iBooks has uploaded the preview for the next issue of IDW Publishing’s Optimus Prime, which marks the beginning of the book’s next major arc, “The Falling.” Kei Zama returns to interiors as Caminus’s Mistress of Flame remembers her past and her first encounter with a Prime: specifically, Onyx Prime! It’s a story that’s been in the making for several years, and you can read the first three pages after the break before picking the issue up on January 17.
Autovolt 127
Finally Primal and Beast Megatron…..YESSSSSS!
fishpop
Oh hi Primal, B'Boom, Minor (I think) & someone else!
Primal looks pretty badass in those colours.
Nemesis Primal? I'd buy an NP repaint of the upcoming Leader Primal.
RazorclawX
It also subsequently revealed that the Quintessons were duped into following the Oracle's plan so ultimately it went right back to where it started.
Haywired
No wizards this time?
IDW I'm so disapooint…
RobotKnight95
Yeah. Aileron is going to take her place.
General Tekno
He could even just become a religious leader, not a political one.
It's been implied Mistress of Flame's not gonna be around forever since the visions in TF 50.
Negativedark
Yes well Primal wasn't the only one. Let's not forget what happened to Rattrap, poor guy.
And the reaction to the Oracle and the whole techno organic cybertron… Didn't the fan club retcon that to a Quintesion plot or something?
We can't make out the colors, could be one of his repaints like Apeling.
I don't see how you could pull that off for Star Saber without something like having him turn out to have been Shadowplayed. Though I did come up with an interesting idea to use for Star Saber. Make him a religious convert to Christianity. I think it'd be very interesting to see a Transformer who's converted to a human religion. Probably have him be a Catholic.
As for Primal, we'll see if the new leader part even gets used. I mean Windblade just got elected that role in the comics, and they didn't exactly have everyone becoming headmasters for Titans Return.
Purple Heart
That’s something people seem to forget, that characters, like people, can change. This is why I wanted Star Saber to win. He could have gone from his zealot-extremist IDW personality and changed into something more akin to his Victory incarnation. That character change would have been massive, and I would have loved to have seen Star Saber break down upon realizing he himself(like Primal) was willing to commit genocide for false reasons. Hopefully Primal will have a change of heart and be more like his BW, or even his late-BM personality.
Omegashark18
He wasn’t a villain in The Covenant of Primus, where he was introduced.
BB Shockwave
I am just so disillusioned with anything IDW has done… and not of late. Furman\'s stories were building up slowly (as needed for a new comic franchise) but were going in the right direction. I wish we could get back to that, interesting stories focusing on smaller groups with some peroidic bigger events, instead of what seems like Apocalypse every Tuesday. Galvatron went out not with a bang but with a whimper, Sentinel fell off a cliff and that was that, we had undead Titans that just… resolved itself I think? And now they are throwing in every Beast Wars character who was not yet introduced (because they had a new toy that year, eh Rhinox, Waspinator, Rattrap?) under the literal wings of a villain who has such a name (Onyx Prime, really? Did he know he was going to be a supervillain when naming himself?) that I have seen in bad fanfics before only.
Also, why does the linguist lady looks like she transforms into a hippie VW van with rainbow colors? And why does she have tentacle-dreadlocks?
kaijuguy19
This. Not to mention that even if Primal was an extremist in IDW at some point it's not like he can't change from that and be more like we usually think of him. There's a lot of story potential to be made form him and I also wouldn't be shocked if BW Megatron decides to backstab Oynx Prime in order to gain control over the beasts leaving Primal to stop him.
I sure think so. She sadly isn't a great example of a religious leader in general even if she's not as bad as Tyrest. I'm still waiting for someone who does follow the faith of the Primes yet doesn't have blind loyalty to call her out on it.
Truth be told I don't think so. Sure some of them go through bad stuff but it's not like they haven't had their share of victories and come out all right,Windblade being a recent example of being Cybertron's new leader. It's not different from most male characters who have luck that aren't any better if not worse in IDW. They especially have a lot more to do as characters when compared to how TFA treated them which only had them be either plot devices or love interests/victims.
NanakoPreame
Is it me, or do the fembots have like the worse luck in IDW? Shoot, the G1 cartoon had better showing for them in one episode. Even TFA had done them better.
Omegashark18
Her blind faith in the Primes might definitely proof to be her undoing. Or she gets a big reality slap in her face and suffers a big time crisis of faith like Melisandre from Game of Thrones.
ultramagnus1
Loving this.
Bring it on.
Nocturne
Aw yiss! Bring on the Beasts!
Danny-Boy
That IS Primal.
Warpath1251
Look on the second page, middle panel, left side. I think that might be Optimus Primal.
jasonw
Beast Wars is G1.
Florgeysteve
The overall vibe the series has been building to is that Onyx feels as though the beast transformers were prejudice and possibly hunted and possibly eradicated in the times of Nova Prime. So this maybe his revenge against those who he felt wrong him and his people.
transform75
Bring on the beast wars