TFW2005 member Issy543 brings word that the iTunes Apple Books three-page preview of Transformers #18 is now available.
“Run.” Calamity has befallen Cybertron. The only reasonable option for many bots is escape-leaving the planet in hopes of safety. Arcee and Greenlight need to get their mentee, Gauge, off-world to protect her, but first they’ll have to find a shuttle! A spotlight issue on Arcee, Greenlight, and their mentee, Gauge! Leads into next month’s Transformers Galaxies #7!
Creator credits: Brian Ruckley (Author) Umi Miyao (Artist, Cover Artist) Bethany McGuire-Smith (Artist, Cover Artist) Josh Burcham (Colorist)
Check out the attached artwork, including both the Umi Miyao A and Bethany McGuire-Smith B covers, then sound off on the 2005 boards!
SMOG
This preview really made me appreciate how much Josh Burcham brings to the art.
So, are the pages shared at the top drawn by Umi Miyao or Bethany McGuire-Smith, or do they actually craft the pages together?
It actually reminds me a lot of Alex Milne's stuff, but maybe that's just a flashback because of Burcham's colours?
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TranslucentBag
Yep. I get the sense that they have untold numbers of sparks in storage and the “forging” is when a said spark is placed in the new body. But because the laws dictate that a forging can only occur when someone dies or is taken offline. It’s a government-mandated population control, and one of the things Megatron is so frustrated by.
AshleyCuadra
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BATTLEMASTER
I was totally expecting Arcee to threaten Grapple and his friend with flameswords to their necks, but this'll do.
Yeah, I liked psychokiller-turned-tamed killer Arcee from the last IDW continuity
Treadshot 2.0
See, I like these pages. And the rendering of the tether falling on top of the city is definitely adequate to the task. But I can't help but think it would be even better if it was drawn with the care in detail that Alex Milner used for the Cliffjumper Spotlight when drawing the inner John refinery. Maybe IDW should think about hiring a guy specifically to do background and large-scale scenery shots? It seems to figure pretty prominently into the way the story-telling should be executed for the Transformers comics, and it's been one of the specific failings of their Comics thus far.
Autovolt 127
Is that Grapple in the background? Looks a lot like the MTMTE design of him.
Issy543
[Preview] Transformers #18 — Major Spoilers — Comic Book Previews
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AshleyCuadra
totally agreed
AshleyCuadra
not really only about their new student not the relationship
AshleyCuadra
only Arcee’s motherly side not the relationship
fishpop
Mama Arcee about to make someone her bitch!
Coffee
Alright, I\'ll admit it. Arcee and Greenlight are kind of hooking me on this
weevil
that yellow guy is swindle? oh sorry, it's grapple.
Bass X0
Is that IDW1 Lug in the background of the first panel? The colors are correct.
AshleyCuadra
i don’t see it it’s more of Arcee being motherly of the new bot then that relationship
NanakoPreame
I'm impressed. Three pages in and Arcee/Greenlight are already a more believable pair then Arcee and Aerion.
Jeddostotle7
Nah, I'm fairly certain from what I've read so far of the series that it's still just the creation of a new Cybertronian, it's just that that's considered a pretty big event since it doesn't happen very often at all at the time of the comics.
AshleyCuadra
agree at least no more of that junk of last last and this one especially with Greenlight cause having Arcee like that no just give her motherly side and warrior side work more then a lame relationship instead, look at Optimus he still has the fatherly type in this new reboot
D15M45
I kinda would like to see arcee start as more of a motherly/nurturing type, become more battlelusting, and then have an event like maybe a relationship with springer or carring for daniel that brings back that nurturing side