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Simon Furman Announces: Maximum Dinobots

Date: Friday, April 25th 2008 6:41pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, People News, Company News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Simon Furman, IDW Publishing, partholon

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IDW Publishing's Transformers Scribe Simon Furman has updated his blog with information that he first released at the Botcon 08 IDW panel...

The next series that he will be working on will be called "Maximum Dinobots". Furman has expanded on what this series will entail, be warned as the following few paragraghs contain spoilers, not only for the series but also for Spotlight: Grimlock:

my next IDW/Transformers series after the Revelation quartet of Spotlights will be… Maximum Dinobots! Spotlight Grimlock sets the scene and Max Dinos is the payoff, the long awaited, fully fledged modern day debut of the Dinobots (last seen in any functional form in Spotlight Shockwave).
But it’s far from a happy reunion, and out to spoil the party further is Scorponok and his Machination/Headmaster army. But that’s not all. For the Grimlock and the Dinobots there’s worse to come. Much worse. If it’s all-out battle action you’re after, look no further!

As yet no artist or release details have been released, but stay tuned to Seibertron.com for more news as it comes.

Transformers Comic Releases for April 23rd 2008

Date: Tuesday, April 22nd 2008 6:12pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, Company News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Diamond Comics, IDW, Titan

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After a few quiet weeks on the new Comic front, there is one new Transformers Comic available this week according to Diamond Comic Distributors.

Released on Wednesday the 23rd of April 2008 will be:
- TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT GRIMLOCK US$3.99

Also Available this week in the UK is the Titan UK Transformers Magazine #11.

So don't forget to head on down to your local comic store to nab yourself a copy of this week's Transformery goodness.

Simon Furman adds teases to Spolight: Grimlock

Date: Monday, April 21st 2008 4:50pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, People News
Posted by: First Gen | Credit(s): Simon Furman

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Due out just in time for Botcon 2008, which Simon will be attending, Transformers Comic Series writer extraordinaire Simon Furmon has updated his blog with some teases regarding the soon to be release Spotlight: Grimlock. A small excerpt from the blog states as follows:

It had to happen, I suppose. Ever since his supporting role in Spotlight: Shockwave, it’s only ever been a matter of time before the Dinobot commander (an established favourite of mine) got his star turn. And what a turn it is! Not only is it something of a sequel to Spotlight: Shockwave, it’s also something of a prequel (not saying yet to what, but maybe I’ll get to spill the beans at Botcon), and it even ties into the ongoing Escalation/Devastation storyline, featuring, as it does, a certain Scorponok!

You can read the entire blog tease here.

Spotlight: Grimlock is due out this wednesday in comic shops everywhere, so don't forget to snag a copy and bring it to Botcon, you just may get an autograph from the literary genius himself.

Spotlight Grimlock: 5 Page preview!!!

Date: Friday, April 11th 2008 10:46am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, Digital Media News, Editorials
Posted by: First Gen | Credit(s): Denton J. Tipton, IDW Publishing

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IDW Publising's Transformers editor Denton J. Tipton was nice enough to update his blog with a sneek peek into the upcoming Grimlock spotlight comic. Spotlight Grimlock is set for release on April 23rd.

You can see the 5 page preview on Denton's blog at From the Tip.

IDW's Create a Cover Winner Announced

Date: Monday, March 24th 2008 5:51pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, Company News
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Josh van Reyk

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IDW Publishing's Create A cover Competition has finally drawn to a close, with the overnight.

With 9 eligible covers to judge, the winner has been decided by a panel of judges consisting of: E.J. Su, Josh Burcham, Chris Mowry, Eric Holmes, Shaun Knowler & Josh van Reyk.

The conditions for the 3rd and final round were thus:
This is it, the be all and end all fight for total control over CYBERTRON! Both OPTIMUS PRIME and MEGATRON play their trump cards, as METROPLEX and TRYPTICON clash head to head in this epic battle. Who will survive? And when all is done, where there be a CYBERTRON left to rule?

This cover is to be a battle between the following Transformers;

AUTOBOTS:
Optimus Prime, Prowl, Jazz, Grimlock*, Ratchet, Blaster, Metroplex.

DECEPTICONS:
Megatron, Starscream*, Soundwave, Shockwave, Sixshot*, Ravage, Trypticon.

*Denotes character that can be featured in mode of your choice. All others should appear in their primary/robot mode.

This battle is set on CYBERTRON.

The winner of the IDW Create a Cover Competition turned out to be Casey Coller, with Ozzy Fernandez in second place, and Tim Shinn rounding out the top 3.

The final Results list is as such (click on the Artists Name to see the corresponding artwork):

First Place: Casey Coller

Second Place: Ozzy Fernandez

Third Place: Tim Shinn

Fourth Place: Andrew Griffith

Fifth Place: Joana Lafuente Oliveria Amaral

Sixth Place: Dylan Gibson

Seventh Place: Aric Huftles

Eighth Place: Christie Majors

Ninth Place: Nam Nguyen

With Evan Gauntt ineligible due to a late entry.

Congratulations to all participants, and to the winners of the contest.

If you want to see all the entries, how they were judged, and what scores they were given, please check out the original thread by clicking here.

Provisional April Release dates from IDW

Date: Monday, March 24th 2008 5:10pm CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, Collectables
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Chris Ryall

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IDW Publishing Editor in Chief Chris Ryall has posted some information pertaining to the April 2008 Transformers release dates on the IDW Boards:

April 9th will see the release of "Focus on the Decepticons" and "Space Pirates #2".

April 23rd will see the release of "Spotlight: Grimlock" due to the issue running late.

And April 30th will see the release of "Reign of Starscream #1".

To check out Ryall's original post, please click here.

Marcelo Matere Reveals TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT GRIMLOCK Pages.

Date: Saturday, March 22nd 2008 7:45am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, People News, Company News
Posted by: Tigertrack | Credit(s): Thunderscream

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IDW has given Marcelo Matere the go ahead to release some of his pages from the upcoming TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT GRIMLOCK.

These pages are from his Deviant Art account.

You can view Page 2, Page 3, and Page 4.

Enjoy these teasers for the very soon to be released TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT GRIMLOCK!

PREVIEWS March 19th Shipping Update- No Transformers For Two Weeks!

Date: Wednesday, March 19th 2008 11:24am CDT
Categories: Comic Book News, Company News, Collectables
Posted by: Tigertrack | Credit(s): Diamond Comics Previews Site

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-This week's Transformers related offerings according to PREVIEWS:

No Transformers Related Listings

-And Next Week's Looks Very Similar:

No Transformers Related Listings

All clues lead to it looking like Spotlight Grimlock will indeed be an April release rather than the second Spotlight in March, but IDW still has yet to confirm this because they do not have next week's offerings posted yet.


You can check to see if your other favorite titles might be shipping by checking the PREVIEWS site here!

Image of concept design Animated Dinobots released

Date: Thursday, March 6th 2008 3:53pm CST
Categories: Cartoon News, Comic Book News, Collectables
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): Sean Galloway

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Sean Galloway has released some images of his concept designs for the Transformers: Animated Dinobots over on his blog.

The images display Sean's concept design for the characters Sludge, Swoop (twice), Grimlock, and Snarl.

Sean states "My goal was to make them feel as if they had some Japanese aspects in them. For Sludge, I wasn't sure if 4 arms would work on him, but I figured what the heck, ya know? For Swoop I wanted to make him more ninja-esque.... Grimlock more Samurai-esque, and finally Snarl as more of a bruiser or a grunt from the bunch."

You can check out the concept art below, or head on over to Sean's blog by clicking here

Spotlight Grimlock 1 Page Preview

Date: Sunday, March 2nd 2008 8:00pm CST
Categories: Comic Book News, Collectables
Posted by: i_amtrunks | Credit(s): SharkySparky of TAAU, Liam Shalloo

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A one page preview for the upcoming IDW Publishing comic "Spotlight Grimlock" has been posted by Spotlight: Grimlock colourist Liam Shalloo on his Deviant Art page.

You can check out the image, drawn by Marcelo Matere and coloured by Liam Shalloo below, or by clicking here.



Spotlight Grimlock will be available in late March-early April 2008, and is penned by Simon Furman.