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Date: Thursday, August 29th 2013 3:23pm CDT
Category: Comic Book News
Posted by: El Duque |
Credit(s): Andrew Griffith
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Transformers: Robots in Disguise artist Andrew Griffith has updated his
deviantART account with his concept art for Megatron as he appeared after ditching his Stealth Bomber body. Take a look below.
Check out our exclusive interview with Andrew by clicking
here.
Andrew Griffith wrote:So I finally took a moment to upload my design for Megatron's newest appearance in IDW comics, from Robots in Disguise. Included are my ideas for colors, but I think Josh used colors that were slightly different for the book as I only ever shared a b&w drawing with him.
This is the body he was rebuilt into after shedding his ruined stealth jet body around issue #14 of RID.
Was intended to be something of the quintessential Megatron, mixing the look and feel of his G1 design with more contemporary designs like the one from Stormbringer and Megatron: Origin.
Megatron was also designed to have a look that could fit technologically as a modular unit of the rebuilt Devastator, sharing certain design features with the Constructicons from RID.
Date: Wednesday, August 28th 2013 11:31am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
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Posted by: El Duque |
Credit(s): IDW Publishing
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
My Little Pony, Transformers, And Star Trek Make Their Motion Book Debut!
IDW Debuts Popular Titles On Madefire Platform
San Diego, California – August 28, 2013 – One of the most-buzzed about announcements the week of the San Diego Comic-Con was Madefire’s partnerships with 3rd party publishers and bringing the Motion Book treatment to their top properties. That day has come for the award winning and top 4 comics publisher IDW as they bring a trio of their most-popular titles—My Little Pony, Star Trek, and Transformers—to Madefire’s groundbreaking experience on August 28th.
“It has been fantastic to see our properties come to life as Motion Books — with just the right amount of animation and audio, it has truly created a new experience,” stated Jeff Webber, IDW’s VP of Digital Publishing. "Additionally, the partnership with deviantART exposes our comics to an incredibly broad network of illustration fans."
Madefire spent the last year perfecting the Motion Book with their own acclaimed content on iOS mobile devices and the web. Their web-reading partner is social network and creative powerhouse deviantART.com, and the Madefire app has been 5-star rated since launch, even landing on the App Store’s “Best of 2012” list.
“The move to digital reading is about more than just scanning in print — we are at the start of a new grammar for books,” said Ben Wolstenholme, CEO of Madefire. “We are pleased to welcome IDW’s comic book properties to help continue to evolve the medium of Motion Books.”
With more content debuting as Motion Books in the coming months there’s no better time to familiarize yourself with the new grammar of the future of storytelling!
About Madefire
Founded in 2011 by Ben Wolstenholme, Liam Sharp and Eugene Walden, Madefire provides artists and writers a publishing solution for iOS and web reading allowing them to build their stories in an exciting new format called Motion Books. Madefire is backed by Toni Schneider at True Ventures, The CEO of Automattic makers of WordPress, with angel investors including Sina Tamaddon, former Senior Vice President of Applications for Apple Inc--both of whom are on Madefire’s Board of Advisors. The Advisory Board also includes industry leaders Mike McCue, CEO and Founder of Flipboard, Dave Gibbons, co-creator of Watchmen, the bestselling graphic novel of all time, and Bill Sienkiewicz, widely recognized as one of the greatest innovators of sequential art. For more information go to madefire.com.
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About IDW
IDW is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the most successful and popular titles in the industry, including: Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS, G.I. JOE and MY LITTLE PONY; Paramount’s Star Trek; Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; 2000AD’s Judge Dredd; The Rocketeer; Toho’s Godzilla; Wizards of the Coast’s Magic: The Gathering and Dungeons & Dragons; HBO’s True Blood; and the Eisner-Award winning Locke & Key series, created by best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint, which publishes classic comic reprints, and Yoe! Books, a partnership with Yoe! Studio.
IDW’s critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new mediums. Currently, Warner Brothers and Barry Sonnenfeld are attached to adapt LORE into a feature film starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a feature film based on World War Robot, with Michael Bay‘s Platinum Dunes and Sony bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.
Date: Wednesday, August 28th 2013 8:09am CDT
Category: Comic Book News
Posted by: El Duque |
Credit(s): the Allspark
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Our friends over at the
Allspark have been busy translating Yuki Ohshima's "Metro Wars" and Guido Guidi's "Starcream's New Power" mangas from the recently released Transformers Generations 2013 book. Click
here to view the full set of translated pages.
Date: Tuesday, August 27th 2013 12:01pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
Reviews
Posted by: Va'al |
Credit(s): IDW Publishing
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Dino-Fight!
(Spoiler free-ish)
Synopsis
PRIMEVAL PREDATORS! The DINOBOTS have stumbled upon some of SHOCKWAVE’S old experiments… now they are running rampant across the Cybertronian underground. It’s up to GRIMLOCK and SWOOP to subdue the enemy! But with pressure mounting and his foes wreaking havoc, can GRIMLOCK keep his own rage in check?
See? Rampant running
Final review of the day/week, it's been a busy one this time round! We end on a smashing, thumping, powing, crunching, punching note, with the conclusion to the second Beast Hunters story arc, written once again by Mike Johnson (on ideas by both Johnson and Mairghread Scott). Ready? Fight!
Roar
We left Swoop and Grimlock last month to deal with a bunch of organic, very much alive-looking Earth-like dinosaurs, and the fight spills over into this issue. For the entire issue. Seriously. All of it. One giant, metal-meets-meat dino fight.
Oh, and this guy. Briefly.
There is some sort of plot, mostly resolved in the final pages, but it really does just revolve around the menacing encounter between the Dinobots and their organic copies. There is, however, Swoop's voice running through the issue, but I haven't seen it lead anywhere particularly relevant.
Except for MAJOR PLOT POINTS
I'm still not convinced about Johnson's style, and I'll be waiting for his next arc before passing any type of judgement. These two issues have been a little disappointing compared to the opening two, but this one has very slightly brought it up a smidge, removing some of the poor Swoop dialogue.
Art
If anything, the really really really really really really long fight scenes have helped artist Agustin Padilla, who shines in heavily action-packed and dynamic scenes. In fact, the artistic troubles I had with the previous issue seem to have disappeared from this one, only to show up in the final pages.
Sketchy, but still cool-looking
Colour duties are not only with Priscilla Tramontano, but also with some assistance by Josh Burcham and Thomas Deer! While there may not seem to be that much going on in terms of chromatic contrasts, the lighting and shading, especially on the beasts, is stunning.
HROOONK
As usual, Tom B. Long's lettering is brilliantly creative, and Johnson does get points for introducing more dino-noises that I thought were possible, for Long to play with. Extra mention also goes to Ken Christiansen, and his amazing cover art of Grimlock and the Insecticons.
Thoughts
Spoilerish ahead
Abandoned plot for action, sideline characters completely kept to the side, inner monologue captions and I'm not sure where this is going. But the artwork is well worth the comic, really. It's up to you if you'd like to have some good-looking but senseless bashing between beasts.
Will we ever get there?
I am definitely looking forward to the next issue, but mostly because these last two have disappointed in the wake of Scott's arc, and she's back on actual writing duties next month. Shame, really, as this issue isn't bad, it's just not that good, except for the artwork - especially next to the other two titles coming out this week.
Date: Tuesday, August 27th 2013 7:49am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
Reviews
Posted by: Va'al |
Credit(s): IDW Publishing
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Déjà-vu?
(Spoiler free-ish)
Synopsis
CYBERTRON UNDER SIEGE! As BLUDGEON’s Blitz Engines wreak havoc, the AUTOBOTS struggle to muster a response to a threat that feels all too close to home! But their “greatest warrior," ULTRA MAGNUS, has problems of his own… in the shape of a fighting mad GALVATRON. It’s the clash of titans you’ve (almost) never seen before!
Variations on a couple of themes
Readers of the UK iteration of the old Marvel comics might get quite the kick from this issue, as it's Ultra Magnus versus Galvatron all over again on Cybertron's surface! Bludgeon does things in space, or rather, just above Cybertron. Meanwhile, closer to the planet's core, Hot Rod and the Dinobots have encountered a Primus-possessed Grimlock.
Me Grimlock god
And actually, that last part, as much as it's extremely smirk-inducing, is resolved very quickly, setting one of the scenes for next month's ReGeneration One #0. We still have to wait a couple of months for Hot Rod's fate and the Dinobots' reunion. The main story takes place with the Autobots' greatest (reluctant) warrior and the mad reincarnated time-traveller.
Seen it
The Autobot's -ah- reaction plan isn't exactly original, or particularly effective, from both an in-story and storytelling perspective, and is kind of squeezed in at the very end, though it doesn't detract too much from the issue. Same can be said for Bludgeon's own machinations, as most of the exposition is done from the Autobot side.
The protracted fight scene is executed well enough, though, to forgive the other plots being left a bit too much to the side, and the Cybertronian reaction intertwines with Magnus' fight, so it can be worked into the plot too. And the art serves the story well, see below.
Art
Guidi's artwork on the issue is a real knockout, especially with the extremely high number of fight sequences and dynamic poses. Baskerville's inks on Guidi's work are just the cherry on a sundae so good-looking you want to keep it in a frozen glass case.
Look, fan favourites!
As per usual, JP Bove's magical technicolour paintbrush (pen?) makes everything that Guidi and Baskerville shine, sparkle and glitter - unless it has to be dark, moody, and gorey. The skies are always my personal favourite, but
Passed with flying colours
I am also pleasantly impressed by Shawn Lee's newly creative lettering, with some excellent font work mixing well with Furman's onomatopoeias and soundwords. All in all, the issue is absolutely gorgeous, and it's hard to pick out anything that doesn't really work that well from a visual aspect.
Thoughts
Spoilerish ahead
Some fairly clever visual storytelling manages to weave all the threads together, and leaves us with an image that I want to show because it's absolutely stunning and actually spoils nothing. Up to you to figure out the winner of the clash.
HE'S ON FIRE
I really really really enjoyed this issue, the fight sequences weren't too dragged out, it nodded continuously to old material without rehashing it or being too obviously a cliché-fest, it has God Grimlock and some excellent swearing. Book, good - you, read. Next month, some stalling, maybe minor plotting, and we're back on schedule in October!
Date: Tuesday, August 27th 2013 5:57am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
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Posted by: Va'al |
Credit(s): Simon Furman
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Transformers writer extraordinaire has updated his
blog with the Script (W)Rap for issue 94 of ReGeneration One, check it out below and comment on the blog for answers from the Furminator himself. Come back later today for the Seibertron.com review of the issue, too!
I know it’s a cliche to call an issue pivotal, but that’s what Transformers Regeneration One #94 (out this Wednesday, August 28) is. A whole lot of stuff has been building, pressure cooker-style, to this point, and a whole lot more stuff (including the jaw-dropping issue #0) spins out of these 22-packed-pages. But – before I press on with this habitual discourse on the creative ins and outs of #94 – the usual warning: there be spoilers in what follows, though as always the aim is tantalise and tease rather than reveal huge plot points, so consider yourself warned. Right, so, here it is — the biggest most anticipated rematch in the whole of the core/original Transformers saga… Ultra Magnus versus Galvatron… that never happened before. Well, okay, it has if you’re Galvatron. Because, as we know, he’s from the alternative timeline established in issue #67′s Rhythms of Darkness, and he has fought UM before (the outcome of which you’ll get a flavour of in #0). But if you’re Ultra Magnus, this is the first time of asking and you’re very much in the dark. Are we sidestepping the UK clash between these two titans in the epochal Target: 2006? Yes we are. And no we’re not. I know, confusing right? Well let’s just say that anyone who’s conversant with that particular clash will see echoes of it here. ripples in what we now know to be a multifaceted prism of TF universes. But if you’re expecting a re-run of that clash, think again. Everything old is new again, right? That’s kind of RG1′s mantra. And the UM/Galvatron clash takes some very unexpected twists and turns. Are we content with just that? Heck no. There’s also an all-out assault on Cybertron by Bludgeon’s War World and Blitz Engines, a long-standing grudge match that edges closer to a denouement, and the beginning of a journey for Hot Rod that will have far reaching consequences, both for him and the future of the RG1-verse. Phew. Hope you enjoy this one, I certainly had great fun writing it. And Guido really knocks this one out of park! As usual, I welcome your comments/opinions in this thread.
Date: Tuesday, August 27th 2013 5:48am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News,
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Posted by: Va'al |
Credit(s): IDW Publishing
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Flick
(Spoiler free-ish)
Synopsis
NOWHERE TO RUN! The end is nigh for the surviving members of the Lost Light crew, as enemies old and new move in for the kill. But on the fringes of known space, an ancient visionary is about to eliminate the Cybertronian race with a wave of his hand.
Said visionary-with-hand-waves
We're almost there - this is the fourth part of the five-issue-long Remain in Light story arc. And more answers unfold as questions remain, with Dai Atlas, Whirl and "his friend" Cyclonus fighting on the field and Rodimus-not-Hot-Rod and the Lost Light crew facing Tyrest and his plan.
Whirl, don't be shy
Last issue we were introduced to the character of Getaway, linked to Skids, and part of the latter's previous, forgotten life. This issue, Roberts uses the new Autobot to expand on Skids' actions, his gun and other secrets, as part of the so-called Diplomatic Corps.
With a dig at the Wreckers, why not
But let's not forget about Ratchet and First Aid, apparently still dealing with Ambulon's halved body. I'm still unsure about Ratchet's characterisation in the title, especially of late - though his actions in here are surprisingly, well, surprising; in my books, First Aid has some better ideas, placing and even dialogue lines.
And he speaks his mind
Getaway is cursed with the info-dump qualities -bomp- for Skids' story, but is likeable enough that readers can get over it. At the same -bomp- time, he also becomes a robot mcGuyver with a -bomp- trope looming over his head. Still, as I said, likeable.
Art
I will do my best not to gush out at the artwork in this one, but bear with me if I do. Milne works his usual amazingness on pencils, and inks some pages along with Brian Shearer to. Expressive mouthplates will always pleasantly surprise me. And there's a nice show of the whole cast from the entire universe at some point, really well executed.
But no spoilers, so have some gore
And the colours. The colours. Josh Burcham does justice as ever to Milne and Shearer's work, but in addition to that, he's helped this time by
ReGen One's crayon holder John-Paul Bove - can you spot the differences? He 'Burchamed the living daylights' out of those lines (sic).
Bove? Burcham? Beautiful?
Tom B. Long is still absolutely amazing at lettering too
Special mention also to Nick Roche's B cover, with a truly terrifying close-up of Tyrest. Roberts really does like his psycho-villains, hm?
Thoughts
Spoilerish ahead
Highly enjoyable issue, with some excellent resolutions to some questions and situations set up so far (even though they essentially all show up in the form of Bomp McGuyver), and a couple of more questions still unsolved. Tyrest is still a bit of a Bond-esque villain, and we've seen very little of Pharma this time round, but still a good read. And will Tailgate's fate be what we/I think it will?
Tick tock
Artistically, it's a glorious piece of work, with some amazing colours from both Burcham and Bove, nice inking from Milne and Shearer, and the always amazing lettering by Long. Definitely pick this one up, and wait with all of us for the conclusion next month, before Dark Cybertron begins.
Date: Monday, August 26th 2013 4:27pm CDT
Category: Comic Book News
Posted by: El Duque |
Credit(s): iTunes
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Thanks to
iTunes we have our first sneak peek inside the pages of Transformers: Robots in Disguise Ongoing #21. Check out the three page preview below:
SHOCKPOINT! In the wastelands of CYBERTRON, SHOCKWAVE makes his move—and SOUNDWAVE and the DECEPTICONS step up to stop him! While the battle of the century rocks the ancient ruins of the Crystal City, dig back into the history of these titanic rivals!
Date: Saturday, August 24th 2013 1:41am CDT
Category: Comic Book News
Posted by: El Duque |
Credit(s): IDW Publishing
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Rounding out our trio of comic previews for next week we have
Transformers Prime Beast Hunters #4. Grab a copy next Wednesday, but for now check out the preview found below.
Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters #4
Mairghread Scott & Mike Johnson (w) • Agustin Padilla (a) • Ken Christiansen (c)
PRIMEVAL PREDATORS! The DINOBOTS have stumbled upon some of SHOCKWAVE’S old experiments… now they are running rampant across the Cybertronian underground. It’s up to GRIMLOCK and SWOOP to subdue the enemy! But with pressure mounting and his foes wreaking havoc, can GRIMLOCK keep his own rage in check?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Date: Saturday, August 24th 2013 1:36am CDT
Category: Comic Book News
Posted by: El Duque |
Credit(s): IDW Publishing
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Next we have our preview for Transformers: Regeneration One #94. Pick up or download your full copy next Wednesday, for now enjoy the preview found below.
Transformers Regeneration One #94
Simon Furman (w) • Guido Guidi (a) • Andrew Wildman, Guidi (c)
CYBERTRON UNDER SIEGE! As BLUDGEON’s Blitz Engines wreak havoc, the AUTOBOTS struggle to muster a response to a threat that feels all too close to home! But their “greatest warrior,” ULTRA MAGNUS, has problems of his own… in the shape of a fighting mad GALVATRON. It’s the clash of titans you’ve (almost) never seen before!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
Cover-to-cover battle action!
ULTRA MAGNUS versus GALVATRON—the rematch of the millennium!
Variant cover by Geoff Senior!
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