IDW have released their solicitations for the Transformers comics landing in July 2019. July brings us two more issues of the Transformers ongoing – issue 9 and issue 10 – including the arrival of this new timeline’s version of Sentinel Prime, as well as issue 2 of Transformers vs Ghostbusters which is set to introduce Ectotron (the cover also has a very cool piece of art showing Starscream’s Ghost replacing the ghost in the Ghostbusters logo – print please?)
Solicited here for a release in October is the first hardcover collection for the new Transformers ongoing, collecting the first 12 issues of the new series.
Check out the solicits and some of the cover artwork attached to this post.
Transformers #9—Cover A: Umi Miyao
Brian Ruckley (w) • Cachét Whitman & Beth McGuire-Smith (a) • Umi Miyao (c)
Time is running out! Orion Pax, his friends, and the Autobot security forces have to get a grip on their murder investigations as their superior, Sentinel Prime, makes his return to Cybertron!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers #9—Cover B: Priscilla Tramontano
Brian Ruckley (w) • Cachét Whitman & Beth McGuire-Smith (a) • Priscilla Tramontano (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Retailer incentives:
Order 10 copies and get one free 35th Anniversary variant cover by Guido Guidi!
Bullet points:
• Secrets are revealed as loyalties shift!
• Sentinel Prime and his diplomatic entourage return!
Transformers #10—Cover A: Beth McGuire-Smith
Brian Ruckley (w) • Cachét Whitman & Beth McGuire-Smith (a) • Beth McGuire-Smith (c)
Fear spreads through Cybertron, leading more and more citizens into the waiting arms of the Ascenticon movement—making Bumblebee’s new job as part of the Guard much more difficult. Meanwhile, Chromia and Windblade follow-up on a lead, but digging up the dirt will put them face-to-face with a new foe…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers #10—Cover B: Thomas Deer
Brian Ruckley (w) • Cachét Whitman & Beth McGuire-Smith (a) • Thomas Deer (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Retailer incentives:
Order 10 copies and get one free Cybertron travel poster variant cover by Jeffrey Veregge!
Bullet points:
• Transformers—now shipping twice-monthly!
• All your favorite Transformers characters as you’ve never seen them before!
Transformers/Ghostbusters #2 (of 5)—Cover A: Dan Schoening
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a & c)
“GHOSTS OF CYBERTRON” Part 2! Okay. So. It seems as though there are giant robots who can disguise themselves as vehicles out there in the universe, and, as it happens, one of them has taken the place of Ecto-1. When the Ghostbusters discover this replacement, they naturally have a lot of questions—and this time, even the boys in gray might not believe the answers!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers/Ghostbusters #2 (of 5)—Cover B: Priscilla Tramontano
Erik Burnham (w) • Dan Schoening (a) • Priscilla Tramontano (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Retailer incentives:
Order 10 copies and get one free variant cover by Andrew Griffith!
Match 85% of your previous order and receive your order fully returnable!
Bullet points:
• Prime gets slimed!
Transformers, Vol. 1: The World in Your Eyes—GEM OF THE MONTH
Brian Ruckley (w) • Angel Hernandez, Cachét Whitman & Beth McGuire-Smith (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)
In the infinite universe, there exists no other planet like Cybertron. Home to the TRANSFORMERS bots, and a thriving hub for interstellar commerce, it is a world brimming with organic and constructed diversity. Immense structures line its landscapes. Mechanical giants roam across its surface. Ancient Cybertronians 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 Orion Pax 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. Collects issues #1-12 of IDW’s new Transformers saga.
HC • FC • $49.99 • 288 pages • 7″ x 11″ • ISBN: 978-1-68405-531-9
Bullet points:
• Advance solicited for October release!
• IDW Publishing and Hasbro proudly present a bold new vision of the Transformers universe that will excite long-time fans while serving as the unequivocal best place for new readers to begin their obsession.
Omegax80
I want to see RI covers…
Hadlen_Weltall
The old interrogation tactic of Bad Cop and Prowl…
Lumpy
that cover is just bad… all around… like, they're interrogating someone, right? So Prowl has an awkward smirk and his hand on the table with some sort of information… meanwhile, Chromia is sitting on the table? with her gun out, stroking it? WTF? It's so bad…
Hadlen_Weltall
It all boils down to what the Brand is known for. Autobot Vs Decepticon, no ambiguiity except the morals of individuals. I admit I laughed at the off hand remark of "…Like Prowl under a pylon" because of my experience in the previous IDW generation, but at the same time, it's recognizing the direction of the story based entirely on the Franchise's history rather than the world we're seeing for the first time, first hand as Rubble is…. but we all know Orion Pax, archivist, senator, cop of Iacon, will eventually become Optimus Prime, and Megatron, the miner, senator, denied candidate for Primacy, will always be Megatron, the conqueror… all without the subtle "poetry" we were introduced to in the previous generation…
What's draining on the senses in these previews for the next, after next issue is the mystery of Brainstorm's death is being treated like it's an afterthought of a joke nobody understands, all the while building up to the War "yet to happen" in this universe, which we've experienced since 1984.
…We know where the story is going, just how much of what's happening now with the slow paced world building, will it make sense going forward?
Rodimus Prime
I don’t understand why it's seemingly hard it is to make political strife interesting. Write it like historical fiction: the end result is known, but you ground it with characters whose fates are a toss-up. At the same time, you show how close to avoiding the war everyone was, thus turning it into a tragedy, rather than just an ending that is set in stone.
BB Shockwave
The faces on Prowl and Chromia on that cover are hilarious. I assume that was meant as a parody…
Hadlen_Weltall
Depends if he's getting a new figure…
IgnikaMarcus
Very interested in seeing what Sentinel Prime looks like in this.
Omegashark18
To a degree, it is. To me at least.
But somehow, I remain curious.
Hadlen_Weltall
The difference between them is the placing of the First issue in the chronology. Until this series every Transformers story has begun at some point in the Middle of the War or close to its climax. At least in the first IDW book we were introduced to a systematic war of attrition, by the end of the second issue we're given a sense of the situation with "Siege mode…"
This book is just taking too much of its time to establish the political strife that will eventually become what we've already known, but it's not being subtle about some of it, albeit implying there's another faction out there deliberately stirring the conflict. The Autobots are kneecapped by a corrupt, lazy Senate. There's an increase of organic life, some more undesirable than others, and it becomes the rallying point for the Soon-To-Be Decepticon Movement. It's only a matter of time before we start seeing all too real and familiar phrases and it turns into the full scale war..
The problem is… it's boring.
Omegashark18
Perhaps, but I don’t see that as any different from Aligned/Prime or the old IDW continuity.
Hadlen_Weltall
You'll know soon enough how out of ideas they are when Megatron gives a rally speech that ends in "I alone will make Cybertron great again…"
The political commentary is already abundantly clear before things descend into the Status Quo War for Cybertron.
Omegashark18
Well, we’ll see.
If it still feels lacking to me by issue 12, I’ll drop single issues and switch to trades.
Bass X0
From brief summaries, yes. But I doubt Ruckley has the ability to write a gripping story exciting enough to match up to the summaries.
osenator
Mmmmm…. let me guess, a lot more walking and standing and mooooore talking…..
Ooh, and more bland art too !!
Hadlen_Weltall
Because… they're hip… they like all that .. stuff you like!
Now go buy comics and a case of Surge, and Snap a slimjim!
Rodimus Prime
Why do companies use the Snarky Hipster Douchebag tone when describing their comics?
Hadlen_Weltall
Now that Issue #3 shows he is in the series, it is easier to see the bot Prowl and Chromia are interrogating is Froid.
Issy543
Can’t wait to see Sentinel Prime! Also, Bumblebee’s job as a bodyguard should be interesting…
Omegashark18
Okay, sounds like things are starting to heat up.