Thanks to 2005 Boards member The Kup for sharing the IDW Transformers: Optimus Prime #15 Cover A and Retailer Incentive Cover in our forums.
Popular artist Kei Zama tweeted her cover A art, line art and pencils featuring Optimus Prime, Windblade and Mistress Of Flame who are facing a mysterious and menacing giant eye over them.
The Retailer Incentive Cover comes from artist Brendan Cahill and surfaced via Previews World and we can see a fight between Optimus and Megatron where Megatron is getting a free left punch on his face.
You can see the mirrored images after the jump and then sound off at the 2005 Boards!
Fallout
that eye reminds me a lot of junji ito's hellstar remina. very fitting.
jaws
The horns of Unicron are here!
The Kup
Clean version of Cover A:
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Heliblade
THERE IS NO LIFE IN THE VOID ONLY DEATH
Ottertron
I only meant in reference to the text on the front page at the head of the article. It says 'Kei Zama tweeted HIS…', when it should be 'tweeted HER'
TargetmasterJoe
That's what I was saying.
Ottertron
Kei Zama is a woman, btw.
Macross7
Do people who aren't normally into a book grab it based on the cover and not even glance inside before buying it?
The Kup
True.
The Kup
Yeah, that can very well happen on occasion, but it probably doesn't happen often (or does it?), though when it does happen, well, that's just that.
Haywired
It doesn't mean that the publisher can't tell the artist comissioned to make variant cover to more or less keep with what's in the book… Or at least to not do something that's definitely not in the book.
ultramagnus1
I agree but unfortunately these have been around a long time.
I do miss the marvel UK days where you got one cover and you sucked it up lol.
Joey Slick
That makes sense except if one of these non-canon versions is the only one left on the rack, and that happens to be the one a new reader picks up.
Ahh, who am I kidding? TF books don't gain new readers anymore. They only shed existing ones.
TargetmasterJoe
To the writer of this passage, Kei Zama's a lady, not a guy. So you might need to fix that "his" into a "her."
The Kup
I see where you're coming from, but I disagree. Covers like these should not stop just because it confuses a reader, that's why we have the main cover because it gives a general idea of what will/might happen within a comic. Retailer incentive covers are more of a collector's item because they are produced and distributed in much smaller numbers, thus making it rarer and harder to find/get.
Haywired
Those completely unrelated incentive covers that say nothing of the book need to end. This is ridiculous and confusing for the readers.
ultramagnus1
So Unicron arrives…..surprise surprise
ILoveDinobot
I know some people like this art, but the art in the OP comics really turns me off.
Chris McFeely
Because it's a retailer-incentive cover, aka, the ones where they bring on an artist to do whatever they feel like.
BrutiKing
I’m confused. Megs is in a different universe from what I understand. He’s also an autobot now. Why is prime punching him?