IDW Transformers: Windblade #4 Variant Cover Revealed

Absolutely love it. Needs to be made into a poster.

After last week's initial epilogue of the Combiner Wars event in The Transformers #42, IDW Publishing picks up the other strands of the stories from Cybertron and the Council of Worlds in Windblade #4! Check out a full preview below, now that ComicBookResources have posted their exclusive, and head back here later this week for the Seibertron.com review.

Transformers: Windblade #4—Combiner Wars Epilogue
Mairghread Scott (w) • Corin Howell (a) • Priscilla Tramontano (c)
MORE WORLDS—MORE PROBLEMS! After the events of COMBINERS WARS, WINDBLADE and STARSCREAM race to recruit the lost CYBERTRONIAN colonies to the Council of Worlds—but which of them will control the fate of Cybertron?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
The COMBINER WARS are over, but the fallout has just begun!
A new universe opens to the TRANSFORMER—will a new CYBERTRONIAN EMPIRE follow?
Featuring the art debut of new TRANSFORMERS superstar Corin Howell!
Variant Cover by Naoto Tsushima!

Love Knockout, glad he is back doing his thing.

We know about 4 colonies right?
Caminus
Velocitron
Eukaris
Onyx

What is the fifth one Starscream mentioned?

Nice, always good to see more non-g1 interpretation of characters being added to the idw-verse. Knock out is always a hoot.

Randomhero wrote:So here is my theory. We know for the most part where all the colony titans are/were possibly.

Issue 34 of RiD mentioned that shockwave did not choose planets randomly to seed The Regenesis Program. Alpha Trion hints that Shockwave chose those planets because they had a significance to to Cybertron.

Ore-1, "Time", from LV-117, which allows travel through time
Ore-2, "Death", from Gorlam Prime, which causes living matter to decay and die
Ore-6, "Cold", from Arduria, which causes the cessation of thermodynamic processes
Ore-7, "Change", possessed of transmutation properties
Ore-8, "Destruction", from Tsiehshi, which manifests as radioactive and explosive crystals
Ore-13, "Power Itself", from Earth, which boosts a Transformer's capabilities

Ardurians were mentioned to be "cousins" to Cybertronians.

we know that Golram Prime had a titan on it that laid dormant and there were structures similar to Cybertronaian culture.

The planet that appeared in Heart of Darkness was noted to have the same cybertronian like structures. it's possible theres a titan on that planet too.

We also know that Nickel hails from a colony that met a tragic end and with Earth having an Ore it's possible a titan is laying dormant.

that makes 8 colonies(maybe) plus Caminus, Veliocitron, Eurikaris and the 2 others this preview mentioned makes THIRTEEN.

Also shockwave did mention not all his ores grew to fruition yet Caminus has Energon and if there's othere colonies they too must have energon so his ores did mature just didnt become unique.

this is just my theory on this.

There's also the matter of the deep space freighter Elita was piloting and why the bridge locked on to it. Either the ship is a titan, albiet a small one, or she cannibalized parts from a titan that Metroplex could pick up on.

[qe="ZeroWolf"]Well caminus ended up cannibalising their titan (which he was fine with apparently). So its probable that it's happened several times before.

What happened to the titan that proclaimed Starscream to be the chosen one? He was obviously not connected to a colony unless he abandoned them[/quote]

Also, remembering the titan mass grave from Luna 1, either there are a lot fewer titans still alive or there were a lot more to begin with.

Randomhero wrote:So here is my theory. We know for the most part where all the colony titans are/were possibly.

Issue 34 of RiD mentioned that shockwave did not choose planets randomly to seed The Regenesis Program. Alpha Trion hints that Shockwave chose those planets because they had a significance to to Cybertron.

Ore-1, "Time", from LV-117, which allows travel through time
Ore-2, "Death", from Gorlam Prime, which causes living matter to decay and die
Ore-6, "Cold", from Arduria, which causes the cessation of thermodynamic processes
Ore-7, "Change", possessed of transmutation properties
Ore-8, "Destruction", from Tsiehshi, which manifests as radioactive and explosive crystals
Ore-13, "Power Itself", from Earth, which boosts a Transformer's capabilities

Ardurians were mentioned to be "cousins" to Cybertronians.

we know that Golram Prime had a titan on it that laid dormant and there were structures similar to Cybertronaian culture.

The planet that appeared in Heart of Darkness was noted to have the same cybertronian like structures. it's possible theres a titan on that planet too.

We also know that Nickel hails from a colony that met a tragic end and with Earth having an Ore it's possible a titan is laying dormant.

that makes 8 colonies(maybe) plus Caminus, Veliocitron, Eurikaris and the 2 others this preview mentioned makes THIRTEEN.

Also shockwave did mention not all his ores grew to fruition yet Caminus has Energon and if there's othere colonies they too must have energon so his ores did mature just didnt become unique.

this is just my theory on this.

I guess it's a matter of distinguishing the 13 colonies from the ones the Knights of Cybertron used on a regular basis. During the "Remain in the Light" arc there were scores of dead Metrotitans on Luna 1?

YoungPrime wrote:

Randomhero wrote:So here is my theory. We know for the most part where all the colony titans are/were possibly.

Issue 34 of RiD mentioned that shockwave did not choose planets randomly to seed The Regenesis Program. Alpha Trion hints that Shockwave chose those planets because they had a significance to to Cybertron.

Ore-1, "Time", from LV-117, which allows travel through time
Ore-2, "Death", from Gorlam Prime, which causes living matter to decay and die
Ore-6, "Cold", from Arduria, which causes the cessation of thermodynamic processes
Ore-7, "Change", possessed of transmutation properties
Ore-8, "Destruction", from Tsiehshi, which manifests as radioactive and explosive crystals
Ore-13, "Power Itself", from Earth, which boosts a Transformer's capabilities

Ardurians were mentioned to be "cousins" to Cybertronians.

we know that Golram Prime had a titan on it that laid dormant and there were structures similar to Cybertronaian culture.

The planet that appeared in Heart of Darkness was noted to have the same cybertronian like structures. it's possible theres a titan on that planet too.

We also know that Nickel hails from a colony that met a tragic end and with Earth having an Ore it's possible a titan is laying dormant.

that makes 8 colonies(maybe) plus Caminus, Veliocitron, Eurikaris and the 2 others this preview mentioned makes THIRTEEN.

Also shockwave did mention not all his ores grew to fruition yet Caminus has Energon and if there's othere colonies they too must have energon so his ores did mature just didnt become unique.

this is just my theory on this.

I guess it's a matter of distinguishing the 13 colonies from the ones the Knights of Cybertron used on a regular basis. During the "Remain in the Light" arc there were scores of dead Metrotitans on Luna 1?

That is something as well. i do realize that because Remain in light did show a graveyard of Titans and my thought is maybe those were the titans of those colonies from the working ores and Tyrest used their space bridge to bring them to Luna One but even i will say im making an excuse because there were dozens if not hundreds. they thought they were heading to mountains in the the comic only to be a mass grave.

I am continuity nut, comics are my medium. i am a fan of the comics before everything else anymore. as a kid it was the cartoon, as an adult its the comics and im not tooting my own horn when i say i take pride in knowing as much as possible about IDWs universe.

that being said, i will say im pretty unhappy with how continuity is going post Dark Cybertron. John and James have done an amazing job working with past continuity and retconning past stories to fix errors or modify what they are working on but post Dark Cybertron has just gotten out of hand.

Im willing to be fine with the 13 in IDW because it's established that they were just great cybertronians that were leaders of tribes. they weren't Primus' children forged to battle unicron. They dont prove The Guiding Hand exist or the Knights of Cybertron or Primus for that matter.

What im not okay with is trying to interlink them with colonies because IDW is using elements of the Aligned history like Megatronus betraying Solus yet apparently she is well known on Caminus and is their religious figure and their society is based on her. Same with Nexus Prime, even down to his design and Alpha saying only a Prime can kill a Prime yet 4 pages later Galvatron kills him.

They try to say females may have been native to Caminus, which i was cool with and say they may be that way because they believe that Solus Prime flows within every Camian. Im fine with that but then Nickel is introduced, then Moonracer, Elita One, Airrazor...so its not because Camians evoled, theres just more female transformers out there...

thats makes me ask "well why are there none on Cybertorn that were naturally forged? At first they say its all about Caminus but then were introduced to more from other colonies so that makes me ask "well whats the deal with Cybertron?"

biggest problem for me was during Combiner Wars when optimus opens his chest revealing the matrix when we now know he doesnt have it. he relinquished what was left after remain in light and dark cybertron back to cybertron. i asked John Barber on twitter "was it just his spark shining?" he wouldnt say, just stay tuned.

latley i just feel things are being rushed and mistakes are being made.

thanks d

Actually I assumed that the 'only a prime could kill a prime' meant there was more to galvatron then I we were being told, basically he is one of the thirteen.