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Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Blurrz » Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:34 am

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Chaos begins. Courtesy of Comics Continuum, check out the covers, spoilers, and suspense of Ongoing #21 below. Available at your local comic store this Wednesday!

Transformers #21 will arrive in stores on July 6 from IDW Publishing. The issue is written by Mike Costa, with art by Guido Guidi and Brendan Cahill and covers by Marcelo Matere and Cahill.

Here's how IDW describes the issue:

"Transformers goes bi-weekly! Two stories for the price of one, kicking off the 'Chaos' event!! In part one, Rodimus makes his triumphant return to Earth, and sets off the major events that will spin off into Chaos. And in part two, Prowl begins his investigation...of Spike. This storyline will change Transformers forever!"

Transformers #21 will be 32 pages and will cost $3.99.


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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby steve2275 » Tue Jul 05, 2011 4:51 am

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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Starscream GaGa » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:38 am

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Making jokes about the wheelchair guy, Bumblebee? Uncool.

I hope Rodimus doesn't die in the upcoming Chaos, but I have a feeling it's likely.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Dead Metal » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:58 am

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Why does Ironhide act like he's never been to earth?
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Counterpunch » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:21 am

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Dead Metal wrote:Why does Ironhide act like he's never been to earth?


When he was rebuilt by Alpha Trion he lost a lot of his memories.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Dead Metal » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:25 am

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Counterpunch wrote:
Dead Metal wrote:Why does Ironhide act like he's never been to earth?


When he was rebuilt by Alpha Trion he lost a lot of his memories.

Ah, OK, might also explain why he's so supper happy in those pics.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Prime Evil » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:40 am

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Looks like it may be ok to dip back into the waters. I've been waiting for this issue to come back to Transformers. I'm hoping this won't be as disappointing as the past few months.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby dragons » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:03 am

what is that thing on hotrod chest did his chest crack open thats patch up job? havnt been following this series waiting for tpb's
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Vicalliose » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:27 am

Motto: "Focus on one thing at a time? Are you crazy!? WHO DO YOU THINK I AM!!!"
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And as the comics finally move into the Chaos series and wich Andy Schmidt gone, I actually start to care again.

BTW whatever happened to the evil megagun things? They drop that like a bad habit? Ah well the IDW collections will get me caught up eventually.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby YoungPrime » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:52 am

.....So many questions.

With Megatron in their custody... What are the Decepticons doing?

With Soundwave still presumably shot in the face, who's holding the fort down Shockwave or Starscream?.......Or will Galvatron pick up the slack???

Why did Megatron surrender to begin with?

And when will the stupid annoying human dialog ever Cease? No one cares how they feel. It's caused me to route for the Decepticons to kill them all on general principal.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby partholon » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:22 am

sweet jesus this is the best writing costas ever done on a TF book.

it actually FEELS like a comic.

i presume roberts has been suggesting some things as this reads like a totally different author.

thank christ.

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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby korisifu » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:23 am

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To answer the question about Hot Rod : Hot Rod was blasted by the rebuilt Megatron in space when he took the matrix back from Starscream. Floated around lost in space as the matrix revived him and grafted itself into his chest, until he landed on the planet with the green alien guy and wheelie where Wheelie removed it to power the ship to get to Cybertron where they picked up Ironhide an Sunstreaker who were rebuilt by Alpha Trion.. As far all the other questions, you got me?
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Counterpunch » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:29 am

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Kind of...because they're using Biblical references and story structure to tell the narrative.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby JeffX » Tue Jul 05, 2011 12:11 pm

That looks really good. I gave up reading after I think issue 12? Whichever one Bumblebee gets shot after. However I'm intrigued.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Chaoslock » Tue Jul 05, 2011 1:14 pm

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For the love of Primus, now Mike is trying to force Costaism on us...

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Thus, the fandom of transformers rejoiced, for once again they were liberated from a terrible writer.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby partholon » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:05 pm

actually theres only one thing that bugs me.

why is bluestreak saying hot rods back from the dead.

isnt the last the earth bound bots saw of him was him stealing UMs ship and doing a runner ?

no one should know he went after megs and near got totaled by him unless im missing something major (and ill admit i could, im only getting the trades for costas run)

seems to me the far BIGGER shock is the return of ironhide whom they all SAW die.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Dead Metal » Tue Jul 05, 2011 2:28 pm

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partholon wrote:actually theres only one thing that bugs me.

why is bluestreak saying hot rods back from the dead.

isnt the last the earth bound bots saw of him was him stealing UMs ship and doing a runner ?

no one should know he went after megs and near got totaled by him unless im missing something major (and ill admit i could, im only getting the trades for costas run)

seems to me the far BIGGER shock is the return of ironhide whom they all SAW die.

Maybe they don't recognize him without a frown on his face?
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby NemesisMonkeySupreme » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:16 pm

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partholon wrote:actually theres only one thing that bugs me.

why is bluestreak saying hot rods back from the dead.

isnt the last the earth bound bots saw of him was him stealing UMs ship and doing a runner ?

no one should know he went after megs and near got totaled by him unless im missing something major (and ill admit i could, im only getting the trades for costas run)

seems to me the far BIGGER shock is the return of ironhide whom they all SAW die.

I thought that was cliffjumper…

anyway, they all saw Ironhide die. they assumed Sunstreaker died back on Cybertron, sacrificing himself to the Swarm in restitution for his unwitting betrayals. they assumed Wheelie was looooong dead.

so returning with all these dead "people"…

EDIT:
I'm curious as to whether Ironhide's old body is still around…
Could we end up with a "Moon" scenario, or could his memories be retrieved and integrated?
Also, if it is still around it would be interesting (if well-written) to see what it's like to see your own dead self.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby partholon » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:26 pm

im really hoping thats the way it pans out.

hell i can SEE the guy standing over his corpse in my head now.

its rife for interesting story telling. makes you ask the question would he even WANT to intergrate those memories as the decisons he took lead to his death.

right now big red has a new lease on life. :)

lots of fun could be had with this concept.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Heavy B » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:31 pm

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YoungPrime wrote:.....So many questions.

With Megatron in their custody... What are the Decepticons doing?

With Soundwave still presumably shot in the face, who's holding the fort down Shockwave or Starscream?.......Or will Galvatron pick up the slack???

Why did Megatron surrender to begin with?

And when will the stupid annoying human dialog ever Cease? No one cares how they feel. It's caused me to route for the Decepticons to kill them all on general principal.


Megatron surrendered to throw a monkey wrench in the human/autobot alliance. he was the one who told prime that spike killed scrapper.

and I do enjoy the human dialog. for years I watched the autobots and decepticons engage in war on earth, with little repercussion to the human populice (the g1 cartoon for instance). I would hate to see countless battles with no consequences to the planet.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby quickmixed » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:24 pm

Im really not a fan of changing artists halfway through the issue. But I have quite enjoyed the last 2 issues of ongoing and it looks like things are getting bigger.

Also, I couldnt help reading all that text without Cate Blanchetts voice in my head LOTR style.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby partholon » Wed Jul 06, 2011 5:41 am

you know on that biblical stuff.

WHO do we know has a rep (at least according to hasbro) that thinks and writes like that ?

:) :) :)

i think a certain A3 will be making a return up somewhere down the line.
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby Supreme Convoy » Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:32 pm

I love how Mike Costa channeled his inner Tolkien for this issue. I love the line, "And although old wounds had not fully closed... the urge to forgive overcame all suspicion and, in that brief hour at least, all were one."

Fantastic set up for Chaos!
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Re: Transformers: Ongoing #21 - Five-Page Preview

Postby 3.8TransAM » Thu Jul 07, 2011 11:43 pm

Scary 20 issues of pretty much crap and then they land an actual thoughtful well thought out issue..............I'm scared

Other than this issue, they only have 2 mini series worth a damn to read.

Maybe IDW has woken up...............maybe, but I'm not holding my breath
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