The new and fresh IDW Transformers comics are about to hit comic stores on March, 2019 with issue 31 and Amazon.com brings us a nice surprise with a listing of the first collection of the new saga: Transformers Vol. 1: The World In Your Eyes (2019) TPB.
This hardcover collects issues #1-12 of IDW’s new Transformers saga and it’s expected for release on October 22, 2019. You can pre-order it for $49.99.
“A new era dawns with a new Transformers universe, as leaders Optimus Prime and Megatron vie to win the hearts and minds of utopian Cybertron.
In the infinite universe, there exists no other planet like Cybertron. Home to the Transformers, and a thriving hub for inter-stellar commerce, it is a world brimming with organic and constructed diversity. Immense structures line its landscape. Mechanical giants roam across its surface. Starship-sized titans orbit its skies, keeping a constant protective watch above and below. Ancient Transformers merge into its very fabric. Small, mysterious creatures skulk in its shadows. It is a truly amazing realm, long untouched by war, and exuberantly reaching for the stars. This is the Cybertron that Optimus Prime and Megatron compete for in this bold new origin–a world of seemingly endless peace.
All that changes when Bumblebee and Windblade take a newly-forged Cybertronian on his first voyage through this world of wonders, only to discover the first murder to occur on Cybertron in living memory! Soon, they’ll face the hard reality that the planet is on the brink of an unprecedented shift, and nothing will ever be the same”.
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Jazz of Staniz
It's better than the 84 bots in Combiner Wars, but it's still a pretty crappy figure. Par for the course for Prime Wars Deluxes though.
ErbFan28
I was already interested and planned to read it, but now it sounds promising. Can’t wait!
Fenrys
one other thing to consider for the lack of jazz in the new comic so far.
A: its not out yet so him not being in any solicits doesnt really mean squat
B: the new comic is heavily focusing on toy designs, specifically siege but also at least one cw figure (cyclonus) and one tr figure (windblade, though thats kind of her standard design). if theyre heavily focusing on siege figure designs then why would jazz be a prominent character when he doesnt have a siege figure? if/when he gets a wfc figure then i would expect him in the comic. dont necessarily look at the new comic like its got 35 years of characters to use, instead try to look at it as a new comic, telling a new story, while also trying to sell toys
Smitty.1981
I like him, but even I have to admit his shoulders are shit and he's got so much going go with the front and top of his car that there is a lot that can go wrong. I ended up with four copies of Jazz and they all seem to suffer in different way from all that's going on with that whole assemble.
Fenrys
honestly i think hes a better jazz figure than most fans are willing to admit.
Smitty.1981
I'm not sure if POTP Jazz is a factor or not but it almost seems like he was set up, first with his controversial decal and then by being repacked in just about every wave of POTP. I can still fine two of him at the BX and BBTS can't even get rid of him for $9.99. It seems like the flooded the marker with a sub par, but fun, Jazz toy than just left him hanging.
Fenrys
MPM wont have g1 characters. the idw reboot is just starting, jazz will show up eventually, you keep saying prime wars included so many characters but remember people also complained and worried when characters like jazz werent in combiner wars only to get a brand new mold in power of the primes.
Jazz of Staniz
The IDW reboot shows nothing of him, which is what I was referring to. Evergreen may not be a definite form of media, but a lot is using Evergreen as a base, such as Cyberverse and the Evergreen toyline, which Jazz has not appeared in either of. You said Jazz only may matter to those who value G1 (and the movies, like myself), but now even the G1-themed stuff seems to be saying goodbye to him.
The reason I mentioned MPM is because the MP stuff focuses mainly on major characters. You don't see the majority of forgettable G1 characters getting into MPM unless they're a simple retool. I use MPM to say that Jazz is only getting noticed as a major character in that, considering that PotP and the rest of the Prime Wars included basically every minor G1 character who didn't even appear in the show.
And I don't want to argue over tiny facts, but while RiD may have included Jazz only as a minor character (another problem of mine), Animated did use him a fair amount towards the end and had him planned to be part of the main cast.
Fenrys
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i see what you did there
Smitty.1981
I'm kind of split on MPM Jazz.
Fenrys
essential parts are bolded, evergreen isnt media, its an artstyle, idw just ended their previous continuity where jazz was a mainstay for nearly the entirety of it, MPM is a toyline, of which recently jazz has gotten a release in POTP, studio series and MPM. furthermore, jazz was only ever essential in g1. 90s kids and 2000s kids grew up without him, the first cartoon he was in post g1 was animated and then again in rid15 and he was not a major player in either of those.
Jazz of Staniz
I mean major TF media. The toys don't count, since basically every minor TF and their brother were included in Prime Wars, and the IDW Comics aren't well-known to anyone besides fans and some others. I'm worried that kids are gonna grow up on movies and shows that don't include Jazz and won't see him as an essential TF character anymore.
Fenrys
jazz was in potp, he literally got a generations figure 1 year ago and he was fairly prominent in the optimus prime comics, maybe not appearing all the time, but there was an entire sub plot revolving around him
stad
I imagine the individual issues would be the way to draw in new readers, and the $50 hardcover is for those that really like the 12 issues and/or those that collect the nicer collections.
Starscream Gaga
IDW's Megatron was fine. Easily the best version of the character so far (not including Beast Wars, of course) and I love all Megatrons.
Also, as someone who loves X-Men too, let's not put Magneto on a pedestal. He's been written well and he's also been written very, very badly in the past.
DelArtDx
I’m down with this new series, hopefully it turns out alright.
Omegashark18
I honestly don’t think it’s that. I think it’s diversity you’d expect to see in a sci-fi world. Various alien races sharing the same space, like the Citadel in Mass Effect, or Coruscant from the prequel era of Star Wars.
And in this case, it’s Cybertron, with the Transformers keeping the peace.
Yep, it’s being released Biweekly. Only these are full sized issues and not small like Autocracy.
Haywired
IDW Magnetron was a very poor and simplicistic execution of the trope. Baby's writer first Magneto, basically. Unless they can up their writing game they should stay away from attempting it because equaling or comparing their Emotron to Magneto is just ridiculous given how well Magneto was written at times.
kmc
12 issues in the first TPB? That's the IDW COLLECTION standard, or they're doing biweekly issues like Autocracy?
TCJJ
Now just get rid of Windblade and make Chromia not a flip-flopping quirky quipper, and this could actually be good.
Or not, because they're already throwing around terms like "diversity" in the synopsis. I pray that's not the sort of "diversity" that Chris Ryall keeps pushing for (and then insulting fans after he ruins their franchise. Sorry G.I. Joe fans, you really didn't deserve that).
Debatable. I always liked Drift, though I admit Roberts improved him (at least to begin with). Windblade hasn't had a single good incarnation (so far) though, so I'm highly skeptical.
I think you're missing the point – the point is that IDW Megatron had quite a flip-flop after Dark Cybertron, and for as much as I like Autobot Megatron, there are dozens of issues for why it doesn't work as well as it should – after all, you can't just undo a tyrannical, evil character in a matter of days after four million years of war.
Nobody is asking for a black-and-white interpretation. This is about having a character who is actually a bad guy and not just suddenly let off for most of his crimes.
I think that's indicative of a bigger problem though. Why were the sales poor? Perhaps because readers lost interest as character relationships continued to just devote into everyone being gay for each other or whatever. Not every relationship needs to be romantic… unless it's the past two or three years of IDW. I think that slowly devolving storytelling over the years is what ultimately hurt the sales in the end.