The latest PREVIEWSworld catalog includes several Transformers comics titles due for November and December arrivals: Best of Shockwave One Shot, Best of Windblade One Shot, Volume 6: War’s End and issues #4 & #5 of Shattered Glass II.
Discuss the cover artwork, creator credits and synopsis details revealed so far for these publications on the 2005 boards!
Transformers Best of Shockwave
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) James Biggie
Shockwave has been many things to many bots-a senator, a scientist, a Decepticon commander, a master manipulator, and even a Prime! Those who don’t learn from history…are all dead before Shockwave! Best of Shockwave collects Transformers Spotlight: Shockwave, “The New Order” from The Transformers (1984) #5, “Shockwaves!” from The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #17, “The Falling, Interlude: The First Who Was Named” from Optimus Prime #18, “Aspects of Evil, Part 3” from The Transformers (UK) #225, “Internal Affairs!” from The Transformers (UK) #277, and more!
Transformers Best of Windblade
(W) Various (A) Various (CA) James Biggie
Whether soaring above the skies of Caminus, Cybertron, or Earth, the city speaker Windblade is a hero through and through. She’ll lead not just the Autobots but all of Cybertron with compassion and ferocity-if they’ll let her. Follow her adventures through Cybertron’s greatest periods of unity and anything but!Best of Windblade collects “A Bot and Her City” from Transformers: Windblade #1, “The Chosen One” from Transformers: Till All Are One Annual, “The Cracks Beneath Your Feet, Part 3” from Transformers (2019) #9, and more!
Volume 6: War’s End
(W) Brian Ruckley (A) Anna Malkova, Bethany McGuire-Smith, Jack Lawrence (CA) Cryssy Cheung
With the Decepticons gaining ground and the Autobots at the brink, the war for Cybertron careens to its climax. Before now, the planet had known peace for 2,000 years, but there are those who remember the last war, and would bring that knowledge to bear to end the current one. Arcee, Windblade, and Chromia mount a desperate rescue mission that finally reunites Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, but is it too little too late? Even as the Decepticons lay siege to the last Autobot stronghold, new dangers emerge that threaten the entire world. Insecticlone swarms. Rust worms. And a great evil reborn-Exarchon, the Threefold Spark. Collects Transformers #37-43, Transformers: War’s End #1-4, and Transformers: Fate of Cybertron.
Transformers Shattered Glass II, #4
(W) Danny Lore (A) Guido Guidi (CA) Livio Ramondelli (CA) Ashleigh Phillips (CA) Josh Burcham
Tired of waiting for Megatron to give an order, Flamewar charges into battle in the airspace above Metroplex. She knows what Megatron wants: Victory. The Titan. Autobot destruction. And the best way to prove herself to him is to secure all that for him, no matter the cost. Right?
Transformers Shattered Glass II, #5
(W) Danny Lore (A) Guido Guidi (CA) Andrew Griffith (CA) L Kershaw (CA) Mark Maher, featured
The deadly battle is here. Autobots and Decepticons struggle for control over Metroplex, Starscream’s Spark, and Cybertron. And through it all, Soundwave, as always, works to save bots, no matter their allegiance. Soundwave isn’t a fighter, but are words enough when faced with all-out war?
kmc
Shattered Glass II issue 5.
deceptioncon
So what is the very last comic IDW is making?
G.B. Blackrock
I can't imagine as many people care about GI Joe Extreme as do about G2, but of course I'm on a TF board, so there's that bias….
I WAS glad to be able to promote the Joe Volume with the G2 crossover (on my first episode). Unfortunately, I soon discovered that I'd set up a precedent I couldn't maintain, since there really wasn't anything out there.
SHIELD Agent 47
Ha.
Vector Oracle
It’s kind of baffling that IDW never made a G2 TPB, especially since they managed to reprint the entirety of the Marvel G.I. Joe run, part of which had the G2 crossover in it. (I can only imagine how frustrating it must have been for people who wanted to read G2 afterward but couldn’t.) On the other hand, they never reprinted either of the G.I. Joe Extreme series, so who knows.
Novaburnhilde
Ah, I see.
Epic.
Rojixus
It's the last IDW Solicitation for anything Transformers-related.
Novaburnhilde
Is this actually the last solicitation or are people just reflecting in general? D:
Frontier4
The end of an era.
AzT
https://twitter.com/tfnationltd/status/1603404773159477250
RodimusRex
Hasbro is apparently continuing to work with IDW on non-TF, non-Joe properties.
D&D comic announced.
IDW conjures Saturday morning memories new Dungeons & Dragons series
Dinoprime09
Just read the last issue today and I have ta say I quite enjoyed it as final issues go it was pretty good especially as the last IDW issue ever. Would\'ve liked to have seen that unreleased Collision Course series but frankly at the end of the day I\'m more than satisfied with what we\'ve got it\'s been a great run and I can\'t wait to see what comes next… Till all are one (couldn\'t resist it\'s a great quote)
G.B. Blackrock
I would definitely welcome a new G2 release. When I did the G2 podcast, I could only refer folks to nearly 20-year-old collections.
Valkysas
Do we have a set date on when the comics are getting delisted from digital stores like Comixology? I’m trying to grab everything before that happens.
Tetratron
Nah, there is another publisher Hasbro decided to go with we just don't know who it is.
Most comic companies begin announcing their monthly solicits around this time of the month, so if they want to have a TF comic in March we'll hear in a few days-to-a-week or so.
TargetmasterJoe
No one's ever really gone…
(*manifests an official new licensor announcement to happen in the new year*)
Rojixus
It never ends…
Vector Oracle
It’s the last TF comic of the IDW era. The 2019 G1 series is done and, if memory serves me right, the final issue of Shattered Glass II is the final TF comic until the next publisher picks it up.
ShockSound6
So this is the last transformers comic, possibly ever?
Vector Oracle
Ooh, that too. It still stings a bit that Classics UK never got finished, which means that the only reprint source for many of the black-and-white stories are shrunken-down copies made by Titan in an attempt to have “manga-sized” volumes (their words).