Screen Rant provides an early look at several incoming IDW titles scheduled to earn spots on your August pull lists, including: Transformers King Grimlock issue #1, Transformers Shattered Glass #1, Transformers #34 and Beast Wars #7.
Discuss the artwork, creator credits and synopsis details for these publications on the 2005 boards!
Transformers King Grimlock #1
The new comic will be written by Steve Orlando (Wonder Woman), with art by Agustin Padilla (Dungeons & Dragons), and colors from Jeremy Colwell (The Bequest). The miniseries will combine Transformers and fantasy, following the Dinobot Grimlock in an “epic barbarian fantasy” where the savage world is ruled by who’s strongest with the sword. Check out Cary Nord’s 1A cover (Conan The Barbarian) and Mateus Santolouco’s retailer incentive (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder in Hell) covers for the series below. Padilla will provide the 1B cover for issue one.
“King Grimlock is a sky-high dream come to life, a story so big and wild, I wasn’t sure if the Transformers universe could contain it,” Orlando said in a press release. “This is a first-of-its-kind, science/fantasy epic for fans new and old, whether you follow the animation of the ‘80s, the modern shows of the ‘00s, the big screen blockbusters, the decades of incredible comics, or if you’ve been intrigued by Grimlock action figures on the shelf. Everyone’s welcome!”
Transformers Shattered Glass #1
The series takes place in a parallel universe where the Decepticons are Autobots war against one another, however, the usual roles are reversed. The Decepticons are freedom fighters trying to escape the rule of the Autobots. The series will be written by Danny Lore (James Bond), with Transformers artists Guido Guidi and Dan Khanna providing art, and John-Paul Bove (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) doing the colors. Transformers: Shattered Glass #1 will feature three covers, including Cover 1A by Alex Milne (Transformers vs. Terminator), Cover 1B by Khanna, and a retailer incentive variant by Sara Pitre-Durocher (Transformers: Till All Are One).
Transformers #34
The new “Sea of Rust” arc will begin in Transformers #34 and take a closer look at Cybertron’s during the beginning of the war. Megatron will be at odds with his former mentor Tegamax, who has an artifact that could lead to an Autobots victory. The series will continue under the creative team of Brian Ruckley and Anna Malkova. Cover 1A is by Winston Chan, cover 1B will be from Susan Margevich, and the retailer incentive variant will be by Andrew Griffith.
Transformers Beast Wars #7
Transformers: Beast Wars #7 by Burnham and Chan will launch the next storyline with “Pod.” The issue will see the arrival of Blackarachnia. Issue one’s cover 1A will be from Fico Ossio (Mister Miracle: The Source of Freedom), with cover 1B by Ed Pirrie (Transformers), and a retailer incentive variant by Gavin Guidry (Going to the Chapel).
AzT
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K1712829
Poor sixshot
Senator Magnificus
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Rodimus Prime
The artist is very good, but he is not the style I would have chosen for Beast Wars, which always had more natural looking curves, etc compared to other series.
Senator Magnificus
They're a new version of those characters.
The same way TFA Optimus was a new
incarnation of Prime. Under no obligation
to be beholden to the original.
Berser Car
Comics rotate artists between volumes all the time. The artist of the first issues is probably already starting to draw issue 13-ish.
KylewithaC
any particular reason announced to why they switched the artists? Did enough people complain or something?
Bass X0
the new artist is correcting the art to how it should have been all along. And no, it’s still part of the Beast Wars continuity family. They’re the same characters. Like how Dreamwave, IDW1 and IDW2 feature the G1 characters even in a new setting.
Senator Magnificus
It should feel like it's own thing. It should'nt lie underneath the enormous shadow of it's legacy. If I wanted to see the BW cast as they appeared in the 90s cartoon, I'd simply head over to Tubi. I like Burcham's out there proportions, his signature boxiness. I especially liked Tarantulas cartoonishly curling little spider legs. Very Tim Burton flavoured. Writing, story & design wise this really should've embraced being a reboot. It was a chance to weave a fresh reinterpretation of an old story.
Q Prime
I mean, technically the new artist for issue 7 is hijacking an existing comic series if "hijacking" is something you're against. And the BW comic didn't hijack an existing series given this a reimagining and reboot rather than a continuation or replacement.
Bass X0
Unique by itself is not a selling point. The BW cast looking like how they should do is how it should be done and is expected to be done. It feeling like “a separate Beast” just degrades it’s legitimacy as an actual Beast Wars book.
The difference between Animated and the new Beast Wars book (because someone compared it to Animated earlier) is that Animated still had detailed characters with the only exaggerated proportions being their chins. The new Beast Wars book has flat, under-detailed characters with random crazily exaggerated proportions. Also Animated was it’s own thing; it didn’t hijack an existing series and radically change its aesthetic.
Still we get a welcome break with #7. From the preview, I have nothing to complain about regarding the art style.
Senator Magnificus
It's far more unique. This is just "BW cast- in standard comic art form!" Whatever my misgivings are for this book's unoriginality, Burcham really did make this feel like a separate beast (excuse the mediocre punage) from it's 90s animated precursor.
AzT
artguy101
Transformers Shattered Glass #1 is coming out this Wednesday so here’s my cover to the issue. It’s a great looking book pencilled by Transformers veteran artist Guido Guidi! (While I tag teamed with Guido on this mini for interiors for issues 2 and 4, this Blurr cover is the only one I drew for the series.)
fishpop
Okay, i\'m lliking this internal art for Beast Wars way more than the pseudo TF Animated style.
I liked Animated but the style doesn\'t fit for BW.
Optimax Prime
Okay…..wasn't expecting a warning from this Megatron on the thing. But I gotta wonder, how'd it even get on the thing in the first place?!? I mean, it's a whole Assload of years until the Voyager Probe gets launched, so how's that even happen!?!?! Unless BW-Megs takes advantage of the Ark to implant a message for G1-Megs to then put onto the disk later but………
Bass X0
it being angular is why I don’t like it.
Senator Magnificus
I prefer Burcham's more out there, angular style.
Scurv
Decent art? Yesssss.