See you space cowboy! IDW Optimus Prime is getting closer to the end, and talented comic book colorist Josh Burcham has been kind to share the IDW Optimus Prime Final Issue 25 Cover for our viewing pleasure.
This amazing cover, drawn and inked by popular artist Kei Zama, surfaced via Josh Burcham’s Twitter. This is the end of the road for all those who were following Robots In Disguise, later known as The Transformers, and then as Optimus Prime. The cover brings us a great collection of characters from this saga, all surrounding an stoic Optimus Prime in the center.
You can check out the artwork attached to this post after the jump, and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
Thewatcher88
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Omegax80
Geez, didn't notice her at all. Blended right in with the colors of his cab.
AzT
B & W also posted by Kei:
Optimus Prime #25 (final) cover! colors by Josh… – Steel and Starlight
Heliblade
This cover made me think of an AU where everyone is a Micromaster and Cybertronians in general are only a little bigger than humans.
ultramagnus1
It never ends…….
Great cover. Cant wait for it.
ILoveLuci4
I HEART all of Burcham's art.
His, Roche, and Senior artwork almost could get me to buy an IDW book.
Almost.
AshleyCuadra
I love the dinobots and yup her story was poor and sad
True they should of just gave her personality of a motherly figure then this here
Hadlen_Weltall
If you go back the entire span of the IDW verse, some characters were either poorly crafted or underused entirely. Look at the Dinobots who spent most of the time inactive, and seperated, otherwise only appearing as a full team in the Autocracy Trilogy and Maximum Dinobots. Still, I don't disagree but giving characters more room to develop as groups outside of their normal ranks was a nice touch of the Post War Era. Familial ties like Tracks and Needlenose compared to that of Sunstreaker and Sideswipe really fleshed out the whole idea of the War, as a Civil War of brothers fighting on both sides because of their differences.
I do agree that Arcee was handled TERRIBLY since her first Spotlight book with the whole "Forced Gender Change" that had so many ways of being retconned coming into Dark Cybertron as she's introduced to more female bots from Caminus. however they stuck to it in OP. She wasn't the den mother character as we knew her in G1, and more of the "Sleepaway Camp" murderer.
AshleyCuadra
Still not a fan & not good relationship/pairing and not a good ending for Arcee they wasted her character badly
jackgaughan
Why would they show up on the cover for a different comic they are not part of?
Hadlen_Weltall
It sort of feels like a memorial, more than a gathering. OP was always the darker, serious book of the franchise carrying the weight of RiD/TAAO, but in a way this doesn't leave me feeling uplifted compared to the Lost Light covers. This reminds me more about much of an end to this era it is.
There's something about how characters are arranged in their pairings that made up their stories. Starscream and Bumblebee, Jazz and Spike, Cosmos and the Casettes etcs.
I like how Marissa and Thundercracker are paired up (cross species relations? ship. it. besides, they have a dog together.)
DOC and Buster too, are a fun pairing of pets. and Bob… love seeing Sunstreaker holding out Bob as though he's reaching across to Sideswipe (RiP Red Bull…). Aileron and Arcee together is a nice touch too.
GoLion
Make it a poster!
I might get my poster guy to make this a poster for me.
RazorclawX
Windblade is in the middle, right in front of Optimus's chest.
onefromthedark
i wish there were no humans on the cover just on the grounds that spike and zilong get to be there. Just fuck those two! i cant belive that those two went this whole series without any sort of comeuppance. any way, its still a nice cover to go along with lost light. hope the unicron comic gets a good final cover.
Protostar
I see prowl, but where's stardrive :d
shiftshock
I know it's not, but doesn't it look like Zone-tan over Jazz's shoulder.
Thundermania
That last issue was nigh-unreadable with all that human drivel.
Digger
On the left near the humans I couldn’t care less about.
Thundermania
RIP Sideswipe.
AshleyCuadra
Oh ok thanks