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[Va'al]

Courtesy of the usual channel of iTunes, via the stellar work of IDW digital assistant Mariel Romero, we have a three-page preview of the upcoming More Than Meets the Eye #49 issue, continuing pretty much where #48 left off - and which also seems to be delayed until early February. In the meantime, check it out below!

SHUTDOWN! A vengeful god stalks the corridors of the Lost Light, murdering everyone who makes eye contact. The crew must answer two questions: Why have they been singled out for punishment? And how do you stop someone who can kill you just by thinking about it?

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Scraps about to get real.....

[megatronus]

Froid be trippin'.

[Va'al]

Froid be trippin'.

Sometimes a cy-gar is just a cy-gar. Unless it's Kup's.

[BATTLEMASTER IIC]

Someone needs to make a motivational poster out of the panel with Skids and Tarn

[Crosscheck]

If you look, Tarn's eyes are still intact (no scars). I guess this must be when his mask gets damaged.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

If you look, Tarn's eyes are still intact (no scars). I guess this must be when his mask gets damaged.

Either that, or maybe the artist did not draw him with the scars

[BATTLEMASTER IIC]

Maybe Tarn has been a name taken by at least two individual transformers?

Or maybe it is an artist error after all.

[Va'al]

Maybe Tarn has been a name taken by at least two individual transformers?

Or maybe it is an artist error after all.

We do know that each member of the DJD is replaceable, and there have been at least two Vos 'it is said' that Tarn was there since the beginning. The speculation that is not the case is possible, though I believe it would be a bit too much of a stretch to have that type of reveal in the story.

I'd like to chalk it up to artist's rendition, but knowing Roberts, there probably is something of a 'this is where it happens' element to it, too.

Also:



Senpai noticed me!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Senpai noticed me!

That smile is glorious

[megatronus]

Senpai noticed me!

That smile is glorious

That isn't a smile.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Senpai noticed me!

That smile is glorious

That isn't a smile.

AAHHHHHHHH You had to say that

[Va'al]

Through some strange channel, Google Books has an early full preview of the upcoming Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #49. While we have mirrored the images below for readers to enjoy, we would also like to offer a warning against some randomly generated further pages floating out there, and join in with writer James Roberts' words below.

I don't bang on about this often (enough), but please don't torrent MTMTE. Stealing instead of buying will kill it.

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #49

James Roberts (w) • Hayato Sakamoto (a) • Alex Milne (c)
SHUTDOWN! A vengeful god stalks the corridors of the Lost Light, murdering everyone who makes eye contact. The crew must answer two questions: Why have they been singled out for punishment? And how do you stop someone who can kill you just by thinking about it?

FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
The stage is set. The players are in place. The lights are dimmed. Next month: the lights die.
The most acclaimed TRANSFORMERS comic book ever closes in on another milestone!
Lies, tragedy, comedy, and cold hard truth.
Variant Cover by Nick Roche!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

That Sunder guy is creepy as all get out, and those poor security guys! they looked cool!

[Va'al]

The oddities with issue #49 of IDW Publishing's Transformers: More than Meets the Eye keep on coming, as fellow fan on Twitter Thistle_Burr spotted both variant covers for next week's book over on GoCollect. One sees the third part of the massive Alex Milne/Josh Perez piece featuring cast from both ongoings, while the other is a Nick Roche (and Josh Burcham?) Rung-centred ominous shadow - check them out below!

[steve2275]

The oddities with issue #49 of IDW Publishing's Transformers: More than Meets the Eye keep on coming, as fellow fan on Twitter Thistle_Burr spotted both variant covers for next week's book over on GoCollect. One sees the third part of the massive Alex Milne/Josh Perez piece featuring cast from both ongoings, while the other is a Nick Roche (and Josh Burcham?) Rung-centred ominous shadow - check them out below!

my what a big shadow you cast

[D-Maximal_Primal]

This is some weird scheduling here. Either way, that 4-part cover is looking awesome!

[ScottyP]

This is some weird scheduling here. Either way, that 4-part cover is looking awesome!

It's actually six parts! Guess I need to track the rest down after getting the first two already.

[CombaticonsCombine?]

any guesses on the identity of the shadow?

doesn't look like anyone i know but someone here might know?
i dunno.

[Mr O]

any guesses on the identity of the shadow?

doesn't look like anyone i know but someone here might know?
i dunno.

I don't know either. I don't know much about the comics but I think Overlord's out of the picture, Snapdragon's head is a different shape and iI don't know what their version of Broadside looks like or is up to. So, Broadside, with a '?'.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

More like Rung staring down Sunder but with a different shadow

[CombaticonsCombine?]

<:: Hold it right there! ::>

Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions, but think about this:

Sunder has that creepy mouth, yeah?
Makes several metaphors about 'feeding' on people's memories.

They go to considerable effort to not show Getaway's mouthplate because of a beam that looks REALLY out of place.

Maybe, just MAYBE, Sunder does something to their faces? A tiiiiny bit similar to what Vos 2.0 does, perhaps?

Also, who's Tailgate standing in front of on the primary cover? His general design seems really familiar, but those red eyes...Hm.

<:: Alright; you can go. ::>

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I don't think there is anything going on with Getaway's face there. by the sounds of it, Sunder just mnemosurgeons his way into your mind and makes it blow up with guilt.

And that is Thunderclash on the cover behind Tailgate

[Va'al]

Also, who's Tailgate standing in front of on the primary cover? His general design seems really familiar, but those red eyes...Hm.

Thunderclash, I believe. Someone suggested (in another thread, if I remember correctly) that it is possible that something happened between Thunderclash and Tailgate when Tailgate rainbowsploded. I don't entirely buy that, but there does seem to be a lot more confidence in the little one here.

If Sunder/Mortilus is after sin, and Tailgate - despite the actual age - is an innocent young baby in holomatter form, maybe he's essentially immune to Sunder's 'powers'?



As for the big shadow, I just assumed it was Sunder.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Thunderclash, I believe. Someone suggested (in another thread, if I remember correctly) that it is possible that something happened between Thunderclash and Tailgate when Tailgate rainbowsploded. I don't entirely buy that, but there does seem to be a lot more confidence in the little one here.

If Sunder/Mortilus is after sin, and Tailgate - despite the actual age - is an innocent young baby in holomatter form, maybe he's essentially immune to Sunder's 'powers'?

It is possible Tailgate and Thunderclash now share a bond. Tailgate did wake him up, and who knows what that may have done.
And Tailgate is shaping up to be the hero. The little guy's real only sin is lying, and he barely has had enough time to create large amounts of sin. and with Getaway and Cyclonus' actions, it is possible he is over it and Sunder can't touch him