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A couple of quick questions on licenses. You mentioned how you’re wrapping up your Hasbro storyline. Was that done in conjunction with the time for renewal of the license?

Yeah. It's funny, I've seen some commentary on that. We've been in business with Hasbro for 12 years. We love the relationship. They are a great partner. We try to deliver the best possible books month in and month out on not just Transformers, but on GI Joe and on My Little Pony. We had a great Jem and the Holograms series. Jem will be back. They're probably going to say, "Why is Greg pre‑announcing these things?" In any event, no. Sometimes, it's easy to extrapolate incorrect information, so no, the Transformers line and the other titles continue.


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We’ve got three monthly Marvel books as of January 2019, the opportunity to do some specials, maybe one‑shots and some other things with Marvel. They're very excited about it, we're very excited about it.

Our Transformers reboot for 2019 is going to be great.

We've got some pretty exciting projects on the Star Trek front.

[Teenage Mutant Ninja] Turtles is heading to issue 100. We have the longest‑running Turtles series in the history of the brand. The brand's 35 years old next year.

Black Bumblebee wrote:Figured. The reboot is pretty much to get rid of all that "shared universe" stuff that completely ruined all the comic brands. Couldn't reboot one without rebooting the others... so... BOOM, grand reset button.

ZeroWolf wrote:

Black Bumblebee wrote:Figured. The reboot is pretty much to get rid of all that "shared universe" stuff that completely ruined all the comic brands. Couldn't reboot one without rebooting the others... so... BOOM, grand reset button.

Actually from what's been said it looked like it was always the plan to end things once barber and Roberts were finished, so the badly implementated hasbroverse isn't to blame for this.

I can still see it working but they need to have a better plan in place from the get go

Nexus Knight wrote:Probably an opinion that many will disagree with, but I hope they bring the shared universe back in a heater fashion. I absolutely loved the idea, because it showed there was more than my favorite franchise there. Everything they did had consequences elsewhere. And I loved those types of stories. Plus, I got introduced to some new stuff that I now enjoy (namely M.A.S.K. and Micronauts).

Randomhero wrote:A lot of people assumed it’s because the hasbro-verse tanked and this ending is because that or sales havent been stellar but that interview I mentioned last month from moonbase 2 with is very much worth a listen. John is very open about how they did it intend to end it till July or August and it was their choice. John and James made the choice, not IDW not hasbro.

Randomhero wrote: I don’t know anything about the other solo series or franchises but I really enjoyed going to the IDW wiki and learning about them.

Z3ROhour wrote:among my various concerns for the continuity reboot is this:

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and this

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and these

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Characters and personas we have grown to love!

not to mention, what happens to...

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and

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As well as dozens of other things
and personalities
and ideas
and constructs
and characters
and relationships
and so on!
Do these people go back to being who the were?
Does love exist in the new World?
Do reformed bad guys go back to their old ways?
Do bots, who didn't exist before, cease to be?



Gods i hope not!
i hope that the reboot allows for some amount of leeway,
and doesn't forget the fantasticness that got us here.

ScottyP wrote:

Randomhero wrote:A lot of people assumed it’s because the hasbro-verse tanked and this ending is because that or sales havent been stellar but that interview I mentioned last month from moonbase 2 with is very much worth a listen. John is very open about how they did it intend to end it till July or August and it was their choice. John and James made the choice, not IDW not hasbro.

This is part of it, however, the Hasbro U ending in its entirety was a business decision. That's why it went from "something else" to "Unicron". Creative teams have been finished with their contributions plenty of times (Furman, McCarthy, Costa, Scott, et al), the reset button on the whole huge thing is absolutely business driven.

It's cool with me if folks choose not to believe that. I can wait for vindication on this after some years pass and the parties involved can really say what's what, hell I'm sure I've "telephone gamed" this on accident somehow anyway Everything everyone else has mentioned is a factor too, if it helps!

Edit so as to not double-post:

Randomhero wrote: I don’t know anything about the other solo series or franchises but I really enjoyed going to the IDW wiki and learning about them.

Pick up the Micronauts Omnibus book tomorrow. If you liked that stuff, I think you'll really enjoy what they did. It sputters a bit in the middle but on the whole it's an extremely fun series! Even brings the "toybox come to life concept" close to literally true in one issue. "A fine weapon" - Acroyear describing a... well you'll find out

Amelie wrote:As an aside - I really want IDW to stop doing the previews. Sometimes you can actually keep up with the plot developments just by putting 2+2 together from two months of previews. That really needs to stop....

ZeroWolf wrote:While I can't see IDW stopping them, we could talk about their impact here, would it be better if the previews were handled like the last post light one where you had to follow the link to get to it instead of having the pages mirrored?