IDW have sent out their solicits for July 2015. July is set to bring us lots of great new books, including the debut of a comic based on the new Robots in Disguise animated series! This book joins the ongoing Transformers, More than Meets the Eye, and Windblade titles.
This month also features a Combiner Wars epilogue issue, titled Combiner Hunters. As well as being the issue where the Fan-Built Combiner will make their debut in the IDW universe, the cover art shows us Chromia, Windblade, and Arcee, all in alternate designs to their usual decos – could these three be hints at some possible upcoming toys?
Check out the solicits after the break, with the respective covers attached to this post.
Transformers: Robots in Disguise Animated #1 (& subscription variant)
Georgia Ball (w) • Priscilla Tramontano (a & c)
GO TEAM ’BEE! BUMBLEBEE leads an all-star team of AUTOBOTS to Earth to find rogue DECEPTICONS… but in this all-new story based on the hit Cartoon Network animated series, they find more than… they bargained for! (You thought we were going to say “meets the eye,” didn’t you?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- The hit cartoon comes to comics as only IDW and Hasbro can do!
- Scan the shield with your mobile device to unlock an EXCLUSIVE character for the TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE APP!
- One of Five Featured First issues in July! One every week!
- As seen on Free Comic Book Day!
Transformers #43 (& subscription variant)
John Barber (w) • Andrew Griffith (a) • Griffith (c)
COSMOS UNLEASHED! A misunderstood AUTOBOT. A DECEPTICON space station. Cut off from their allies, SOUNDWAVE and COSMOS come face to face… alone.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- Two fan-favorite characters together for the first time!
- Who will command the SpaceBridge?
- Variant Cover by James Biggie!
Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye #43 (& subscription variant)
James Roberts (w) • Alex Milne (a & c)
Three years into their quest, and the crew of the Lost Light were starting to think that the universe held no more nasty surprises. And then a planet started chasing them.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- Introducing CYCLONUS’ new holomatter avatar!
- The Lost Light’s quest takes its quirky heroes deep into space—outer- and personal- space!
- Variant Cover by James Biggie!
Transformers: Windblade #5 (& subscription variant)
Mairghread Scott (w) • Corin Howell (a) • Priscilla Tramontano (c)
RACE AGAINST THE LIGHT! On VELOCITRON, racing isn’t a sport—it’s a matter of life and death! WINDBLADE and BLURR put the pedal to the metal to save CYBERTRON—and their own lives.
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- Space race!
- BLURR and WINDBLADE together, to decide the fate of CYBERTRON’s new interstellar alliance!
- Variant Cover by James Biggie!
Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two, Vol. 2
Chris Metzen, Flint Dille, James Roberts, John Barber (w) • Livio Ramondelli, Matt Frank, Agustin Padilla, Brendan Cahill, Nick Roche, Alex Milne, Andrew Griffith, Steve Kurth (a) • Sarah Stone (c)
Volume two collects the Autocracy mini-series, Spotlights: Trailcutter and Hoist, Robots In Disguise issues #7–9, More Than Meets the Eye issues #6–8, and Spotlight: Orion Pax.
HC • FC • $49.99 • 332 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-364-4
- Presented in recommended reading order!
- Advance solicited for August release!
Transformers: Combiner Hunters Special one-shot (& subscription variant)
Mairghread Scott (w) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)
COMBINER WARS FALLOUT! Because you demanded it—WINDBLADE and CHROMIA team up with ARCEE to put an end to the menace of the COMBINER WARS—but will they end each other first?!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- For the first time—a one shot adventure featuring three fan-favorite female TRANSFORMERS!
- Revealed within—Hasbro’s FAN-BUILT COMBINER, as voted on by TRANSFORMERS fans around the world!
- Variant Cover by James Biggie!
Autovolt 127
Yes.
Driskull98
Cyclonus should've been a businessman only because of this GIF.
Scaleface
I love that the Swerve cover is a dual homage to X-Factor #124, which was in turn an homage to Justice League International #24, and several other comics from Justice League stories.
Rakzo
I was so hoping to finally see Cyclonus' holomatter avatar and I'm not disappointed.
YoungPrime
Okay and who said you had to?
I don't see how any of that changes my comment either.
If someone don't like it, then they just don't like it. Ease off the panic button though. No ones burning their entire MTMTE library b'cuz of it….
Dramatic Spoon
When you put it like that, you make it sound like Cyclonus has a thing for Classic Lolita fashion.
nstanosheck
Which is a take off of this cover from 1987:
Autovolt 127
I would have preffered that instead of the Victorian lady…besides that should be Overlords thing.
They need to add that quote.
I'm interested in seeing how they set up the Combiner Hunters. The Black and pink Arcee looks nice especially with the sword though the tattoo is weird.
also I wonder if Arcee is going to start getting along with Windblade and Chromia…prior to this, nothing happened between them.
QLRformer
Wow, Cyclonus's hologram is… some kind of female Victorian soldier. It's pretty cool and antique-vintage.
Also, yay to Arcee, Chromia and Windblade teaming up!
TheSpartanD
I think it's meant to say that he made a load of money from Real Estate in the past and he's been sitting on it for a while (not that he really had much money in the Dead Universe). Although it would be interesting if some sort of legal battle between Cyclones and some settlers on Cybertron happened.
Flash Fact: The minimum safe distance for a Pile-up is 15 miles/24km… If you're deaf.
Cal
Someone is army-building Swerve.
Spartan0996
Yup!
I've been waiting for an oversized KO of Legends Cosmos ever since he was revealed like a year or two ago.
Phollen16
Does anyone else wish they had That Soundwave and Cosmos as figures? I know I do, come on Hasbro make it happen.
Also I want a figure of Autobot Magatron that's on the lost light. We need a decent Megatron here. (Not the leader class that just came out, that thing is atrocious.)
Spartan0996
Oh yeah… Hmm, you know what? That might have been Tailgate making stuff up again, cause it was before Cyclonus and him had that talk… Dude is fibbin' hardcore.
Starscream Gaga
Whirl's, Bumblebee's, Tailgate's and now Cyclonus' holoavatars are all female. Holo-avatars with different genders are nothing new, plus Roberts said that Cyclonus' holo-avatar was female waaaaaaay back when he was asked after Cybertronian Homesick Blues.
I honestly don't see what the problem is.
edgs2099
It's all about offshore accounts Also, you don't get super rich by slinging money around gift shops.
YoungPrime
Whirl is completely insane and his Holotar is hilarious. Cylonus is not! So yeah, people can like one but not the other.
Mort
Wait – on a planet that's in complete ruins? How does that even work. Wasn't Cyclonus counting his change at the gift shop at Hedonia!?
SPLIT LIP
Then I guess it's 50/50 blame. Still, point is the design and intent strike me far more as fanservice than character relevance. Hardly the worst thing in the world, but hey I go nuts when MTMTE gets it right I outta be fair.
Also, the slocits have me grinning a lot. "Deep into space- outer and personal-"
Well he certainly doesn't act it. (which again, just shows how his character is a lot more subtle)
That's amazing. Though they need to update it now with the Megs one and Swerve.
Mort
JRo never used the word 'flamboyant'. Here's some late Victorian teachers. They're not flamboyant, they're dressed normally for the time.