The Energon Pub

[El Duque]

From friends over at IDW Publishing we have their Transformers related solicitations for August 2012. Check out the covers and descriptions below, obligatory spoiler warning!

• G.I. JOE / Transformers Crossover, Vol. 1
• Transformers: Maximum Dinobots
• Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Ongoing #8
• Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Annual 2012
• Transformers: Regeneration One #82
• Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ongoing #8

G.I. JOE / Transformers Crossover, Vol. 1
Michael Higgins & Larry Hama (w) • Herb Trimpe Chris Batista, Steven Leiber, William Rosado, & Jesse D'Orozco (a) • Klaus Scherwinski (c)
The worlds of G.I. JOE and TRANSFORMERS combine in this first volume reprinting the classic crossovers. Contains the 4-issue G.I. JOE and the TRANSFORMERS limited series plus issues #139-142 of A REAL AMERICAN HERO. MEGATRON and COBRA versus the JOEs and the AUTOBOTS, who will come out on top?
TPB • FC • $24.99 • 192 pages • ISBN 978-1-61377-352-9

Bullet points:
• The classic G.I. JOE and TRANSFORMERS crossovers, re-colored and ready for duty!

Offered Again!
Transformers: Maximum Dinobots
Simon Furman (w) • Nick Roche (a) • Marcelo Matere (c)
At last, the ultimate confrontation between not just GRIMLOCK and his somewhat estranged fellow Dinobots, SLUDGE, SLAG, SNARL, and SWOOP, but also SUNSTREAKER/HUNTER, SCORPONOK, HOT ROD, Skywatch and a whole army of HEADMASTERS! Mayhem, machinations, melee, and, of course, Maximum Dinobots, all courtesy of TRANSFORMERS über-scribe Simon Furman and fan-favorite Nick Roche!
TPB • FC • $19.99 • 128 pages • ISBN: 978-1-60010-478-7

Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Ongoing #8
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Milne, Nick Roche (c)
DINOBOT MONTH! Three years ago, Grimlock disappeared from his prison cell on Garrus 9. Where did he go? What happened to him? One thing’s for certain: the leader of the Dinobots is back—and he's itching to settle some scores!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

*Variant covers:
Marcelo Matere variant! Interlocks with TRANSFORMERS: Robots in Disguise #8’s incentive cover!

Bullet points:
• GRIMLOCK UNLEASHED!
• The return of the Dinobots!
• Incentive cover by Marcelo Matere that connects with Robots in Disguise #8!

Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye Annual 2012
James Roberts (w) • Jimbo Salgado, Guido Guidi (a) • Tim Seeley, Alex Milne (c)
THE ORIGIN OF THE KNIGHTS OF CYBERTRON! Rodimus and the crew of the Lost Light finally reach Crystal City, home to the mysterious Circle of Light. But what they find waiting for them is going to change everything—and not necessarily for the better!
FC • 48 pages • $7.99

*Variant covers:
Jimbo Salgado variant! Interlocks with TRANSFORMERS: Robots in Disguise Annual incentive cover from next month!

Bullet points:
• Introducing the artistic wizardry of Jimbo Salgado!
• The first of two interlinked Transformers annuals—the story continues in next month’s TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE annual!
• Double-sized TRANSFORMERS excitement!
• A life-changing chapter of MTMTE!
• Cover and story connect with next month’s TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE annual!

Transformers: Regeneration One #82
Simon Furman (w) • Andrew Wildman (a) • Wildman, Guido Guidi (c)
DINOBOT MONTH! And ex-Dinobot commander GRIMLOCK wishes it wasn’t! His quest for a means to restore his ability to change modes takes him to Nebulos—a world off-limits to TRANSFORMERS, where a welcome that’s more incendiary than warm awaits him. Plus, KUP and THE WRECKERS find themselves stranded, hunted and in a whole world of pain. Quite literally!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

*Variant covers:
Variant Geoff Senior cover!

Bullet points:
• DINOBOT MONTH!
• Continuing the original TRANSFORMERS comic book series from the 1980s and ‘90s!
• Hall of Fame writer Simon Furman and the legendary art team of Andrew Wildman and Stephen Baskerville!

Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ongoing #8
John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith (a) • Griffith, Casey Coller (c)
DINOBOT MONTH! Guess who's back on Cybertron? SLAG, SLUDGE, SNARL, and SWOOP—and they’re as mad as ever! IRONHIDE leads them deep into the Cybertronian wilderness searching for lost AUTOBOTS... but what they find might be the greatest danger of all!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

*Variant covers:
Marcelo Matere variant! Interlocks with TRANSFORMERS: More Than Meets The Eye #8’s RI cover!

Bullet points:
• DINOBOT MONTH!
• The Dinobots return and take center stage!

[Optimutt]

Suddenly, I'm really looking forward to August!

[Tigertrack]

Big bot supposed to be Metroplex on the MTMTE Annual?

Wondering.

[kirbenvost]

Looks like Metroplex to me.

Huh, I hope this Annual 2012 gets included in the eventual trades. I hate having to pick up singles that they skip out on but are still canon to the main storyline, like Infestation.

[Sodan-1]

Maximum Dinobots reprint???

Yes please.

[skyshadowprimus]

Action master Grimlock on Nebulos, I can feel the story surrounding the "heads" that were left on Nebulos being addressed and the return of Scorponok and Fortress Maximus.

Excited much

[Darth Bombshell]

Huh, I hope this Annual 2012 gets included in the eventual trades. I hate having to pick up singles that they skip out on but are still canon to the main storyline, like Infestation.

The two Doctor Who annuals that have been published thus far have been collected. The recent Cobra Commander annual is being collected in that month's Cobra Command TPB. I'm pretty sure that means this will be collected in a future trade.

Makes me wonder if I should buy this, especially since I'm not collecting the individual MTMTE issues.