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Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1

Transformers News: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1

Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 2:36PM CDT

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The second of two previews of new Transformers comic books for this week is for the new Wreckers themed mini-series' first issue, Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1. IDW Publishing has provided a five page preview of this upcoming issue which features regular editor David Mariotte on writing duties, with lineart by familiar Transformers artist Jack Lawrence and colors by Candice Han. Consider when looking over this preview that there may be more going on here than meets the eye, or just wait and find out what that might be when this issue is released tomorrow.

(W) David Mariotte (A/CA) Jack Lawrence
Out in the Cybertronian colonies, good entertainment is hard to find. Fortunately, there's always the Wreckers-brave Cybertronians broadcasting death-defying stunts and action-all as a cover for undercover operations! When the only event bigger than a new Wreckers broadcast, the Speedia 500, a race for governmental control of a whole world, is threatened, the Wreckers have a new mission: Save the most viewed race in the galaxy... without getting caught. Wreck & Rule!

Check out the preview below and be sure to pick this issue up tomorrow at your local comic shop, through a licensed digital comics retailer, or via the Seibertron.com eBay store.

Transformers News: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1

Transformers News: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1

Transformers News: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1

Transformers News: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1

Transformers News: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1
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Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118354)
Posted by primalxconvoy on October 12th, 2021 @ 3:18pm CDT
Why does the whole thing have the semblance or feel of a "My Little Pony" comic?
Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118358)
Posted by steve2275 on October 12th, 2021 @ 4:34pm CDT
LOVE the art :-D :-D :-D :-D
Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118362)
Posted by Nemesis Primal on October 12th, 2021 @ 5:16pm CDT
TFW has an additional 3 pages of this up, looks like Octopunch is doing his best impression of the "Mandarin" videos from Iron Man 3 and has a guy drawn-&-quartered, for those worried this book wouldn't be enough like previous Wreckers titles where people died in stupid, pointless ways.
Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118366)
Posted by primalxconvoy on October 12th, 2021 @ 5:59pm CDT
Nemesis Primal wrote:TFW...


Wash your mouth out with soap. This is respectable website, so there's no need for such vulgar language...

;)
Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118368)
Posted by Nemesis Primal on October 12th, 2021 @ 6:10pm CDT
primalxconvoy wrote:
Nemesis Primal wrote:TFW...


Wash your mouth out with soap. This is respectable website, so there's no need for such vulgar language...

;)
;)^ :lol:
Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118382)
Posted by william-james88 on October 12th, 2021 @ 8:45pm CDT


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Man I needed this. After the IDW Transformers reboot and the new Beast Wars comic, both of which I found uninspiring for different reasons, this comic really fills a void for fun and well done Transformers comics.

This comic has everything I'd want in a Transformers comic; great art with fully realized backgrounds, likeable characters, quick pacing, world building, ramps, callbacks to Transformers lore, good guys being heroic and villains being bad. Too much to ask? Maybe, but hey I got it all with this comic.

Check out the review below and be sure to pick this issue up tomorrow at your local comic shop, through a licensed digital comics retailer, or via the Seibertron.com eBay store.

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We'll start with this story, the writer cuts right to the chase with the delicious villainy at hand. Nuance can be great but I also like when the bad guys are just plain villains. The franchise was built on a very black and white Saturday morning cartoon ideology and I find the comics often excel when contrasting the villains and the heroes. And hey if you want some nuance, well there is a goal to the villains, and one could say it's a noble one, maybe. But their methods make it pretty easy to root against them. Still, their manifesto is another clever way to include some world building of the political dynamics of this world which is much more exciting in concept and execution than this sentence I just wrote. And I love the characters chosen as the villains too.

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Both the heroes and villains are characters that are not often spotlighted but there will definitely be a familiarity to the grotesque looking villains. They are from the late era of G1 which included a bunch of wild concepts. And these toys concepts are woven into the story and world building like with Circuit being an action master and how much of an outsider that makes him on a planet where speed is key. This just makes me want to have a G1 Circuit toy (or Axalon, or both).

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And speaking of wanting toys, anyone who chose to get that Seige Hound redeco of Hotshot will love this comic. The alt mode looks great, drawn by Jack Lawrence, as is everything that man touches in this issue. He is definitely giving it all he has with this miniseries, with lots of detail on the bots, varying facial expressions to convey their mood and developed backgrounds. The art is well complimented by Candice Han's colours, which are especially on point in the scene revealing the villains.

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This is a fun comic any Transformers fan can enjoy, with vibrant detailed art and story that wastes no time. And hardcore fans will really dig the callbacks and getting some fiction related to very niche characters. Looking forward to issue 2!

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Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118412)
Posted by Big Grim on October 13th, 2021 @ 4:11am CDT
Huh. This looks rather promising. Will check it out. Thanks for the review! :)

~ Grim
Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118450)
Posted by william-james88 on October 13th, 2021 @ 3:51pm CDT
Big Grim wrote:Huh. This looks rather promising. Will check it out. Thanks for the review! :)

~ Grim


was a pleasure, let us know what you think of the book when you get to read it
Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2118454)
Posted by ScottyP on October 13th, 2021 @ 5:05pm CDT
I really dug this one too. Excited to see where it goes, and definitely ready to start placing my bets on which Wrecker gets blown to smithereens first. My bet is Ricochet.
Re: Five Page Preview of Transformers: Wreckers - Tread & Circuits #1 (2135131)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 2nd, 2022 @ 8:18pm CDT
Seems like this thread went silent long ago, but I recently got the 4 issues of the comic, and wanted to give my thoughts.

In terms of cast, the cast was good. Lots of guys that don't get a lot of fiction, and there was some good chemistry with the different cast members. I enjoyed circuit a good bit, even if we didn't get too much of him. His death seemed very random, and kinda really annoyed me.

Thunderclash was good. Aileron kinda annoyed me. Hot Shot and Ricochet were a wonderful pairing and were probably my favorites from the book. Minerva was also good, although I am sad that this universe will essentially end with her in eternal sleep.

Mayhem was suitably fun, and I enjoyed pretenders getting a spotlight.

Overall, it wasn't bad. It wasn't spectacular, I think the dialogue and some story beats weren't that good, but it was better than neutral.

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