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In other IDW news today, we have directly from the publisher the full line-up of releases for the month of November in terms of transforming robot-theme comics! Plenty of new stuff to be found, including the second Wreckers mini, continuations of the ongoing and collected trade paperbacks - find out more details and take a look at the covers below.

Transformers #47
John Barber (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a) • Andrew Griffith (c)
CONQUERORS, part 2! OPTIMUS PRIME ventures into the SEA OF RUST, looking for the truth about his role as a PRIME. Instead, he comes face-to-face with the new female combiner, VICTORION, who has some questions of her own!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers #47—Subscription Variant
John Barber (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
The lead-up to issue 50 heats up!
Seriously, the AUTOBOTS are DOOMED!
Variant cover by Livio Ramondelli!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #47
James Roberts (w) • Brendan Cahill (a) • Alex Milne (c)
FRIENDSHIP ISN'T MAGIC! TAILGATE has a choice to make—and if he had any idea what was at stake, he'd think twice before making it. The crew is ripped apart as MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE begins the sprint towards its shocking 50th issue!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #47—Subscription Variant
James Roberts (w) • Brendan Cahill (a) • Nick Roche (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
You thought things looked bad for the Lost Light crew before?
You haven’t seen anything yet.
FINAL ISSUE!
Just kidding, there’s more next month!
Variant WRECKERS cover by Brendan Cahill!

Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers #1 (of 5)—SPOTLIGHT
Nick Roche (w & a & c)
THE WRECKERS RETURN! Somebody’s kidnapped PROWL… but does anybody want him back? A lifetime of messing with everybody’s lives comes around to haunt him. Fortunately, he’s always got a plan. In this case… the one team of brutal, broken heroes… the WRECKERS!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers #1 (of 5)—Subscription Variant
Nick Roche (w & a) • Declan Shalvey (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet Points:
The sequel to LAST STAND OF THE WRECKERS—one of the most acclaimed comics in TRANSFORMERS history!
PROWL gets his comeuppance!
Features ARCEE and KUP… and the WRECKERS!
The secret history of PROWL revealed, leaving everybody hurt.
Variant cover by Alex Milne!

Offered Again!
Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers TPB • FC • $19.99 • ISBN: 978-1-60010-716-0
Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers HC • FC • $29.99 • ISBN: 978-1-61377-126-6

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Animated #5
Georgia Ball (w) • Priscilla Tramontano (a & c)
Hot on the heels of completing their biggest mission ever, BUMBLEBEE and his team are hoping for a little downtime. Unfortunately… a sinister new DECEPTICON has other ideas—and it’s right back into full-throttle, 100%-adventure down the rip-roaring RID road!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Animated #5—Subscription Variant
James Roberts (w) • Priscilla Tramontano (a) • Josh Burcham (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet Points:
Set in the world of the TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE animated series on Cartoon Network!
All-new stories, all-new art, all new excitement!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Box Set
James Roberts, John Barber (w) • Nick Roche, Alex Milne, Jimbo Salgado, Emil Cabaltierra, Guido Guidi, Brendan Cahill, Agustin Padilla, James Raiz (a) • Marcelo Matere (c)
This box set collects the first five volumes making up the first 22 issues of the series, following the adventures of the crew of the Lost Light as they head on an epic search for the Knights of CYBERTRON.
TPB • FC • $89.99 • 668 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-474-0

Bullet points:
All-new cover art from Marcelo Matere!

Transformers vs G.I. JOE, Vol. 2 TPB
Tom Scioli & John Barber (w) • Tom Scioli (a & c)
The biggest space battle ever grows to universal proportions! Will the G.I. JOE team and the AUTOBOTS make peace—before COBRA and the DECEPTICONS end the war… the bad way?! Collects issues #5–9.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 132 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-270-8

Bullet points:
“It’s all about style and a shared love of 1980s animation and toys.” –Rhymeswithgeek.com

Offered Again!
Transformers vs G.I. JOE, Vol. 1 • FC • $19.99 • ISBN: 978-1-63140-190-9

I was hoping Prowl might be the focal point in SOTW. It seems appropriate...or it would have 5 years ago. John has been doing so much with him it wouldn't seem proper anymore for his story to end in Nick's hands. Then again I don't think that series will end with prowls life. Everything seems pretty great for November! I'm looking forward to seeing Sky-byte again!

Really hope James has gotten his over meta writing out of him and we can focus on the crew and the quest again. Past couple months of MTMTE have been some of lowest in the series.

Sky-Byte is back with the Cons...

Well, I guess his beef was with the Constructicons, who haven't been wearing the badge for a while now. Makes sense he'd stop living on Starscream's Cybertron after he brought the green guys into the fold.

Randomhero wrote:I was hoping Prowl might be the focal point in SOTW. It seems appropriate...or it would have 5 years ago. John has been doing so much with him it wouldn't seem proper anymore for his story to end in Nick's hands. Then again I don't think that series will end with prowls life.

Prowl's story has definitely shifted since, yes, I agree. Though he is currently a 'fugitive' of sorts too..

Henry921 wrote:Sky-Byte is back with the Cons...

Well, I guess his beef was with the Constructicons, who haven't been wearing the badge for a while now. Makes sense he'd stop living on Starscream's Cybertron after he brought the green guys into the fold.

I think it's more likely that Soundwave is still recruiting, as it were, and that Needlenose is having an impact on the potential New Cons on Cybertron, after the events of TF #43.

Henry921 wrote:Sky-Byte is back with the Cons...

Well, I guess his beef was with the Constructicons, who haven't been wearing the badge for a while now. Makes sense he'd stop living on Starscream's Cybertron after he brought the green guys into the fold.

I wouldn't jump to that conclusion just yet. Sky-Byte is very conflicted but so are the Decepticons at the moment. They don't want to fight anymore (aside from Galvatrob) and they are okay with Autobots(some of them are) they just want to be left alone and be equals. Doesn't matter what your faction is as long as you don't believe in a Prime. Right now even cosmos is having doubt

Randomhero wrote:I was hoping Prowl might be the focal point in SOTW. It seems appropriate...or it would have 5 years ago. John has been doing so much with him it wouldn't seem proper anymore for his story to end in Nick's hands.

On the contrary, I think this coming now is incredible. Wreckers v. Prowl? Damaged Goods vs. Damaged Goods. Oh, and it features Arcee and Kup, so the tagline really ought to be: "Damaged Goods vs. Damaged Goods, feat. Damaged Goods w/ Damaged Goods"

I really need to write down my theory on where this is all headed before much more material comes out. If it's right, it won't look as clever if yet more evidence appears

Interesting that Victorion still has a presence. I found Combiner Hunters to be very trite and skippable, but I guess they're running with it. Though Primus knows how having a combiner who's FIERCELY loyal to "The Living Prime" is going to upset the political balance.

ScottyP wrote:

Randomhero wrote:I was hoping Prowl might be the focal point in SOTW. It seems appropriate...or it would have 5 years ago. John has been doing so much with him it wouldn't seem proper anymore for his story to end in Nick's hands.

On the contrary, I think this coming now is incredible. Wreckers v. Prowl? Damaged Goods vs. Damaged Goods. Oh, and it features Arcee and Kup, so the tagline really ought to be: "Damaged Goods vs. Damaged Goods, feat. Damaged Goods w/ Damaged Goods"

I really need to write down my theory on where this is all headed before much more material comes out. If it's right, it won't look as clever if yet more evidence appears

Yeah but it just feels pretty late in the game for prowl and the wreckers and who says its him vs them. As much as I do and wanted prowl to be the focal point of this. It just feels what prowl has done lately is more important than what he's done in the past. Nick and James handled him a total of like 5 issues where as John has been dealing with prowl for 45 issues. But like I said I don't see this series being the end of Prowl. John has invested too much to have him be resolved in another series not by him.

Randomhero wrote:It just feels what prowl has done lately is more important than what he's done in the past.

Happy to agree to disagree on this point He's had a pretty huge impact on the Wreckers.

Shuttershock wrote:Interesting that Victorion still has a presence. I found Combiner Hunters to be very trite and skippable, but I guess they're running with it. Though Primus knows how having a combiner who's FIERCELY loyal to "The Living Prime" is going to upset the political balance.

I believe that is precisely why she'll be kept around.

I suspect they're setting Prowl up to be the bad guy in issue #50, and I wouldn't be surprised if he survived this kidnapping and the Wreckers to die right afterwards. The Wrecker issues should conclude in the beginning of March, just before issue #50 is released. "Sins of the Wreckers" sure sounds like they're planning to pull everything dark he did and then some, except maybe explain the nose bleeds and whoever was in his head issue #35 (?). Although, at this point almost everyone has been in there! I wouldn't be surprised if somehow Trepan got in his mind.

Who kidnapped Prowl? Rattap? Really, he needs to lure in the Wreckers over Starscream's scheming lackey?

Personally I think he could be interesting as someone who sees war possibilities lurking around every corner, unable to ever trust peace, another type of casualty of extended war. They set that idea up in Combiner Wars.

Though I have this image of him somehow ending up on Elita-1's force as her strategist for dealing with Cybertron :p

Va'al wrote:

Shuttershock wrote:Interesting that Victorion still has a presence. I found Combiner Hunters to be very trite and skippable, but I guess they're running with it. Though Primus knows how having a combiner who's FIERCELY loyal to "The Living Prime" is going to upset the political balance.

I believe that is precisely why she'll be kept around.

I kind of feel like we're waiting for the penny to drop on the whole "Prime as God" storyline, either in the classic way where through his actions Prime shows himself to be less than godly to the Mistress of Flame and is turned on, or some other way.

The question is, what book is going to handle it? EX-RID has been moving off Cybertron and Windblade's off sightseeing the Epcot pavilions.

Oh man, I cannot wait! Wreckers return, and hopefully springer lives. Kinda interested to see where Prowl's story is going. Finally Cyclonus v. Getaway! Victorion returns!! I'm all ready for this!

And someone finally draws a combiner using a motorcycle chest!

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:And someone finally draws a combiner using a motorcycle chest!

A motorcycle with handlebars the size of Prime's arm. I get mass shifting is involved, but still.

I thought Rack'n'Ruin died what is he doing on a cover?



Could be just an art thing but thought I might point that out.




Also I see Armada Sparkplug walking with Roadbuster wonder what he will bring into the story you guys think he is a Wrecker or just a friend?

mirageandjazz1197 wrote:I thought Rack'n'Ruin died what is he doing on a cover?



Could be just an art thing but thought I might point that out.




Also I see Armada Sparkplug walking with Roadbuster wonder what he will bring into the story you guys think he is a Wrecker or just a friend?

I feel like this will include past events, and Rack'n'Ruin may be involved in the past. And it would not surprise me that Roadbuster has found a minicon partner related to a colony

I think prowl will become a wrecker before this is through

steve2275 wrote:I think prowl will become a wrecker before this is through

I'm sure he'll try to get SOME kind of power base, since he lost his team. That is to say, others who can't stop fighting and allow themselves to accept the peace.

At this point, given what we saw in Punishment, the Dinobots wouldn't be too far off his line of thinking. Heck, SIDESWIPE is just as likely.

make for interesting stories