You may remember the Schick Hydrobot Transformers: The Last Knight commercial few weeks back. Now they have a free comic book to give away.
Written by IDW‘s John Barber with art by Juan Castro, Brian Shearer, Zac Atkinson, Triona Farrel, Leonardo Ito, Joana Lafuente, Fran Gamboa, Goncalo Lopes and the cover art by Sara Pitre-Durocher, the comic book features Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Hound, Megatron, Barricade and Onslaught in action.
Synopsis:
“Schick’s Hydrobot makes his debut in a one-of-a-kind comic book, featuring a new Transformers storyline, which unveils Hydrobot’s origin alongside fan-favorite characters Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Hound, and Megatron!”
Since we aren’t seems to be getting amazing Movieverse tie-in comics like Transformers: Alliance and Defiance this time, this’ll have to do to whet our appetites. And we are thankful for it.
You can download the book in PDF or EPUB format via IDW’s official website free of charge.
GOLD5
With Targetmaster companion Onacup-Man! (Im sure they already exist as major product lines in Japan.. Just gotta go to the right stores.. Its right next to the Evangelion life sized sex dolls..)
Deadend
Sounds cute. Will read it!
DeletedUser_119270
New inteview.
Exclusive Interview with Transformers’ John Barber and Steve Kurth
Daimao
I miss them too. I know they weren't technically cannon but they were great for filling in plot holes and giving character to a lot of the offscreen toys.
MrNiceGuy
man this really makes me miss the movie tie-in comics.
I mean Bay's reason for disallowing them is pretty solid, after the fiasco with the amazon comic preview that spoiled sentinel's betrayal, but it still really sucks. Feels like something's missing.
Thelonicon
My local store slipped a copy into my folder today too, and I was pretty surprised to see it in print.
Wreckgar
Not sure if anyone knows but there is a print version. I found it at my local comic shop in Chicago as a free giveaway.
supernova222
being a dumb brute is still a personality and more than what we have gotten from most cons in these movies, so if thats all he is, ill take, especially if he at least talks.
whats funny is now when i look at the different shots of onslaught from the trailers, his claw is now so much more obvious to me,
Lazerwave
I hope so. On the other hand, he was never shown in any promo pictures or stickers or anything. I was hoping for another leak from Weibo hinting about a Wave 4 in the future. Just with the movie getting closer I would have heard something about Any Onslaught toy.
And if the comic said what Onslaught personality is, I can only imagine if he had lines in the movie that he would be voiced by someone like, Patrick Warburton.
kaijuguy19
You know the more I think about it I'm betting that Onslaught is being set up as being Hound's main rival like how Bumblebee is rivals with Barricade and obviously Optimus against Megatron. With how Hound is actually being featured the most in a lot of the promotions along with Bee and Optimus as well as how like I've said before Onslaught was the only Decepticon officially announced along with Megatron and Barricade perhaps that also indicates that he may have more to do then what we're shown of him like him having a personal history with Hound that could be explored upon a bit even if it's a little bit.
Lazerwave
I love how Onslaught looks, I just hope there will be a toy, but I'm not holding my breath. As much as I can see parts of him from parts of the fake toy picture.. Let's just hope there is either a plan for wave 4 or Takara has something up their sleeve.
primalxconvoy
That's great! I wish my phone could open pdf comes that large though. Sorry to be cheeky, but is this available as picture format files?
primalxconvoy
Or just hosting it here. I'm on my phone at the mo and don't want to give out my credit card details for a free thing.
Cheers in advance.
TCJJ
We all joked about it, but this is no laughing matter now.
DecepticonSpike
Trying to download it from IDW. Taking a lot longer than it should. Hopefully it'll be on Comixlogy soon.
Danny-Boy
Movie Long Haul has character?
Darkryt
Alright, reading it (thank you again for the contact information-free pdf, Danny-Boy,) it seems like good, cute fun like you\'d find out of a cheesy 80\'s or 90\'s comic book … but assuming his depiction here is accurate to the film, I am bit disappointed that Onslaught – you know, the intelligent tactication who led his own subgroup? – is a dumb brute who\'s a retool of the gripestest Constructicon.
I know it\'s the movie universe, but they usually get the signficant of the names somewhat right (Jetfire is a jet with Decepticon ties, Long Haul is a Construction who complains, etc).
kaijuguy19
Seeing as he was actually officially announced to be in the movie along with Barricade and Megatron last year as opposed to just being held top secret like the rest of TLK Decepticons like Nitro,Hooligan,Berserker and Mowhawk that does seem to indicate that he could possibly have a larger role then we thought.
supernova222
unfortunately, i feel like onslaughts involvement is meant to compensate for a very minor movie role.
Chopperface
Sure do wish that we could get a mini-series filling in the gap between DOTM and AOE. Looks like we'll be brought up to speed better both regarding that gap and the gap between AOE and TLK in the actual film itself, though.