Optimus Prime #3
John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a & c)
An uneasy peace between Optimus Prime and the newly arrived Junkions is threatened by Soundwave’s discovery within their massive ship…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Optimus Prime #3—Artist’s Edition Variant
John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a) • Casey Coller (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
· Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!
· Variant cover by Joana Lafuente!
Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Wreck-Gar's finally here! Really gonna have to read autocracy and all that now.
Prowl's in this?
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!
Dr Va'al wrote:Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Wreck-Gar's finally here! Really gonna have to read autocracy and all that now.
Prowl's in this?
I think Zama's cover is just *°art°* without necessarily reflecting the story.
Then again, Prowl is everywhere.
EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!
Shot Put wrote:Dr Va'al wrote:Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Wreck-Gar's finally here! Really gonna have to read autocracy and all that now.
Prowl's in this?
I think Zama's cover is just *°art°* without necessarily reflecting the story.
Then again, Prowl is everywhere.EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!
It's been said for a while that we're getting pre-war flashbacks in this series, with Orion Pax's first meeting with Bumblebee in #2. Pretty sure this cover is just one of those flashbacks, as Bumblebee's alive again and they're suddenly on Cybertron.
Windsweeper wrote:Let's see...
Arcee
Wheeljack
Alpha Trion
Kup
Rattrap
Jetfire
Optimus Prime
And now Wreck Gar.
It's like Barber instinctively knows all the Transformers I hate and uses them. Oh and if the cover is right he'll be bringing back the always annoying Bumblebee.
Oh and he ruins the ones I like such as Prowl and Thundercracker.
RIPT Apparel is excited to announce a special collaboration with IDW Publishing coming in November of 2016. With the inaugural debut of Optimus Prime in his first-ever solo on-going comic book, RIPT Apparel and artist Tim Lim decided to celebrate the occasion.
“This is really a pivotal moment in Transformers comics. The IDW universe has outlasted the original Marvel run at this point, and seeing a new character-focused book like Optimus Prime means these stories and characters can contend with other classic solo comics like Wolverine or Joker,” says Paul Friemel, CMO of RIPT Apparel. “We wanted to give Optimus his due by homaging what is debatably the most famous Transformers comic cover: Marvel’s Transformers #5’s ‘Are All Dead’ cover but with a good-guy twist.”
The illustration was executed by long-time RIPT Apparel contributor, Tim “Ninjaink” Lim. Tim has created hundreds of t-shirts over the past 5 years, but has been honing his talents for the comic industry with other exclusive comic covers for “Bebop & Rocksteady” “Back To the Future“, and “Street Fighter x GI Joe.”
“Tim was a dream to work with as always. He had some other awesome ideas for this cover that we weren’t able to get approved, but maybe life will find a way. There was a lot of debating what to finally put on the back wall behind Optimus,” added Paul.
o.supreme wrote:See...a while back ago there was a Megatron/Refltcor cover paying tribute to the cover of Batman: The Killing Joke. It worked
This as an odd reference to Marvel's TF#5, I can think of at least 3 reasons off the top of my head why this doesn't work...
