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News Credits: 3599 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:36 pm

JazZeke has sent the Seibertron.com some news that somehow slipped by just about the entire fandom. Chris Ryall posted on IDWpublishing.com last week that September's Spotlight issue will feature none other than the heroic leader of the Autobots himself ... Optimus Prime. Click here to view Chris Ryall's post about this. According to Ryall, the Optimus Prime Spotlight will be "written by Simon Furman, with interior art and a cover by Don Figueroa. And this variant cover, by... well, why don't you all take a guess? It's someone IDW's worked with for years, but this is their first-ever Transformers piece."

Happy belated birthday, Chris!

by **OptimusMime** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 9:49 pm

suh-weet!!it's like they read my mind! liked them all so far, except for the hot rod...a little disappointed in that one.

by **Nemesis_Apoc** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:00 pm

hmmm... i wonder how they're gonna do this. is it gonna take place before all the infiltration, stormbringer, and escalation stuff?

News Credits: 3 · by **Collector Maximus** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:03 pm

Awesome cover! The one and only Optimus Prime! About a four month wait huh. I need to catch up on the other ones anyway.

News Credits: 8 · by **Liege Evilmus** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:12 pm

way to much windshield

News Credits: 2024 · by **Hotrod** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:14 pm

This is going to be awsome :grin:

by **lilcarus** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:30 pm

Liege Evilmus wrote:way to much windshield

exactly what i was thinking.

i hope they go deeper into primes life and death bout with prostate cancer.

Website · by **Silver Wind** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 10:39 pm

Liege Evilmus wrote:way to much windshield

If that image is going to be used in the OP spotlight, they should have the proportion corrected. Other than that, I think it looks quite good.

by **NightFall** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:28 pm

Sweet, can't wait for this one

by **Roboto750** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:46 pm

It's about time! I always felt that this should've been the first Spotlight comic. Most of the Spotlight stories have been awesome so far, and I bet this one will be too!

News Credits: 4 · by **Blitzwing the warrior** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:26 am

Special guest appearence of the Aerialbots TIME PARADOX!

So is this going to take place before War Within storyline? Or more of the G1 War Dawn plot?

News Credits: 4 · by **Fireblast** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:27 am

Ha ha ha! It's funny because I knew about this like a month ago. Of course I've could have news posted it but with all the movie crap coming out left and right and it taking over the fandom, I chose not to. Sorry, just not feeling like a fan anymore since hardly any new Transformers come out here and I own almost all the Transformers DVDs (except Beast Machines and UK ones) so all I'm left with is the IDW comics which are awesome except when they make pointless manga versions plus they can't finish the G1 Transformers prequel, The War Within.

News Credits: 4 · by **the purifyer** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:42 am

Now why doesn't this surprise me? :wink:

What really surprises me is why they put it off for so long.

by **Ransom** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:57 am

It looks pretty slick... as long as one ignores the proportion of the chest/shoulders. I definitely agree that there is too much windshield. Shoulders could use a little tinkering as well.

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 2:16 am

Interesting.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:33 am

Sweet Jebus, how did we miss that?

News Credits: 42 · by **Psychout** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:35 am

Yet another return form the dead for Prime then?

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:38 am

Psychout wrote:Yet another return form the dead for Prime then?

He didn't die, did he? I thought he was just sleeping.

News Credits: 7 · by **Dragonslayer** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:55 am

At last! I can't wait!

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:22 am

Is that the cover? Yikes. I hope not.

News Credits: 1 · by **Hairball178** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:32 am

Who is this "Optimus Prime"? He looks like some kind of red, white, and blue repaint of Ultra Magnus's cab. Lame...

;p

News Credits: 2 · by **Tusko** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 9:33 am

"Massive Pectoral Windshields!"

News Credits: 2 · by **Insurgent** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:07 am

Prime gets a Spotlight. Megs gets a whole four parter. Nuff said.

Looking forward to this. Perhaps it'll be the story of how he became Prime. Or the big (first) fight against Thunderwing.

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:09 am

Insurgent wrote:Or the big (first) fight against Thunderwing.

That would be a good story.

News Credits: 10 · by **JazZeke** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:11 am

Woohoo! Me likes being a news source! XD

Optimus seems a bit of an odd choice for Spotlight... after all, hasn't just about every TF story already been Optimus-centric? I kinda like the Spotlights better when they're about previously "minor" characters who've hardly gotten any chance look-at before... Nevertheless, I have no doubt this will be good!

And the cover art's pretty neat... the windows are a bit big, but since it's a single piece I'll give the artist the benefit of the doubt and assume that's forced perspective or artistic exaggeration, rather that a Lee-esque complete lack of a sense of proportion.