Via ITunes we can share for you the 3-page preview of IDW’s new Transformers Comic Series Issue #6.
It seems we have an Optimus Prime-ocused issue this time. It’s flashback time, in a new arc titled: Orion Pax: Free Fall.
Transformers #6
All your favorite Transformers characters as you’ve never seen them before! Optimus takes the spotlight! Even a bot as wise as a leader of the Autobots needs guidance now and again, so Optimus turns to Codexa-a Cybertronian who has grown into the very planet itself. Will she help Optimus settle his problems with Megatron or will she lead them both to ruin?
The new Transformers issue #6 is expected for release on May 29th, so don’t forget to grab your copy. Click on the bar to see the mirrored images on this news post together with Cover A by Jack Lawrence, and then share your impressions on the 2005 Boards!
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Rodimus Prime
So IDWites have gone full Rick and Morty fandom now?
Bass X0
Talking is good when what is being said is good. The dialogue here has a lot to be desired. We’ve had bad mini series before, and this is down there with them but now it’s the one and only main comic of a new continuity. Despite it featuring characters I know and love, I just don’t care for the writing here.
Bass X0
Transformers: Home Improvement
Roadbuster25
The last panel is weird – Orion Pax just comes walking up to Megatron and offers help like their neighbors and he\'s offering hand to move.
Scrapmaker
Having enjoyed the comic up to this point, despite it's…problems, I'm looking forward to learning more about Orion and Megatron's history.
Maybe it'll give us a more coherent idea of where Megatron's views come from. And maybe an idea of what he'll become.
Mattymo
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BB Shockwave
How surprising… MORE talking.
But at least the flashback art looks better, if simpler.
Mattymo
It doesn’t matter that’s not what anyone’s asking. They’re asking what that picture is and on what grounds the comic is being accused of lifting from it and that’s from game of thrones. It doesn’t matter. Nobody’s asking for a history lesson on Nordic mythology. It’s a pretty fan art painting from those books
kaijuguy19
Actually that trope had its origins in Nordic myth where Odin spent time in the Ygdrassil tree to gain knowledge of all time.
Mattymo
It’s game of thrones crap. It’s a character that lives in a tree and see past present and the supposed future. That’s all
Fallout
an explanation of what this picture is would help your case.
Scoff
No wonder Megatron wants the option to get off the planet or die trying to conquer some other world. Getting old on Cybertron means becoming the mechanical equivalent of a potted plant.
Mattymo
This is also a character who’s at the end of their life merging with a planet. Not someone sitting in a tree.
Not for knowledge, not for enlightenment, but to no longer be part of society.
This concept brings a neat new meaning to “Till all are one”
Flash1087
Looks like it! I kinda like this approach, it keeps everything more centered before the Great War as opposed to the occasional hint-drop/info-dump we'd get in previous versions of the book. I like how much worldbuilding we're getting in this one, it's probably my favorite thing about this series.
Hadlen_Weltall
G1 Cartoon, dock worker/foreman.
Dreamwave, Data clerk.
though I'm still partial to the cop from Iacon in IDW-verse 1.0.
Scoff
No, inspired is the better word for it. There are significant differences between Codexa and the three-eyed crow from a Song of Ice and Fire.
For example, Codexa seems to have become one with Cybertron itself and has lost her mental faculties in addition to her sense of identity and sense of time and space. She doesn't even seem to be aware of who she is speaking to. Like a grandmother whose memory is going.
In contrast, the three-eyed crow still had his mental faculties and was fully able to recognize what was going on, including in front of him. He even told Bran the importance of being able to recognize that the past was the past and that they could learn from it, but never change it. The three-eyed crow was also not connected to the whole planet. He was a greenseer and could see through the weirwood threes, people and animals but I think that was about it.
Rodimus Prime
Didn’t Orion as a data clerk originate in Dreamwave? I think that prior to that, he was labor class too.
Hadlen_Weltall
Now they seem to be going somewhere. It is nice to see some remembrance of Megatron as a member of the labor class, Orion as the data clerk…
Mattymo
Yeah pretty sure this isn’t a character that can travel into the past. These are Orion’s flashbacks.
Not unlike Optimus in IDW visiting Omega Supreme to talk about Nova Prime.
I guess Omega was strapped to his chair so I guess that’s lifted from GOT too right lol