The Energon Pub

[El Duque]

Our friends at IDW Publishing have sent over their Transformers solicitations for October 2012. Check out the covers and descriptions below.

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ongoing #10
John Barber (w) • Livio Ramondelli (a) • Ramondelli, Casey Coller (c)
OPTIMUS PRIME IN SPACE! Orion Pax—the former OPTIMUS PRIME—follows a rogue group of DECEPTICONS into one of the greatest mysteries ever to face the AUTOBOTS! Time will bend—and heroes will fall!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

*Variant covers:
Variant Marcelo Matere cover!

Bullet points:
• THE MOST MINDBENDING ISSUE OF TRANSFORMERS EVER!
• YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHOSE HEAD GETS RIPPED OFF THIS TIME!

Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye #10
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Milne, Nick Roche (c)
SHADOWPLAY continues! On pre-war CYBERTRON, Prowl and Chromedome realize they've got a serial killer on their hands, and Orion Pax receives a summons from an old friend that will change his life forever!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

*Variant covers:
Variant Marcelo Matere cover!

Bullet points:
• Part two of the three-part SHADOWPLAY epic!
• The secret history of OPTIMUS PRIME!

Transformers: Regeneration One #84
Simon Furman (w) • Andrew Wildman (a) • Wildman, Guido Guidi (c)
LAST STAND! Things go from bad to worse on as MEGATRON tightens his remorseless grip on planet Earth. Can the Wreckers save Kup? Can they reach the Ark in time? The odds have never been more stacked against them. But you know what they say: “when all hope is gone...” And what exactly is up with Starscream?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

*Variant covers:
Variant Geoff Senior cover!

Bullet points:
• THE PULSE-POUNDING CONTINUATION OF THE ORIGINAL TRANSFORMERS SERIES CONTINUES!
• SIZZLING ACTION AS ONLY FURMAN AND WILDMAN KNOW HOW TO DELIVER!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye, Vol. 2
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne & Nick Roche (a) • Alex Milne (c)
Ratchet, Hot Rod, The Decepticon Justice Division, and Grimlock all take turns on the center stage as the war between the Autobots and the Decepticons transitions into a new phase.
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 124 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-498-4

Bullet points:
• Contains issues #4–8!

Transformers Classics, Vol. 4
Bob Budiansky & Ralph Macchio (w) • Jose Delbo, Alan Kupperberg, Frank Springer (a) • Guido Guidi (c)
The historic comic book roots of THE TRANSFORMERS are re-presented for maximum Cybertronian enjoyment. Collecting issues #39–50, rejoin The AUTOBOTS and The DECEPTICONS as their war stretches across the cosmos. Freshly re-mastered and re-colored, these stories are accompanied by an in-depth introduction as well as select issue notes by Mark W. Bellomo.
TPB • FC • $24.99 • 276 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-497-7

Bullet points:
• Re-colored!

[Va'al]

Hello Bludgeon...

Is there any way of finding out what the variants look like?
The IDW site is rubbish for this kind of thing, it's still on the Costa ongoing.

[WiEGoP]

Would be nice to see the Variants, but I am loving the covers for MTMTE.

Of course there's nothing I don't love about those comics.

I really wish they would stop having Livio doing the interiors of comics. His art can be very pretty and cool, but it doesn't work for comics because the different colors/lighting ruin the flow from panel to panel. And it's really hard to tell which character is doing what to which character.

Having Hardhead, possibly the most generic Autobot on the planet, in the RiD issue 5 really didn't help.

But it's okay. As long as I have the heavenly crack cocaine that is MTMTE, I will be content.

[Rodimus Prime]

The only one I care about is Regeneration. Hot Rod looks like a little kid on that cover. Maybe that's the point? And the other cover? Ratchet and Megatron yet again? Badass.