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Sector 7 is a series set well before the events of the first movie and the artwork's got it's own vintage style to boot. Thanks to IDW Publishing, we've got a preview set up below. Sector 7 #3 is in your local comic store now! Check out the description, the cover, and the preview embedded below.

Transformers: Sector 7 #3 (of 5)
John Barber (w) • Joe Suitor (a) • Brian Rood (c)
Let us tell you a story of two bank robbers named Bonnie and Clyde--and their transforming death car! When young Margo Simmons helps her estranged father investigate mysterious rumors in Texas, she finds herself caught up in jailbreaks, Tommy-guns, and nonstop action as she tracks down the legendary outlaws and comes face to face with the most vicious Transformer ever made!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

No offence to Brian Rodd, I'm sure he has his reasons, but that cover is horrible!
Not only is it bland with pretty much nothing happening, and a really dull colour scheme, but that robot is so obviously stock art of Jazz with bits chopped off and old car parts added on that it actually hurts to look at it...
Well if this is the quality IDW expect I shouldn't have as hard a time getting into the industry as I think ^^

Wow... that Jazz photoshopping is straight up painful

The pose and the visor are pretty much the ONLY things I recognize of Jazz in that picture. I don't think this cover should be dumped on for those minor elements. They make it recognizable and help draw the attention in to an image that is supposed to be set a few generations before anything those of us in the present would be able to recognize. Likewise, the bland coloring on the cover is reminiscent of old time photos or movies and the simpler style and more muted tones of the artwork inside also give one the general sense of a time long past.

This is what pisses me off about our technological age. It's made the younger generation so #$%@ing lazy and incapable of thinking of or imagining anything beyond what mainstream media spoon-feeds them. If it's slightly out of the norm it gets torn apart rather than any attempt being made of understanding why it's done a certain way, and the stupid part is that these same minds are the ones finding enjoyment in fictional giant alien robots. WTF???

So is Jazz in the comic or is that just a "what if" cover?

Bonnie and Clyde and a Decepticon! Kick ass.

EDIT
That cover.....

Eww.

I keep expecting to see G2 Sizzle.

Of course, it would be nice to see the new Hubcap in there as well. Or Electro and Volt.

Justicity wrote:No offence to Brian Rodd, I'm sure he has his reasons, but that cover is horrible!
Not only is it bland with pretty much nothing happening, and a really dull colour scheme, but that robot is so obviously stock art of Jazz with bits chopped off and old car parts added on that it actually hurts to look at it...
Well if this is the quality IDW expect I shouldn't have as hard a time getting into the industry as I think ^^

Have you seen the art on other idw titles besides Transformers?
I can tell you, the art on that cover is above average from what you get in most of their other titles.

I wonder where he cut the humans out of, old school gangster movie(s), newspaper article or maybe even friends of his?

But still better than the photoshop mess that is the God of War comic

Oh and hi, nice to see you again!