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News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:00 pm

Seibertron.com has been informed that the upcoming Comic Con 2009 edition of GEEK Monthly will feature a special Transformers 25th Anniversary cover. Artist Dave Dorman, best known for his Star Wars paintings, created the first ever painted cover of GEEK Monthly. The artwork features Optimus Prime as known in the original Generation 1 introduction of the Transformers and as Michael Bay's live action heroic leader. Seibertron.com was given an advanced image of the cover, so here it is making its debut:

Mr. Dorman really captured the essence of the 25 years of Transformers with the original G1 Prime resembling the Marvel Comics character we first saw in 1984 to the sharp angled, pure colored CGI representation of the Prime of today's Transformersverse.

Special thanks to Jeff Bond, Editor-in-Chief of GEEK Monthly Magazine for allowing us to debut the cover and to Denise Dorman of Write Brain Media for informing us of the special edition cover. The magazine will be hitting newsstands this month.

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News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 10:42 pm

Holy Primus, that's like setting an ipod next to an old cassette walkman. (for all you youngsters that's what we G1'ers had before CD's and MP3's. Yeah, I know, scary thought)

That's a sweet cover. Iconic any way you look at it.

News Credits: 2 · by **First-Aid** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 2:19 am

T-Macksimus wrote:Holy Primus, that's like setting an ipod next to an old cassette walkman. (for all you youngsters that's what we G1'ers had before CD's and MP3's. Yeah, I know, scary thought)

(Agrees as he sticks another 8-track into his mono-speaker transistor tube stereo system)

I tell you what, if that movie Prime is a painting, that dude has serious talent...that's really well done. Too bad it's the "I'm reaching for the extra roll of toilet paper because someone forgot to change it after they used the last of it" pose... :shock:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:10 am

Eh, it could be better.

I mean, we've seen at least three different concept art pieces of Movie Optimus Prime, and that "hunched over" pic isn't the best-looking of the three.

As for the G1 Prime pic, it looks good, but at the same time it looks more like a pic of him from an activity book. It would've been a little cooler it it were a screen capture of his cartoon model straight from the show.

Don't get me wrong, I like this, but I just think it could be better.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:02 am

Sabrblade wrote:Eh, it could be better.

I mean, we've seen at least three different concept art pieces of Movie Optimus Prime, and that "hunched over" pic isn't the best-looking of the three.

As for the G1 Prime pic, it looks good, but at the same time it looks more like a pic of him from an activity book. It would've been a little cooler it it were a screen capture of his cartoon model straight from the show.

Don't get me wrong, I like this, but I just think it could be better.

Well, we've seen a buttload of Prime pics but when you consider that those three concept pics are CGI and the cover is painted, well, that says it all.