The Energon Pub

[El Duque]

Courtesy of IDW we have the Transfomers comic solicitations for December 2011. Take a look at the covers and descriptions below, but be warned some could be considered spoiler-ish.

TRANSFORMERS #31
Mike Costa (w) • Casey Coller (a) • Casey Coller, Photo Cover (c)

CHAOS is over. The future holds many mysteries, but the past can never be forgotten. As Ironhide looks back at what was, he comes to realize that it may hold the key to what lies ahead. A new peace has settled, and a new time has come for the Autobots, for the Decepticons… for Cybertron.
*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 4-to-1 ratio (4 Photo, 1 Casey Coller)
*Retailers: See your order form for incentive information.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

*Variant covers:
Trevor Hutchison cover!

Bullet Points:

• Part of IDW’s photo-cover month! A diorama cover featuring Hasbro Toys!

The Transformers Classics, Vol. 2
Bob Budiansky (w) Don Perlin and Herb Trimpe (a) Guido Guidi (c)

The historic comic book roots of THE TRANSFORMERS are re-presented for maximum Cybertronian enjoyment. Collecting issues from the original run, rejoin OPTIMUS PRIME and MEGATRON and their competing factions as their war stretches across the cosmos. Freshly re-mastered and re-colored, these stories are accompanied by an in-depth introduction as well as select issue notes by Mark W. Bellomo.
TPB FC $24.99 276 pages 6.625” x 10.187” ISBN 978-1-61377-091-7

Bullet Points:

• Many stories re-mastered and re-colored for the very first time!
  
• Collects issues #14–24!

TRANSFORMERS: The Death of Optimus Prime
John Barber, James Roberts (w) • Nick Roche (a) • Nick Roche, Photo Cover (c)

Celebrating 125 issues of IDW’s Transformers! After Chaos, Optimus Prime's fate was shrouded in mystery. Was he truly gone or could there be a way he had emerged unscathed? Now, Optimus sits in contemplation, in a place he does not recognize as home. And with the cost of the battle finally taking its brutal toll, does Optimus Prime even have the will to carry on? CHAOS changed everything, and Transformers #125 sets a new direction for the Autobot leader…
*2 regular covers will be shipped in a 4-to-1 ratio (4 Photo, 1 Nick Roche)
*Retailers: See your order form for incentive information.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

*Variant covers:
Livio Ramondelli Variant cover!
Variant wraparound cover featuring all 125 IDW TRANSFORMERS covers, with foil enhancements!

Bullet points:

• This special issue sets the stage for two new ongoing Transformers series in January!
  
• Part of IDW’s photo-cover month! A diorama cover featuring Hasbro Toys!

Infestation HC
Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning and Mike Raicht and Scott Tipton and David Tipton and Erik Burnham (w) David Messina and Giovanni Timpano and Nick Roche and Gary Erskine and Casey Maloney and Kyle Hotz (a) Ashley Wood (c)

IDW's first-ever mega event is collected in this hard cover collection as something goes horribly awry in the IDW universe: a dimensions-spanning zombie outbreak of epic proportions, which threatens to tear many of IDW’s biggest realities asunder! The infestation spreads through the TRANSFORMERS, G.I. JOE, STAR TREK, and GHOSTBUSTERS universes. Zombie apocalypse looms and the remaining members of CVO are running out of options...
HC FC $34.99 260 pages ISBN 978-1-61377-106-8

Bullet Points:

• "This is a zombie outbreak done absolutely right, full of carnage and nonstop action!" - Fangoria.com
  
• Contains 22 pages of never before printed material! Previously only available as a Pocket Gods digital download!
  
• Collects the entire Infestation saga! Infestation #1 and 2, and all of the Ghostbusters, TRANSFORMERS, Star Trek, and G.I. JOE tie-ins!

[Chaoslock]

Photo-cover.... That's cheap.

And why does it sound like Optimus won't stay dead... again?

[Sodan-1]

I'm not going insane am I: Is that G1 Optimus with a new head? Or am I the only one who's seeing this for the first time?

[Michael Alex Kawa]

I'm not going insane am I: Is that G1 Optimus with a new head? Or am I the only one who's seeing this for the first time?

I was going to ask the same thing ,but i thought i was already going insane cause there is a picture of a toy on a comic book cover .Well for the first time they are showing the main reason why the comic was made in the first place ,to sell toys.Talk about truth in advertisement ,i can go on and on

[zodconvoy]

I'm not going insane am I: Is that G1 Optimus with a new head? Or am I the only one who's seeing this for the first time?

I was going to ask the same thing ,but i thought i was already going insane cause there is a picture of a toy on a comic book cover .Well for the first time they are showing the main reason why the comic was made in the first place ,to sell toys.Talk about truth in advertisement ,i can go on and on

It's the Music Label Optimus Prime. It's been out for a couple years but never released in the US market. I have him and he's pretty f---in' cool. Highly recommended.

[triKlops]

covers look cool

i bought the individual Infestation Transformers issues
no need to grab the HC until it goes cheap

[Sodan-1]

I'm not going insane am I: Is that G1 Optimus with a new head? Or am I the only one who's seeing this for the first time?

I was going to ask the same thing ,but i thought i was already going insane cause there is a picture of a toy on a comic book cover .Well for the first time they are showing the main reason why the comic was made in the first place ,to sell toys.Talk about truth in advertisement ,i can go on and on

It's the Music Label Optimus Prime. It's been out for a couple years but never released in the US market. I have him and he's pretty f---in' cool. Highly recommended.

Ah, right! Knew there'd be a logical reason. In this instance I'll put it down to personal ignorance.

[zodconvoy]

I'm not going insane am I: Is that G1 Optimus with a new head? Or am I the only one who's seeing this for the first time?

I was going to ask the same thing ,but i thought i was already going insane cause there is a picture of a toy on a comic book cover .Well for the first time they are showing the main reason why the comic was made in the first place ,to sell toys.Talk about truth in advertisement ,i can go on and on

It's the Music Label Optimus Prime. It's been out for a couple years but never released in the US market. I have him and he's pretty f---in' cool. Highly recommended.

Ah, right! Knew there'd be a logical reason. In this instance I'll put it down to personal ignorance.

Nah, not even that. I know another guy who has the Music Label Convoy and he didn't even know there was an Optimus Prime version. It's like this weird blind spot: you have to know it's there to see it or something.

[Supreme Convoy]

When did they remold G1 Optimus?

[El Duque]

When did they remold G1 Optimus?

That's Takara's Music Label OP from a couple of years back.