If you're a Transformers fan and/or you like comics, today is a good day to be a fan of either or both.
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James Roberts: Author of More Than Meets the Eye, co-author of Last Stand of the Wreckers. MTMTE is a fun action comic book with thrills, action, suspense, horror, and loads of humor. Rodimus Prime leads a crew of about 200 autobots (and Cyclonus) to look for the legendary Knights of Cybertron. Highly recommended.
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John Barber: Author of Robots in Disguise, editor of the Transformers comics. RID is filled with intrigue and mystery, and it's generally darker. It's about Bumblebee's struggle to unify a newly primordial Cybertron and its inhabitants- neutrals who've been gone for years, the Autobots who've won the war, and the Decepticons who've lost and are treated like second class citizens. Also recommended.
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Image may be NSFW.
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Nick Roche- Artist/co-writer of Last Stand of the Wreckers, occasional artist on More Than Meets the Eye, working on a spotlight miniseries of some sorts due out next year. Pretty much my favorite artist who's worked on the franchise, doesn't always do cartoony work but goshdarn if his exaggerated style doesn't work.
If you want to start reading Transformers comics, look for The Death of Optimus Prime, available on Comixology and in the first trade paperback of More Than Meets the Eye. there's older comics but really you don't need to read those. Just check out the tfwiki if there's anything that confuses you, which should hardly be anything at all.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
oh yeah and there's a video game that just came out, you've probably heard something about it
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
if cartoons are more your speed, Transformers Prime exists. its season finale is airing this friday at 7:00 PM est on the hub, and starting thursday at 5:30 PM is a 26 hour marathon
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
both the game and the cartoon have toys, but not the comics for whatever reason.
there's also some movies that've made lots of money despite/because they're terrible
they get toys too
there's gonna be two more of the darn things, so hope you're not already sick of 'em
apparently the main characters for 4 and 5 are a high school girl and her texan car nut boyfriend
edit: http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/TRANSFORMERS-FAN-BUILT-BOT-POLL.cfm
Image may be NSFW.James Roberts- Zero Point wrote:Organic races typically took too reductionist a view of Cybertronian physiology. Just because the Autobots and Decepticons were mechanical, just because they could be taken apart and reassembled, the uninitiated assumed that there was no scope in the realm of technomedical science for mystery. But there was a reason why the likes of Ratchet and Fixit and Pharma and Kaput called themselves doctors rather than mechanics and engineers, and that reason could be found buried in the chest of every Cybertronian. The Spark - regarded by the Higher Races as a bona fide miracle phenomena - transformed a mechanical body from a rough rectangle of moving parts into something more. Something far less predictable. Sentience, it seemed, complicated everything.
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James Roberts: Author of More Than Meets the Eye, co-author of Last Stand of the Wreckers. MTMTE is a fun action comic book with thrills, action, suspense, horror, and loads of humor. Rodimus Prime leads a crew of about 200 autobots (and Cyclonus) to look for the legendary Knights of Cybertron. Highly recommended.
Image may be NSFW.John Barber- Interview wrote:Well, nothing in Transformers: Robots In Disguise is meant to track exactly with any particular thing in real life. It's about trying to form a stable, coherent government after a period of war — something that's happened a lot in human history.
It would've been cool to have timed the elections on Cybertron with the elections in the U.S., but I think that would've created some false parallels.
The basic idea is that Bumblebee is an honest 'bot who has people's best interests at heart, but he's realizing that good intentions aren't going to get things done. His big political rivals are a little more of a question mark — or, a pair of question marks. Starscream has always been a schemer, but he seems to be playing by the rules now... still, has he turned over a new leaf for real? And the other big political rival is Metalhawk, who came in as the representative on the unaligned Cybertronians — 'bots who are neither Autobot nor Decepticon.
Clik here to view.
John Barber: Author of Robots in Disguise, editor of the Transformers comics. RID is filled with intrigue and mystery, and it's generally darker. It's about Bumblebee's struggle to unify a newly primordial Cybertron and its inhabitants- neutrals who've been gone for years, the Autobots who've won the war, and the Decepticons who've lost and are treated like second class citizens. Also recommended.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Nick Roche- Artist/co-writer of Last Stand of the Wreckers, occasional artist on More Than Meets the Eye, working on a spotlight miniseries of some sorts due out next year. Pretty much my favorite artist who's worked on the franchise, doesn't always do cartoony work but goshdarn if his exaggerated style doesn't work.
If you want to start reading Transformers comics, look for The Death of Optimus Prime, available on Comixology and in the first trade paperback of More Than Meets the Eye. there's older comics but really you don't need to read those. Just check out the tfwiki if there's anything that confuses you, which should hardly be anything at all.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Main_Page
oh yeah and there's a video game that just came out, you've probably heard something about it
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
if cartoons are more your speed, Transformers Prime exists. its season finale is airing this friday at 7:00 PM est on the hub, and starting thursday at 5:30 PM is a 26 hour marathon
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
both the game and the cartoon have toys, but not the comics for whatever reason.
there's also some movies that've made lots of money despite/because they're terrible
they get toys too
there's gonna be two more of the darn things, so hope you're not already sick of 'em
apparently the main characters for 4 and 5 are a high school girl and her texan car nut boyfriend
edit: http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/TRANSFORMERS-FAN-BUILT-BOT-POLL.cfm
HASBRO, INC. IS KICKING OFF THE THRILLING 30 WITH THE FAN BUILT BOT POLL! FOR THE 1ST TIME EVER, A FAN VOTE WILL DECIDE AN ALL NEW TRANSFORMERS CHARACTER. VOTE DAILY HERE AT TRANSFORMERS.COM TO HAVE A HAND IN THE BOT BUILDING!
ONCE THE VOTES HAVE BEEN TALLIED, COME BACK TO TRANSFORMERS.COM TO SEE THE DESIGNERS AT WORK. SKETCHES, IMAGES AND MORE WILL BE REVEALED AS THE NEW BOT CHARACTER COMES TO LIFE.
ADD THE BOT TO YOUR COLLECTION! THE NEW TRANSFORMERS CHARACTER WILL BE REVEALED, NAMED AND FOREVER ADDED TO THE TRANSFORMERS WORLD INCLUDING AN UPCOMING IDW COMIC SERIES AND IN THE "THRILLING 30" PRODUCT LINE NEXT YEAR.
Hasbro is giving kids and fans the opportunity to make the “Fan Built Bot” character with votes determining everything from being an AUTOBOT or DECEPTICON—to its vehicle or other mode, color, personality and more. Kids and fans are encouraged to vote daily! Also, to keep with the theme of the fans being the ones who really shape and create this new TRANSFORMERS character, Hasbro will also give fans a say in the naming of the new character. More details on the naming will be announced soon.
The results of the poll will be announced by Hasbro at this year’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, as part of the official kick-off to Hasbro’s TRANSFORMERS “Thrilling 30” anniversary celebration. Kids and fans will be able to purchase the “Fan Built Bot” character as a toy and will see the new character appear in official TRANSFORMERS comic books.
For blindpack Kre-O hunters:The first round of the "Transformers Fan Built Bot Poll" is over, and a second has opened! For the next week, fans get to vote on the following characteristics:
Name
Gender
Origin
Specialty
Preview Wave wrote:A1007 / 214517 - Spinister
A1008 / 214518 - Galvatron
A1009 / 214519 - Sunstorm
A1010 / 214510 - Crankstart
A1011 / 214511 - Scorponok
A1012 / 214512 - Waspinator
40 – Singe
41 – Inferno
42 – Autobot Springer
43 – Warpath
44 – Quickslinger
45 – Rampage
46 – Insecticon
47 – Blast Off
48 – Decepticon Hook
49 – Dirge
50 – Airachnid
51 – Decepticon Bludgeon
Series 2 wrote:66 - Bulkhead
67 - Hardshell
68 - Blight
69 - Arcee
70 - Acidwing
71 - Vehicon
72 - Scourge
73 - Powerglide
74 - Perceptor
75 - Lugnut
76 - Hoist
77 - Groove