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| Posted on 03-19-2010 at 07:59 AM by Tim Formas | 
Transformers artist Don Figueroa has updated his deviantART page with the first four pages of what would have been Dreamwave Production's Transformers #11. The issue was never released, as Dreamwave ceased operations in 2005. These pages once surfaced on the web a few years ago, but the host site no longer has the images up. The pages illustrate that Issue #11 would have started with the development of the Autobot Moon Base on Cybertron and the continued development of the Quintesson/Fembot story.
Check out the inked versions of these pages by clicking on the thumbnail to the left.
| | Credit: tehKOREANdude of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 1,770 |  | | Posted on 03-18-2010 at 08:03 PM by Tim Formas | 
Writer Shane McCarthy has updated his SMAcTALK blog with some additional details regarding the upcoming Drift mini-series that he will be writing for IDW Publishing. Along with glowing praise over the art from Alex Milne that he has seen thus far, Shane provided the following details regarding the story:
The mini series, as you would expect, deals with the origins of Drift, how he became a Decepticon and why he eventually decided to leave their ranks. Along the way we’ll be introduced to an exciting new angle to the IDW Transformers universe and learn just what’s up with all of those swords (especially when you could just have a good blaster at your side).
The four-art Drift mini-series will be a bi-weekly comic book, premiering in August.
| | | Views: 661 | | | Posted on 03-18-2010 at 09:49 AM by Tim Formas | 
IDW Publishing, the producer of Transformers-branded comics, has issued a press release stating that Diamond Comic Distributors have awarded them Premier Publisher status. IDW becomes the first publisher to advance to the classifications since the inception of the class in 1996, joining Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and Image.
In April, Diamond's Previews catalog and PREVIEWSworld.com website will showcase IDW's new status as the publisher moves to the Premier Comics section. IDW receives an exclusive section in the front of the catalog each month, highlighting their new offerings to comic shop retailers and customers.
Congratulations to IDW Publishing on this huge achievement!
| | Credit: D-Drive of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 408 | | | Posted on 03-18-2010 at 09:38 AM by Tim Formas | 
Thanks to D-Drive, TFW2005 has a list of items to be shipped by Diamond Comic Distributors to comic book stores for release next Wednesday, March 24th. The following items will be available next Wednesday:
Last Stand of the Wreckers #3 (including 10-copy virgin incentive cover)
Nefarious #1 (including 10-copy Rood virgin incentive cover)
Movie Collection Volume 1 Hardcover
Please note that some comic book stores received Nefarious #1 this week, although the remainder of orders should be shipped for release on March 24th.
| | Credit: D-Drive of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 628 | | | Posted on 03-17-2010 at 07:31 AM by Sol Fury | 
Transformers artist extraordinaire Don Figueroa has updated his Deviant Art account with a five page long gallery of Transformers concept sketch goodness! Don's update runs the gamut of his various Transformers related concepts, from unmade Classics designs like Cosmos and Hound, and Transformers GI Joe Crossover designs, through his designs for IDW's Stormbringer miniseries, right up to date with the concept artwork for the ongoing series featured on the variant covers of the ongoing and much more besides (like a look at Menasor from the ongoing series!)
Of interest also is a pre-Stormbringer concept of the Decepticon Bludgeon, shown at left, which is very clearly the main inspiration for the recent Revenge of the Fallen Bludgeon toy.
Check out all the images by clicking here to visit Don's Deviant Art Gallery.
What is your favorite image from this update? Which designs from those tagged as "unused concepts" would you like to see revived and given some love in toy form? Discuss all this and share the love for Don's excellent work on our 2005 Boards by clicking on the Discuss button.
| | Credit: Don Figueroa, Sideswipe80 of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 4,905 | | | Posted on 03-16-2010 at 02:29 PM by Deefuzz |  IDW Publishing's Chris Ryall has posted another update on his RyallTime blog with some more previews of upcoming Transformers comics.
This installment, called Trans-Five-Mers, shows off the black and white cover art by Don Figueroa for issue #5 of the ongoing Transformers series, along with the colored version by James Brown. There are also a couple of colored interior pages to view with this update as well. Issue #5 of Transformers is due out at the end of the month.
| | Credit: NIBMRatchet of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 2,916 | | | Posted on 03-16-2010 at 02:09 PM by Tim Formas | 
IDW Publishing has released three more recently released comics as aps for purchase on iTunes for the iPhone and iPod Touch. For those who enjoy reading their comics electronically or do not live close to a comic book store, Transformers #4, Last Stand of the Wreckers #1, and Last Stand of the Wreckers #2 are all now available for download!
| | | Views: 609 | | | Posted on 03-16-2010 at 07:26 AM by Tim Formas | 
TFW2005 has an early review on another Transformers comic! Today's review is for Nefarious #1 by IDW Publishing, which is scheduled to be released in comic book stores tomorrow - Wednesday, March 17th. Check out the review and a few new images from the issue by clicking on the Title Bar or thumbnail to the left.
| | | Views: 2,265 | | | Posted on 03-15-2010 at 01:34 PM by Tim Formas | 
With one day to go before the deadline to acquire a free 2010 membership figure (Dion with Cop-Tur), the Transformers Collectors' Club has updated their main page with a two-page preview of this year's club comic. The Coming Storm is a 36-page story, told in 6 page installments throughout the six issue of the club membership magazines and follows the adventures of the Generation 1 Elite Guard approximately 10 years after the events of Transformers Timelines Issue 4: Wings of Honor
If you want the free membership figure for 2010 and want to keep up on The Coming Storm, you still have one day to join! Click on the thumbnail to the left to view the preview and accompanying press release!
| | Credit: Icespark of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 1,418 | | | Posted on 03-15-2010 at 01:17 PM by Tim Formas | 
IDW Publishing Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall has posted a two-page preview the third issue of Last Stand of the Wreckers on his RyallTime blog. Chris presents the two preview pages in several different versions, with one page in both inks and color. The other page is shown in three different stages: Nick Roche's pencils, Andrew Griffith's inks, and Josh Burcham's colors (with added letters). Check out all versions of the two preview pages by clicking on the thumbnail to the left. There's a big spoiler in the images, so click at your own risk!
Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers #3 hits comic book stores on Wednesday, March 24th.
| | Credit: Gridlock1987 of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 2,156 | | | Posted on 03-14-2010 at 01:05 PM by Deefuzz | 
IDW Publishing's Chris Ryall has revealed some art for the upcoming Drift miniseries that Amazon had revealed with a recent product listing.
Included in his update is the cover art for issue #1 and art from the first page of that issue. The mini series will be written by Shane McCarthy with art by Alex Milne and colors by Josh Perez, and will ship bi-weekly in August and September.
| | Credit: NIBMRatchet of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 2,742 | | | Posted on 03-13-2010 at 02:27 PM by Tim Formas |  BZZURKK has posted a five-page preview of the first issue of the upcoming Transformers: Nefarious mini-series by IDW Publishing. Nefarious is a comic sequel to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, written by Simon Furman with art by Carlos Magno. Transformers: Nefarious is scheduled to be out in comic book stores on Wednesday, March 17th, although it does not appear on some stores' shipping lists for the week. Regardless, check out the preview by clicking on the thumbnail to the left.
| | Credit: statuesorbust of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 2,925 | | | Posted on 03-12-2010 at 10:04 AM by Tim Formas |  ICv2 has posted the Top 300 Comics for February 2010, based on sales of the comic books by Diamond US. Three Transformers comics by IDW Publishing appear in the Top 300:
#126 - Transformers Ongoing #4 - 12221 copies
#160 - Bumblebee #3 - 8537 copies
#215 - Last Stand of the Wreckers #2 - 5744 copies
Transformers Ongoing #4 was the second highest IDW title, selling 91 less copies than G.I. Joe Origins #12.
| | | Views: 723 | | | Posted on 03-10-2010 at 06:26 AM by Sol Fury |  oracle1984 of the IDW Publishing forums has put up a listing for IDW's future trade paperback and hardcover edition releases. The listing covers the end of this year, and the beginning of 2011, and it also confirms that Transformers Animated: The Adventure Continues will not be a comic continuation of the series, but rather will be continuing the adaptation of the cartoon series with print versions of the stories featured in Season 3 of the series. There will also be a new hardcover, collecting the second year of IDW Transformers comics, and two new Best of collections, Best of Starscream and Best of Grimlock.
For the full listing, please click on the link above, or the title of this story.
| | Credit: NIBMRatchet of the 2005 Boards! | Views: 1,325 | | | Posted on 03-09-2010 at 07:19 AM by Tim Formas | 
TFW2005 has an early review on another Transformers comic! Today's review is for Bumblebee #4 by IDW Publishing, which will be released in comic book stores tomorrow - Wednesday, March 10th. Check out the review and a few new images from the issue by clicking on the Title Bar or thumbnail to the left.
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