Bleedingcoolnews has posted the IDW Solicitations for February 2013, including a huge dose of Transformers comic awesomeness! There’s five Transformers books hitting shelves next February and they are:
[*]More than Meets the Eye #14
[*]Robots in Disguise #14
[*]Regeneration 1 # 88
[*]Transformers Prime Rage of the Dinobots #4 of 4
[*]Transformers Spotlight Megatron (written and drawn by Nick Roche!)
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Yes, Transformers spotlights continue their revival in February with the focus falling on the biggest bad of them all – Megatron! But that’s not all – it’s shaping up to be a true “villain month” with many bad guys driving the plots of their respective issues. We won’t say too much more here on the frontpage so check out the full solicits and covers at Bleeding Cool by clicking here – but beware, major spoilers ahead!
TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE ONGOING #14
(W) John Barber (A) Andrew Griffith (CA) Casey Coller, Andrew Griffith
MEGATRON IS BACK! The day the AUTOBOTS hoped would never arrive… is here. CYBERTRON is burning, BUMBLEBEE’s government is crumbling, and MEGATRON is here. Sides are chosen… and heroes fall.
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE ONGOING #14
(W) James Roberts (A) Alex Milne (CA) Alex Milne, Nick Roche
James Roberts (w) o Alex Milne (a) o Milne, Nick Roche (c)
THE RETURN OF OVERLORD! Locked in a secret cell underneath the Lost Light, hidden from the crew, a DECEPTICON psychopath is talking without opening his mouth… and an AUTOBOT with needles for fingers is about to make the biggest mistake of his life.
TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT MEGATRON ONE SHOT
(W/A) Nick Roche (CA) Livio Ramondelli, Nick Roche
Nick Roche (w & a) o Roche, Livio Ramondelli (c)
MEGATRON IS BACK! Writer/artist Nick Roche (Last Stand of the Wreckers) takes us back to the last time MEGATRON returned-when he found his DECEPTICON forces in tatters under the control of STARSCREAM. In this never-before-revealed tale, we learn exactly how Megatron reacted… and how Starscream survived!
TRANSFORMERS REGENERATION ONE #88
(W) Simon Furman (A) Andrew Wildman (CA) Andrew Wildman, Guido Guidi
Simon Furman (w) o Andrew Wildman (a) o Wildman, Guido Guidi (c)
WAR IN THE CITY! Anarchy reigns on the streets of Iacon as SCORPONOK’s grip tightens further, and those AUTOBOTS still willing and able to resist look to their absent leader-who is on an endangered list all of his own. Beneath the surface of CYBERTRON, HOT ROD runs for his life, locked on a collision
course with his maker, PRIMUS!
TRANSFORMERS PRIME RAGE O/T DINOBOTS #4 (OF 4)
(W) Mike Johnson, Mairghread Scott (A) Agustin Padilla (CA) Ken Christiansen
Mike Johnson & Mairghread Scott (w) o Agustin Padilla (a) o Ken Christiansen (c)
DINOBOT WAR! GRIMLOCK leads the DINOBOTS against SHOCKWAVE’s troops-and the results won’t be pretty! With SWOOP under SER-KET’s control, it’s an all-or-nothing battle of DINOBOT versus PREDACON-with the fate of CYBERTRON hanging on every punch, blast, jab, and bite! Don’t miss the senses-shattering conclusion to this mind-blowing miniseries!
RapidBlast
So grimlock is superman, and Scorponok's holding kryptonite?
Arsenic
It would have more impact if the logo is Decepticon's (like MTMTE #7 did)
adambman
Back in action or someone else abord the ship recounting stories involving Overlord? ither way it should be pretty cool!
Yes, my question is probably belies how out of the loop I am with all of this, but I plan on getting the TPBs of the two current series at least to expand my understanding of IDW past LSOTW. Just – waiting – for those – United Artfires – in my – POL..
Arsenic
Damn, I'm going to bankrupt!
Nope
You take that back right now.
jasonw
Was going to pick up the re-launch of G.I.Joe, then saw on the cover that Lifeline is a woman.
Ah well, that's saved me a few quid.
ARAH & all the TF stuff looks great. Except for that FOC Dinobots rubbish.
Burningsirius
Octopunch's shot awoke Primus thus awakening Unicron. I blame it all on Octopunch myself, but it is fun blaming the entire multiverse's destruction on some nobody pretender.
We also know that those demons are aborted creations before the Transformers existed. Essentially, they were created as experiments.
Primus does have a shady past for sure.
Burningsirius
Umm, FoC/Generations Starscream and Grimlock for starters.
Cradok
Hang on, we didn't know about Spotlight: Megatron yet? I knew about that weeks ago.
JAYSCREAM
not for the crew of the lost light xD
BB Shockwave
Knowing Barber's storytelling and how he throws interesting storylines out the window… yeah, I am expecting that too.
Needles for fingers, yes? Where have you been when Chromedome accessed Shock's or Skids' memories? He is obviously going to try and access Overlord's memories. Last issue revealed someone did the same with Red Alert, and although I am sure he did it AFTER finding his head, and isn't the murderer, he does know about Overlord now.
BB Shockwave
Octopunch only woke him up with that shot. Unicron killed Primus, when he was in Xaaron's body…
I guess much like in WFC, he was only regenerating and isn't fully dead. And… what will he do now without Unicron to stop? I am sure we saw the 'demons' in the previews/dreams in issue 80.5 for a reason. Primus is not 100% a good god… he has his own shady past.
BB Shockwave
LOL… "No! Kryptonite! Me Grimlock's only weakness!!"
Megatron SPotlight sounds like fun (just wish this stealth bomber design… went away) and I think the MTMTE story will be a lot like the movie "The Cell"… Overlord's mind is not a nice place to be.
moreprimeland
Nice looking bunch of covers….really liked the Rage of the Dinbots one.
Kilowog
Excited for RotD, can't wait for it to start.
Megatron's return though raises an eyebrow. Hope its done well after this past year without him
TylerMirage
Man, every time I see that IDW black stealth bomber Megatron design, I can't help but be filled with sadness that we have yet to receive that design in a show or in figure form.
YoungPrime
What toys?
There's always a drought during first quarter no matter what tf line it is so what's $16 plus tax this coming Feb?
dragon
scorponok got small same size as grimlock
Burningsirius
I love these all except for the requisite Prime comic.
Who does not like a return of a once thought dead Megatron? Furman did it, so too will the ongoing IDW. At least IDW Starscream has proven himself to be a capable politician. I wonder where his and Metalhawk's relationship will go after this? They kind of had a pre-great war Skyfire/Starscream friendship going on. I am sure that he is cool to hang out with regardless if he is a Decepticon.
The big hitter will be Regeneration One. Primus was thought to be permanently dead. Well resurrections always happen and this might be a welcome relief for Octopunch who was thought to of killed Primus. If I was him, I would be breathing a sigh of relief.
Also, looks like we are getting the set up for a real Marvel Rodimus Prime. The fight between Megatron and Prime HAD to happen. Furman got it out of the way first. I loved it. I know there are people on here who hated it. That is fine. It looks like their concerns can be lifted as we see in these solicitations that the resurrection of Scorponok will not be anything like the Maximum Dinobots.
I am pumped. I am pumped for Spotlight Megatron, RID, MTMTE and Regeneration One. IDW… TAKE MY MONEY so I cannot spend it on the toys you are advertising!!!
SPLIT LIP
Solid two inches right now.