IDW have released their September 2018 solicitations catalog. This September we have some great titles ahead:
- Star Trek Vs Transformers #1 – Cover A: Philip Murphy. Philip Murphy’s A & B covers connect to form an amazing heroes and villains image!
- Star Trek Vs Transformers #1 – Cover B: Philip Murphy. Philip Murphy’s A & B covers connect to form an amazing heroes and villains image!
- Optimus Prime #24 – Cover A: Kei Zama
- Optimus Prime #24 – Cover B: Andrew Griffith. Unicron is approaching and Optimus Prime and the Autobots have to act.
- Transformers Bumblebee Movie Prequel TP From Cybertron Love – Cover: Sara Pitre-Durocher. The official prequel to the new Bumblebee film. Collects issues #1-4.
- Transformers Lost Light #24 – Cover A: Nick Roche
- Transformers Lost Light #24 – Cover B: Geoff Senior. Only two issues left to close a story six years in the making. Rodimus and his crew are about to face their final battle.
- Transformers Unicron #5 Cover A: Alex Milne
- Transformers Unicron #5 Cover B: James Raiz. The penultimate issue of this saga which is the end of the IDW universe. Optimus Prime himself will have to deal with Unicron.
- Transformers Bumblebee Movie Prequel#4 – Cover A: Andrew Griffith
- Transformers Bumblebee Movie Prequel #4 – Cover B: Fico Ossio.
You can check out all of the solicits, together with their excellent cover artwork, attached to this post after the jump. Then, you can sound off on the 2005 Boards!
STAR TREK VS TRANSFORMERS #1 – Cover A: Philip Murphy
(W) John Barber, Mike Johnson (A/CA) Philip Murphy
The Transformers ’80s cartoon series meets Star Trek: The Animated Series in a no-holds-barred Saturday Morning mash-up for the ages!
At the edge of Klingon space, the starship Enterprise finds there’s more to the final frontier than meets the eye, when Kirk and his crew come face to face with the strangest life forms of all: Cybertronians! This unprecedented crossover brings together two of the greatest science fiction universes of all time-in the style of their classic animated series! A five-year mission meets a four-million-year war!
Written by two titans of their respective properties, John Barber (Optimus Prime, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel) and Mike Johnson (the most prolific Star Trek comic book writer of ALL TIME!)!
Philip Murphy’s A & B covers connect to form an amazing heroes and villains image!
In Shops: Sep 26, 2018 – SRP: $3.99
STAR TREK VS TRANSFORMERS #1 – Cover B: Philip Murphy
(W) John Barber, Mike Johnson (A/CA) Philip Murphy
In Shops: Sep 26, 2018 – SRP: $3.99
OPTIMUS PRIME #24 – Cover A: Kei Zama
(W) John Barber (A) Andrew Griffith (CA) Kei Zama
YOUTH IN REVOLT! As Unicron approaches, Optimus Prime’s colonist soldiers take matters into their own hands. With Autobot forces spread thin, will anybody stand in their way? And-more importantly-SHOULD anybody stop them?
*Retailers: See your order form for incentive information.
Ties-in to the Unicron event!
Part of the summer of Transformers-all building up to the end of the universe as we know it!
The penultimate issue before the conclusion you have to see to believe!
In Shops: Sep 19, 2018 – SRP: $3.99
OPTIMUS PRIME #24 – Cover B: Andrew Griffith
(W) John Barber (A) Andrew Griffith (CA) Andrew Griffith
In Shops: Sep 19, 2018 – SRP: $3.99
TRANSFORMERS BUMBLEBEE MOVIE PREQUEL TP FROM CYBERTRON LOVE – Cover: Sara Pitre-Durocher
(W) John Barber (A) Andrew Griffith (CA) Sara Pitre-Durocher
Fan-favorite Autobot Bumblebee is recruited for a top secret mission, and 1960s London won’t know what hit it when this robot in disguise goes undercover. It’s high-tech, high-octane, high-clearance spy hijinks in…. From Cybertron with Love.
Some call him Goldfender, but the name’s Bee… Bumblebee. On loan to MI6 and teamed with a human partner, Bee’s trapped in the middle of a Cold War plot to disrupt British Secret Intelligence. But when their base is destroyed from within, it’s up to Bee to discover if there’s a traitor in their midst…and, in the spy world, allegiances can change just as easily as a Cybertronian. Collects issues #1-4!
Advance solicited for October release!
The official prequel to the new Bumblebee film, in theaters December 2018.
In Shops: Oct 03, 2018 – SRP: $14.99
TRANSFORMERS LOST LIGHT #24 – Cover A: Nick Roche
(W) James Roberts (A) Brendan Cahill (CA) Nick Roche
LAST STAND! All they wanted was an adventure. Now, as worlds turn to dust and every sacred truth is undone, as everything they’ve run from catches up with them and every gruesome future comes to pass, Rodimus and his loved ones just want it all to stop. But the end of the universe waits for no one, and so the survivors of the Lost Light must take up arms… for the very last time.
*Retailers: See your order form for incentive information.
Only two issues left! Closing a story six years in the making!
Don’t miss the B cover by beloved Transformers artist Geoff Senior!
In Shops: Sep 26, 2018 – SRP: $3.99
TRANSFORMERS LOST LIGHT #24 – Cover B: Geoff Senior
(W) James Roberts (A) Jack Lawrence (CA) Geoff Senior
In Shops: Sep 26, 2018 – SRP: $3.99
TRANSFORMERS UNICRON #5 Cover A: Alex Milne
(W) John Barber (A/CA) Alex Milne
THE END IS HERE! The Transformers bots make one last, desperate stand against Unicron, as Optimus Prime plunges deep into the monster-and into the dark history that spawned them both.
*Retailers: See your order form for incentive information.
The final battle rages as Unicron attacks the Earth!
Jam-packed with guest stars in a battle for survival-but will anyone make it out alive?
In Shops: Sep 12, 2018 – SRP: $4.99
TRANSFORMERS UNICRON #5 Cover B: James Raiz
(W) John Barber (A) Alex Milne (CA) James Raiz
THE END IS HERE! The Transformers bots make one last, desperate stand against Unicron, as Optimus Prime plunges deep into the monster-and into the dark history that spawned them both.
*Retailers: See your order form for incentive information.
The final battle rages as Unicron attacks the Earth!
Jam-packed with guest stars in a battle for survival-but will anyone make it out alive?
In Shops: Sep 12, 2018 – SRP: $4.99
TRANSFORMERS BUMBLEBEE MOVIE PREQUEL #4 – Cover A: Andrew Griffith
(W) John Barber (A/CA) Andrew Griffith
In 1960s England, Bumblebee and his super-spy allies infiltrate the Decepticons’ clandestine island headquarters. Is it a trap? Of course it’s a trap. But in the high-stakes game of counterintelligence, who’s trapping who?
*Retailers: See your order form for incentive information.
The prequel to the new Bumblebee film (coming this winter), geared toward a younger audience!
Sometimes serious, sometimes campy action spy adventure for fans of James Bond or Mission Impossible!
In Shops: Sep 12, 2018 – SRP: $3.99
TRANSFORMERS BUMBLEBEE MOVIE PREQUEL #4 – Cover B: Fico Ossio
(W) John Barber (A) Andrew Griffith (CA) Fico Ossio
In Shops: Sep 12, 2018 – SRP: $3.99
CleverNamePendingatron
Fair.
Digger
You started it!
CleverNamePendingatron
This board got weird.
Digger
Not movieverse hound kind of beards, more like scourge or wreck gar. That’s their defining features.
CleverNamePendingatron
Woah woah woah, let's not get too crazy. A moustache is one thing. A beard though? That's taking things too far.
Digger
Get some beards going on!
CleverNamePendingatron
Start with Megatron being good and see him gradually break bad. From idealistic freedom fighter to power mad tyrant. We got that through flashbacks in the current continuity, but it’d be really interesting to see it right from the start.
Just don’t make him a flat, two-dimensional villain again. Megatron can be really interesting if done right, but he can also be really boring.
kmc
Indeed. Recent stories tend to explore a 'Megatron turned into a good guy' (IDW, POTP) thing while Optimus is somehow in the gray zone,. How about Megs being good from the start?
CleverNamePendingatron
I always thought it was a missed opportunity that IDW never explored the Shattered Glass version of their reality. Maybe next time. Moustaches and picnics for all!
kmc
While we are talking about moustache, could the reboot include a SG continuity, so that Rodimus Unicronus can organize his picnic?
CleverNamePendingatron
Or just slap a moustache on white OP and everyone’s happy. In fact, why stop there? Slap a moustache of everyone. I for one am ready for IDW’s moustache-verse reboot.
MistaTee
Dammit Jim, it's a robot, not a city!
Digger
So it looks like metroplex is gonna be in the crossover. This is not gonna go well.
spikebuster
No thank you!
MistaTee
Yes. Minimus Ambus must continue! Much better than the white O.P.
MistaTee
It can be retooled into Powermaster Prime (Hi-Q, Prime, Powermaster).
ilovebw
maybe it\'s knockout who fights aganist bbb in the last cover?
sharkrainbow
if we're extremely lucky and the Magnus Armour is a thing that carries over to future iterations, maybe it will happen!
CleverNamePendingatron
Hasbro's really missing a strong marketing opportunity in not releasing an Ultra Magnus babushka doll.
MistaTee
Yeah, there's a big Minimus Ambus shell that stores the tiny one. He's sort of a double Pretender. It was seen before during the Tyrest arc in MTMTE.