covers, and #3's been said to delve more into Soundwave's view on Optimus, so I wouldn't worry too much about them being left behind.
GWolfv2
But apart from the Thirteen who were in tribal times, we've SEEN all the Primes. Nova, Nominus, Sentinel and Zeta. All false Primes and all part of a system of social corruption. Optimus is the only actual Prime since the Thirteen. Everyone else has always been a politically corrupt bigot. Since that's the story conceit I don't have many issues with it.
I am hoping the new cast doesn't alienate Soundwave, Arcee et al because they've still got loads they can do.
Stryker055
To be fair, the political climate of pre-war Cybertron kind of makes a "good Prime" impossible, since it was governed by a corrupt Senate that mostly had control over the Primes (or, specifically, who became Prime). The Senate isn't going to choose an equality-promoting paragon to make Prime, they're going to choose someone like Sentinel, whose ideals align with theirs. Zeta's an exception since he was 'Primed' after the Senate was killed, and turned out to be a total psychopath (though there are implications that Zeta had some shady dealings with the Senate beforehand).
It's also worth noting that Nominus Prime was killed by the Senate for some undisclosed reason. It's possible that Nominus was actually a pretty decent guy who was trying to do good things before he got Ides of March'd.
Autovolt 127
I still refuse to believe Sentinel Prime won't ever return.
FRIGGIN THIS^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
That is a growing pet peeve of mine with IDW.
QLRformer
I'm getting a little tired with this "Primes are selfish, decadent and corrupt except for Optimus" angle. Optimus can't possibly be the only good Prime among them all.
WilyMech
It looks awesome
Novaburnhilde
Love Kei's artwork, looking forward to seeing more.
payres
The series now has a page on Comixology, with issue 1 available to preorder:
comiXology.com (US) Optimus Prime Digital Comics
comiXology.co.uk Optimus Prime Digital Comics
Johntimus Prime
Sigh. Too bad IDW's still running with the "Autobots were the REAL history's greatest monsters!" thing. I mean, there has to be another, better way to explain the genesis of the Decepticon movement. I'm just tired of IDW comics making practically every important character into giant assholes.
Josh
This design was shown with a mouth in the chaos theory books so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Digilaut
Didn't this Orion Pax body not have a mouth? I remember it being a deal when he temporarily switches bodies for his Spotlight (and Blurr's).
Either way, nice art! <3
Fallout
hey, so when tappet's yelling about THIS GUY is THIS GUY outback or is he saying 'this guy' in another way?
also, outback's kind of a douche. good thing kup kills him.