Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1

I'm pretty sure it's his Minicon, Liftor

and might I say, Kei Zama's art is AMAZING! sooooo much better than the garbage that Livio Ramondelli vomits onto books Condemned to be punished by him.

Hopefully IDW makes the right choice for artist to use in future "big event books"

SG Roadbuster wrote:I'm pretty sure it's his Minicon, Liftor

and might I say, Kei Zama's art is AMAZING! sooooo much better than the garbage that Livio Ramondelli vomits onto books Condemned to be punished by him.

Hopefully IDW makes the right choice for artist to use in future "big event books"

Hmmmm, let's not be too hasty. I agree with the sentiment Livio isn't my favorite transformers artist, but the man's art is by no means bad. The first problem as I see it is that Livio has a really painterly style that doesn't mesh well with the transformers aesthetic of clean lines and bri colours.

The other is that of time. Comic books are produced really quickly and require a ton of different images with a lot of different compositions in a short period. That's why you normally have a line artist and a colorist on the same book. Livio, probably because his style doesn't lend itself to a separate colorist to match the kind of linework he does, pulls double duty. That's also why his covers are excellent, as is the material on his deviant art page.

Sorry about the rant, but as an aspiring artist it reaaly grinds my gears when someone says an artist is "bad".

color scheme reminds me of optimal optimus.

Goshooter cameo!

Guess he must have had stuff going on before becoming a Transtector...

ScottyP wrote:If I have one fanboy gripe about IDW, it's that Unicron Trilogy era characters are treated as absolute cannon fodder.

It's not the only era to get that treatment, but one of the only ones to not get much exception to it

I think it's mostly just that people like killing Hot Shot.

The art is really good. Wow! Finally, a back to basic robot type transformers comic. Btw. I loved livio's art. Don't know what the complaint was really about. I can compare his art style closer to Jae Lee. Hard to figure out style but I like it

Holy Primus that art is amazing! I'm suddenly excited for this series.

With an early look at the solicitations for future releases from IDW Publishing (because money means exclusives means money, of course), Comics Alliance reveals the Casey Coller Artist Edition variant cover the the third issue of new Transformers ongoing series Optimus Prime - and with it, the reveal of the inhabitants of the 'corkscrew spaceship' we've been seeing until now. To avoid spoilers, we're just posting the image below, but take a look and join the discussion in the Energon Pub!

Optimus Prime #3

John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a & c)
An uneasy peace between Optimus Prime and the newly arrived Junkions is threatened by Soundwave’s discovery within their massive ship…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Optimus Prime #3—Artist’s Edition Variant
John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a) • Casey Coller (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
· Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!
· Variant cover by Joana Lafuente!

Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Wreck-Gar's finally here! Really gonna have to read autocracy and all that now.

Prowl's in this?

I think Zama's cover is just *°art°* without necessarily reflecting the story.

Then again, Prowl is everywhere.

Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!