SDCC 2016: IDW Announces Post-Revolution Transformers Comics Plans

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:Well now, that is interesting...

I like the MTMTE name change, though it will bring to a close the pronunciation game...

Optimus Prime series? Huh.

New artists? Ok, we'll see.

I guess the Lost Light goes back for the crew? Otherwise, that section is misleading.

Overall, some stuff to look at

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

What's with Rodimus' new paint job and where's Megatron? At least the art looks very nice and similar. (see here for a better image: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/07/21/ ... comic-con/)

Overall, I'm pretty good with stuff post Revolution. I'm looking forward to it. and I agree: I really think the Lost Light shall return for the crew.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I don't know where Rodimus got those colors, but i like them

Randomhero wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I don't know where Rodimus got those colors, but i like them

So apparently Alex Milne just found out he's not gonna be the primary artist on Lost Light. He found out on Twitter... AWKWARD!

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I read Twitter when I climb in bed, and I had to get back out to say this:

Holy cows people. The amount of hate and disgust spewing out on Twitter right now over Milne going part time and him not even knowing. Even Roberts didn't know Milne didn't know. Geez louise. But at least this wasn't a fault between the 2 but instead a fault somewhere up the ladder, but still a bad situation. Enough so they said night and we'll try this again tomorrow.

And yes, it looks like Optimus is replacing the current ongoing. And I like that we are getting new names for the series.

Randomhero wrote:Not sure how I feel about Unicron possibly showing up. Hopefully that's an error but IDW has avoided him and Primus being real for 11 going on 12 years now. Maybe it's time. Reason I'm hesitant is just due to IDW being very open minded with the idea that God and the devil may or may not exist especially with MTMTEs entire over all plot being about proving that a god like mythical groups existing or not.

ScottyP wrote:[*]The Transformers: Revolution crossover comic will feature Thundercracker and Buster saving the White House

Kurona wrote:

Randomhero wrote:Not sure how I feel about Unicron possibly showing up. Hopefully that's an error but IDW has avoided him and Primus being real for 11 going on 12 years now. Maybe it's time. Reason I'm hesitant is just due to IDW being very open minded with the idea that God and the devil may or may not exist especially with MTMTEs entire over all plot being about proving that a god like mythical groups existing or not.

I have to agree with that.
Then again, IDW has been hinting at Unicron for a little bit now. Bludgeon and Jhiaxus saying "true chaos is coming"; Cyclonus being cut off from mentioning his name in the myth; those theories of Rung being the T-cog or otherwise significant part of Unicron...

Big Grim wrote:This all just makes me curious as to how the series is gonna go. Plus I like the name change to Lost Light. That's pretty cool! But...where's Megatron? I really like how the character has evolved. I LIKE Autobot Megatron!

MrBlack wrote:Interesting color scheme for Rodimus. I hope those are not mourning colors for a pair of bots that have that color scheme...

Between the title change and the preview of #55, there is certainly a possibility of the Lost Light returning. Although, given the scene is #50 of Getaway using the time portal to look back on the crew, perhaps the ship arrives too late, and Team Rodimus has moved on by that point. The title could be a reference to Team Rodimus' goal: Finding the Lost Light. It seems fairly certain that the group is going to find out some really unsavory things about the Knights, and they may be trying to stop the mutineers from finding the Knights and causing more trouble. Besides, I can't see the mutineers every allowing Megatron back on the ship, so unless he dies or isn't in season 3, I don't see how he's allowed back on the Lost Light.

Randomhero wrote:Not sure how I feel about Unicron possibly showing up. Hopefully that's an error but IDW has avoided him and Primus being real for 11 going on 12 years now. Maybe it's time. Reason I'm hesitant is just due to IDW being very open minded with the idea that God and the devil may or may not exist especially with MTMTEs entire over all plot being about proving that a god like mythical groups existing or not.

ScottyP wrote:

Randomhero wrote:Not sure how I feel about Unicron possibly showing up. Hopefully that's an error but IDW has avoided him and Primus being real for 11 going on 12 years now. Maybe it's time. Reason I'm hesitant is just due to IDW being very open minded with the idea that God and the devil may or may not exist especially with MTMTEs entire over all plot being about proving that a god like mythical groups existing or not.

Maybe they've avoided it directly but since 2012 (debatably earlier) they've been building this up, at least on the Primus end of things. Would be odd to never get resolution of any sort on that, even if only partial.

Randomhero wrote:I've never been a fan of Unicron because he is the end all and biggest threat ever. Once he's done nothing tops that

Kurona wrote:

Randomhero wrote:I've never been a fan of Unicron because he is the end all and biggest threat ever. Once he's done nothing tops that

To be fair, I think Shockwave ending space and time tops that.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Randomhero wrote:I've never been a fan of Unicron because he is the end all and biggest threat ever. Once he's done nothing tops that

To be fair, I think Shockwave ending space and time tops that.

Not to mention Shockwave actually successfully killed a Universe

Kurona wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Randomhero wrote:I've never been a fan of Unicron because he is the end all and biggest threat ever. Once he's done nothing tops that

To be fair, I think Shockwave ending space and time tops that.

Not to mention Shockwave actually successfully killed a Universe

He achieved what Unicron sets out to do and fails to do in every series
Unicron sucks

Kurona wrote:

Randomhero wrote:I've never been a fan of Unicron because he is the end all and biggest threat ever. Once he's done nothing tops that

To be fair, I think Shockwave ending space and time tops that.

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:

Kurona wrote:

Randomhero wrote:I've never been a fan of Unicron because he is the end all and biggest threat ever. Once he's done nothing tops that

To be fair, I think Shockwave ending space and time tops that.

Not to mention Shockwave actually successfully killed a Universe

He achieved what Unicron sets out to do and fails to do in every series
Unicron sucks

true, no wonder space ships in the 86 movie couldn't get away

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:I try

Kinda funny watching twitter and everyone figuring out how to work the hashtag.

Plus, I wonder where Griffith is going now. did I just miss it somehow?

Shot Put wrote:Andrew said on twitter that he wanted to take a break from Transformers and work on something else.

ComicsAlliance: Since it’s the one that’s set on Earth, it seems like the post-Revolution combined universe is probably going to affect your book more than the others. How do you go about integrating the history of the Transformers on Earth into all of those disparate stories?

John Barber: In a macro sense, the GI Joe comic hasn’t really delved into the deep history of Earth and of the universe the way Transformers has, so there’s not a whole lot of back-time that’s irreconcilable. There were big Earth-shattering events that have happened in Transformers, and to a lesser degree, in GI Joe, so maybe there’s some squinting that needs to be done to make it all fit, but… I mean, we don’t name-check real-world tragedies in the comics with a great regularity. That doesn’t mean those tragedies didn’t happen, or wouldn’t have impacted the characters, it just doesn’t necessarily come up in the midst of a story focused on tracking down Tomax or Galvatron or whatever.


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CA: With Ore-13 being such a big part of major Transformers stories like “Dark Cybertron,” is this something that’s been planned for the past few years, or did it just line up that way as something that could be mixed into the larger universe?

JB: That’s a complicated one to answer… Ore-13 is why the Transformers are on Earth. Ore-13 is on Earth because Shockwave put it there. Shockwave put it there (on Earth specifically) because, it seems, Galvatron (inadvertently) crashed the Enigma of Combination on Earth — the Enigma is a super-ancient Cybertronian relic.

So, what that all means is, going forth from “All Hail Optimus,” Ore-13 was playing a role. Revolution sort of focuses that a little tighter, and it made sense to highlight it thematically because it was something Simon and E.J. planted right from the beginning of Transformers comics at IDW, which was the beginning of IDW’s relationship with Hasbro.

So, it’s not like we did “Dark Cybertron” knowing inevitably that three years later we’d have Revolution, but the function of Ore-13 didn’t really change that much.

CA: Considering that More Than Meets The Eye has taken place almost entirely in the far reaches of space, will the restructuring of the post-Revolution universe affect your story, James? Will one of those side-quests take your crew to Earth at some point soon?

James Roberts: Well, MTMTE gets in on the action with a Revolution tie-in featuring the Scavengers, who are kind of the alternative main cast. That’s an Earth-based story. Nick Roche and I are co-writing for the first time since 2010’s Last Stand of the Wreckers, so even if we weren’t getting an opportunity to pit the world’s worst Decepticons against the likes of MASK and GI Joe, it would still feel like an event for us.

Post-Revolution, there are no plans for the main MTMTE cast to travel to Earth… but then that’s unsurprising, considering the situation they find themselves in at the end of MTMTE #55, which marks the end of what we’re calling the Season 2 finale, ‘The Dying of the Light.’

The post-Revolution universe is just that, though — a universe. And there are opportunities, should I wish to take them, to play around in the new, enlarged sandpit even though, as you say, the Lost Light and its crew are far away from Earth.

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Season 3, as it plays out in the pages of Lost Light, is going to take everybody in some very strange directions. The quest for the Knights is going to much more at the forefront than it has been to date. There’s an urgency about it now that perhaps wasn’t there before. Different characters — and I’d being careful not to give anything away, because who knows who we’ll be focusing on in the future — will find themselves weighing up their loyalties and their priorities as we start to turn our attention, in small but significant ways, to the end of the quest.

CA: Chronicling political machinations and culture clash through the medium of robots that turn into cars seems like a tricky proposition, but it’s something that’s been at the center of the Transformers books set on Cybertron for quite a while now. How do you approach it to make it work without seeming silly — or at least, unintentionally silly?

MS: Science fiction has always been a place to talk about human issues that are a bit too touchy to explore with actual human characters. Police brutality, political and religious extremism, government corruption and overreach, bigotry, poverty, crime, these are all things our readers are confronted with every day. To act like Transformers, who are so like us, wouldn’t face the same challenges is disingenuous to the characters. To act like our book is supposed to teach some kind of set morality to our readers is disingenuous to our readers.

Instead we’re trying to build interesting, exciting stories that are real enough to feel like they matter without getting too bogged down in the ‘realness’ of any actual event. Turning into cars and planes is just as big a part of our characters as anything else. And it’s fun! There’s no reason to get rid of it just so we can feel “ripped from the headlines!”

That’s why an artist like Sara Pitre-Durocher is so critical to TAAO. She brings a humanity to our characters that lets our readers decide for themselves what the “right thing” is. But she also draws amazing action that keeps you turning the page. We want you to get an exhilarating story in every issue of Transformers: Till All Are One. If after you put it down, you think back to it when something happens in real life, so much the better.

Randomhero wrote:Wasn't this interview already covered over the weekend? All the quotes are from the SDCC interview from like Saturday or Friday