Graphic Policy Website bring us the IDW Unicron #01 – Full Preview.
Curiously, this is in fact just a 4-page preview, adding just one more page to the first IBooks preview we had seen before, but we got a great gallery of the different covers from this issue. Covers A, B, Retailer Incentive A, B & C are shown. The end is near, and it seems Optimus and his friends can’t do anything stop it.
Transformers: Unicron #1 (of 6)
The Darkest Hour has come. Optimus Prime stages a desperate gamble as the world-eater, Unicron, approaches Windblade’s homeworld—but that’s just the appetizer. The main course is Cybertron (with a side of Earth)… and it’s starting to look like no force in the galaxy can stop the end from coming.
Release: July, 2018
FC • 32 pages • $4.99
Don’t forget to grab your copy when it’s available. You can check out the mirrored preview and all the amazing covers after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!
Beemer
Seems appropriate to me!
Targetmaster Kup
This issue made me think, what if this isn't really the end of this universe? What if this is the impetus to have IDW start a new Beast Wars comic after the Maximals win anything the Predacons rebel?
unknown456
I ended up reading it anyways (great issue, btw). All it really spoiled was what happens to ol' Shocky (which wasn't that hard to guess anyways), and what happens to his Maximals. I can completely live with those two spoilers.
AzT
IDW Publishing on Instagram: “Transformers Unicron #1 is now out in stores! Head to your local comic shop and pick up your copy before Unicron devours them all! ✍ .…”
Targetmaster Kup
It totally spoils it, so you might want to wait a month or two and read them all.
Targetmaster Kup
That was one hell of a comic. It spoils the next few issues of Optimus Prime, but I'm always down for more Maximals!
CopperPuppet
Well that cover is one hell of a throwback.
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Hadlen_Weltall
I like the swirling clouds confirming Unicron has his own atmosphere.
unknown456
So, will this have a lot of spoilers from The Falling Parts 5 and 6? If so, I might put off reading it till those come out. Even on the Story So Far page it had a pretty big spoiler (although, to be fair, it's not a particularly hard one to guess, but still…). Otherwise, looking forward to checking this out.
Grimlock528
Abso-Lutely!
Wheeljack_Prime
Unicron: COME ON, GUYS, I JUST WANT MY EYE BACK, IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?
Shockwave: Make me
DOTM Bumblebee
Who else is gonna read this thing while rocking out to the Unicron Medley from The Movie?
Fallout
well, i'm glad important, interesting and underused characters like… 90% of beast wars guys, are reduced to generic cannon fodder for the rest of the idw cast to just plow through.
RED342
we better have a onon one fight with Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal
Black Convoy
Proper source and image of this 4-page preview from graphicpolicy.com. Only one more page this time.:
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Lucas35
Full Preview:
Comics Preview – Transformers: Unicron #1 (of 5)
Deadend
It's likely an homage to it, probably not directly it. Though who knows. Comics can do multiverse theory, but they really haven't dabbled in that with transformers in a broader sense since the DW days. At most, it's likely an homage/new interpretation of that. Not sure though, I have some comic reading catching up to do for this event. The previous BWII/Neo ship was only a ship though that was made to reference Unicron due to story reasons. But they are nodding many past incarnations in the designs. I think even the Cybertron Tank Ship Unicron got some nods in through some designs from the looks of these panels.
Kind of like how Earth itself has a ton of competing creation myths both scientific(some sane ones and some outright "wut are you smoking" ones) and spiritual/myth based. So really not surprising that cybertron would have as many if not more too. These are stories handed down and retold, all from various second hand tellings, or from different perspectives of what different characters believed or thought was true at the time. Much like how earth myths and legends evolved too all over the world, some intermingled, some didn't. Some clash, some contribute, some expand, some refute, and science has its own wide array of theories that range from practical to the outlandish.
Optimus as he says here has been mostly a "non-believer" but wasn't above using it to rally people behind him for the good fight. And now he's faced directly with these legends, or at least the truth that was buried deep beneath them.
T-Wrecks
Yeah. I was hoping they would explore more of Eukaris, too. Forget Caminus, Velocitron, and Devisiun (the 3 other actual Transformer-populated colonies), Eukaris was the most interesting, since its inhabitants were bestial transformers. Vehicular transformers are boring.
grindcore138
Me three. I was really looking forward to TAAO exploring Eukaris, particularly where the Fuzors fit into Eukarian society. Alas, my dream of seeing Injector, Silverbolt and Torca getting some page time in the IDWverse was not to be.