IDW Transformers: Dawn of the Autobots Teasers - Megatron

I am not bothered by this. Rather intrigued, actually.

But, cue mass hysteria in 3... 2... 1...

Well. Looks like Rodimus will get a chance to punch him after all.

Megatron ditched the stealth bomber mode in RID before Dark Cybertron.

I'm just hoping we get a toy of this now. I'm sure if it has the Bot logo I can find some Reprolabels.

Just had a thought. If Megatron is showing an autobot badge, and he is obviously not an autobot, then is windblade truly an autobot?

Unicronobot wrote:To answer your first line of questions, IDW really hasn't done any retconning at all.

"All Hail Megatron" did a whole bunch of retconning, whose retcons themselves had to be retconned by many many post-AHM issues in order to restore sense and logic in fitting with the pre-AHM Simon Furman stories.

Mindmaster wrote:Umm...

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Help, my brain's broke, someone send for help.

Sabrblade wrote:

Unicronobot wrote:To answer your first line of questions, IDW really hasn't done any retconning at all.

"All Hail Megatron" did a whole bunch of retconning, whose retcons themselves had to be retconned by many many post-AHM issues in order to restore sense and logic in fitting with the pre-AHM Simon Furman stories.

So the retcon retconned a lot of retconning which have retconned the retcon?

Oh God, I've gone cross-eyed...

Basically, Furman created a certain special status quo that portrayed the war as a galactic cold war fought in secret with protocols and standards, but then along came Shane McCarthy with All Hail Megatron, which set out to change the scheme of everything into being "like the G1 cartoon, but edgy!" The war was changed into having been started because of the Matrix and things like Cybertron's poisonous atmosphere were hastily neutered with little explanation. The the Mike Costa-penned ongoing came along with wanting to be like a mishmash of G1 with more of a Movieverse feel to it, while also trying to explain some of the retcons caused by All Hail Megatron along the way with newer retcons. Then we come to the current era with both James Roberts and John Barber telling more stories that go off and do their own thing (until "Dark Cybertron", that is) while occasionally patching up any additional continuity errors from the past. 'Course, there's the Flint Dille/Chris Metzen-penned "Autocracy" and "Monstrocity" series that made more retcons, but were more workable with the Roberts/Barber stuff since they kept referencing those.

Thankfully, as TFWiki says, John Barber is "God's gift to continuity." (He even helped to make sense out of the whole Movieverse timeline)

Admittely I am not too enthralled with the IDW soap opera universe. I feel the characterization was off and the stories just way too complex to follow. Keep in mind I don't read comics so this could be the norm. However, I did enjoy the Dreamwave a bit better than IDW.

Va'al wrote:Just to be clear, MTMTE and RID are not merging again after Dark Cybertron.
Roberts, Milne, Griffith, Burcham, Perez and other people working on them have confirmed that there will be (at least) the two ongoings once the crossover is done.

Yeah, these three teasers look like they're for three different series to me:

• Orion Pax and Earth - Robots in Disguise
• Windblade and Cybertron - her series
• Megatron and the Lost Light - More Than Meets The Eye

Sabrblade wrote:

Va'al wrote:Just to be clear, MTMTE and RID are not merging again after Dark Cybertron.
Roberts, Milne, Griffith, Burcham, Perez and other people working on them have confirmed that there will be (at least) the two ongoings once the crossover is done.

Yeah, these three teasers look like they're for three different series to me:

• Orion Pax and Earth - Robots in Disguise
• Windblade and Cybertron - her series
• Megatron and the Lost Light - More Than Meets The Eye

True dat, true dat.

We know one of the 'heroes' is going to die, as is teased in the Dark Cybertron #12 solicit. And Roberts mentioned on Twitter that all the MTMTE season 2 solicits are very spoilery too, so as soon as those pop up, we'll know more.

As it stands, I am very intrigued.

Prime and the IDWverse are not the same storyline, only the Beast Hunters comics were.

Right now, Megatron is being used as a means to an end in Shockwave's plan, after a return from the fight with D-Void in Chaos and an attempted planetary takeover in RID. He will soon fight Galvatron though, according to the solicits.