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Thanks to the lovely people over at IDW Publishing, we get to take a look at the Transformers comics being released digitally and in print this coming January - and there's plenty of stuff to go round, from Angry Birds, to Drift, to the two ongoing series as well as a collected edition of the motion comic Punishment in trade form, a collected Dark Cybertron hardcover and the Complete Allspark Almanac. Check them all out below!

Transformers vs G.I. JOE #6
Tom Scioli & John Barber (w) • Scioli (a & c)
THE SMASH HIT OF 2014 BECOMES THE GREATEST COMIC OF 2015! If you thought the war between G.I. JOE and the TRANSFORMERS was out of control before… well, brothers and sisters—wait’ll you get a load of issue 6!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers VS G.I. Joe #6—Subscription Variant
Tom Scioli & John Barber (w) • Scioli (a) • Dave Crossland (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
• Heroes fall, but heroism triumphs!
• One small step for the G.I. JOE team—one giant fall for the TRANSFORMERS!
• Variant Cover by Antonio Fusso!

Transformers: Punishment
John Barber (w) • Livio Ramondelli (a & c)
OPTIMUS PRIME RETURNS TO CYBERTON! And someone is killing Decepticons. PRIME teams with WINDBLADE to uncover the identity of the vigilante… but the answers will uncover darker secrets than anyone expected!
FC • 48 pages • $5.99

Bullet points:
• The stage is set for COMBINER WARS!
• OPTIMUS PRIME and WINDBLADE on the hunt for a killer!
• Will the AUTOBOTS stand up when DECEPTICON lives are at stake?

Transformers #37—Days of Deception
John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith (a & c)
THE ONYX PROTOCOL! As PROWL confronts SPIKE over the human’s betrayal, the mystery of G.B. Blackrock and the Onyx Interface deepens. Meanwhile, Tokyo becomes a battleground as Arcee faces the Constructicons… and Galvatron!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers #37—Days of Deception—Subscription Variant
John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
• Days of Deception continues!
• The stage is set for COMBINER WARS!
• Prowl versus Spike!
• Arcee versus Galvatron!
• Variant Cover by Kotteri!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #37—Days of Deception
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a & c)
DESPERATE MEASURES! Four million years ago, as CYBERTRON teetered on the brink of all-out war, a group of Autobots decided it was time to take matters into their own hands. Everyone concerned would subsequently agree that this was a very, very bad move...
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #37—Days of Deception—Subscription Variant
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Nick Roche (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
• Days of Deception continues!
• Variant Cover by Kotteri!

Transformers: Drift—Empire of Stone #3 (of 4)
Shane McCarthy (w) • Guido Guidi (a & c)
THE STONE ARMY! The secrets of DRIFT’S past become his present-day problems… and RATCHET’S none too happy about being dragged along!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Transformers: Drift: Empire of Stone #3 (of 4)—Subscription Variant
Shane McCarthy (w) • Guido Guidi (a) • Sarah Stone (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
• Ties in directly MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE!

Transformers Animated: The Complete Allspark Almanac
Jim Sorenson, Bill Forster (w) • Various (a) • Marcelo Matere (c)
The Allspark Almanac is a comprehensive, one-of-a-kind atlas to the amazing 2008 Animated series universe. Giving fans behind-the-scenes secrets directly from the show's creators this volume is packed with full-color bios, character models, episode summaries, interviews, and more.
TPB • FC • $39.99 • 440 pages • 8.5” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-210-4

Bullet points:
• Collects both original volumes into one book!

Angry Birds/Transformers #3 (of 4)
John Barber (w) • Marcelo Ferreira (a & c)
RAMP-EGG! When the Angry Birds’ precious eggs become leg-having, weapon-bearing rampaging eggs of mass destruction, the Autobirds must team up with the Deceptihogs to save Piggy Island! How much more mixed-up can this mash-up possibly get?!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Angry Birds/Transformers #3 (of 4)—Subscription Variant
John Barber (w) • Marcelo Ferreira (a) • Sarah Stone (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
• Written by John Barber (TRANSFORMERS, TRANSFORMERS vs G.I. JOE)!

Transformers: Dark Cybertron
James Roberts, John Barber (w) • Phil Jimenez, Andrew Griffith, Brendan Cahill, James Raiz, Atilio Rojo, Livio Ramondelli (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)
THE END OF EVERYTHING! SHOCKWAVE makes a move millions of years in the planning—an ultimate strategy to remake Cybertron and destroy both the Autobots and Decepticons!
HC • FC • $49.99 • 300 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-072-8

Bullet points:
• This oversized hardcover collects all 12 issues of the hit crossover!

Woah, awesome month they've got queued up. Glad to see Punishment getting a print run, complete Allspark Almanac is cool to see, and hey - that's Impactor!

Spoilers!! -from text descriptions-


I think you mean a confusing month... Arcee versus Constructicons? What does this mean for the Prowl relationship?

Cool the GB makes it into the IDW-verse...(other than in REGEN).

Tigertrack wrote:I think you mean a confusing month... Arcee versus Constructicons? What does this mean for the Prowl relationship?

I'm sure some misunderstanding or another is gonna have them at each other's throats for awhile. Arcee is short tempered, the Constructicons are questionably trustworthy at best, Prowl's motivations are cloudy - I can see it working out.

Waits patiently for the allspark almanac IV. If it exists.

More and more IDW is making me a bigger fan of Thundercracker. I never thought that would have been possible.

RID Megatron is making an enrance into theIDW Continuity?

This is part awesome, part stupid, but ALL GENIUS.

RiD Megatron??? I'm guessing he'll go by Gigatron in the IDW-Verse (unless that's taken). Hope that means he'll be getting a new toy.

Also, I'm pretty sure I need a Tom Scioli commission at some point. I love his style in Transformers vs. G.I. Joe. That comic oozes fun. It's like Jack Kirby drawing my play sessions when I was 8-year-old!

can't find Punishment on comixology

maxpower011 wrote:can't find Punishment on comixology

These solicitations are for January of next year, so they won't be on the apps until then, same as the comic stores, Max.

sold. im going to even buy the angry birds comics because i got into the app.

Marcdachamp wrote:RiD Megatron??? I'm guessing he'll go by Gigatron in the IDW-Verse (unless that's taken). Hope that means he'll be getting a new toy.

My thoughts exactly this guy was NEVER meant to be a 'Megatron' he will hopefully go by Gigatron or maybe Devil Gigatron as he looks much better in black than white.

I'm so glad IDW are making this great design into a non-Megatron design

...could this lead to other incarnations of Optimus & Megatron being new characters??

G2 Green Megatron could now easily be Megastorm from BW2nd
G2 Purple Megatron could now take on the UK form of Archforce
Armada Megatron could now be the Universe character Megazarak

Personally I think it's easier for the Megatron's as his design has differed considerably over the years whereas Optimus Prime has stayed quite close to his original design.

I sent a tweet to Livio Ramondelli yesterday regarding the MediaFire motion comic Transformers: Punishment...

robotmel wrote:@LivioRamondelli Hi Livio, have you heard when the trade paperback of your awesome @IDWPublishing Transformers Punishment will be released ?

LivioRamondelli wrote:@robotmel @IDWPublishing Yep! Punishment is out in Jan!

That's what the post said too - why did you not believe me?

Va'al wrote:That's what the post said too - why did you not believe me?

To be honest, the Punishment motion comic news passed me by but it was only yesterday when I was looking on Livios Deviant Art page I spotted the page of art and note regarding it, so I searched Seibertron for a relevant thread to put this is in after I got the reply back!
Mark it up as further confirmation I guess!

Talking Livio, did the trade paperbacks of Autocracy and Monstrosity contain any extra material not in the seperate comic book?

No extra material, no, but the book design is pretty gorgeous. Tom B. Long worked on it, and Monstrosity in particular is great looking tome!

Were you expecting more, or at least some, IDW Publishing Transformers comics this week? So were we. Unfortunately, it seems as though road closures in Mississippi have put a glitch in that plan, as confirmed by Senior Editor John Barber. Expect a double dose of robocomics in the next two weeks, including the one-shot Punishment, Transformers #37 along with Drift: Empire of Stone, and Angry Birds Transformers #3, MTMTE #37 and TF vs G.I. Joe in the final week of January!

Yeah--highway closures are delaying both TF #37 and the PUNISHMENT one-shot to next week, I'm told. DRIFT will also be out then.

Are digital copies delayed as well?

Yeah....how is that delaying digital comics? I don't live near a comic shop, so I get all mine online.

If they do what usually happens, digital and print will be released at the same time.
I can confirm we have no digital preview or review material as of writing this.

Building on what Va'al said, they delay the digitals so as to not undermine Brick and Mortar sales of actual paper comics.

Flashwave wrote:Building on what Va'al said, they delay the digitals so as to not undermine Brick and Mortar sales of actual paper comics.

As annoying as that is for me, thats great support for retailers on IDW's behalf

Transformers 37 is out on itunes right now

I picked it up. Wont spoil though. Punishment is rescheduled though

Randomhero wrote:Transformers 37 is out on itunes right now

I picked it up. Wont spoil though. Punishment is rescheduled though

Thank you.


(IDW has still not made this available to reviewers, though.)