First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 5:36PM CDT

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IDW Publishing's Editor in Chief Chris Ryall has updated his blog RyallTime and given us our first look at the upcoming variant covers for All Hail megatron #5 and #6.

Both covers are drawn by Casey Coller (Spotlight: Blurr) with Joana LaFuente on colour duty.

Both covers feature surprises of one sort or another, and could possibly contain some spoilers for the upcoming issues. You can check out the images below, or click here for the All Hail Megatron #5 cover, and click here for the All Hail Megatron #6 cover.

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Credit(s): Chris Ryall

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Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801153)
Posted by Calvatron on October 2nd, 2008 @ 5:51pm CDT

We lose Optimus Prime and we get a.... surprisingly upbeat and youthful Kup?

I'm not gonna complain 'cause more Kup action is long overdue, but WTF?

Man i wish we could fix our bodies like TF's can. We'd have Paul Newman for atleast another 200 years.

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801154)
Posted by Mkall on October 2nd, 2008 @ 5:52pm CDT

Drifter is Awesome. End of Story

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801195)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on October 2nd, 2008 @ 6:21pm CDT

Mkall wrote:Drifter is Awesome. End of Story

Is that the Autobot with the Japanese paint job and claymore/daikatana?

I'm embarassed to admit that I've never heard of him. Or is he a another new character?

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801201)
Posted by Mkall on October 2nd, 2008 @ 6:24pm CDT

Caelus wrote:
Mkall wrote:Drifter is Awesome. End of Story

Is that the Autobot with the Japanese paint job and claymore/daikatana?

I'm embarassed to admit that I've never heard of him. Or is he a another new character?

That's him. He's an IDW original character who, in theory will be getting his own Universe Toy.

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801219)
Posted by Tigertrack on October 2nd, 2008 @ 6:33pm CDT

Cool. Kupps better, and Drift!!!! Looks very cool, Hot Rod's on Cybertron. Well this got a bit more interesting all of the sudden!

Oh and Springer too. (Can't forget to mention one of my all time favorite characters)

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801346)
Posted by i_amtrunks on October 2nd, 2008 @ 7:53pm CDT

I really hope that these covers have something to do with the series and aren't just more lovely Coller artwork. Having Kup up and running again makes me very happy.

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801384)
Posted by soundwave13c on October 2nd, 2008 @ 8:25pm CDT

ok the first picture reminds me of the A-team so much :APPLAUSE:

:

kup= Hannibal

springer= B.A. Baracus(Mr. T)

blurr= either face man or Merdoc, either way it is a toss up.

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801424)
Posted by Straken on October 2nd, 2008 @ 9:39pm CDT

anyone got a clue as to whos with drifter n hotrod?(no surprise they got paired up)

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801547)
Posted by Marcdachamp on October 3rd, 2008 @ 2:36am CDT

Those are both fantastic. Great stuff.

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801657)
Posted by MYoung23 on October 3rd, 2008 @ 7:15am CDT

You knew Springer wasnt ever going to give up on Kup.

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801679)
Posted by Tigertrack on October 3rd, 2008 @ 7:58am CDT

Straken wrote:anyone got a clue as to whos with drifter n hotrod?(no surprise they got paired up)

Looks like Springer, but once when I looked at it, I thought it was Blurr.

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801713)
Posted by Overloaded on October 3rd, 2008 @ 8:36am CDT

Calvatron wrote:We lose Optimus Prime and we get a.... surprisingly upbeat and youthful Kup?

I'm not gonna complain 'cause more Kup action is long overdue, but WTF?

Man i wish we could fix our bodies like TF's can. We'd have Paul Newman for atleast another 200 years.

Is prime going to be killed off ?

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801784)
Posted by Prime Evil on October 3rd, 2008 @ 9:58am CDT

As much as a Con guy I am, I'm really missing the Autobots in this lame duck story so far. Really interested to see how they get Kup back. Lovin the cover. I'm also eagerly anticipating the 1st appearance of Drift. And he's got 2 SWORDS!! Niiiice!

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (801909)
Posted by Star_ling on October 3rd, 2008 @ 12:03pm CDT

Anyone else notice the scattered Insecticon limbs? That plus Drifter's Japanese car altmode lead me to believe they are still on earth. Unless some of them went back to Seibertron, but there's really no reason to.

Since I started buying TF's as a kid I've always bought Decepticons almost as a rule. But if Drifters toy is anywhere near as cool as that cover, he can consider himself mine.

Re: First Look at All Hail Megatron #5 and #6 Variant Covers (802600)
Posted by Tigertrack on October 4th, 2008 @ 5:26am CDT

We are supposed to learn why the Autobots abandoned Earth and are back on Cybertron. Many of them who were on Earth will still have their Earthen modes.

As for why DRIFT has one, well, we'll have to wait to find out more about his character.

Yeah, I noticed the limbs too. It's a nice way to show the kind of damage DRIFT can do.