Thanks to IGN.com we can share a very nice Interview with David Hedgecock about First Strike, Hasbro Universe, And Unicron.
David Hedgecock is IDW Editor-in-Chief and he shares some interesting information regarding the future of Hasbro Universe in the IDW comics, and the introduction of the biggest menace into the Transformers Universe: Unicron.
Unicron was revealed in the last San Diego Comicon, and now the end of the First Strike event prepares the return the planet-sized Transformer together with the future “Transformers vs. Visionaries” comic on December.
You can now click on the bar to read some highlights or the full article and see the images IGN has shared on the article, but be careful since it will contain spoilers if you haven’t read First Strike #6 final issue.
ultramagnus1
From the interview it looks like Unicron will be primarily a tf problem. Which for people like me is great news.
hardlurk
some people need transformers comics to be a safe space where they aren't reminded of things that offend them, such as, the existence of other hasbro franchises, or the fact that those franchises are now canonically part of the transformers canon
ultramagnus1
You've written it off before it even properly started.
I do remember from the IDW forum days a lot of negativity surrounding your posts. I often wondered why you bothered reading IDW sometimes
I also remember us getting into a heated and pointless debate over the validity of owning cw leader Megatron too.
When it comes to transformers you really aren't as much of an optimist that you think you are.
Haywired
Yes, it does.
Because you have something definitely not-TF being the main cause behind a TF event.
There's no way to deny it nor to pretend it's not there.
And this pretty much already killed my future interest with the entire Unicron story arc, for good.
But I'm an optimist, though. The money I'll save on books can be spent on figures… Or smokes. Or beer. Or whatever.
There's always the bright side to everything.
Danny-Boy
…not really.
Haywired
And then your recap page will end mentioning Merklynn, so my point stands.
Thanks.
ultramagnus1
You don't technically need to read any tf comics these days. The tfwiki takes care of that with pics and quotes from every issue. Hasbro know this and more importantly idw. So they will post a pic in the article because chances are that pic is on the tfwiki somewhere.
That's the way of the world and IDW have to roll with it. A massive reaveal like that will end up on social media and someone will scan the pic anyway.
Danny-Boy
For someone who’s been reading comics for so long, I’m surprised you’ve never heard of a “recap page.” Or “expositing last issue’s events in the story.”
Haywired
The cause and the effect.
If you're going to know why Unicron was called, then there's no way to avoid the previous event.
Jalaguy
What does the first Unicron reveal being in First Strike have to do with the content of the Unicron event? IDW have even posted the Unicron-teasing epilogue for free online (in the article this thread is about), so it's not like you even have to go buy First Strike #6 if you want to read it.
Haywired
Lots of editorial PR stuff but I follow comic books long enough to never believe any PR until I see it in print.
For once, they can try to their heart content to make Unicron a TF-only event after it was already broken by being kickstarted the way it wa sin the First Fail. Kinda too late for this.
Purple Heart
Then it’s time to just make movie comics in their own universe with a better continuity, and they just loosely follow the events of the movies after they are released.
Purple Heart
It always kinda has, though I’m not entirelt sure if was intentional when Floro Derey was designing them.
Enigma2K2
I dunno why I never noticed this before… does Unicron's planet mode from the front kinda look like a matrix?
ultramagnus1
Yeah was going to say that. A stray shot hits primus causing him to scream which the big guy hears.
There's nothing new under the sun or so they say.
Brave Magnus
Funny you say that, I said the exact same thing to a couple friends this morning. xD
Shepard Prime
Paramount…eh. Man, if it wasn't for Dreamworks Animation and the Mission Impossible series, I'd Monkey's Paw their existence away in the most horrible way possible and even then, I'm getting close to writing that all off as collateral damage for what needs to happen to free the various franchises they own from their clutches.
Moy
Jalaguy
Paramount stopped cooperating with licensees after DOTM, meaning that they can't get scripts ahead of time in order to write comics. An IDW staffer mentioned on Tumblr ages back that Hasbro and IDW both wanted to keep doing movie comics, but the studio shut them out.
Moy
If only this was the movieverse.
Sonhas Hasbro just give up on movie comics?