Lots of good stuff here - some new artwork too, check out the frontpage too for that in a little while.
- All Hail Megatron and Revelations will have different story threads and won't intersect too much.
- All Hail Megatron will establish a new status quo for the
TF comic universe, no magic reset button will be pushed at the end to make things go back to how it was.
- Coming up - no more Masters (Target, Power, etc), but look forward to Combiners and Pretenders of a sort (they may mean the holo-humans). No plans for Predaking or Piranacon / God Neptune, though.
- The original 13 mini has slipped back to 2009.
- In All Hail Megatron, there will be no Autobots on Earth at all.
- Denton Tipton apologised for the errors up to this point, he is working to make them a thing of the past.
- No more TPBs of the club comics.
- No more Evolutions minis are planned.
- There has been talk of doing more Beast Wars stuff, but there are no plans to visit any of the other series, like RiD.
- Starsabre may show up in the first 13 miniseries - IDW are currently negotiating to see what they can and cannot use.
- The Titan UK comics from now on will all carry on the continuity laid out in the Twilight's Last Gleaming story.
- Simon Furman's next IDW project will be
Maximum Dinobots, and will feature a lot of battles, Scorponok, the Machination, Sunstreaker, etc. Coming in October.
- A second hardcover collection of IDW issues is planned.
- The Dead Universe cast are all undead, zombie Transformers, and consist of Galvatron, Jhiaxus, Nemesis Prime, Cyclonus, and two others who will be revealed in Spotlight Cyclonus.
- Some more of the legends and history will be told, but mainly they want to move forwards with the stories. Nothing like War Within covering the past is planned.
- The Animated comic is going to be in continuity with the show, issue #1 will retell the pilot episode, with scenes that were dropped and from the perspectives of different characters, giving a different view on the story. It is set during season 1, and Oil Slick will show up in issue #3.
- The Animated comic will include some 5 page backup stories, for example in issue 2.
- The Fallen can be used by IDW, and may show up in the 13 mini.
- Reign of Starscream #1 will retell the Movie from Starscream's perspective, show you what he thinks of Megatron, etc.
- Wheelie in his spotlight will not be the show Wheelie, but they will explain why he rhymes after a fashion.
- Best of UK will continue with Time Wars, and the stories leading up to it.
