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We posted the iBooks preview for Transformers More Than Meets The Eye #18 earlier this month, and now we have the full preview from IDW!

Transformers More Than Meets The Eye #18
'DON'T LET THEM TAKE SKIDS!' The crew of the Lost Light left CYBERTRON before they could hear those words-part of a message from the future warning of terror and catastrophe and a threat to the entire Cybertronian race. Can the AUTOBOTS do anything to stop the beginning of the end?

Read on to preview this issue!

Amazon has listed some new preorders for IDW Transformers trade paperbacks, which are set for a release in November (and one in early December). The new volumes include:

Transformers Art of Prime, due November 5 and (presumably) an artbook covering the complete 68 episode run of Transformers Prime, from Darkness Rising to Predacons Rising.

Transformers More than Meets the Eye Volume 5, due 19 November and widely expected to contain the "Remain in Light" arc.

Transformers the Movie Collection Volume 2, due on 19 November. At just over 300 pages long, it will contain between 12 and 14 issues of the movie tie-in comics, most likely these will be the Revenge of the Fallen adaptation plus the Defiance and Alliance prequels.

Transformers Classics UK Volume 5, due on 3 December. No indication of which issues are included is given, but The Legacy of Unicron (Marvel UK 146-151) should be in this volume, given that the previous volume covered up as far as Marvel UK 145.

Details on these are sparse right now, but we will update when more information comes to light.

Comics Continuum has posted the solicits for IDW's Transformers comics arriving in September 2013. September brings us a whole lot of comics including More than Meets the Eye #21 and Robots in Disguise #21, Regeneration One #0, Beast Hunters #5, Monstrosity (print version) #4, plus collected editions Robots in Disguise Volume 4, Transformers Classics Volume 6 and also a Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Volume 1, which we take to be a collection of captures from the TV show.

Read on for the full solicits and check out the covers of all these lovely new comics attached!

In September, IDW will be releasing cover variants drawn in an animated style. Transformers More Than Meets The Eye #21 is one of these issues. It features Rodimus drawn by Andy Suriano.

Here's the press release:

This September, IDW Gets Animated!

Prepare for your favorite IDW comics to get a little more animated than usual this September! All month long, IDW will be publishing special “IDW GETS ANIMATED” variant covers rendered in vein of classic cartoons! Ever wondered what The X-Files’ Mulder and Scully would look like as colorful, hijinks-having monster chasers? Ever wanted to see the mighty Judge Dredd as a rubber-jointed 70’s warrior? OF COURSE YOU HAVE!

Luckily for you, intrepid reader, so have we! This September only, eager fans will be able to find the following titles with special “IDW GETS ANIMATED” variant covers:

While the content of the books will be the same, these variant covers are going to be a vivid blast of cartoon madness. It’s going to be a fun month to say the least, so fans are urged to drop their local comic shop a line and reserve their copies now!

Read on to check out the variant cover!

D-Drive has been gracious enough to share with us next weeks Diamond Comics Shipping list. One tap next week for comics featuring our favorite Robots In Disguise:

TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE #18 (also shipping 1-in-10 incentive cover)

(W) James Roberts (A) Alex Milne (CA) Alex Milne, Sean Chen
"DON'T LET THEM TAKE SKIDS!" The crew of the Lost Light left CYBERTRON before they could hear those words-part of a message from the future warning of terror and catastrophe and a threat to the entire Cybertronian race. Can the AUTOBOTS do anything to stop the beginning of the end?
Ships with 2 covers in a 1-to-1 ratio, 1 by Alex Milne and 1 by Sean Chen.

TRANSFORMERS MONSTROSITY #1 (OF 4)

(W) Chris Metzen, Flint Dille (A/CA) Livio Ramondelli
MEGATRON'S DESCENT! In the early days of the war on CYBERTRON, OPTIMUS PRIME puts everything on the line to unify the planet-but not everyone agrees that this new Prime should be in charge! Meanwhile, the fallen DECEPTION leader, MEGATRON, begins a journey that will change everything. Plus-what is the terrible secret of the DINOBOTS?

Ships with 3 covers in a 1-to-1-to-1 ratio, all by Livio Ramondelli

TRANSFORMERS IDW COLLECTION HC VOL 02 RED LABEL ED (Net)

(W) Simon Furman & Various (A) Don Figueroa & Various (CA) E. J. Su
From IDW Publishing. This Red Label edition of Transformers: The IDW Collection Volume 2 is sure to redefine your experience with the Robots in Disguise. The re-presentation of IDW's Transformers Universe continues in Volume 2, which includes the complete Transformers series Stormbringer and Escalation, as well as Spotlights: Sixshot, Ultra Magnus, Kup, Ramjet, Mirage and Optimus Prime - 17 issues in all! Featuring a cover design by E.J. Su, this volume is signed by five of the biggest names to work on Transformers, including Su, Musso, Roche, Furman and Guidi. Hand-numbered to 275, this edition continues the IDW Collection in stunning fashion. Stamped with the IDW Limited Red Foil Imprint, this edition includes: a mounted signature page signed by the five creators; a custom, exclusive-to-IDW Limited cover in silver metallic ink; a vellum overlay of the title page; brand-new end pages designed to mirror the style of the tray case and portfolio; a limited-edition, custom-designed slipcase; and a red satin ribbon bookmark.

IDW Limited has put together a nice variant cover comic & exclusive lithograph package all in a hand-built, die-cut hardcover portfolio, known as "Transformers Comicfolios".

*Updated with new images*

These will be available for pre-order with a BotCon pick-up option, or with
standard shipping! The exclusive is: Transformers: Beast Hunters Limited to 250 copies of each.

These will be available at the BotCon booth, and again at SDCC 2013. After that, they're gone.

Pre-Order Your Set Here: IDW Limited Transformers - Price:$25 each.

iBooks have posted up a three page preview of the next excellent issue of Transformers More than Meets the Eye. Issue #18 brings us a bit more light on one of the big mysteries from the final pages of issue #1 of James Roberts' epic - the warning to the Lost Light "Don't take Skids". But first - an unwelcome guest has arrived in Swerve's bar, and all the plucky Autobot has to save himself are his wits, a blaster, and a security system designed by Brainstorm!

Check out the preview, and be sure to check out the full issue when it is released in stores or on Comixology.

We also have a preview for the next chapter of Transformers Regeneration 1! In this issue, Cybertron is in crisis following Scorponok's assault! Shockwave plots and as if this was not enough, the beleaguered Autobots must face off against a new, deadly incarnation of the Mayhem Attack Squad! It's all going down in the next instalment of Transformers Regeneration 1, hitting comic stores everywhere next Wednesday, 12 June!

IDW has released the previews of the Transformers comics being released this coming Wednesday, 12 June, and first up we have a preview of Transformers Prime Beast Hunters #2 which resolves a long-hanging plot point from War for Cybertron concerning the Dinobot Sludge! Check out the preview attached to this story, and be sure to pick up the full issue, in store Wednesday!

MAYHEM is coming to comic shops next Wednesday, June 12! That's right, courtesy of 2005 Boards member D-Drive we can pass on that coming next week are IDW's Transformers Regeneration 1 issue 92 and Beast Hunters issue 2. How does this constitute mayhem? How does the re-introduction of the Decepticon special operations team the Mayhem Attack Squad in Regeneration 1 and the Dinobots in Beast Hunters grab you? Be sure to check them out in stores next Wednesday!

News has reached us from the Twitter account of the 2D Comics Fest - the Northern Ireland Comics Festival held in Derry / Londonderry in Northern Ireland over the past weekend that Simon Furman will be penning an additional issue of Transformers Regeneration 1, a special "issue zero" complete with five pages of art by Transformers art legend Geoff Senior!

Simon Furman announces @IDWPublishing #transformers regeneration one issue 0 on panel at #2dcomicsfest five pages of art by @geoffsenior

Further information from the Transformers Regeneration 1 Facebook page suggests that this issue will take place and expand on scenes that will transpire in Regeneration 1 issue 94 - scenes and exposition that will echo throughout the rest of the series.

Geoff will be doing 5 pages of a special Zero issue. There are more artists to be announced...
It is a step sideways following some dramatic events of 94 with BIG implications for 95 and beyond... RG1 will still end at issue 100.
And no, there is no Wildman art in this one but a host of amazing Trans art legends

Click the discuss link below to talk about this story on our 2005 Boards!

Servoslag has posted an interesting interview with IDW artist Livio Ramondelli, regarding his work on Transformers Monstrosity and how it all fits into the wider mythology of Transformers that IDW is creating. There is also some talk of a possible third series to follow up this one, which it is suggested might be a full on war series if it happens.

Other key points revealed in the interview are how Monstrosity and Spotlight Shockwave reconcile with each other, how the Quintesson Pentius plays into the previous tease at the end of Spotlight Wheelie, and a tease of what to expect in the remainder of this digital-first series.

Check out the full interview here!

Newsarama has posted the full preview for next week's Robots in Disguise issue #18! The battle for Cybertron is over and the planet has a new leader! Bumblebee and the others are faced with a simple choice - to stay and renounce their alleigence to their factions, or to leave Iacon for the wilderness! Who will stay and who will depart on this, the second exodus? Check out the preview to get a taste of what is in store and then pick up the full issue next Wednesday!

Also - check out the retailer incentive cover (shown on the inside front cover) for a peak at a possible redeco of the upcoming Generations Deluxe IDW Bumblebee!

Amazon has listed the Transformers Prime Beast Hunters Trade Paperback along with cover image and date. Cover features the Dinobots and the date is October 22nd. Check out the details and order yours here:

Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters Volume 1 [Paperback]

Did you pick up Transformers Prime Beast Hunters #1 today from IDW publishing? Did you have unanswered questions that you feel aren't likely to be answered in future issues? Well, why not ask the writer herself? Mairghread Scott, writer for the Transformers Prime Cartoon, IDW's Rage of The Dinobots and the new Beast Hunter's comic book, has started her own Q and A thread in our Transformers comics discussion forum. This is a rare, and very cool opportunity, for us fans to get some behind the scenes info! Not sure what to ask? Why not brush up with TFW's interview with Mairghread from March?

She's already been nice enough to take the time to answer a few questions, click on the title bar to read on!