IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers)

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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!

Credit(s): ComicsAlliance

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Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1834419)
Posted by ScottyP on October 18th, 2016 @ 11:49am CDT

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

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1834485)
Posted by President-prime on October 18th, 2016 @ 3:28pm CDT

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

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1838535)
Posted by Kurona on November 2nd, 2016 @ 3:18pm CDT

"Optimus Prime are all one"
hmmm.

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (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.

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1841489)
Posted by Randomhero on November 16th, 2016 @ 11:55am CST

Man that art is good! Really channeling some Geoff Senior and Derek Yaniker from G2 on that and Tappet! Outback! Look at all those cameos!!

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1841491)
Posted by Microraptor on November 16th, 2016 @ 11:57am CST

Apparently Roulette has decided to join the party.

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1841493)
Posted by Randomhero on November 16th, 2016 @ 12:01pm CST

Kurona wrote: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.

The time frame for the colonies is a bit messy. The knights left like 12 million years ago and Titans left with them supposedly. Then it was said Titans left during the era of the Primes and the Primes left after them supposedly meeting up with their colony Titans on the planets that were chosen to seed. The Prime tribes existed from 12 millions years ago to 9 million years ago and Nova was in charge for 3 millions years after them.

Again, messy

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1841501)
Posted by ScottyP on November 16th, 2016 @ 12:33pm CST

Kurona wrote:
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.

See the cab and trailer transforming separately in the next panel? That's Oiler and Slide, who'd be Devisens in this universe.

This preview is just freaking amazing BTW. If having to suffer through Revolution made this happen, it was worth it.

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1841503)
Posted by SG Roadbuster on November 16th, 2016 @ 12:44pm CST

Kurona wrote:
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.

The train is Railspike (yes from car robots/rid)
The blue Tanker truck is Oiler and the trailer is his partner Slide. they're Micromaster combiners
the car is Roulette
the bigass lobster is Gimlet
the Armadillo is either Armordillo or Bump kinda hard to tell as he's a very reddish orange.

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1841511)
Posted by Kurona on November 16th, 2016 @ 1:01pm CST

SG Roadbuster wrote:
Kurona wrote:
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.

The train is Railspike (yes from car robots/rid)
The blue Tanker truck is Oiler and the trailer is his partner Slide. they're Micromaster combiners
the car is Roulette
the bigass lobster is Gimlet
the Armadillo is either Armordillo or Bump kinda hard to tell as he's a very reddish orange.

Well that's just really bloody cool

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1841554)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 16th, 2016 @ 4:14pm CST

Welp, looks like the colonies were ready for a mass visit to Earth

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1841584)
Posted by ricemazter on November 16th, 2016 @ 7:35pm CST

Randomhero wrote:
Kurona wrote: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.

The time frame for the colonies is a bit messy. The knights left like 12 million years ago and Titans left with them supposedly. Then it was said Titans left during the era of the Primes and the Primes left after them supposedly meeting up with their colony Titans on the planets that were chosen to seed. The Prime tribes existed from 12 millions years ago to 9 million years ago and Nova was in charge for 3 millions years after them.

Again, messy

Messy indeed. That whole bit about the thirteen primes uniting Cybertron doesn't really make sense from my recollection. Didn't the thirteen each have his own tribe of Cybertronians separate from one another? Wasn't there then a civil war between them that ended when Galvatron killed Nexus and all the other thirteen left? Does Optimus even know about that? It's strange, but it seems this series can never decide whether the thirteen were good or bad. Nexus wasn't a great guy, and I think it's implied that Onyx wasn't either given that Galvatron was worried about his return.

According to TF wiki Micronus left with his titan, Prion, implying that took place when the primes' scattered after Nexus' death. They say the same thing for Onyx, but that doesn't explain why he left the beast transformers that followed him behind. I dunno, things are weird.

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Posted by Va'al on December 6th, 2016 @ 3:36pm CST

Lost Light is not the only new title coming out from IDW Publishing in the next weeks - as John Barber and Kei Zama join forces for the new Optimus Prime ongoing spinning out of Revolution! Previews World has an interview with ex-editor still-writer and continuity master Barber, which you can read in full here, and snippers are copied below. Optimus Prime as statesman and military leader..?

John Barber: Not to give anything away, but as Revolution starts, Optimus is in a fairly antagonistic relationship with ... well, almost everybody. He’s come to Earth and said the whole planet is going to be part of Cybertron’s Council of World, without asking if the people of Earth wanted to be in it — or if the people of Cybertron wanted them. He’s doing this because he thinks he’s out of options to protect the Earth — he’s tried fighting evil Cybertronians, tried leaving the place alone. But bringing Earth into Cybertron’s fold is the only thing he hasn’t tried.

In Revolution this comes to a head: there’s a big, dangerous thing happening with Ore-13, which is a form of Energon that’s on Earth, and it looks to G.I. Joe like Optimus is behind it, so the threat becomes immediate. This isn’t a spoiler — Optimus is not behind the problem, and in the process of resolving the complex web of Revolution, alliances are formed and new relationships are established.

So...Optimus still has the goal of bringing Earth into the cosmic community of Cybertron. But who’s with him and who’s against him have shifted a bit.

Vince Brusio: How will Optimus’ origin be relayed in this new series? Is there room for the past? Or is the present too busy to spare time for reflection?

John Barber: The first arc goes full-steam-ahead into the present, but there’s a parallel story in pre-war Cybertron, when he was still Orion Pax, before he became Optimus Prime. It’s important for this series to see why Optimus is doing what he’s doing, what’s motivating his actions. He’s not just taking over, and he’s not just being decisive out of nowhere.

There’s a particular point in his life that we haven’t seen that’s really important to how he became Optimus Prime. He has some regrets — there was a war fought between him and Megatron, and that war lasted four million years and destroyed planets — including Cybertron, and very nearly Earth. And the ultimate goal of both sides was sort of the same — both sides were against an evil and corrupt system that had taken over Cybertron.

The first arc is called “New Cybertron,” so the war — and the events that led to it — weigh on Optimus’ every action.

[...]

Because Optimus made such a bold move in annexing Earth, the story was necessarily going to focus on him — or, at the very least, he becomes the axis on which the story pivots. There’s still a big supporting cast — Soundwave, Arcee, Jazz, Victorion, many others; plus the human contingent — but the shadow of Optimus’ actions is so big they can’t help but be pulled into his gravity. We’ll be seeing Optimus through their eyes.

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1846474)
Posted by Va'al on December 10th, 2016 @ 2:04pm CST

As for the variant cover for Transformers: Lost Light #1 from IDW Publishing, Ript Apparel have also posted the clean lineart for their Timothy Ninjaink Lim variant for Optimus Prime #1 - with an early version of the writing on the wall (One Shall Stand, instead of final edit Are All One)! Check it out below.

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1846527)
Posted by Halfofme07 on December 10th, 2016 @ 8:09pm CST

All they had to do to make this cover really work is to put a question mark at the end of the phrase, making it, "Are All One?," which would have been fitting. Someone missed an opportunity to make a cover that might have stuck.

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1846565)
Posted by Va'al on December 11th, 2016 @ 1:45am CST

Another first issue of a new series, but not entirely new series, from IDW's take on the Transformers, comes in the shape of Optimus Prime #1 out in the new week! Follow the full preview below, as we continue from the end of Revolution into Reconstruction, and check out our review soon after the issue is released on Wednesday.

Optimus Prime #1
John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a & c)
REVOLUTION is over—but the danger to Earth is just beginning. As OPTIMUS PRIME pulls Earth into the larger universe, he’s painted a target on Earth… and a new alien incursion begins when a corkscrew shaped craft drills into our world!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99

Bullet points:
The next evolution of TRANSFORMERS is here!
OPTIMUS PRIME’s past on CYBERTRON haunts his present on Earth!
Amazing artist Kei Zama (Scarlett Witch) makes her debut with veteran writer John Barber (Transformers)!
Variant cover by Sara Pitre-Durocher, Sonny Lieu, and Paul Pope!

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1846572)
Posted by Darth Zax on December 11th, 2016 @ 5:32am CST

So... Who are they?
Any theories?

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1846587)
Posted by ebonyleopard on December 11th, 2016 @ 10:48am CST

Darth Zax wrote:So... Who are they?
Any theories?

I want to say, Railspike, Bump,Roulette, Gimlet, Oiler, and Slide. Do I win? :KREMZEEK:

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1846627)
Posted by Darth Zax on December 11th, 2016 @ 6:47pm CST

Ebonyleopard wrote:
Darth Zax wrote:So... Who are they?
Any theories?

I want to say, Railspike, Bump,Roulette, Gimlet, Oiler, and Slide. Do I win?

Guess you do, would have never recognized Oiler.
So are these Cimeracons?

Re: IDW Optimus Prime #3 Casey Coller Variant Cover Reveals New Characters (Spoilers) (1846632)
Posted by Shot Put on December 11th, 2016 @ 7:43pm CST

Darth Zax wrote:
Ebonyleopard wrote:
Darth Zax wrote:So... Who are they?
Any theories?

I want to say, Railspike, Bump,Roulette, Gimlet, Oiler, and Slide. Do I win?

Guess you do, would have never recognized Oiler.
So are these Cimeracons?

They're all colonists, if anything.

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