Spring forward to June pull list plans, with the latest PREVIEWSworld Transformers comics forecast: Beast Wars #17 and the Volume 2 TP, Last Bot Standing #2, King Grimlock HC, Transformers Special & Volume 5: Horrors Near and Far.
The cover artwork, creator credits and synopsis details revealed so far for these publications are all rolled out for your discussion on the 2005 boards!
Transformers: Beast Wars #17
(W) Erik Burnham (A) Josh Burcham (CA) John Yurcaba (CA) Andrea Bell (CA) Kelly Deng
Finale! How will Optimus and Megatron defeat their strongest foe to date? The Vok. Will their rivalry get in the way or will they put everything aside to save them and their fellow Cybertronians!
Transformers: Beast Wars Volume 2 TP
(W) Erik Burnham (A/CA) Josh Burcham
The new Beast Wars universe continues to evolve, with new characters and surprising team ups, as Maximals and Predacons vie for supremacy! Following their first battles, both teams are licking their wounds, but they won’t get to rest for long. Pods filled with new bots are landing planetside, and Optimus Primal and Megatron are each eager for new recruits! But what if the only side a new arrival wants to join is their own? The mysterious Blackarachnia makes her debut! Plus, Skold must prove herself to the other Predacons by winning over a potential ally. Collects #7-12.
Last Bot Standing #2
(W) Nick Roche (A) E. J. Su (CA) Nick Roche
After ages of isolation, the Last Bot meets with the Visitors, the last straggling survivors of a dying race and the greatest threat Donnokt’s ever seen. But how will the locals react to not only mysterious Visitors from the stars but also a robot in disguise in their midst?
Transformers: King Grimlock HC
(W) Steve Orlando (A) Agustin Padilla
The iconic Transformers character embarks on a solo adventure through a world of swords-and-sorcery unlike anything ever seen before! Grimlock, the beloved powerhouse T-rex with an attitude, and one of the strongest Cybertronians in existence, finds himself magically transported to a world of fantastical beasts and strange powers! In this savage world, where the strong rule with sword and iron, Grimlock finds a new opportunity to prove he’s the strongest there is… but as Grimlock and the human barbarian, Arko, will learn, sometimes brute strength isn’t enough.
Transformers Special
(W) Brian Ruckley (A) Various (CA) Anna Malkova (CA) Angel Hernandez
The thrilling conclusion to the saga that started in Transformers (2019) #1! The Decepticons have the upper hand. Cybertron is falling. And Optimus Prime has an imploder-possibly the most dangerous Cybertronian-built weapon in history-to his head. This is the Autobots last stand. But what does triumph look like in a desperate situation? The War for Cybertron may end here, but the Autobots and Decepticons aren’t done yet!
Transformers Volume 5: Horrors Near and Far
(W) Brian Ruckley (A) Anna Malkova, Bethany McGuire-Smith, Jack Lawrence (CA) Cryssy Cheung
The war grows desperate for Optimus Prime’s Autobots. With Energon and morale running low, they seize on a dangerous plan to boost Jumpstream’s teleportation abilities. Meanwhile, Bumblebee enters a criminal alliance and Megatron learns that his former mentor holds an artifact that could be the key to the Decepticons’ victory. The fall of the tether that anchored Cybertron’s moon was a critical step on the road to war, and the ancient Titan Vigilem caused it. Now the only other active Titan, Lodestar, and her cityspeaker, Lightbright, must hunt him down! And when Starscream follows rumors of a disembodied spark in the desert, what he finds will horrify and rattle him to his core!
Shattered Trousers
All the more reason to treasure those 8 outstanding pages and that incredible RI cover.
Each of those pages was a real highlight for me.
~L~
AzT
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Banannixx
"My God! That's awful!"
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barry
Can we agree this thread has really picked up?
AcademyofDrX
I know you said it already, but that's terrible.
T-Hybrid
As many as four tens.
AcademyofDrX
How many cakes was it
T-Hybrid
I used to steal cakes until Lex got the jump on me. That was terrible.
barry
Please don’t steal biscuits.
T-Hybrid
*bites into first biscuit*
"This tastes like shit."
*continues eating biscuit*
"I mean seriously this is terrible."
*finishes seven more biscuits*
"God those biscuits were the worst thing I've ever eaten. Can't wait for the next batch!"
barry
Every time you say something silly, I shall give you a biscuit. Here are 8 biscuits.
AcademyofDrX
Ruckley has said before that many of the characters he used, like the core members of Team Stream, were chosen independently and without direct input from Hasbro. He just liked them in Cyberverse. Many of the characters he used fill narrative roles similar to those in earlier stories. Put simply, in the case of Jhiaxus, it's almost certainly coincidence rather than planning.
https://twitter.com/Brian_Ruckley/status/1225843684098420736?t=nwb7CeaAZbrQzNqx9-tBhw&s=19
BombSquad
According to the wiki Jhiaxus first appeared in 2019, which would have been long before his Legacy toy was finalized. The Generations version was his most recent toy at that point.
AzT
https://twitter.com/Brian_Ruckley/status/1542233317130526720
Omegax80
Fixed.
Nemesisprime1975
I'm getting two vibes
Moses receiving the tablet of the ten commandments cross with the lion King.
Anyway the issue arrived today at my doorstep so let's see how it all ends.
FrazzTF
This is even crazier than when goliath slew abel in the Garden of Eden and built the Tower of Babel!
AcademyofDrX
Everyone, stop mixing up your messianic parables, it's clearly trying to send "Rodimus leading the Autobots from Unicron to declare a new golden age" vibes. Honor our true, shared religious history.
Rojixus
Was that before or after he slew Goliath?
Blunderzag
LET MY PEOPLE GO (along with a pair of each animal species)