TFW2005 member Issy543 moves the comics forecast ahead with an early look at incoming IDW titles scheduled for release in May.
Vying for spots on your New Comic Book Day pull lists: My Little Pony / Transformers II #2, Transformers #31, Transformers Annual 2021, a reminder for Transformers Volume 4: Declaration of War and Transformers Beast Wars #4.
Contribute to discussion of the artwork, creator credits and synopsis details for these publications on the 2005 boards!
My Little Pony / Transformers II #2
Ian Flynn, Sam Maggs (w) • Priscilla Tramontano, Trish Forstner (a) • Tony Fleecs (c) • Bethany McGuire-Smith (c) • Jon Gray (c)
The Seekers and the Wonderbolts have formed an uneasy alliance—can Starscream and Rainbow Dash work together to stop the evil attacking Cybertron?! Plus, Applejack and Wildwheel come face-to-face in a wild, wild showdown for the ages!
Transformers #31
Brian Ruckley (w) • Anna Malkova (a) • Diego “Novanim” Zúñiga (c) • Chris Panda (c) • George Caltsoudas (c)
“Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I”. Optimus Prime’s Autobots are starting to fray. They need energon and supplies that they just don’t have access to. But Perceptor has a plan—if he can supercharge Jumpstream’s teleportation powers, the Autobots will have all sorts of new access to Cybertron. Of course, that relies on the experiment going right and things can never be quite so easy…
Transformers Annual 2021—SPOTLIGHT
Brian Ruckley (w) • Alex Milne (a & c) • Freddie E. Williams (c)
“Light/Star”. Vigilem, an ancient force, a Cybertronian Titan, a seemingly unstoppable engine, broke the tether between Cybertron and its moon. Lodestar remains the only other active Titan and, together with her cityspeaker, Lightbright, has been tasked with bringing Vigilem home or taking him down. When Vigilem flees to a colony run by Thunderwing and his lackeys, Lightbright, Lodestar, and the Technobots will have to go on the most dangerous mission of their lives in pursuit of the Titan!
Transformers, Vol. 4: Declaration of War
Brian Ruckley (w) • Anna Malkova, Fico Ossio, Beth McGuire-Smith (a) • Cryssy Cheung (c)
The bold new vision of the Transformers universe continues, filled with diplomatic drama, techno-thriller twists… and giant, sentient robots!
The Decepticons have officially overthrown the Senate–with the Autobots out of power and Sentinel Prime deposed, it looks like Megatron’s vision of the future will take over. But not if the new Prime can rally what’s left of Security Operations and the Senate Guard into a resistance! Meanwhile, with the Autobots and Decepticons declaring war on each other, a group of Cybertron’s top scientists and diplomats launch a plan to get those uninterested in the fighting, including the alien A’ovan refugees living on Cybertron, a way out of the devastation to come.
Collects Transformers #25–30, the Valentine’s Day Special one-shot, and Transformers: Escape #1–5.
Transformers: Beast Wars #4
Erik Burnham (w) • Josh Burcham (a & c) • Dan Schoening (c) • Daniel Khanna (c)
The Beast Wars rage on! When a seriously injured Maximal and a treacherous Predacon run afoul of an incredibly dangerous native beast, they’ll have to team-up to make it out alive. Even then, Megatron leads the Predacons on a hunting expedition for their traitor and their escaped captive, and they aren’t taking prisoners!
MrLemming
Lightbright, Lightbright. Turn on the magic of colored lights!
Ham Sandwich
The random text generator has achieved sentience
Hadlen_Weltall
Always happy to see Milne artwork even if he is not the primary artist for the books. Hopefully they will not kill this iteration of the Technobots unceremoniously like the previous generation.
dragon
As comic book fan I have yet see annul that is worth buying all annuals I have saw are worthless 80,90, and now that have not worth buying that make me buying that have first appearance of character major fight that ties into main series I never annual books
Issy543
https://t.co/uPXfoI8G9t
This Transformers Annual 2021 was posted online and with @IDWPublishing permission I am posting it here
This was a fun image to work on and this time I took a stab at coloring it myself. @Brian_Ruckley has given me a lot of fun stuff to draw
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Weird seeing Dinobot with normal hands.
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Mattymo
I agree I think this series has a lot of potential and can prove a lot of people wrong that beast wars isn’t so tight nipped that new stories and new directions cant be done.
T-Hybrid
I think the Vok are a given. Their an integral part of BW and not exploring them further if given an opportunity like this would be unusual.
I think it's too early for them to appear in the comic though. Let them soak in how weird the planet is before showing us who's behind the curtain.
I know I've said it before, but BW was very similar to LOST. Crash on a strange planet and very slowly reveal not only how weird it was, but why.
Mattymo
plus it’s beast wars. 1-2 issue length stories to start would probably be the acceptable length of an episode-like structure and then stories get longer as more characters are introduced and things like the Vok and the ark come in if they show up. The Vok are probably a safe bet to come in eventually unless they go in a completely new direction but we have already seen floating mountains and 2 moons.
SG Roadbuster
Ayyyyy Wildwheel is gonna be in stuff outside of cyberverse, wooooooo
T-Hybrid
It can be both things, and likely will. Each issue would benefit from some form of beginning/middle/end. But tying things in to the overall story over time will help draw readers in long term.
Mattymo
yeah I’m still trying to gauge if this is going to be 5-6 story arcs or single issue or 2 issue story arcs like the animated comic from a decade ago. Kinda works either way.
T-Hybrid
I mean, it was similar in the sense that the set up was the same. But that's fine. The Marvel movies are "the same" in that regard, too.
There's ways to reference the original series without doing a copy of it. They can do both, and we'll probably get a good feel for that by the fourth issue
Rojixus
Oh shit, you're right! Now it's all I can look at!
DaveWire
What is up with Dinobot’s hands? They’re so… so… normal! It’s creeping me out.
Autobot Hound
Lol, so instead of Starscream vs. Rainbow Dash we get them working together? Should be interesting…
And yeah, I'm thinking Dinobot is the errant Predacon.
Mattymo
I think the best thing for this comic is to not homage the cartoon very much. I like this series but I’ve seen other sites and such discuss that the first issue was too similar to the opening of the cartoon which lead the question “what’s the point?” I disagree totally but it is what it is.
OrionPaxG1
Lodestar vs Vigilem, round 2!
ILoveDinobot
Maybe Rattrap.
If Dinobot and Rattrap don't kiss, I'm not reading the beast wars comics.