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Diamond Comics Shipping List for December 12th

Posted on 12-05-2012 at 08:50 AM by ORIO under Comics

D-Drive has been cool enough to once again send us the Diamond Comics Shipping list for next Wednesday, December 12th. On top Transformers wise is:

TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT ORION PAX #1 (also shipping 1-in-25 variant)

(W) James Roberts (A) Steve Kurth (CA) Steve Kurth, Livio Ramondelli
BEFORE OPTIMUS PRIME-there was Orion Pax! Four million years ago, the future leader of the AUTOBOTS disappeared into the Cybertronian wilderness to save a friend. What happened next would take him to the very brink-and have startling repercussions on the current comics!

Ships with 2 covers in a 1-to-1 ratio, 1 by Steve Kurth and 1 by Livio Ramondelli.

TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE ONGOING #12 (also shipping 1-in-10 variant)

(W) John Barber (A) Andrew Griffith (CA) Casey Coller, Andrew Griffith
THE RETURN! He's back... and CYBERTRON will never be the same. Everything BUMBLEBEE and his AUTOBOTS have built teeters at the edge of collapse - and STARSCREAM has to make the choice his whole life has been leading to.

Ships with 2 covers in a 1-to-1 ratio, 1 by Casey Coller and 1 by Andrew Griffith.

TRANSFORMERS GEN DLX AF ASST 201203
Fans and collectors of the Transformers will want to go back in time with the Transformers Generations Deluxe Action Figures. Drawn from the quarter-century history of the franchise, these figures will take fans a journey into the shrouded prehistory of the metallic world of Cybertron and into the far future! Blister card packaging. Case should include 1x Fall of Cybertron Kickback, 2x Fall of Cybertron Starscream, 2x Fall of Cybertron Sideswipe, 2x Fall of Cybertron Ultra Magnus and 1x Fall of Cybertron Fireflight

GI JOE / TRANSFORMERS TP

(W) Josh Blaylock, Dan Jolley (A) Mike S. Miller & Various (CA) Mike S. Miller
COBRA gains control of giant, transforming robots and uses them in their attacks. In response, the United States military forms an elite group of soldiers, G.I. JOE. COBRA COMMANDER, MEGATRON, HAWK, BUMBLEBEE, OPTIMUS PRIME, and more do battle.

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Impactor1106

Well hopefully, MTMTE #12 will come out on the 19th then.

Maverick Hunter Christian

Looks like a solid week of comics.

I can't tell you how happy I am that the devil's due material is being reprinted. I missed all those books as they were.coming out and some of those trades got EXPENSIVE.

Kaijumaster

I hope the Pax Spotlight addresses his body swapping.

ss4steve

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Originally Posted by Kaijumaster

I hope the Pax Spotlight addresses his body swapping.

Are you referring to what Shockwave...ahem...senator Shockwave did to him in Shadowplay?

Bossguy

Seems like kickback will be hard to find.

YoungPrime

Good news indeed...

ConnorT

I really hope Spotlight: Orion Pax tells what happened to Roller.

Megastar

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Originally Posted by ss4steve

Are you referring to what Shockwave...ahem...senator Shockwave did to him in Shadowplay?

I wonder if Optimus even knows what happened to senator Shockwave?

Kaijumaster

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Originally Posted by ss4steve

Are you referring to what Shockwave...ahem...senator Shockwave did to him in Shadowplay?

no I mean the fact that in The recent stories, Megatron Origin & Spotlight Blurr he has a different body each time.

Sockie

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Originally Posted by Megastar

I wonder if Optimus even knows what happened to senator Shockwave?

I believe Roberts implied on his Twitter that he, and everyone else, does know.

Yggdrasil

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Originally Posted by Megastar

I wonder if Optimus even knows what happened to senator Shockwave?

To quote Roberts' twitter:

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Clarification 2: The Senator being XX is not a surprise to anyone in the present day. He was a famous politician. In the narration Rewind and Chromedome and Ratchet et al would have referred to him by his full name, we just never heard those parts. Bear in mind that we don't hear every word our narrators say; e.g. we don't hear Ratchet say 'and then I saw the Matrix just hanging there'.

Pcm979

Well that explains why they showed no signs of recognizing each other when they met in Autocracy.

(I know the real explanation is that Autocracy was written first, but that doesn't stop it from being an inconsistency)

As for Optimus's Spotlight: Blurr body? I wish it'd simply been retconned out. Because I've always hated it.

G1Wheeljack

Busy week, 2 comics and Starscream on top of my Figuarts Cell coming in.

General Tekno

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Originally Posted by Pcm979

Odds are that Optimus would have been aware who Shockwave was and what had happened to him by that stage, though.

I'd assume Barber was privy to Shockwave's identity when he was editing Autocracy, given it was a long game of Roberts.

Pcm979

Then it should've been integrated better. That's my point.

Torque

ROBERTS IS WRITING ORION PAX SPOTLIGHT!!! i nearly died from excitement just now, didnt know that.

Pcm979

I just saw the first of those two clarifications. So in Shockwave's Empurata process, they replaced his left hand with a claw. I wonder why they didn't replace the right hand?

... Ran out of claws?

SMOG

I just can't believe we're even raising the issue of characters who looked different in earlier appearances (ie: Pax in the Blurr Spotlight), since this is IDW, and for a 2 year period at least, every damn character was changing their model once a month, with no explanations.

zmog

Pcm979

You know, this thread indirectly inspired me to flip through Megatron Origin again.

Yikes.

moreprimeland

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Originally Posted by Torque

ROBERTS IS WRITING ORION PAX SPOTLIGHT!!! i nearly died from excitement just now, didnt know that.

Just glad to see that one listed...must have!

Wadeledge

I don't care what Spotlight Orion Pax is about, it's written by James Roberts, I'm sold.

ss4steve

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Originally Posted by Megastar

I wonder if Optimus even knows what happened to senator Shockwave?

Good question. I assume "yes" because I also assume Orion knew Senator Shockwave's name before his "change."

Would be nice to see a flashback scene with Orion seeing "post-op" Shockwave for the first time and seeing a sort of dialog between them that could be used as either a closure to their past relationship or a plot device foreshadowing of later "historical" developments.