Illustrator and designer Winston Chan & TFW2005 member and artist Josh Burcham update our March solicitations coverage, with details about Winston’s Beast Wars issue #14 cover A:
Spoilers!?!? More reinforcements are on the way! More pods are opening up, but is all truly as it seems?? Yes, Polar Claw makes a debut! And Winston’s cover for #14 is rad as heck. Here’s a peek at his design! I whipped this up in the hotel room at TFcon Baltimore. Very Zangief
When I had settled on drawing this for the cover, I asked Josh if he had any references for ol’ Polar Claw and he whipped up this awesome sketch in a jiffy, and in his hotel room no less! This man is incredible and I love his take. I also always imagined PC a lil like Zangief.
Sound off on the 2005 boards!
AzT
https://twitter.com/jcburcham/status/1508984070281256961
Senator Magnificus
Book convinced me to pick up Landmine again.
Bravemaximike
Totally true!!!
Even without the Brute modes, still great designs.
Say whatever you’d like about the cartoon, but I LOVED the Energon line.
…….. and I actually really liked the toon, but I saw it in its Superlink incarnation with extremely bad and inaccurate subtitles that made it even more fun to watch.
With this comic ending I should go back and at least hit the highlights of what happened in it. I just never quite latched on to the story and what was happening. Plus real life got busy and hard to find time for comics
Senator Magnificus
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T-Hybrid
We need more Brute Mode figures like that.
Senator Magnificus
I'm glad they brought back Energon Landmine.
Loved that figure back in the day, awesome design.
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Bravemaximike
I really liked Jack Lawrence’s art in Lost Light!
I actually may pick this up, even though I haven’t gotten this series past the first arch.
His Pointblank and Sureshot are looking awesome.
AzT
IDW’s Transformers: War’s End, 5-Page Preview of Issue #2 – Transformers News – TFW2005
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AzT
https://twitter.com/raadst/status/1505601290642071554
T-Hybrid
The problem is we don't know what they had planned for Razorbeast had the series run longer. Unless I missed something we never saw a body. So he could easily have been brought back at some point with a different attitude as a result of having nearly died *twice* since waking up. Think about how long it took the original series to put a bow on Tigatron and Airazor being abducted.
Hopefully once the dust settles we'll have an opportunity to ask the IDW team what they had planned had it run longer.
Senator Magnificus
IKR? Also, not the biggest fan of his upbeat, chipper deposition. I know, different version, but I liked Razorbeast alot in the Furman mini series. He was a snarky, wisecracking resourceful little planner. Kinda hoping they'd marriage those qualities with the stubbornness & hotheadedness from his old toy bio card.
Downwash
Knowing the series is ending in 4 or 5 issues counting #14 here and the Annual, I think he wound up serving his purpose for the narrative. But I agree, still a bummer to see him gone after 2 and half issues.
Omegax80
Retailer Incentive. Usually a 1:10 variant.
Senator Magnificus
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Dark Starscream
He's talking about this cover:
And clearly the artist is poking fun at Japanese Hentai (Do NOT google)
Senator Magnificus
I'm still stuck on them using Razorbeast as a sacrifice for cheap, instant drama. Whatta waste of Mr. Gathering. He deserved better than that.
Dark Starscream
RI?
ProfessionalIcee
I love seeing Obsidian on Cybertron with an Earth mode. Just cracks me up a little.
Lore Keeper
The art in the ongoing issue looks pretty fantastic. Are these Malkova's panels? If so, hats off to her! I also love that a combiner is finally getting some action in the main storyline. I just hope they don't pull an IDW 1.0 and kill/disable him as soon as they're able. That was one of the biggest things that bugged me in the first continuity. It felt like the writers begrudgingly included combiners when asked and got rid of them as soon as they could.