Here's some more comic news from our friends at IDW Publishing, their September 2013 Transformers solicitations. Check out the covers and descriptions below:
Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #21
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Milne, Sean Chen (c)
ENDGAME! A handful of heroes stand in the way of a tyrant with the power to destroy AUTOBOTS and DECEPTICONS alike. But what if stopping him carries an even higher price? Get ready to say goodbye to some old friends as More Than Meets The Eye delivers on two years’ worth of promises.
2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
“IDW Gets Animated” variant cover by Andy Suriano!
Bullet points:
Part of IDW’s “IDW Gets Animated” variant cover month!
The heart-rending finale to Remain in Light!
You’ll be talking about this one for years to come!
Transformers: Robots in Disguise #21
John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith and Livio Ramondelli (a) • Griffith, Casey Coller (c)
SHOCKPOINT! In the wastelands of CYBERTRON, SHOCKWAVE makes his move—and SOUNDWAVE and the DECEPTICONS step up to stop him! While the battle of the century rocks the ancient ruins of the Crystal City, dig back into the history of these titanic rivals!
2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
variant Livio Ramondelli, interlocking with issue 20 and 22!
Bullet points:
DARK CYBERTRON begins here!
SHOCKWAVE’S master plan is set in motion—and no one is safe!
Transformers: Robots In Disguise, Vol. 4
John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith (a & c)
Megatron’s back… and CYBERTRON will never be the same. Everything BUMBLEBEE and his AUTOBOTS have built teeters at the edge of collapse—and STARSCREAM has to make the choice his whole life has been leading to. And meet the new PROWL—deadlier than ever, colder then any other AUTOBOT, and ready to end the DECEPTICON threat.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 124Transformers: Robots in Disguise #21
John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith and Livio Ramondelli (a) • Griffith, Casey Coller (c)
SHOCKPOINT! In the wastelands of CYBERTRON, SHOCKWAVE makes his move—and SOUNDWAVE and the DECEPTICONS step up to stop him! While the battle of the century rocks the ancient ruins of the Crystal City, dig back into the history of these titanic rivals!
2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
variant Livio Ramondelli, interlocking with issue 20 and 22!
Bullet points:
DARK CYBERTRON begins here!
SHOCKWAVE’S master plan is set in motion—and no one is safe!
pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-765-7
Bullet points:
• Collects issues #12–16
Transformers Regeneration One #0
Simon Furman (w) • Jeff Anderson, Casey W. Coller, Jose Delbo, Nick Roche, Geoff Senior (a) • Andrew Wildman, Guido Guidi (c)
ZERO POINT! Adventure in the time stream, as HOT ROD desperately attempts to identify the rogue elements that are leading him, and the entire CYBERTRONIAN race, inexorably towards the catastrophic end of time itself. What hidden stories do the DEATHBRINGER, BOLTAX, BUSTER WITWICKY, and GALVATRON have to tell, and what—if any—solutions are there? Or is it already too late?
*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
Geoff Senior variant cover!
Bullet points:
The beginning of the end!
Legendary TRANSFORMERS artists join Hall of Fame TRANSFORMERS writer Simon Furman for the ultimate TRANSFORMERS comic!
Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters #5
Mairghread Scott & Mike Johnson (w) • Agustin Padilla (a) • Ken Christiansen (c)
CYBERTRON LIVES! The DINOBOTS lend hand to their fellow underground Autobots... but things quickly go awry as the very planet begins to quake and shift. Floods, cave-ins, the very ground dropping from underneath... is CYBERTRON reborn or are these the last flailings of a dying planet?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant Covers:
animation art variant cover!
Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters, Vol. 1
Various (w & a & c)
It's the beginning of the end of TRANSFORMERS PRIME. But a new enemy is revealed and the stakes are ratcheted up even higher as the Cybertronians continue their quest for peace throughout the universe.
TPB • FC • $7.99 • 112 pages • 5” x 7” • ISBN 978-1-61377-715-2
Bullet points:
• Great For Kids!
Transformers: Monstrosity #4 (of 4)
Chris Metzen & Flint Dille (w) • Livio Ramondelli (a) • Ramondelli x 3 (c)
THE RETURN! In the early days of the war on CYBERTROIN… MEGATRON’s journey into the abyss is over. OPTIMUS PRIME’s grip on the planet is slipping. GRIMLOCK and the DINOBOTS hold onto sanity by a thread. Now, all the threads draw together… and the world will shudder.
*3 regular covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1-to-1 ratio
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
First time in print!
The beginnings of the war on CYBERTRON!
Transformers Classics, Vol. 6
Simon Furman (w) • Jose Delbo, Geoff Senior, Dwayne Turner & Andrew Wildman (a) • Guido Guidi (c)
The historic comic book roots of THE TRANSFORMERS are re-presented for maximum Cybertronian enjoyment. Freshly re-mastered and re-colored, these stories are accompanied by an in-depth introduction as well as select issue notes by Mark W. Bellomo.
TPB • FC • $24.99 • 284 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-764-0
Bullet points:
• Collects issues #63–74.
