Courtesy of Previews World we have the IDW releases for February 2019.
The IDW Transformers Universe finally came to an end with the release of Optimus Prime #25. As you should imagine, there won’t be any ongoing title by February 2019. This means we are facing a more than 3-month period of Transformes comics absence… or not, if you consider the ongoing Star Trek vs Transformers mini-series.
We still have no news about the announced new IDW Transformers reboot, but February 2019 will see the Transformers: Unicron TP at comic stores.
But we are not out of transforming robots stories. Don’t forget the new Gobots comic that continues with the Go-Bots #4 issue (of a 5-issue mini-series).
You can check out the solicits, together with their excellent cover artwork, attached to this post after the jump. Then, you can sound off on the 2005 Boards!
TRANSFORMERS UNICRON TP – Cover By Andrew Griffith
(W) John Barber (A) Alex Milne (CA) Andrew Griffith
ADVANCE SOLICITED FOR MARCH RELEASE!
Every IDW Transformers comic has led to this cataclysmic story! The culmination of IDW’s Transformers Universe! The end is nigh! Unicron, a planet-sized being that devours other worlds, has set its sights on Cybertron and all of its colonies-including Earth! Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and their friends must unite every Cybertronian, Earthling, and ally they have to stand against this threat to all existence. But why is Unicron hell-bent on destroying Cybertron-what original sin did Optimus Prime’s ancestors commit to earn this wrath? It’s an all-out battle against extinction as the world-destroying, universe-shattering threat of Unicron is on its way.
In Shops: Mar 13, 2019 – SRP: $24.99
GO-BOTS #4 – Cover A By Tom Scioli
(W) Tom Scioli (A/CA) Tom Scioli
What dark secret lies at the center of Gobotron? You won’t believe the answer! From the creative mind that brought you IDW’s Transformers vs. G.I. Joe! Visionary creator Tom Scioli unleashes his imagination on the bizarre, absurd, and wonderful world of Go-Bots!
In Shops: Feb 20, 2019 – SRP: $3.99
GO-BOTS #4 – Cover B By Dash Shaw
(W) Tom Scioli (A) Tom Scioli (CA) Dash Shaw
In Shops: Feb 20, 2019 – SRP: $3.99
Megatron118
I’ll defintiely get the Unicron TP to finish off my LL and OP collections, but after that idk. I’m eager to see where the reboot goes
Focksbot
If this is all to get me to buy the damned Gobots comic to get my robot fix, then … it's probably going to work.
Keeping my fingers crossed that when TFs do come back it's in some wild, experimental form. Maybe Cybertronians as explorers or some sort of Judge Dredd thing. I'll give a fighty-fighty comic a go, but seeing as I can't even be bothered to watch the new cartoon because of how bored I am with Autobots vs. Decepticons, I'm not sure I'll last with a comic covering the same ground.
SG Roadbuster
Jumping on point for new readers are also jumping off points for older readers.
Goodbye idw, it's been fun.
(PS: Visionaries was a terrible fucking idea)
samisham
And now they've done it really really well and I think they should hold off doing another until they can match it.
samisham
It's really sad to see IDW's financial trouble considering just how influential their stuff has been for TF at large and how goo the Barber/Roberts/Scott era is/was. Also screw those spiteful assholes hoping for them to lose the licence/go out of business because they personally disliked phase 2.
justiceg
More importantly, I don't think the environment exists for IDW anymore where they can afford to have a 6 year long form plotline play out in the way that it did. I suspect this is a confluence of events that is not going to repeat itself for a very long time, if ever.
Hadlen_Weltall
….. Another months solicitation without More Than Meets The Eye…………
Maverick Hunter Christian
That is how the IDW continuity began and for years, those of us who were reading, were begging them to just do an on-going.
samisham
After mtmte/ll I wouldn't mind if they made the new universe a bunch of limited series instead of ongoing since I can't see them being able to get anyone who can outdo Roberts in terms of long form storytelling.
shamanking282
I just hope they let us know from the beginning if there are gonna be crossovers. Let's me know if I even need to bother getting invested.
Probe
Yes that is quite literally what is happening. Exactly that thing.
User_124141
They should start a new series with transformers IDW so people like me can read and not have to spend hours of buying and reading the old ones
justiceg
Great point and one I didn't consider! Be great to see what's up when it shows up.
Michael Payton
Actually, a reboot should have a nice time for people to unwind and begin to miss it. DC did that in the 90s after the Death of Superman and the Funeral for a Friend Arcs. They dropped all four monthlies for months. Gone. Nothing.
When they brought the titles back, every new teased picture (whited-out silhouettes of the four "new Supermen") was on every network nightly news. It was the lead story even on Entertainment Tonight.
When Dreamwave brought back Transformers the only comic that outsold its initial six issue miniseries was when Jim Lee was drawing Batman.
Obviously, this reboot won't sell anywhere near that well without some major name talent on board. But that absence will still make it sell better than it was selling before.
justiceg
Wow, this'll be a 3.5 month break from all "continuing series" TF comics for IDW (December, January, now Feb). An entire quarter without TFs isn't the way I would've run that noise back, but hey, it's their company…hopefully we see something sometime in Q2.
Lucas35
TRANSFORMERS UNICRON TP (DEC180766)
GO-BOTS #4 CVR A SCIOLI (DEC180767)