IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (Combiner Hunters, Windblade 4-7) TPB Listing
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Wondering how to read the Combiner Hunters one-shot, and where the tail end of volume two of Windblade will go (after the first three issues were part of the Combiner Wars trade)? Fear not, as we have indication from Amazon.com and a listing for April 2015 that they will all be included in IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (currently at $19.99). No cover yet, but take a look below for more info, and pre-order here.
After the events of COMBINER WARS, WINDBLADE and STARSCREAM race to recruit the lost CYBERTRONIAN colonies to the Council of Worlds-but which of them will control the fate of Cybertron? Collects issues #4-7 of the Windblade series and the Combiner Hunters One-Shot.
Product Details
Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (April 21, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1631406000
ISBN-13: 978-1631406003
Credit(s): Amazon.com
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Re: IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (Combiner Hunters, Windblade 4-7) TPB Listing (1743672)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 22nd, 2015 @ 3:54pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 22nd, 2015 @ 3:54pm CST
Typical me. I thought they wouldn't put it in a TPB and then there they go! Oh well, I'll just have 2! 
Re: IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (Combiner Hunters, Windblade 4-7) TPB Listing (1746968)
Posted by Va'al on December 10th, 2015 @ 3:36am CST
Posted by Va'al on December 10th, 2015 @ 3:36am CST
We have an update on the Amazon.com listing for the trade paperback collecting Combiner Hunters and the latter end of Windblade volume 2 - Distant Stars - as we reported here. Most significantly, the cover art! Featuring the Camien cityspeaker by Naoto Tsushima and Jet Enter, originally a variant for issue #4 of the series. Check out the new lettering and original art below.
Re: IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (Combiner Hunters, Windblade 4-7) TPB Listing (1746980)
Posted by MemphisR56 on December 10th, 2015 @ 7:13am CST
Posted by MemphisR56 on December 10th, 2015 @ 7:13am CST
That's one fine lookin' cover. 
I'd love to get my hands on a print of that.
I'd love to get my hands on a print of that.
Re: IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (Combiner Hunters, Windblade 4-7) TPB Listing (1746992)
Posted by Randomhero on December 10th, 2015 @ 8:31am CST
Posted by Randomhero on December 10th, 2015 @ 8:31am CST
Yay windblade... 
Re: IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (Combiner Hunters, Windblade 4-7) TPB Listing (1746994)
Posted by Va'al on December 10th, 2015 @ 9:03am CST
You mean YAY WINDBLADE! surely.
(Though post Combiner Wars there was a bit of hm.. slump.)
Posted by Va'al on December 10th, 2015 @ 9:03am CST
Randomhero wrote:Yay windblade...
You mean YAY WINDBLADE! surely.
(Though post Combiner Wars there was a bit of hm.. slump.)
Re: IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (Combiner Hunters, Windblade 4-7) TPB Listing (1747079)
Posted by Randomhero on December 10th, 2015 @ 4:58pm CST
Honestly I wish I could care about the character more than I do nowadays. I'm just tired tof her being the center of these stories and not needing to be. I liked the first windblade miniseries when it came out and recently went back and reread it and just thought to myself, "wow...this really wasn't very good" it really did nothing in the form of giving her a character. The entire story was "Starscream is bad and we need to stop him! Oh wait! He actually didn't kill a bunch of people, it as my best friend! Grrr! Starscream is still bad! Shame on you Chromia but Grrr Starscream still needs to be stopped! Doing what exactly? I don't know know but he's bad"
That is Windblade volume 1 in a nutshell.
I get why we got the first volume. She's our character, we made her but one or two pages actually delved into her backstory and that's all. The two issues of MTMTE with nautica and firestar gave us more back story and characterization for Nautica than 2 volumes and multiple appearances in not-RID has done for Windblade and even Chromia(who is one of the worst written characters in IDW).
Volume 2 is a decent story if you don't look at it as Windblade Volume 2 because, while she's a POV character, that series really wasn't about her and shouldn't have been named after her. I really think it should have been a 4-6 issue series called "the Council of Worlds" I really hope "till all are one" is not just the Windblade series with a different name. Do it like the first 16 issues of RID where each issue has a narrative from a different character.
The way people felt about Drift when he first appeared is how I am feeling about Windblade anymore. "HERES WINDBLADE! HERES WINDBLADE! WHAT? YOU WANT HER WRITTEN WITH CHARACTER?! SHE HATES STARSCREAM! THERE YOU GO!"
Posted by Randomhero on December 10th, 2015 @ 4:58pm CST
Va'al wrote:Randomhero wrote:Yay windblade...
You mean YAY WINDBLADE! surely.
(Though post Combiner Wars there was a bit of hm.. slump.)
Honestly I wish I could care about the character more than I do nowadays. I'm just tired tof her being the center of these stories and not needing to be. I liked the first windblade miniseries when it came out and recently went back and reread it and just thought to myself, "wow...this really wasn't very good" it really did nothing in the form of giving her a character. The entire story was "Starscream is bad and we need to stop him! Oh wait! He actually didn't kill a bunch of people, it as my best friend! Grrr! Starscream is still bad! Shame on you Chromia but Grrr Starscream still needs to be stopped! Doing what exactly? I don't know know but he's bad"
That is Windblade volume 1 in a nutshell.
I get why we got the first volume. She's our character, we made her but one or two pages actually delved into her backstory and that's all. The two issues of MTMTE with nautica and firestar gave us more back story and characterization for Nautica than 2 volumes and multiple appearances in not-RID has done for Windblade and even Chromia(who is one of the worst written characters in IDW).
Volume 2 is a decent story if you don't look at it as Windblade Volume 2 because, while she's a POV character, that series really wasn't about her and shouldn't have been named after her. I really think it should have been a 4-6 issue series called "the Council of Worlds" I really hope "till all are one" is not just the Windblade series with a different name. Do it like the first 16 issues of RID where each issue has a narrative from a different character.
The way people felt about Drift when he first appeared is how I am feeling about Windblade anymore. "HERES WINDBLADE! HERES WINDBLADE! WHAT? YOU WANT HER WRITTEN WITH CHARACTER?! SHE HATES STARSCREAM! THERE YOU GO!"
Re: IDW Transformers: Distant Stars (Combiner Hunters, Windblade 4-7) TPB Listing (1747810)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 13th, 2015 @ 11:09pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on December 13th, 2015 @ 11:09pm CST
that is a beautiful cover. I'm so glad i will be getting this!
