Newsarama have uploaded a preview of next week’s Transformers Ongoing 31. The final issue of the ongoing series is almost a “distant finale” to all that has gone before – set many years after the climatic events of Chaos on a Cybertron at peace, a group of young Transformers – bearing the Generation 2 Autobot symbol no less – are being educated on the history of their world (read: a flashback of previous issues) by none other than Alpha Trion.
The ongoing series concludes next Wednesday! Be sure to check this issue out to see how the epilogue plays out. Then be sure to pick up the one-shot The Death of Optimus Prime later this month which sets the stage for two new ongoing Transformers series – More than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise.
Infosaur
Well looks like I was wrong.
Billzilla
I like it.
antapp
Already dis-interested……..
Infosaur
Thanks for clearing THAT up.
Well against my better judgement I read the preview pages (I usually like to wait untill I've bought the book. It sucks getting half way though the issue with the feeling you've seen it already.)
And here are my thoughts/predictions.
Runamuck
Wow, thanks for the link man. Sure does help.
artiepants
i think the Photo covers were just fun one-offs they did for Christmas ~ The TF ones were pretty lame (kind of funny they had to use Revoltech Megatron since there's never really been a truly great Megatron figure ~ even the best has pretty major issues from Classics wings and colors too Masterpiece's skinny legs)
The GIJoe ones they did were much cooler: IDW Publishing | The home of 30 Days of Night, Star Trek, Terminator, Transformers, G.I. Joe…
IaconStargazer
IDW timeline – Transformers Wiki
This is pretty informative for just about the entire IDW G1 continuity. It ends at the Revenge of the Decepticons story arc, though, so the only story arcs that aren't detailed between the timeline page or DarthCrusher's notes about Chaos and the comic's future stories are Drift's mini-series (which has an unspecified placement in the timeline), Space Opera, and Chaos Theory – but you could look those issues up on their individual TF Wiki pages or something.
I hope this helps. : )
Runamuck
Wow. By any chance can you give me a run down of everythign that's happened since the first series IDW did? lol I'd seriously love to know. If not, is there a site that gives a synopsis of everything that has happened, in chronological order, from the comics?
Matty
I enjoyed Chaos (somewhat …) but I am definitely looking forward to this.
DarthCrusher
Certainly! I'm not quite sure if you want me to give you a rundown of the story so far, or if you want me to tell you what's coming in the next few months, so I'll do both. I've actually been meaning to do something like this, and I reason it'll be helpful to those who had a hard time figuring out what was going on.
As of #29 and #30, this is how the story stands. I've placed everything in spoiler tags, just in case.
If I've missed anything or mis-interpreted anything, I apologize.
megatronski
I love this. This may be the first Ongoing i buy in a while.
Mechafire
My sentiments exactly. This is absolutely ridiculous.
Omegax80
Too childish, too repetitive. Horrible dialogue.
It's their way of creating a division of stories I suppose.
Thank Primus.
I think the Red/Orange guy is Sonic Bomber?
Probably is. Alpha Trion probably merged with Ironhide at some point.
The fact that they are using toys for regular covers is mind-boggling. Are they strapped for cash they can't spend the money on artwork? So horrible.
This really looks terrible. It's like the same panel over and over again.
I think this is a good point for me to STOP reading the IDW-verse comics and just wait for Transformers G1 #81.
Grimwing
Should be a good read. And it's not necessarily locked in that the Autobots win the war, at the loss of Optimus Prime. Changeing an event in the war on our current History will cause this future to split into an alternate universe. Its a branch and this future exists as one of the potential endings.
Its not irrelevent. Because it could be interesting to know some way for This peace to come about in our crazy toy property franchise drama, War seemingly is their purpose, and that strife has alienated cybertron from the rest of galaxy. At very least it provides one potential cap to the IDW universe if you want there to be one.
It feels like this has been done before. In some ways these young Autobots are having some very Transformers Fan reactions to characters like Grimlock and wheelie.
In the IDW universe anyway. Wheelie is pretty cool. Interesting to see revitalized Alpha Trion as a less grouchy version of Kup.
HuffR_WFCTX_91135
Doesnt Alpha look a lot like Ironhide?
Soon2be
grimlock never died. He's still out there
PrimeOQZ
I don't think this is the direction for their new stories comming up. It might be just a look at a distant future and you might see it dropped in on now and then or maybe they use characters who come back from that time line. Now that would be an eye opener for them to be in the heart of the wars that would become historic. That was alot of pages with little dialoge to set up the splash pages.
Maybe, this is also Costa's way of stamping it into cannon but I have not enjoyed chaos at all. I am looking forward to the relaunch because it needs a new direction.
ORIO
Got ya covered
Kaijumaster
http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/comic-books-graphic-novels/500863-newsarama-onging-31-preview.html
Front page credit? I posted this an hour previously. Le sigh