IDW Transformers Issue 11 Full Preview
Wednesday, August 28th, 2019 4:35pm CDT
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"Chromia and Windblade raid a Rise base in search for clues about the identity of Brainstorm’s murderer, only to be discovered—and the Rise isn’t happy. Meanwhile, Bumblebee sees his first bit of action as the Ascenticon Guard is called to defend a building under siege!"
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Posted by Decepticon Stryker on August 28th, 2019 @ 5:48pm CDT
Posted by Stargrave on August 28th, 2019 @ 6:12pm CDT
The depth of character being pumped into this new world of Transformers is truly amazing. Writer Tyler Bleszinski with artist Livio Ramondelli seem to be natural fits to the launch of this new arm of the IDW Transformers world. We'll be sure to post here as new ones arrive but until then also enjoy an image posted by Livio to his Twitter of Insecticon Kickback feasting on...something. Let your imaginations whirl with that one, Livio's art makes it easy enough to do so most times.
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And from Livio on the Insecticons:
"One of the noble goals @papiblez and I have on TF: Galaxies is to deliver one of the most disturbing versions of the Insecticons ever"
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on August 28th, 2019 @ 6:55pm CDT
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on August 29th, 2019 @ 9:25am CDT

Posted by ZeroWolf on August 29th, 2019 @ 9:29am CDT
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on August 29th, 2019 @ 9:42am CDT
But yeah, because we have scientists and inventors galore in Transformers that could and have created the Gestalt technology in the past. A logical concept for an advanced alien race. But no, let's just dumb down the mythology and say a trinket did it

Posted by ZeroWolf on August 29th, 2019 @ 9:52am CDT
Posted by Archforce on August 29th, 2019 @ 10:24am CDT
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on August 29th, 2019 @ 11:09am CDT
ZeroWolf wrote:Who says the enigma wasn't created by scientists? Besides this could be an edict to help simplify the mythos, same saying all tfs had sparks, which was a concept that beast wars introduced and carried forward to this day.
Except that makes it more convoluted. Instead of a play on Frankenstein's Monster, we potentially have scientists creating a gizmo to create Frankenstein's Monster. Which is stupid. Strike two, would be the fact that Sixshot exists in universe, already. When you have one extremely powerful Multi-Former that can do six things, what is the point of having Gestalt technology at all?
That is why it is never a good idea to add Multi-Formers into a universe too early. They are an end product. A technological advancement beyond Gestalt. Hopefully they make them a bit more special (and durable) in the new continuity.
The Spark thing does make me laugh when people try to retroactively place it into G1. There are so many inconsistencies you really can't IE the Optimus Prime Floppy Disc.
Posted by Glarryg on August 29th, 2019 @ 12:12pm CDT
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Posted by Cyberstrike on August 29th, 2019 @ 4:24pm CDT
I don't care about the Constructicons/Devastator and the Combaticons/Bruticus because IMHO they're all overused to a sickening degree and they all are boring as hell to me. If this series was about the Stunticons, Predacons, Seacons, Terrorcons, Dinoforce/Pretender Monsters, or even one of the Autobot teams like the Areialbots, Protectobots, Technobots, or the Trainbots, then I would be willing to give this series a chance.
Posted by Stargrave on August 29th, 2019 @ 10:41pm CDT
Posted by Stargrave on August 30th, 2019 @ 9:22pm CDT
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Posted by Stargrave on September 1st, 2019 @ 11:17am CDT

Thanks to Twitter posts from IDW, series writer Tyler Bleszinski, and series artist Livio Ramondelli we have the tech spec profiles for all the new IDW Constructicons! These give some awesome flavor and backstory to these great characters who have been staples of the franchise for 35 years. Enjoy reading up on the bot with the plan Scrapper, the new and insecure (yet utterly valuable) Scavenger, the lofty Hook, stalwart and powerful Long Haul, the chemical genius Mixmaster, and the probably insane Bonecrusher.
The first issue of Transformers: Galaxies: Constructicons Rising is scheduled to ship this month! Be sure to pre-order your issue as soon as possible at your local comic shop. Pre-ordering is a huge help to the title and ensures you'll get your copy as soon as possible. You can find your local comic shop by going to comicshoplocator.com.
Do you love these G1 style tech specs? Publishers such as Marvel and DC have in the past gathered up character profiles in single special editions or even series of issues. Would you enjoy seeing something like this for all the new IDW Transformers characters to get caught up? Do you prefer learning about characters as stories unfold in the regular titles? Are you crazy excited about Transformers: Galaxies: Constructicons rising? Sound off in the forum and be sure to stay tuned to Seibertron for the ultimate in Transformers news!







Posted by Stargrave on September 1st, 2019 @ 9:11pm CDT
Here we get the introduction to "Constructicons Rising" and get an idea of how our favorite goons in green fit into the rest of the ongoing story. Enjoy the previews below and make sure to hit up your local comic book shop for a pre order for this title which ships in just a few weeks on September 25th.
If you don't know where your local comic shop is you can find one here at comicshoplocator.com.
Here's the rundown from the listing:
"Cover A: Livio Ramondelli
Tyler Bleszinski (w), Livio Ramondelli (a & c)
Cybertron, a planet of vast beauty and extraordinary cities, wasn’t always so perfect. After the War Against the Threefold Spark, Cybertron was decimated, and new bots—the Constructicons—emerged to help rebuild it grander and more amazing than ever before. But where are these bots now? Why have they been erased from Cybertron’s history? And what are they planning to do about it? Find out in “Constructicons Rising,” Part One!
Written by one of the founders of Vox Media, Tyler Bleszinski!
An all-new series set in-universe, exploring the many characters and ideas in the Transformers galaxy!
A spotlight on the Constructicons and their ultimate destructive form—Devastator!
The bold new era continues!
Exploring the Transformers universe beyond Cybertron!
FC | 32 pages | $3.99"







Posted by william-james88 on September 2nd, 2019 @ 7:22am CDT
This page shows everything I hate about Livio Ramondelli. It's not the art style, it's the terrible use of storytelling. You either get a very far away shot or a shot that's way too up close and hat last panel gives you an angle of their back, filled in shadow, instead of their front. While there is no way to confirm, this really feels to me like this approach is to draw as little as possible. I get doing shortcuts here and there but this is a page full of them and it really hurts the reading experience when the whole point of a comic is the added visuals to the storytelling.
Posted by Stargrave on September 2nd, 2019 @ 11:51am CDT
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on September 3rd, 2019 @ 10:14am CDT
william-james88 wrote:This page shows everything I hate about Livio Ramondelli. It's not the art style, it's the terrible use of storytelling. You either get a very far away shot or a shot that's way too up close and hat last panel gives you an angle of their back, filled in shadow, instead of their front. While there is no way to confirm, this really feels to me like this approach is to draw as little as possible. I get doing shortcuts here and there but this is a page full of them and it really hurts the reading experience when the whole point of a comic is the added visuals to the storytelling.
Agreed. Visual narrative is my thing and his is always.. off, from what it should be. I struggled to even finish the Primacy Trilogy because of it.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on September 3rd, 2019 @ 6:49pm CDT
Posted by ScottyP on September 4th, 2019 @ 10:56am CDT
I really enjoy his sense of scale and readily find a sense of motion in the work. I can see Wheeljack snapping back with that glare or on page 3's bottom panel it feels like those big vehicles are really coming at me. His work in Redemption with the Mad Max homage story was super awesome to me with the action scenes flowing at a cinematic-like pace in my head. There's a panel in Salvation (I think) with Typticon ravaging Iacon some distance away with Swoop or Starscream, I forget, flying from the foreground in that direction and it's justAllNewSuperRobot wrote:william-james88 wrote:This page shows everything I hate about Livio Ramondelli. It's not the art style, it's the terrible use of storytelling. You either get a very far away shot or a shot that's way too up close and hat last panel gives you an angle of their back, filled in shadow, instead of their front. While there is no way to confirm, this really feels to me like this approach is to draw as little as possible. I get doing shortcuts here and there but this is a page full of them and it really hurts the reading experience when the whole point of a comic is the added visuals to the storytelling.
Agreed. Visual narrative is my thing and his is always.. off, from what it should be. I struggled to even finish the Primacy Trilogy because of it.

Taste in art is subjective of course, but personally I like his style for the stories he gets put on.