For IDW Optimus Prime readers, we can report that IDW Optimus Prime Vol. 3 Is Available for Pre-Order On Amazon.
You can find the pre-order on this link for $19.99. It’s expected to be released on July 10, 2018. This TPB Collects Transformers: Optimus Prime issues #11-14 and the Optimus Prime: First Strike and Transformers: First Strike one-shots for an easy reading that includes the events in the most recent multi-crossover event in the Hasbro Comic Universe.
Transformers: Optimus Prime, Vol. 3 Paperback
John Barber (Author), Kei Zama (Illustrator)
New threats emerge, both on Cybertron and Earth, as the saga of Optimus Prime and the Autobots continues. What new future will the Transformers face?
With Optimus Prime trapped on Cybertron, embroiled in the First Strike event, the Autobots on Earth set off on a mission to find their missing friend, Jazz. But anti-Cybertronian humans are after him as well, and they’re armed with Cybertronian weapons!
Then, in the wake of First Strike, Optimus ventures into the wilderness of Cybertron to search for the first new Cybertronian life to emerge in four million years! And, as if that’s not enough to deal with, he soon finds himself facing off with the Dinobots, whose newest member is two miles tall and eats cities!
You can see the impressive cover of this TPB after the jump and then sound off at the 2005 Boards!
HereticalHeresy
Or maybe you shouldn't snap at someone, when someone criticizes something for being questionable, especially when it's unlikely as it's an RI cover being used. But hey, I'll say no hard feelings.
Mattymo
Don’t take a cover and instantly accuse a company they don’t know what they’re doing. Didn’t take much thought to look at that cover and know what was going to be going on especially with that’s going on currently in the books.
HereticalHeresy
You know I almost respected your post until you had to ruin the whole thing with that last bit.
Remember, just because you're hidden on the internet doesn't give you the excuse to be a jerk.
Mattymo
Here’s an idea, This is post first strike and what happened in first strike? The return of visionaries. VISIONaries. Cybertron is no longer home to just cybertronians. Optimus and co go into the wilds of Cybertron as stated and they see visions of things that will mess with their heads like Megatron, Rodimus, bumblebee and Soundwave as an enemy.
It’s amazing what happens when you actually think.
HereticalHeresy
There's nothing that can possibly happen in an issue that make that cover fit any sort of current context of what's going on in IDW. Is it nice art? Yes it is. But it's so very misleading.
Rodimus has a completely different paint job and along with Ratchet is in a completely different series
Megatron is in an entirely different dimension and still and Autobot
Soundwave is on Prime's team.
Starscream is leader of Cybertron
Bumblebee's dead
Windblade is there so it's not a flashback
There's really nothing they can do in a short period of time that would have that fit any sort of context. Again, it's not bad art, but being the cover of a trade, definitely misleading. You don't want new readers to get annoyed thinking this is just a classic Optimus and company vs Megatron and company.
Bumblebee2000
It's the incentive for #12. It's a nice RI, which don't have to be as topical, but what the hell it's doing as a TPB cover is something else…
The Kup
Yeah, that's what I was thinking as well. A better choice of cover for volume 3 should've been #11's cover b since it's relevant to the storyline and it's not misleading to people who are just now starting to read Optimus Prime or getting into the comics.
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Mattymo
The issue for that cover isn’t out yet so maybe be patient insteadof jumping to conclusions and passing judgement
HereticalHeresy
Man, that cover is really bad. Not in the artwork, couldn't they at least have done something that was in semi-relation to what's going on? Unless is this art for something else entirely?
Black Convoy
Thanks for sharing!
Lucas35
This appeared on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/168405270X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_KRh9zbRGN5T4K
Transformers: Optimus Prime, Vol. 3
New threats emerge, both on Cybertron and Earth, as the saga of Optimus Prime and the Autobots continues. What new future will the Transformers face?
With Optimus Prime trapped on Cybertron, embroiled in the First Strike event, the Autobots on Earth set off on a mission to find their missing friend, Jazz. But anti-Cybertronian humans are after him as well, and they're armed with Cybertronian weapons!
Then, in the wake of First Strike, Optimus ventures into the wilderness of Cybertron to search for the first new Cybertronian life to emerge in four million years! And, as if that's not enough to deal with, he soon finds himself facing off with the Dinobots, whose newest member is two miles tall and eats cities!
Collects Transformers: Optimus Primeissues #11-14 and the Optimus Prime: First Strike and Transformers: First Strike one-shots.
Publication date July 10, 2018