IDW Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers TPB Listing on Amazon
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In more Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers news today, a new listing has popped up on online retailer Amazon, showing that the collected trade for the mini-series from IDW will be released in July 2016 (also due to the mid-series pause). There is obviously no cover image selected yet, though it is probable that it'll be one of the variants used during the run itself. Head here for more info, as it currently stands!
Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: IDW Publishing (13 July 2016)
ISBN-10: 1631406698
ISBN-13: 978-1631406690
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Posted by Bounti76 on January 27th, 2016 @ 4:54pm CST
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on January 27th, 2016 @ 5:41pm CST
Posted by Bounti76 on January 27th, 2016 @ 5:54pm CST
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:There is no comic in February and #4 is in March. Va'al might know why but I don't know the reason
Cool, thanks. I wonder if it's because they (IDW) want the focus to be on the 50th issues of MTME and not-RID? They're out in February.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on January 27th, 2016 @ 6:04pm CST
Bounti76 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:There is no comic in February and #4 is in March. Va'al might know why but I don't know the reason
Cool, thanks. I wonder if it's because they (IDW) want the focus to be on the 50th issues of MTME and not-RID? They're out in February.
Logical guess. Both are double issues
Posted by Tigertrack on January 27th, 2016 @ 7:06pm CST
D-Maximus_Prime wrote:Bounti76 wrote:D-Maximus_Prime wrote:There is no comic in February and #4 is in March. Va'al might know why but I don't know the reason
Cool, thanks. I wonder if it's because they (IDW) want the focus to be on the 50th issues of MTME and not-RID? They're out in February.
Logical guess. Both are double issues
Actually on Twitter Roche thanks IDW for giving him time to take care of family business and then return to it. No specifics, but it's not an IDW thing.
If I owned a transformer of that tarantulas, it would never, ever be in alt mode...ever.
I'm sorry to all of you, but even if this isn't the Wreckers story I wanted I am still enjoying it. But I enjoy a lot of the characters being used and focused on here, so, yeah.
Angry about Stakeout... Stupid giant tcog.
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on January 27th, 2016 @ 7:09pm CST
And actually I am very much enjoying it, though I agree about Stakeout. I really like him
Posted by RevTibe on January 27th, 2016 @ 10:51pm CST
Posted by Big Grim on February 9th, 2016 @ 2:17pm CST
Posted by Va'al on April 14th, 2016 @ 4:59am CDT
Posted by Va'al on April 15th, 2016 @ 11:30am CDT
Kieron: My aim this year is to tie up a lot of projects in the first half. Then my aim is to as I kind of free up space, not to take anything more on. That's my aim. Especially that I don't take on any more work for hire books. And I've ended up saying no to a series of dream books. I've been offered stuff inside the superhero genre, stuff outside the superhero genre, a lot of it very well paying. Stuff of which is iconic to me and I've managed to say no to it all. I haven't been offered Transformers though. And I'd feel bad for how well reviewed they are. It'd be a difficult act to follow. Clearly, on some level, all I want to do is write Impactor, but Nick Roche is obviously a friend, so there's no way I'd go anywhere near the Wreckers even if I was asked. But no. Not doing anything. I've turned down stuff I love more than Transformers, so I suspect if IDW dropped me a line I'd keep my will true. And I do love Transformers. I think I can safely say, never say never. Down the line? Who knows. Like what did my friend say? Screw you if I can't have any fun.
Source: http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/ ... len-2.html
Posted by Va'al on April 23rd, 2016 @ 4:52am CDT
Transformers: Sins of the Wreckers #4 (of 5)
Nick Roche (w & a & c)
WEB OF DECEIT! The search for PROWL leads the WRECKERS deep into enemy territory—and that’s where they’re at their best! Unfortunately, with the lives they’ve lived—the pasts they battle to escape—even their best isn’t enough to save everybody.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Bullet points:
Variant Cover by Priscilla Tramontano!
Posted by triKlops on April 23rd, 2016 @ 11:01am CDT
http://amzn.com/1631406698
Posted by Windsweeper on April 24th, 2016 @ 5:56am CDT
I even remember being with my youngest brother when he bought him and at first glance thinking he was Bumblebee.
Loving this preview. Nick should be given an ongoing. He's as good as Roberts and they're both infinitely better than Barber.
If only they'd been writing Regeneration given they were both fans of the Marvel comic.
Posted by william-james88 on April 24th, 2016 @ 12:20pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 24th, 2016 @ 11:27pm CDT
Posted by Henry921 on April 25th, 2016 @ 3:53am CDT
Good to see Mortilus mentioned again; nice bit of world building. Wanna' learn more about any connection to Tarantulas. He could be another "spawn of Mortilus" like Trypticon was.
Posted by william-james88 on April 25th, 2016 @ 7:53am CDT
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:#4 is gonna be a good issue, I can feel it. With the way he works, Roche will have this be big, and lead into the bigger conclusion. Although, I predict a death in this one, at least one, maybe more. With Last Stand, he killed 1 in #3 and 3 in #4, so this should be the issue with the body count if he stays true to self
Do you think they will reveal who that bot that Tarantulas made is now?
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 25th, 2016 @ 10:24am CDT
william-james88 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:#4 is gonna be a good issue, I can feel it. With the way he works, Roche will have this be big, and lead into the bigger conclusion. Although, I predict a death in this one, at least one, maybe more. With Last Stand, he killed 1 in #3 and 3 in #4, so this should be the issue with the body count if he stays true to self
Do you think they will reveal who that bot that Tarantulas made is now?
I kinda hope, but at the same time, I feel that may be like a last 5 pages of the whole series secret, if it is revealed here
Posted by Optimizzy on April 25th, 2016 @ 2:28pm CDT
Posted by MrBlack on April 25th, 2016 @ 2:56pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:D-Maximus_Primal wrote:#4 is gonna be a good issue, I can feel it. With the way he works, Roche will have this be big, and lead into the bigger conclusion. Although, I predict a death in this one, at least one, maybe more. With Last Stand, he killed 1 in #3 and 3 in #4, so this should be the issue with the body count if he stays true to self
Do you think they will reveal who that bot that Tarantulas made is now?
If it's who we all seem to think it is, I could see it either dropping at the end of this issue, or as a quiet epilogue to the final issue.
Posted by snavej on April 25th, 2016 @ 3:01pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on April 27th, 2016 @ 10:27am CDT
(Spoiler free-ish)
Synopsis
WEB OF DECEIT! The search for PROWL leads the WRECKERS deep into enemy territory—and that’s where they’re at their best! Unfortunately, with the lives they’ve lived—the pasts they battle to escape—even their best isn’t enough to save everybody.
Story
After the break in the mini-series, we return to the happy escapades of a bunch of loveable misfits, who just happen to wander through the woods and get caught in the web of a spider. Imagine if Nick Roche approached Sins of the Wreckers in that fashion, and then move several steps opposite - darkness falls. Again.
We move through Tarantulas' web as guilt weaves its tale through the minds and past of Roadbuster, Hubcap, Prowl, Arcee and Springer, with the biggest and the smallest of the lot revealing the beginning of the shared sinful paths, and how they have encountered and become who they are now.
On the other side, the team of Wreckers and the Chimeracons, are still working their way through to Tarantulas and his prey, finding a way through the Noisemaze, finding their way through the mess that Prowl has landed everyone into. And they're fairly straightforward about it. Wrecker style.
There is also - as is to be expected by now - some seriously dark humour in the book, almost a breather in between the even darker actions and dialogue taking place. But be ready for another big, dense, heavy read (in a good way, ultimately, but heavy nonetheless), as issue #4 is where Roche falls into the rabbit hole. More thoughts on this below.
Art
As expected, the darkness in the story crawls and creeps not only into the linework, where the organic and the mechanical blend in a really intriguing fashion - if not grotesquely so - but also into the panel composition, with a lot of blank and black spaces, filled yes with dialogue, but also with ominous pauses...
Josh Burcham and Joana Lafuente's colours are wonderfully attuned to the linework provided, and we get some seriously murky, shadowy, closed and/or trippy, depending on the scene, backgrounds to accompany the story being told - or the plans being set in motion. From the past to the present, via the Noisemaze, we see the colourists' skills at full power.
As for the lettering, this issue allows for some of the most varied and appreciated work from Tom B. Long, given free rein over a number of techniques, from fading, to fonts, to sizing - the result is an integral part of both story and visuals, without which it might not work the same. On he cover front, the main Roadbuster narrative is taken on by Roche and Burcham, with the latter also playing with Prowl playing with lives (Kup in particular), and Jack Lawrence brings us the new, complete team of Wreckers in the thumbnailed variant.
Thoughts
Spoilerish ahead
Other readers have pointed out how, much like Roberts in recent MTMTE issues, there are some parallels here in SOTW with the previous Wrecker-centric volume. While that is undoubtedly true, it is also the case that Roche has taken the issues of guilt and violence very much to their limit, here. The issue may not be an easy read for some, as it is as graphic as it is dense, physically and mentally for the characters, and the latter for the readers too.
The way in which Roche, Burcham, Lafuente, and Long collaborate on the same story shows a level of passion and understanding of the different dynamics, between characters, between creators, between book and readers, that can only end up bringing about a book like this. The one concern, perhaps, is about the pacing - the build-up is so strong, the development so good, that it feels like this could've been the end of the story. How will next month rack up?
Posted by Genericon #378 on April 27th, 2016 @ 12:11pm CDT
Posted by Randomhero on April 27th, 2016 @ 12:17pm CDT
It's like I've said before, this is not the series everyone really wanted as a sequel to LSOTW. I think it's a good story and I do enjoy it but I find myself asking "is this story relevant in the current era of transformers comics that we're getting because it's a story doesn't matter if it happened or not because other bigger things are happening in James and Johns books"
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on April 27th, 2016 @ 1:56pm CDT
Posted by Optimizzy on April 27th, 2016 @ 5:21pm CDT
Posted by Mindmaster on April 27th, 2016 @ 5:24pm CDT
Posted by Randomhero on April 27th, 2016 @ 7:04pm CDT
Mindmaster wrote:Can't even find it on iBooks so I can read it and share my own thoughts...
For whatever reason it wasn't on iBooks, I just went and picked it up on comixology.
Posted by LE0KING on April 29th, 2016 @ 5:02am CDT
Every character besides tidal wave has the same boring personality and make the same bad jokes. Hi, I'm angry and sarcastic. Me too. Me too.
Im just disappointed to see the wreckers story reduced to this.
Posted by Va'al on May 13th, 2016 @ 4:36pm CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 16th, 2016 @ 5:37am CDT
Hehehe! That is a good one. I love these stupid little GIFs
Posted by Dagon on May 17th, 2016 @ 9:30am CDT
LE0KING wrote:I got to agree with randomhero here. If this story was given to us before RID and MTMTE it would be great. But we have a higher quality of tf comics out now and this just doesn't make the cut.
Every character besides tidal wave has the same boring personality and make the same bad jokes. Hi, I'm angry and sarcastic. Me too. Me too.
Im just disappointed to see the wreckers story reduced to this.
I haven't read the rest of the content of this thread, but I'm just going to agree with this comment. I was really hoping for something on par with the Last Stand of the Wreckers story, and Sins has been a let down for me. I don't have any investment in the Wreckers, and I generally think they are a really overhyped bunch, but Last Stand was an excellent story, so I was hopeful that there would have been more of that here, and I haven't found it. I'd love to see there be some kind of penalty for Prowl being this really terrible, manipulative guy, but there isn't, and I'm going to go out on a limb here and say there won't be at the end of this series either. Most of the characters in his feel like another round of "hey!! It's that guy!! Cool!" and that is crappy.
I do like Tidal Wave though.
Posted by BATTLEMASTER IIC on May 28th, 2016 @ 12:00pm CDT
We've seen some non-TV Beast Wars characters in this story, so what not?
Posted by Va'al on May 28th, 2016 @ 1:14pm CDT
BATTLEMASTER IIC wrote:Calling it now: What ever Tarantulas did to Verity is going to turn her into an animorph.
We've seen some non-TV Beast Wars characters in this story, so what not?
Why not a HeadTitanmaster..?
Posted by Mindmaster on May 28th, 2016 @ 1:17pm CDT
Dr Va'al wrote:BATTLEMASTER IIC wrote:Calling it now: What ever Tarantulas did to Verity is going to turn her into an animorph.
We've seen some non-TV Beast Wars characters in this story, so what not?
Why not a HeadTitanmaster..?
*mindblown*
I'd be down for that. Who'd it be for if it happens, I wonder? Arcee, maybe?
Posted by BATTLEMASTER IIC on May 28th, 2016 @ 1:38pm CDT
Posted by Va'al on May 28th, 2016 @ 2:09pm CDT
Posted by Mindmaster on May 28th, 2016 @ 2:11pm CDT
BATTLEMASTER IIC wrote:If that were the case, a titanmaster for Roadbuster would make more sense considering he has a need to get ahead in life now.
#toosoon
Posted by ScottyP on May 29th, 2016 @ 10:39am CDT
The Minerva rumors are strong. Not saying Verity would be Minerva's head, but rather, that could make a base mold for a Stakeout which could then have a Verity Titanmaster.Dr Va'al wrote:Who's getting toys, though?
All I really know is that this line is the perfect time for Sunstreaker with Onions.
Posted by BATTLEMASTER IIC on May 29th, 2016 @ 6:45pm CDT
Mindmaster wrote:
#toosoon
I know, I'm sad about Roadbuster too
Posted by Va'al on May 30th, 2016 @ 3:24am CDT
ScottyP wrote:All I really know is that this line is the perfect time for Sunstreaker with Onions.
Kekeke
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 30th, 2016 @ 8:30pm CDT
We get a Sunstreaker with Hunter
We get someone with Verity (which could be canon)
All we need is Jimmy to somehow get wrapped up in this (where'd he get to anyway)
And BLAM! We have the original IDW human cast in toy form as titanmasters!!!!
Posted by Va'al on June 6th, 2016 @ 11:50am CDT
THIS IS THE END! Will PROWL get his comeuppance? Will TARANTULAS conquer all? Will any of the WRECKERS survive? It’s wreck and rule one last time, with everything on the line!
Posted by Big Grim on June 6th, 2016 @ 11:52am CDT
Posted by Mr Skram on June 6th, 2016 @ 2:42pm CDT
Big Grim wrote:Man, I frickin' LOVE this design fer Tarantulas!
Me too. It's why I found a Transmetal Tarantulas on ebay. It's the closest thing to it.
Posted by Randomhero on June 6th, 2016 @ 7:34pm CDT
Mr Skram wrote:Big Grim wrote:Man, I frickin' LOVE this design fer Tarantulas!
Me too. It's why I found a Transmetal Tarantulas on ebay. It's the closest thing to it.
Same. Ttransmetal Tarantulas was my first beast wars toy and still my favorite. i managed to get a complete one for pennies and its great to have him with my Classics figures next to combiner Wars Prowl.
Posted by Big Grim on June 7th, 2016 @ 6:33am CDT
Posted by Va'al on June 8th, 2016 @ 8:27am CDT
Working on the backmatter for the Sins Of The Wreckers Trade. No new stories, we're busier than we were six years ago, but loads of unseen art, character designs, process notes, excerpts from the original outline and trivia. Sound alright?
Is there anything that you DON'T want as Wrextras in the trade? What annoys you in backmatter terms? What DO you like?
Posted by reVelske on June 8th, 2016 @ 8:54am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on June 8th, 2016 @ 9:25am CDT
reVelske wrote:What do I like? I'd like you to bring back my beloved Roadbuster you murderous poopooheads!
They're just paving the way for him to become a titanmaster, that's all
but really, I like Twintwist and Topspin and am not happy they died too, same with Stakeout. I really like them