Simon Furman interviewed about TF: Nefarious!

IGN Comics: How did this project come about?

Simon Furman: It had its origins in the series I was doing at the moment for IDW called Tales of the Fallen. One of the issues of that features the character called Ravage from the movie. While we were pulling that story together, we threw in some elements there of some kind of mysterious conspiracy that's maybe human-led or maybe some other Transformer-based organization. They're kind of pitting themselves against the Transformers. So we laid some very loose seeds in there. And thereafter we started talking about expanding that into its own series.

IGN Comics: Is this being planned as a mini-series or an ongoing?

Furman: It's a mini-series. We're looking at either five or six issues. But we have yet to pace it out into its respective parts. But it'll be a self-contained series.