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Botcon Comic Dawn of the Predacus to be in IDW Beast Wars continuity

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Via Botcon’s twitter page this years convention comic is going to be a partnership with  IDW dubbed Transformers: Dawn of Predacus. Botcon hails John-Paul Bove as the lead writer along with Corin Howell as it’s artist. Mr. Bove worte “The story is completely in continuity (the wibbly wobbly G1, G2, BW continuity) and features some HUGE moments in TF history.” While Botcon tweeted “This years story is set within the IDW Transformers continuity that features The Ascending and The Gathering. Going to be great!”

This comic will be made available first at Botcon, have a convention exclusive cover and all the Botcon program information.

 

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Verno

Let's hope the final product is a little less cartoon-y. This is the end of the Great War, after all.

Browsing through her DeviantArt account, there is some nice work in there.

From what I've seen of her style she's pretty cartoony in general. That said indications are that it follows the G1 "Cartoon" and Beast Wars was, in places, pretty slapstick so it works for me. I'd like to see a balance between drama and humor though for sure.

Verno Avatar
flux convoy

It looks like a bad joke to me. That's atrocious.

Let's hope the final product is a little less cartoon-y. This is the end of the Great War, after all.

Browsing through her DeviantArt account, there is some nice work in there.

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Scaleface

Even though we know this is set in in the IDW comics Beast Wars, the comic could happen ANY time in the story, and even take place in several different times, so who knows when it happens.

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I do like the vehicle modes concepts of Uprising, but have not really followed the plot. If they can just release Dinobot from the Springer mold and Torca from Onslaught, I'll be happy.

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The Dinobot looks cool but the Torca pretty much just looks like Clench with slightly altered colors and layout.

Collectibot Avatar
Collectibot Today (3/7/16) in Transformers Conventions and Get Togethers: BotCon 2016 in Lousville Kentucky at 7:56 AM

Here is a preview of Megatron from the Dawn of the Predacus comic.
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Courtesy of Corin Howell on Twitter.

I meant to post this here earlier.

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Scaleface

Even though we know this is set in in the IDW comics Beast Wars, the comic could happen ANY time in the story, and even take place in several different times, so who knows when it happens.

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I do like the vehicle modes concepts of Uprising, but have not really followed the plot. If they can just release Dinobot from the Springer mold and Torca from Onslaught, I'll be happy.

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I'm sad we will never get these as figures, they're too perfect for this world.

flux convoy Avatar
Lord Black Cat

It looks like he's tripping to me. Nice.

It looks like a bad joke to me. That's atrocious.

Johntimus Prime Avatar

The Kup, I love your signature…explains why Long Haul has packed on a few tons as of late… :lol 

But I'm surprised this is set in BW canon. A lot of the con comics seem to be set in various microcontinuities or off-shoots of existing canon.

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Thundershot

Now that's how to pen a story. Make it so it can fit anywhere!

Tell that to my many extra grey hairs! XD

Raiyuki Avatar
wordmongerer

Because it's a very specific moment in time it will not contradict most continuities connected to BW. Originally this story sat roughly in the middle of a mini series which would have made reference to The Rebirth, but on this story alone it neither confirms or contradicts Takara G1 so fans in both camps can get their way (for now!)…

That sounds good to me (for now!). Can't wait to read it once I have it in hand (for now!)! >XD

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wordmongerer

Because it's a very specific moment in time it will not contradict most continuities connected to BW. Originally this story sat roughly in the middle of a mini series which would have made reference to The Rebirth, but on this story alone it neither confirms or contradicts Takara G1 so fans in both camps can get their way (for now!)…

Now that's how to pen a story. Make it so it can fit anywhere!

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Raiyuki

Anyway so if I'm understanding things correctly, the is basically end of the great war and thus before the theft of the Golden Disk takes place right? I am curious as to whether this'll go strictly by US cartoon continuity and depend on the Rebirth or be open ended enough that Takara G1 could still apply.

Because it's a very specific moment in time it will not contradict most continuities connected to BW. Originally this story sat roughly in the middle of a mini series which would have made reference to The Rebirth, but on this story alone it neither confirms or contradicts Takara G1 so fans in both camps can get their way (for now!)…

Raiyuki Avatar

I had a random thought about the fact that if Gathering/Ascending are tied in, the story could hypothetically take place anywhere from the beginning of the Universe to it's bitter end >XD
Anyway so if I'm understanding things correctly, the is basically end of the great war and thus before the theft of the Golden Disk takes place right? I am curious as to whether this'll go strictly by US cartoon continuity and depend on the Rebirth or be open ended enough that Takara G1 could still apply.

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Thelonicon

Considering those books aren't even currently in print or available digitally (at least that I found searching Comixology), this is a really random niche decision. Oh well I'm still looking forward to the actual box set itself.

They can still be gotten at reasonable prices. Here: Amazon.com: beast wars: Books and here: Search Results – InStockTrades
The Omnibus is probably the best way to go as it includes The Gathering, The Ascending and the Sourcebook.

Verno Avatar
wordmongerer

Pretty much. But that's really just an acknowledgement to the fact that the IDW stories so far have sat parallel to the cartoon. So we set out to not create a new timeline when everything already built is built on the cartoon. And the show acknowledges TFTM, the original cartoon and through the Vok it touches on the Swarm and G2, so The Gathering and The Ascending are also in wobbly wobbly continuity with all of that. It is insanely difficult to answer specifics yet because some of the specifics would give away too much, but I wanted to avoid a "warriors from different realities/continuities join forces" approach which has already been done or an alternate reality etc.

Wonderful stuff. I'll be keeping a keen ear out for your little tidbits in the lead-up to BotCon.

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Verno

Was that a stipulation of IDW upon taking up the project?

Pretty much. But that's really just an acknowledgement to the fact that the IDW stories so far have sat parallel to the cartoon. So we set out to not create a new timeline when everything already built is built on the cartoon. And the show acknowledges TFTM, the original cartoon and through the Vok it touches on the Swarm and G2, so The Gathering and The Ascending are also in wobbly wobbly continuity with all of that. It is insanely difficult to answer specifics yet because some of the specifics would give away too much, but I wanted to avoid a "warriors from different realities/continuities join forces" approach which has already been done or an alternate reality etc.

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wordmongerer

As I say the statement about IDW continuity is not ideally worded. Because IDW is producing it it has to sit in continuity with everything else IDW produced and what IDW produced is in continuity to the cartoon which has aspects of continuity shared with G1 and G2… So it's a bit like saying TF the Movie is in continuity with Season 2 of the cartoon which is true and also incomplete but ultimately it forgets to acknowledge season 1 even though it's implied if that makes sense?

This story has Easter eggs that connect to the IDW BW books but the focus is very much on the players active at the tail end of the Great War and the very dark way in which foundations were laid for the Pax Cybertronia…

I'll be doing a few interviews and updates on my twitter (@wordmongerer) where I'll be giving little parcels of information as we go.

Question answered. Thanks!

Verno Avatar
wordmongerer

Because IDW is producing it it has to sit in continuity with everything else IDW produced

Was that a stipulation of IDW upon taking up the project?

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