Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1

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IDW Publishing's Chris Ryall has updated his Tumblr with an extract from the new Transformers series starting next month, post Revolution: Optimus Prime! Newcomer Kei Zama takes on the art duties, and we are treated to a full clean first page of the new book, with colours by Josh Burcham too. Check it out below, and join the discussion in the Energon Pub.

Welcome to the Transformers officially, Kei Zama (@Golby_mkII )! Page 1 from next month’s Optimus Prime #1. Colors by Josh Burcham.

the first page of Optimus Prime #1! Say hello and goodbye to new character...

Credit(s): Chris Ryall

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Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833246)
Posted by Kurona on October 13th, 2016 @ 2:27pm CDT

Is that Armada Smokescreen?

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833248)
Posted by SG Roadbuster on October 13th, 2016 @ 2:35pm CDT

I'm pretty sure it's his Minicon, Liftor

and might I say, Kei Zama's art is AMAZING! sooooo much better than the garbage that Livio Ramondelli vomits onto books Condemned to be punished by him.

Hopefully IDW makes the right choice for artist to use in future "big event books"

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833272)
Posted by Deadput on October 13th, 2016 @ 3:25pm CDT

Holy crap we get another good Transformer artist who's art actually looks not crap and is someone besides Alex Milne not saying his art sucks I love his style but it's good for Alex to get a break every once in awhile.

But seriously Livio was appalling in his work for Transformers when he isn't doing a cover I mean good god I stopped bothering with Ex-Rid when he started becoming the artist for it.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833287)
Posted by ricemazter on October 13th, 2016 @ 3:39pm CDT

SG Roadbuster wrote:I'm pretty sure it's his Minicon, Liftor

and might I say, Kei Zama's art is AMAZING! sooooo much better than the garbage that Livio Ramondelli vomits onto books Condemned to be punished by him.

Hopefully IDW makes the right choice for artist to use in future "big event books"

Hmmmm, let's not be too hasty. I agree with the sentiment Livio isn't my favorite transformers artist, but the man's art is by no means bad. The first problem as I see it is that Livio has a really painterly style that doesn't mesh well with the transformers aesthetic of clean lines and bri colours.

The other is that of time. Comic books are produced really quickly and require a ton of different images with a lot of different compositions in a short period. That's why you normally have a line artist and a colorist on the same book. Livio, probably because his style doesn't lend itself to a separate colorist to match the kind of linework he does, pulls double duty. That's also why his covers are excellent, as is the material on his deviant art page.

Sorry about the rant, but as an aspiring artist it reaaly grinds my gears when someone says an artist is "bad".

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833297)
Posted by Rainmaker on October 13th, 2016 @ 3:55pm CDT

Am I the only one who doesn't understand what this page means

:MAXIMAL:

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833344)
Posted by rockman_fan on October 13th, 2016 @ 6:01pm CDT

color scheme reminds me of optimal optimus.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833366)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 13th, 2016 @ 7:41pm CDT

Wonder who the guy will be and why he ends up dead.

And I think some of us can agree Livio's art really improved. Look at Titans Return. It was a really well-drawn comic

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833375)
Posted by Easy Tiger on October 13th, 2016 @ 8:19pm CDT

Goshooter cameo!

Guess he must have had stuff going on before becoming a Transtector...

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833377)
Posted by ScottyP on October 13th, 2016 @ 8:35pm CDT

If I have one fanboy gripe about IDW, it's that Unicron Trilogy era characters are treated as absolute cannon fodder.

It's not the only era to get that treatment, but one of the only ones to not get much exception to it :-(

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833381)
Posted by Kurona on October 13th, 2016 @ 8:43pm CDT

ScottyP wrote:If I have one fanboy gripe about IDW, it's that Unicron Trilogy era characters are treated as absolute cannon fodder.

It's not the only era to get that treatment, but one of the only ones to not get much exception to it

I think it's mostly just that people like killing Hot Shot.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833416)
Posted by Shot Put on October 13th, 2016 @ 10:12pm CDT

ScottyP wrote:If I have one fanboy gripe about IDW, it's that Unicron Trilogy era characters are treated as absolute cannon fodder.

It's not the only era to get that treatment, but one of the only ones to not get much exception to it

We don't know for sure who this guy is, so I'd wait for the issue to come out before complaining about anyone getting the short end of the stick.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833426)
Posted by President-prime on October 13th, 2016 @ 11:45pm CDT

The art is really good. Wow! Finally, a back to basic robot type transformers comic. Btw. I loved livio's art. Don't know what the complaint was really about. I can compare his art style closer to Jae Lee. Hard to figure out style but I like it

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833469)
Posted by Emerje on October 14th, 2016 @ 6:43am CDT

I'm not up to date on the comics, but the way it's presented I was thinking this was a flashback to before the war and that's Dion who worked on a loading dock in the cartoon. Colors are the same as well, just not in the same places. And being Orion Pax's best friend it makes more sense that he'd have a cameo in an Optimus Prime series.

However it could also be Spoon's...

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Emerje

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1833702)
Posted by kirbenvost on October 14th, 2016 @ 10:12pm CDT

Holy Primus that art is amazing! I'm suddenly excited for this series.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834015)
Posted by ScottyP on October 16th, 2016 @ 11:49am CDT

Shot Put wrote:
ScottyP wrote:If I have one fanboy gripe about IDW, it's that Unicron Trilogy era characters are treated as absolute cannon fodder.

It's not the only era to get that treatment, but one of the only ones to not get much exception to it

We don't know for sure who this guy is, so I'd wait for the issue to come out before complaining about anyone getting the short end of the stick.

You know what? You're absolutely right about this.

Especially considering it for sure isn't Liftor.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834391)
Posted by Va'al on October 18th, 2016 @ 10:48am CDT

With an early look at the solicitations for future releases from IDW Publishing (because money means exclusives means money, of course), Comics Alliance reveals the Casey Coller Artist Edition variant cover the the third issue of new Transformers ongoing series Optimus Prime - and with it, the reveal of the inhabitants of the 'corkscrew spaceship' we've been seeing until now. To avoid spoilers, we're just posting the image below, but take a look and join the discussion in the Energon Pub!

Optimus Prime #3

John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a & c)
An uneasy peace between Optimus Prime and the newly arrived Junkions is threatened by Soundwave’s discovery within their massive ship…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Optimus Prime #3—Artist’s Edition Variant
John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a) • Casey Coller (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
· Part of IDW’s Artist’s Edition Cover Month!
· Variant cover by Joana Lafuente!

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834392)
Posted by Kurona on October 18th, 2016 @ 10:50am CDT

Oh hey, Wreck-Gar's finally here! Really gonna have to read autocracy and all that now.

Prowl's in this?

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834394)
Posted by Va'al on October 18th, 2016 @ 10:52am CDT

Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Wreck-Gar's finally here! Really gonna have to read autocracy and all that now.

Prowl's in this?

I think Zama's cover is just *°art°* without necessarily reflecting the story.

Then again, Prowl is everywhere.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834408)
Posted by Randomhero on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:15am CDT

Weren't there Junkions in issue 4 or 5in RID wondering around outside Blurr's future bar?

John :what? No...no...those were Junk-o-bots...yeah...Junk-o-bots...

What about the junkions that we're in Heart of Darkness?

john: Junk-o-bots!!!

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834413)
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:24am CDT

Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834415)
Posted by Windsweeper on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:32am CDT

Let's see...
Arcee
Wheeljack
Alpha Trion
Kup
Rattrap
Jetfire
Optimus Prime

And now Wreck Gar.

It's like Barber instinctively knows all the Transformers I hate and uses them. Oh and if the cover is right he'll be bringing back the always annoying Bumblebee.

Oh and he ruins the ones I like such as Prowl and Thundercracker.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834416)
Posted by Kurona on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:33am CDT

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!

Nah he's dead. Starscream keeps talking to what is either a hallucination or a ghost of him though.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834418)
Posted by YoungPrime on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:44am CDT

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!

No, he's still dead by my watch which is more the reason you should be supporting these books actually. Though I'm sure IDW will be forced to resurrect him by the time the crappy spinoff movie comes out, so I'll just enjoy things now while I still can.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834419)
Posted by ScottyP on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:49am CDT

Something that makes Monstrosity and Primacy matter within the contintuity!? Neat.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834421)
Posted by SG Roadbuster on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:58am CDT

1: Kei Zama's artwork is F%$#@ing Pretty, so glad IDW isn't letting Ramondelli ruin their books anymore.
2: Woooooo Wreck gar and the Junkions! and izzat....Nancy?

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834422)
Posted by Shot Put on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:59am CDT

Dr Va'al wrote:
Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Wreck-Gar's finally here! Really gonna have to read autocracy and all that now.

Prowl's in this?

I think Zama's cover is just *°art°* without necessarily reflecting the story.

Then again, Prowl is everywhere.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!

It's been said for a while that we're getting pre-war flashbacks in this series, with Orion Pax's first meeting with Bumblebee in #2. Pretty sure this cover is just one of those flashbacks, as Bumblebee's alive again and they're suddenly on Cybertron.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834423)
Posted by EvasionModeBumblebee on October 18th, 2016 @ 12:02pm CDT

Shot Put wrote:
Dr Va'al wrote:
Kurona wrote:Oh hey, Wreck-Gar's finally here! Really gonna have to read autocracy and all that now.

Prowl's in this?

I think Zama's cover is just *°art°* without necessarily reflecting the story.

Then again, Prowl is everywhere.

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Whoa, wait. . . Bumblebee is alive? If so, I'm going to have to start reading these!

It's been said for a while that we're getting pre-war flashbacks in this series, with Orion Pax's first meeting with Bumblebee in #2. Pretty sure this cover is just one of those flashbacks, as Bumblebee's alive again and they're suddenly on Cybertron.

Scrap. I had my hopes up for a minute there xD

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834430)
Posted by Randomhero on October 18th, 2016 @ 12:28pm CDT

Windsweeper wrote:Let's see...
Arcee
Wheeljack
Alpha Trion
Kup
Rattrap
Jetfire
Optimus Prime

And now Wreck Gar.

It's like Barber instinctively knows all the Transformers I hate and uses them. Oh and if the cover is right he'll be bringing back the always annoying Bumblebee.

Oh and he ruins the ones I like such as Prowl and Thundercracker.

Take a moment and actually look at the cover, optimus prowl and bumblebee are all in Cybertronian modes. The first arc going back in forth to the early days of the war.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834452)
Posted by bluecatcinema on October 18th, 2016 @ 1:17pm CDT

Not quite who I was expecting, but an interesting turn of events either way.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834485)
Posted by President-prime on October 18th, 2016 @ 3:28pm CDT

Did I mention the art work is awesome. Wow!!!

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1834599)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on October 18th, 2016 @ 10:21pm CDT

Junkions? Wow, not what I was anticipating...

and now Monstrosity comes into play again...

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838533)
Posted by Va'al on November 2nd, 2016 @ 3:13pm CDT

We just got news from RIPT Apparel about their exclusive variant cover for the first issue of IDW's Optimus Prime #1 (due some point this November, according to schedule) - and it's a new Autobot-esque take on the traditional Shockwave Are All Dead cover, by Tim Lim!

RIPT Apparel is excited to announce a special collaboration with IDW Publishing coming in November of 2016. With the inaugural debut of Optimus Prime in his first-ever solo on-going comic book, RIPT Apparel and artist Tim Lim decided to celebrate the occasion.

“This is really a pivotal moment in Transformers comics. The IDW universe has outlasted the original Marvel run at this point, and seeing a new character-focused book like Optimus Prime means these stories and characters can contend with other classic solo comics like Wolverine or Joker,” says Paul Friemel, CMO of RIPT Apparel. “We wanted to give Optimus his due by homaging what is debatably the most famous Transformers comic cover: Marvel’s Transformers #5’s ‘Are All Dead’ cover but with a good-guy twist.”

The illustration was executed by long-time RIPT Apparel contributor, Tim “Ninjaink” Lim. Tim has created hundreds of t-shirts over the past 5 years, but has been honing his talents for the comic industry with other exclusive comic covers for “Bebop & Rocksteady” “Back To the Future“, and “Street Fighter x GI Joe.”

“Tim was a dream to work with as always. He had some other awesome ideas for this cover that we weren’t able to get approved, but maybe life will find a way. There was a lot of debating what to finally put on the back wall behind Optimus,” added Paul.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838535)
Posted by Kurona on November 2nd, 2016 @ 3:18pm CDT

"Optimus Prime are all one"
hmmm.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838538)
Posted by o.supreme on November 2nd, 2016 @ 4:03pm CDT

See...a while back ago there was a Megatron/Refltcor cover paying tribute to the cover of Batman: The Killing Joke. It worked

This as an odd reference to Marvel's TF#5, I can think of at least 3 reasons off the top of my head why this doesn't work... /:)

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838544)
Posted by Va'al on November 2nd, 2016 @ 4:20pm CDT

o.supreme wrote:See...a while back ago there was a Megatron/Refltcor cover paying tribute to the cover of Batman: The Killing Joke. It worked

The never-to-be-sold Casey Coller cover, for All Hail Megatron. Yes. So good.

This as an odd reference to Marvel's TF#5, I can think of at least 3 reasons off the top of my head why this doesn't work...

Why not, for you? :-?

I really quite like it actually! OP's new direction as fairly ruthless leader working for some sort of sense of right (is it though?) kinda works with the focused and emotionless Shockwave approach to things. In my view at least. This is, as the author said, a 'good guy spin' on the concept.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838546)
Posted by o.supreme on November 2nd, 2016 @ 4:27pm CDT

ok...for me at least:

1. Optimus is still a hero, not a "bad guy", despite recent events
2. The phrase Is Till "ALL ARE ONE" not "ARE ALL ONE"...makes him seem somewhat illiterate in an attempt to copy the words from the cover of TF #5

3. Also if Optimus Prime "ARE ALL ONE" is there some sort of multiple personality disorder going on here?? :-?

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838553)
Posted by Va'al on November 2nd, 2016 @ 4:46pm CDT

o.supreme wrote:ok...for me at least:

1. Optimus is still a hero, not a "bad guy", despite recent events
2. The phrase Is Till "ALL ARE ONE" not "ARE ALL ONE"...makes him seem somewhat illiterate in an attempt to copy the words from the cover of TF #5

3. Also if Optimus Prime "ARE ALL ONE" is there some sort of multiple personality disorder going on here??

I don't think grammar has anything to with the art, really - it is just an homage of the Shockwave cover. But hey, to each their own!

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838556)
Posted by Deadput on November 2nd, 2016 @ 5:11pm CDT

o.supreme wrote:ok...for me at least:

1. Optimus is still a hero, not a "bad guy", despite recent events
2. The phrase Is Till "ALL ARE ONE" not "ARE ALL ONE"...makes him seem somewhat illiterate in an attempt to copy the words from the cover of TF #5

3. Also if Optimus Prime "ARE ALL ONE" is there some sort of multiple personality disorder going on here??

1: What about this cover even suggests Optimus is villainous here?

2: Different words for the same thing just like how good and heroic are two different words for the same thing also you do know that a homage is pretty much copying something else right?

If it was "Till all are one" the homage would be lost since "Are All One" is pretty much "All Are Dead" with a different word at the end.

3: It's a cover which almost always has little to nothing to do with the actual plot of the comic there is no personality disorders going on the previous issues would have built up to it if it was the case.

I could say that Megatron poster doesn't work since Megatron is nothing like the joke they have little in common besides being the main bad guy in hero media.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838621)
Posted by Hydrargyrus on November 2nd, 2016 @ 7:40pm CDT

Deadput wrote:
o.supreme wrote:Also if Optimus Prime "ARE ALL ONE" is there some sort of multiple personality disorder going on here??
It's a cover which almost always has little to nothing to do with the actual plot of the comic there is no personality disorders going on the previous issues would have built up to it if it was the case.

I think Deadput is mentioning how the whole idea looses some value with it saying 'Optimus Prime' instead of 'The Transformers' at the top.

The original: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Shockwavearealldead.jpg

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838623)
Posted by Emerje on November 2nd, 2016 @ 8:01pm CDT

Kurona wrote:"Optimus Prime are all one"
hmmm.

Yeah, great cover, shame it's on the wrong comic.

Emerje

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838820)
Posted by Quint on November 3rd, 2016 @ 1:59pm CDT

I don't understand how people are failing to see and / or forgiving this cover's appalling use of English.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838821)
Posted by Kurona on November 3rd, 2016 @ 2:01pm CDT

Quint wrote:I don't understand how people are failing to see and / or forgiving this cover's appalling use of English.

It's been about half of the discussion though? :???:

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1838823)
Posted by Quint on November 3rd, 2016 @ 2:03pm CDT

Kurona wrote:
Quint wrote:I don't understand how people are failing to see and / or forgiving this cover's appalling use of English.

It's been about half of the discussion though?

You've completely missed my point... :lol:

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1839093)
Posted by Starscream on November 4th, 2016 @ 12:53pm CDT

I guess we'll just have to wait for a future podcast episode to explain why this cover is awesome from the creative genius's that made it happen

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1841478)
Posted by Va'al on November 16th, 2016 @ 11:17am CST

Snuck in at the back of the digital version of IDW Publishing's Micronauts #7, we have a lengthy preview of the new title brought to us by the Transformers universe in the post Revolution world: Optimus Prime #1! The pages show a bit of a flashback-y reflection from the Autobot leader on his preceding Prime title-bearers, and some commotions on Earth after yet another alien incursion. Check it out!

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1841480)
Posted by Kurona on November 16th, 2016 @ 11:35am CST

Quite a lot of surprising cameos here. Don't know what the lot in the last few panels are about - though I know we'll find out for sure in the full issue - but Rosanna in the crowd protesting? That's... certainly surprising. Is she being retconned into being male in IDW, because I'm pretty sure the colonies left waaaaaaay before Orion Pax's time. At the very least ages before the war which takes place just after Zeta's rule ends.

Talking of Zeta, nice to see he's got a slight redesign which... well, it still kind of screams "I'M THE BAD GUY" but not quite as loudly as before.

Also, the monsterbots protesting? The most violent Autobots in existence? Huh. Who woulda thunk it.

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1841482)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 16th, 2016 @ 11:41am CST

Art looks good, though are those some new bots showing up in the end? I don't recognize them

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1841483)
Posted by Kurona on November 16th, 2016 @ 11:43am CST

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Art looks good, though are those some new bots showing up in the end? I don't recognize them

One of them looks like one of the Rail Racer guys from RiD 2001

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1841486)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 16th, 2016 @ 11:47am CST

Kurona wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Art looks good, though are those some new bots showing up in the end? I don't recognize them

One of them looks like one of the Rail Racer guys from RiD 2001

Also... is Optimus blue and carrying a tanker trailer?

Re: Clean First Page of IDW Optimus Prime #1 (1841488)
Posted by Kurona on November 16th, 2016 @ 11:49am CST

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:
Kurona wrote:
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Art looks good, though are those some new bots showing up in the end? I don't recognize them

One of them looks like one of the Rail Racer guys from RiD 2001

Also... is Optimus blue and carrying a tanker trailer?

Pretty sure that's a new guy. I'm kind of getting a G2 Laser Optimus repaint vibe though.

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