The Energon Pub

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:50 am

IDW Publishing has posted a five page preview of the fourth and final chapter of the Transformers Movie prequel series. See the preview along with the coloured and black-and-white covers, by visiting their site here

And don't forget to check out the Official Transformers Movie site by clicking here

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 9:56 am

IDW realy did a great job of making this look good. If this film is as big as they say and doesn't flop, I would love to see this company in the driver seat for a sequil

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:14 am

Liege Evilmus wrote:IDW realy did a great job of making this look good. If this film is as big as they say and doesn't flop, I would love to see this company in the driver seat for a sequil

Same here. Give Don F. the credit he deserves, those movie designs must be hard as hell to draw, and he did an amazing job. My only small complaint is Bonecrusher's head on the coloured cover doesn't look at all like it should. Neither does Barricade's on the black and white cover.

Even on the Alex Milne covers, all the head look slightly different, and the robots never seem to have the same head twice. I would think with all the complicated panels and gears and everything on their bodies, the heads would be the easiest thing to draw consistently the same way... yet this doesn't seem to be the case. Still great art and colouring! This is my favourite cover of a movie comic yet, and the colouring job looks fantastic.

I love the scene where Starscream changes form before the jet he shot down even crashes

:grin:

News Credits: 4 · by **Blitzwing the warrior** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:27 am

I see thats how they turn from cybertron forms to earth forms, interesting

by **Sentinel Pax** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:55 am

I love how Barricade says, "No living witnesses." What a badass. Starscream seemed really Starscreamish here, which I can only hope translates into the movie itself.

News Credits: 88 · by **Shinobi Rendar** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:15 am

I hope we see the bots in the film changing from their cybertronian mode to their alt mode on-screen.

The story has been building up quite nicely.

I love the cons vibe. Starscream really does feel like Starscrem lol.

by **Roboto750** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 2:16 pm

I love the cover in color! The art is sharp and the color is crisp!

News Credits: 3 · by **Archanubis** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:09 pm

Love to see how they explain the presence of Brawl and Bonecrusher. Frenzy and Scorponok would come with the others, but I haven't seen Brawl and Bonecrusher.

News Credits: 1 · by **jgilkinson** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 3:24 pm

so they can self modify... cool. at least starscreams personality seems dead on

Website · by **Skullgrin140** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 4:02 pm

IDW have done quite a fantastic job with the movie prequal comic! I know that this movie will rock, good or bad

News Credits: 1 · by **Calvatron** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 5:51 pm

agreed!

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 11:52 am

On the coloured cover, has Ratchet got a moustache?

News Credits: 1 · by **Heavy B** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:44 am

yay, tomorrows payday

by **Phoenix_306** » Wed May 02, 2007 5:58 am

Meh... not massively impressed with the way they adopt earth modes - what is to stop them picking new modes whenever they feel like it? Such as Bumblebee up against Brawl, thinks "Hmmm, maybe a tank mode might be better" and copies Brawl's earth mode? I dunno, it'll probably be explained like they can only change to something similar to cybertronian modes, or they don't have enough energy for multiple changes, but it still doesn't sit right with me....

News Credits: 2 · by **Tusko** » Wed May 02, 2007 10:26 am

I agree with Phoenix_306.
There has to be a distinction between shapeshifting and transforming.

News Credits: 4 · by **Milanion** » Wed May 02, 2007 12:56 pm

Can't wait!

News Credits: 38 · by **Sunstar** » Wed May 02, 2007 1:27 pm

I got mine and escalation 6

News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Wed May 02, 2007 2:28 pm

i got mine and i love it but it seems too short..... and what's with bumblebee going to the old house and breaking down on the side of the road??????

News Credits: 1 · by **Calvatron** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:35 am

i wonder if that was captain witwickey's hospital?

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Thu May 03, 2007 3:23 pm

Im really happy with the preview comics. They were a bit short but worth the $16. Makes me want to see the movie even more now. Only question is why wasnt Brawl in the comic? They showed Blackout, Screamer, and Barricade on earth but no Brawl. I guess he comes in during the movie with the other Autobots. And also does any one have a pic of the prequel #3 alt cover? I cant find it.

News Credits: 88 · by **Shinobi Rendar** » Thu May 03, 2007 8:53 pm

Megatron_Wolf wrote: Only question is why wasnt Brawl in the comic? They showed Blackout, Screamer, and Barricade on earth but no Brawl. I guess he comes in during the movie with the other Autobots.

Not only Brawl but Bonecrusher too.

I'm missing issue #2. If anyone has an extra copy they wanna sell pm me.

I've enjoyed the heck out of those prequel comics.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sat May 05, 2007 4:01 pm

Shinobi Rendar wrote:
Megatron_Wolf wrote: Only question is why wasnt Brawl in the comic? They showed Blackout, Screamer, and Barricade on earth but no Brawl. I guess he comes in during the movie with the other Autobots.

Not only Brawl but Bonecrusher too.

I'm missing issue #2. If anyone has an extra copy they wanna sell pm me.

I've enjoyed the heck out of those prequel comics.

I thought about Bonecrusher afew hours after i posted. I guess they come to earth in the movie. Dont know why they werent with the others. Maybe they didnt want to give evrey thing away.

by **Rodimus Cloud** » Sun May 06, 2007 5:01 pm

The comics are done really nicely but their lenght is the only thing that bothers me. And they showed more humans then the Transformers themselves. I like the 4th comic cover.
They made Bumblebee to be very likeable character.

News Credits: 4 · by **Milanion** » Mon May 07, 2007 9:53 am

I like the way the Cons are portrayed, seems true to form. Overall, the prequels were done well, and do have me excited for the movie.

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Mon May 07, 2007 11:45 am

Rodimus Cloud wrote:The comics are done really nicely but their lenght is the only thing that bothers me. And they showed more humans then the Transformers themselves.

That, to me, was the best thing about this series. I really enjoyed it.