Issue 18 is "The Falling: Interlude" with Onyx Prime backstoryo.supreme wrote:odd...looking at the may solicits....If OP #16 which came out in Feb is "The Falling Part 2", how can #19, which comes out in May only be "Part 4", unless 17 or 18 deviates from this for a month?...something is goofy here
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Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
So as laid out on the page, unfortunately no. However, within each series they're very close to bekng in order, and each of the individual issues' pages does have its first publication date available. That's a bit of a slog to dig through, let me see if I have a way to make that easier.Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:So I've finally decided to catch up on the IDW Transformers. I've gotten all the first 4 volumes of the Spotlight comics (not sure if there's more) in tpb form, I have all of Megatron Origins, I have Last Stand of The Wreckers, I have volume 1 of Robots in Disguise and More than Meets The Eye, and I have the Transformers/Avengers crossover comic. Other than that, that's all I know about what's going on. I've searched around, and all I can find is lists for reading the IDW Transformers comics in chronological order. I'd rather read it in order that IDW Released them because I'm weird that way. However I've found it hard to actually find a release date list rather than an in-universe chronological list.
Would this: https://www.seibertron.com/comics/series.php be accurate for what I'm looking for? Or did IDW release in a different order?
Many consider everything that IDW put out in its main Transformers continuity after the Mike Costa-penned ongoing ended (that being primarily everything written by John Barber, James Roberts, and Mairghread Scott), collectively known as "Phase Two", to be the new golden age of Transformers comics.Stormwolf wrote:Hello there, I took a small 6 year break from IDW's transformers. I liked Furman's run along with Last Stand of the Wreckers, though All Hail Megatron and the ongoing back then were something of a disappointment for me as it got very stale and boring.
Does the series pick up again?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Sabrblade wrote:Many consider everything that IDW put out in its main Transformers continuity after the Mike Costa-penned ongoing ended (that being primarily everything written by John Barber, James Roberts, and Mairghread Scott), collectively known as "Phase Two", to be the new golden age of Transformers comics.Stormwolf wrote:Hello there, I took a small 6 year break from IDW's transformers. I liked Furman's run along with Last Stand of the Wreckers, though All Hail Megatron and the ongoing back then were something of a disappointment for me as it got very stale and boring.
Does the series pick up again?
For me personally, everything from Ongoing 22-23 ("Chaos Theory") up to the end of Titans Return (More Than Meets The Eye #57) is the best stretch of Transformers fiction ever made. There are some speedbumps along the way, and Ongoing 24-30 right there at the start of that stretch aren't really needed, but that July 2011 - August/September 2016 period (pre-Revolution) is very generally the long, One Perfect Summer of Transformers fiction for me.Stormwolf wrote:Sabrblade wrote:Many consider everything that IDW put out in its main Transformers continuity after the Mike Costa-penned ongoing ended (that being primarily everything written by John Barber, James Roberts, and Mairghread Scott), collectively known as "Phase Two", to be the new golden age of Transformers comics.Stormwolf wrote:Hello there, I took a small 6 year break from IDW's transformers. I liked Furman's run along with Last Stand of the Wreckers, though All Hail Megatron and the ongoing back then were something of a disappointment for me as it got very stale and boring.
Does the series pick up again?
Thank you, I'll look into that
Looks mostly fine/the same as what I had so not much I can add! I do have a few questions:Targetmaster Kup wrote: list snipped for space
ScottyP wrote:Lost Light 1-23 can go anywhere you like still, I think. Might not even cross over again before the end!
ScottyP wrote:For the rest, here's the highly subject to change publication order, based on Diamond's site as best as I can keep up with it. I would highly recommend to not get your hopes up or make plans that depend on this schedule becoming reality, it changes sometimes mere days before a "scheduled" release:
September
- 9/5: Optimus Prime #23
- 9/5: Lost Light #23
- 9/5: Unicron #4
- 9/26: Lost Light #24
- 9/26: Unicron #5
October
- 10/17: Lost Light #25
- 10/17: Optimus Prime #24
- 10/24: Unicron #6
- 10/31: Optimus Prime #25
o.supreme wrote:ScottyP wrote:Lost Light 1-23 can go anywhere you like still, I think. Might not even cross over again before the end!
Which is sad...I'm still hoping that somehow LL ties in, even if at the very end to OP #25 or Unicron #6. I would be extremely disappointed if this all ended without Megatron and Prime meeting one last timeScottyP wrote:For the rest, here's the highly subject to change publication order, based on Diamond's site as best as I can keep up with it. I would highly recommend to not get your hopes up or make plans that depend on this schedule becoming reality, it changes sometimes mere days before a "scheduled" release:
September
- 9/5: Optimus Prime #23
- 9/5: Lost Light #23
- 9/5: Unicron #4
- 9/26: Lost Light #24
- 9/26: Unicron #5
October
- 10/17: Lost Light #25
- 10/17: Optimus Prime #24
- 10/24: Unicron #6
- 10/31: Optimus Prime #25
And then there were six... Just picked up my comics yesterday and got all caught up, with only 6 issues left... LL #24/25 OP #24/#25 and Unicron #5 and #6, does anyone know the preferred reading order? I would hope it would be the publication/release date order, but something tells me that's not going to be the case.
At this point, overall things look very bleak. Cybertron is destroyed I know a lot can happen in six issues, but, being the traditionalist I am, I would still be very disappointed if we don't get a happy ending. It doesn't need to be perfect, I know there will be major loses (most of my favorites are already dead, or not participating...so go figure), but if it ends on a downer, or is ultimately inconclusive and unsatisfying, it will definitely put me off purchasing any new IDW comics in the future.
ScottyP wrote:If Lost Light does get involved, all I can do is wildly speculate, but here goes nothin':
- OP 24 (or Unicron 5)
- Unicron 5 (or OP 24)
- Lost Light 24 - Fort Max and Red Alert show up with Luna 1 using its planetary engines after being sent by Prowl, use Adaptus' old tech along with a new Matrix (and Skids' brain to bypass the Morality Lock, whatever that really is) to fry the Functionist Council, then commandeer the "God Primus" planet to go fight? This is the basic, logical path to get them involved if they even do.
- Unicron 6
- Lost Light 25
- OP 25
Yeah, I think Unicron vs Primus is the ticket that would be most satisfying. Keeps the MacGuffins away a bit too. Then it leaves LL 25 as a coda for that huge cast and OP 25 for Optimus Prime vs Megatron one last time.o.supreme wrote:ScottyP wrote:If Lost Light does get involved, all I can do is wildly speculate, but here goes nothin':
- OP 24 (or Unicron 5)
- Unicron 5 (or OP 24)
- Lost Light 24 - Fort Max and Red Alert show up with Luna 1 using its planetary engines after being sent by Prowl, use Adaptus' old tech along with a new Matrix (and Skids' brain to bypass the Morality Lock, whatever that really is) to fry the Functionist Council, then commandeer the "God Primus" planet to go fight? This is the basic, logical path to get them involved if they even do.
- Unicron 6
- Lost Light 25
- OP 25
I know it's all educated guesses, and may not pan out at all, but I respect your opinion. Your spoiler tag is what I was kind of thinking/hoping as well. The other day my son asked me why (in any fiction) Unicron and Primus have never actually fought (other than flashbacks in the original marvel comic)...and I said...THAT is an excellent question...
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