IDW Transformers: Unicron #1 & #2 Second Printing and Cover Variants

Just broke down and read 1 - 3. I was going to wait till the main series concluded, but realized Op and Unicron have reached a point of over lap.


Damn, can some body make up their mind on Starscream's characterization?


Over than that, I don't really know what to feel, other than Arcee could have saved a lot of trouble if she started sharing memories just a little sooner

Back from Hospital hiatus once more. I wanted to hold off commenting until I read #3 (it was a little late).
Why does Unicron always do less when he transforms? I think they could have at least kept him in Planet Mode until issue 4 (of 6). It's not like Transforming him now has actually added anything to the story? In Planet Mode he was an approaching threat, in Bot Mode he is just ...lurking?

Plus the (I assume) Transformation homage to The Movie in issue 2 was really weak. It wasn't a static scene, so the translation to panels just doesn't pop in the same way.

The whole fate of the Decepticon armada really seemed to have been ill-conceived too. I had to look up on the Wiki just what actually happened in issue 2, as it didn't make any sense by panel alone. The visuals didn't really convey what had happened in any meaningful way. Which continues into issue 3 as, by the dialogue, they look "so different" yet on the page.. a little more dented??
A clearer art style would have benefited the action scenes too. Like EJ Su or Nick Roche, as going into issue 3 I'm starting to find the art distractingly overly detailed IE from the very first panel. Coupled with the point I've made before concering the OP/LL casts, wherein there are too many characters with the same colour palette and visual cues.

ZeroWolf wrote:Why didn't Unicron kill bludgeon or convert him like the others straight away.

Maybe there's some kinda side effect from the Pretender process he underwent. Possibly the same regarding Monstructor being such a peculiar creation of entropy.

As an aside, did they ever give a reason how Bludgeon recovered from his fate Stormbringer? Or was it just dismissed as "Jhiaxus fixed him, off-panel"?

I'm trying to remember his next appearance after stormbringer...was it redemption of the Dinobots? Or was it Dark Cybertron?

ZeroWolf wrote:I'm trying to remember his next appearance after stormbringer...was it redemption of the Dinobots? Or was it Dark Cybertron?

His next appearance was annoying Orion on LV-117 in Syndromica (during RID S1)

Pretty sure it was an "Oh look! There's a cogent Bludgeon! Never mind how he got better!"

I see. I thought as much. It's funny that Furman seemed to treat a lot of the old concepts as 'one & done' in early IDWverse. Stormbringer seemed like the only story he intended for the Pretenders, hence why all the others were dead, Thunderwing was depowered and Bludgeon was trapped in his own body, by the end of the story. Ironic given that Bludgeon was traditionally one of his favourites in Marvel TF.

Bludgeon showed up in All Hail Megatron with Monstructor harassing Hot Rod and another team of bots that included some Wreckers. And then after that in Syndromica. Bludgeon surviving and regaining his sanity was an AHM thing that just kept going.

I forgot all about his appearance in AHM...In fact I've forgotten a lot of things in AHM, probably on purpose.

After yesterday's news in the form of solicitations for the IDW Publishing comic due out this November 2018, which you can see again here, we also have two variant covers released on Previews World for the fourth issue of the universe ending mini-series Transformers: Unicron.

Both for the same issue, and featuring the well known Italian names by now of Guido Guidi and Francesco Francavilla, the covers mirrored below show three of the major players in the series: Optimus Prime (in distress) and Aileron and Rom meaning business. Check them out below!

(W) John Barber (A) Alex Milne (CA) Guido Guidi / Francesco Francavilla
Unicron sets his sights on Earth... but is anyone left to defend it?

i like it

The A cover is the clear winner

Anyone have any idea when #4 is supposed to come out? I’m not 100% sure on this but wasn’t it supposed to be released this past Wednesday?

Stormshot_Prime wrote:Anyone have any idea when #4 is supposed to come out? I’m not 100% sure on this but wasn’t it supposed to be released this past Wednesday?

Supposed to come out and IDW schedule are mutually exclusive.

Current forecast is to expect cloudy with a chance of deathbringers by September 5th, along with Optimus Prime and Lost Light. Urrrggghh.

I've had a think on it, and have come to a conclusion: I really dislike the "evolved" (my term, not the book's) look of the Maximals and Monstructor. I think the characters are distinct enough to look menacing on their own, but the upgrade or whatever makes them look like boring, nonsense, incompetent generic alien things from a run-of-the-mill summertime scifi movie.

Edit for clarity: the objective quality of the work portraying them is outstanding, it is the concept of the designs that I find bland.

And finally, once more thanks to iTunes, we have another short preview for a book due out next week from IDW Publishing, as the mini series that will end it all bumps over the mid point issue - it's Transformers: Unicron #4! Check out the three pages mirrored below, and head back to Seibertron.com next Wednesday for reviews, discussion, and more.

Transformers: Unicron #4 (of 6)—Cover A: Alex Milne—SPOTLIGHT
John Barber (w) • Alex Milne (a & c)
Unicron sets his sights on Earth... but is anyone left to defend it?
FC • 32 pages • $4.99

Transformers: Unicron #4 (of 6)—Cover B: James Raiz—SPOTLIGHT
John Barber (w) • Alex Milne (a) • James Raiz (c)
FC • 32 pages • $4.99

Bullet points:
The destruction continues! We’re halfway to the end and Unicron is winning. Will Optimus and his allies be able to save anything?!
Connecting B covers by James Raiz featuring destruction at the hands of Unicron!
Covers by fan-favorite Transformers artists of the past decade!
Variant covers by Guido Guidi and Francisco Francavilla!

Oh so the visionaries are going to play a part of this? That's going to be interesting then though I wonder if the talisman is just a red herring at this point I expect the way to stop/pacify unicron will come in issue 6

I know I was in the minority that liked visionaries so I’m glad they’re plying a role

And Jesus ironhide! Stop trying to be ceiling cat

Is it just me, or do a lot of artists have a hard time drawing Windblade's face without making it look stretched out and weird?