Comic News International has posted the Josh Nizzi cover to IDW Publishing’s Transformers Destiny: Alliance Issue 4. The cover to this Revenge of the Fallen prequel shows off the returning cast of Autobots in robot mode, looking on as the new cast race off in vehicle mode.
cornpone
I dig the color of the 'vette individually, but with the others in the same image, it stands out as a Jazz replacement rather than Sideswipe.
strata32000
Reply to: Alliance cover four
So I saw this cover on TFW and was taken back at how much it looked like a watered down version of James Conan Gouig AKA Deceptichop's cover art "Evolution" that was done for the Transformers Collector's Club Magazine.
Judge for yourself.
Evolution | FortressMaximus.com
cornpone
I think it would be unnecessary to have two sets of multiples. If the Beat/Trax are twins, then triplets would be redundant, unless they are also a combiner. Is that really the Volt in the background? Different color? I hope there are more Autobots than on this cover. If the three bikes are Arcee, and the purple one in the background is a transformer, then that makes nine. 'Wheels'? Jetfire? Wheeljack? I guess since this is a prequel more could arrive during the film.
Weremole
They had to change things because the movie crew found the original outline too close to the sequels plot. But I doubt they could foresee Arcee splitting in three.
Hadn't they also introduced her in the first movie prequel series as well, running around on Cybertron with Bumblebee?
The two ROTF prequel series are written based on the script though. If the retracted Comicon stuff is still true. So you are right, but there is still a bit of a hickup.
Either way I'm not complaining or being disatisfied about anything. Things happen in big projects.
Velcrohead
A smudge that was clearly a Decepticon sigil.
yovnocrats
Are you serious? They wrote the damn thing off the script.
Darth Rodimus
actually more like nine original concepts showed her to be nine feet.
Weremole
Comic books and movie production are bound to be disjointed guys. When Reign Of Starscream whas being written I bet IDW didn't even know there whas going to be a sequel, even if, much less what the script whas like.
The desicion to work the offscreen toys into the story I think whas mostly for fun and now one of the reasons (the other I guess would be because ROS worked well overall) why they need two miniseries to clear the plate so it all matches up in the ROTF comic adaptation.
It will be interesting to see how they manage it. But there seems to be mystic powers floating about from the solicits and mystic powers allways means that accidents happen.
Not all combining robots follow the body – limb pattern man. Think Dangaioh or Aquarion.
I'd guess one bike is legs (probably purple), one is stomach and arms (lavender) and one is chest, head and back (pink).
megatronkicksas
This is so cool
Silent_Magnus
So there's no chance that she could have gotten an upgrade in between Reign of Starscream and whenever she first shows up as three bikes?
Maybe this Transformers: Destiny (alliance and defiance) is going to explain what happens to her?
ToddJumper
The comic book writers claim they stay very close to the scripts though, so if Arcee was on bike/bot I think that should be continued as such.
Magnus Trailer didnt disappear like Optimus, it became his armor.
Ephland
Seriously? That's like saying that TF1 had "Anaconda" elements because Jon Voight was in the movie.
ToddJumper
Until I see toy prototypes, I can't imagine three motorbikes looking good trying to connect them into one bot, how would that work, a main body and two huge arms?
I think its Arcee and two other females that came with her, after all the original Arcee design was one bike, and the toy was one bike, why would they change that?
I would rather see three female autobots, to give the guys some relaxation after battle ;P
Alienbot
But Bay is the director and can do what he wants, especially since she was not in the first film. Reformatting into separate machines isn't uncommon though; Optimus and Ultra Magnus were robots who could separate into a truck robot and a telepathically connected trailer/car carrier.
Katamari Prime
Does anyone else get Blurr from the Silver car?
VokVisitor
Maybe Arcee isn't herself a combination of three bikes. Perhaps tf2 will feature Arcee, Moonracer, and Chromia (or some other female transformers) as combining triplets?
It just doesn't make design sense that one robot would be made out of three differently-colored, but same-shaped vehicles. Especially since they already designed Arcee, made toys for her, and featured her as a *single* character in "Reign of Starscream."
frilly toothpick
looks good.
Cinemastique
I'm actually pretty cool with this, so far.
I'll just be happy if Bay realizes that "black people antics" aren't as funny as he thinks they are.
Scottimus
i can't believe arcee's in the movie and i think her concept is fricking awful. i know WHY she's in the movie, but at least her alt form could have been something less lame.
halfblood robot
thanks. i haven't even read reign of starscream yet.