Via Comic Book Resources, we have a full preview of the Optimus Prime First Strike one shot. Tying into the IDW event that sees Baron Ironblood and the Red Shadows attacking Cybertron, this one shot has Optimus Prime and Arcee teaming up with the Revolutionaries – IDW’s cross-franchise team that boasts Kup, G.B. Blackrock, and Action Man among its members.
Of interest here is that we’re seeing Optimus Prime without his faceplate – a design which is very close to his new Transformers Cyberverse design.
Check out the full length preview attached to this post.
primalxconvoy
And they were referring to the concept of "too many cooks spoiling the broth". They used non-TF characters to illustrate their point.
primalxconvoy
It's what can happen to anyone, regardless of them reading them or not. Also, regardless of enter someone follows all the comics, a reader has to start from somewhere, and even those who ardently followed the core TF comic/s might be unsure as to which extra comics to buy. Those completely new to IDW TF comics more so.
Ergo, it's bloated.
RazorclawX
Well that's what happens if you only follow the comic previews and not the comics.
Danny-Boy
Dude, I was specifically questioning Snarl’s mentioning of non-Hasbro toys being somehow involved.
primalxconvoy
Quality, not quantity. It's overwhelming, the point of indifference, justlike the bloat in Marvel and DC comics, for some peeps.
Megastar
I'm wondering the same thing.
Danny-Boy
What are you even talking about?
primalxconvoy
Noone here noticed that, apart from the obvious G1 comics reference to Centurion, no mention has been made to the "fusion of man and machine"?
I was rather hoping our lad here would say "power extreme!" when he merged with faux-BB…
CleverNamePendingatron
First the tourism industry… Then the world!
It's only one giant purple griffin away from being their greatest scheme ever.
Black Convoy
Mirrored images on my post for easier reading.
Wheeljack_Prime
Undercutting Earth's tourism industries? Bastards…
dragon
Like this issue typical transformers issue humans on alien planet no need of space suits to breath, hearts of steel prime and bumblebee is hearts of steel bumblebee going to be reformatted into earth/ cybrtonian car
CleverNamePendingatron
It's the Decepticon's latest evil scheme: slowly steal all of Earth's b-list monuments and relocate them to Cybertron without anyone noticing.
Heliblade
They built a replica of the Seattle space needle lol what?
rendsora
He reminds me of Orion Pax..the police officer.
Dinobot Snarl
This young looking Optimus looks pretty cool, I think theres probably too much going on plot wise to follow, too many heroes from different universes, like having ninja turtles, thundercats, and gobots interacting, but I like the art.
CleverNamePendingatron
I hope we get to see more of Action Man and Kup once this is all over. They're way to fun of a pairing not to do anything with.
Knightsword
CBR has a ads or else paywall pop up now and the ads are terrible for security.
Lionheart
This Optimus is so adorable without the mouthplate. Now I'm wondering how much less passive-aggressive half the things Prime says would be if we could actually see him emote half the time.
Black Convoy
@Lucas35 it would be better to refer to the original source at CBR.com:
Optimus Prime: First Strike #1
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