Transformers Regeneration 1 81 Preview! Out this Wednesday!

Why are the deluxe Insecticons coming out of Soundwave's chest?

Because there is a cavity in his chest that the Insecticons are tiny enough to hide inside.

And Barrage is missing. There had better be a reason for this.

I just hope they're there for convenience, not because they're now minions of Soundwave...

Maybe Soundwave is lazy and doesn't clean his body cavities often enough and now he has pests

^That was my interpretation. Bad hygiene.

I hope that is the reason. If it isn't, I have correction fluid and pens and can change the voice bubbles and make Soundwave have bad hygiene.

I dont Care!

I love it!

Better for bugs to be coming from his chest than groin.

Okay. Hats of to Geoff. This looks amazing! Looking forward to this. I think I missed your art dude...

Well, the Insecticons could mass-shift to bug size in the Marvel books, for one. So they'd be ideal for stealth.

I think you mean Andrew Wildman? Though I would prefer Geoff Senior, he was always my favourite but Wildman is also good.

oh look, Bludgeon....in Simon Furman written book....

I kid I kid.

These pages make me feel bad...I know I'm supposed to have a fangasm, but I really didn't like the later issues of the original run.

Seeing that art style once again gives me warm, happy feelings.

LOL, I don't know why this makes me laugh so much.

Me too

"My" Transformers are coming back with this. The comics I grew up reading and enjoying. Looking forward to this so much.

The only thing I'm not looking forward to is the probability of a high death toll.

I'm excited for this quite a bit, but I haven't even read the full original run yet I'll still pick these up in full force and read them as I get to that point in the series.

Loving that facial close-up on Ultra Magnus-- never thought I'd see him looking quite like that again, haha. And even if that bit with Kup is...apparently a dream sequence (?), he still looks pretty badass blasting out Bludgeon's robo-guts before proceeding to impale Galvatron.

This.

This....

I really don't want to see him whack off every other character just because he know this is "the end". I'd like the possibility, however slim, that someone else could take the reigns and continue the old school "feel" that's already established.

Same. Real TFs are back. EXCITE!!!

Pleasure beyond measure!

How is roadbuster alive? He was killed off in time wars.

More to the point, why are the Wreckers seemingly complete? I thought only the triplechangers and Inferno were still alive. Marvel UK sort of worked with the old marvel continuity but unless there is some form of explanation why they're up and about again Time Wars is fubar.

I understand that Furman doesn't really like to stick completely to the UK canon but since it's where the Wreckers originated it just seems wrong some how for them to be retconed back into existence just because.

This
Now bring on the deluxe autobots and jumpstarters

Ugh. Really not digging the art on this title. I know it's "retro" and all, but it's exactly this art that kept me from jumping back on Marvel's Transformers back in the 80's. It actually hurts my eyes to look at it. I'd go with Geoff Senior, but I always found this style of Wildman's to be competent, but really... really... awkward? Dull? Ugly?

Anyway, it's nice to see the Deluxe Insecticons. Yay.

zmog

Snap

I kind of agree, his artwork style is awkward but it keeps to the 80s theme. Geoff Senior was always superior. Having said that loving the fact that we will get closure on this line.

Insecticons out of Soundwave? Like the hygiene theory but it looks like a Furman in-joke. Or maybe Soundwave got bored of cassettes?

Don't hold your breath waiting for that. Furman said he plans for RG1 to be the absolute end of the Marvel TF saga, with no loose ends and no chance of a continuation. So #100 will probably be it.

At least he was just a training room sim. The wreckers are apparently really there. Whats next Grimlock . But despite my grievences against the writing team. I do praise the artists for making these Transformers recognizable upon site.

Yeah, this is the TF stuff I grew up on, and loved every minute of it.

I wouldn't count on that. There will be plenty of death, but I don't see everyone being killed off.

READ THEM NOW! DO IT!!!!

UK continuity played zero part in the US comics. Although Furman wrote both series, neither really crossed over sans three issues, and even those did not change any timelines.

Can someone explain the cover situation? I'm seeing some ads for one regular cover and two incentives, and then other sites show covers "A" and "B" so I am a bit confused.

Unfortunately, I didn't grow up with the TF comics; the only issues I ever read were one where Megatron killed Brawl, and another where Circuit Breaker had taken the '85 Autobots' faces and hung them on a wall. It must be why I'm having a hard time feeling these new issues; while the story looks promising (from what I've read of the summaries of the original 80-issue run)... I just can't with the overly organic-looking Transformers. Yeah, hurrah for nostalgia and bringing back fans who refuse to acknowledge anything past '86, but human-like wrinkles? Saliva? It just doesn't work well, IMO (and no, I didn't like Movie Starscream's incessant drooling either, but I do prefer their body designs to the way Wildman renders his G1 guys).

Wreckers!!!!!

The holodeck training reminds me of the excercises Spinister and the second Mayhem Squad were doing, just reversed... I guessed instantly though, that this was not real.

And Yay, Rack'n Ruin! PLus, Soundwave apparently has room in his chest cavity for some extra minions, the Deluxe Insecticons namely. Man, I hoped those guys would make it to Marvel continuity someday. Only Chop Shop and Venom ever appeared as hi-then-die Mayhem Squad members in the UK.

Still need time to get used to cartoon-colored Kup, though. And weren't Bludgeon's pants black, not blue?

The UK continuity is referenced, but not canon in this. Furman established this in interviews and his blog. (For the record, Venom and Chop Shop died in Time Wars as well).

And G2 will be integrated anew into this, hence Rotorbot Leadfoot there as a Wrecker.

SLAG YEAH, we want Bludgeon and Grimlock in this! What's your problem with that? Bludgeon is the last remaining Con leader out there, so of course he will be back. And Grimlock was and always will be a major character in TF mythos, especially Marvel. Or you prefer the bumbling "Me Grimlock Stooopid" cartoon version?

This comic is for fans of the old Marvel TF comics, and Furman - those who like me, signed the petition, so I would be disappointed if we did not get to see his favourite characters (Nightbeat and Swoop are given, too). If you don't like it, read the ongoing IDW universe comics instead.

One thing is not coming back, though - Unicron. Simon confirmed on his blog that he is gone for good, which might actually be a problem for the TF race.

I can't wait for this, I love Wildmans art and hopefully we will see some issues by Senior too.

I didn't realise until now that UK and G2 continuity weren't entirely canon in this relaunch. I wonder why not? Both contained some of Furman's best writing and stories. Plus, it's not like the audience for this comic won't be at least vaguely familiar with either, considering they're likely to be fans of the original or have access to Titan & IDW reprints or tfwiki etc. Why wipe those stories out of continuity just to use the likes of Roadbuster? The Wreckers could just as easily contain lesser known late G1 characters (ala LSOTW) or just the most warrior like Autobots (Sideswipe, Blades, Grimlock etc).

This Regeneration One is a continuation of the Marvel US series, not the UK one. The UK and the US comic runs were separate, and had no impact on one another. So, anyone who died in the UK version will still be alive in the US one.


The art is awesome. I miss it a lot, and can't wait for Wednesday to see it again live and in-color. I hate saying it, but the artwork on IDW's MTMTE really is childly cartoonish and makes me miss the old school artwork even more.

Well, technically, the UK run is an expansion of the US run - the UK run incorporates 99% of the US material and adds to it - so the US stories had impact.

I wouldn't call them separate either - Xarron and Deathbringer both originated in the UK run before cropping up in the US series. Sure, you can read the US run without the additional UK material, but so much of what occurred in the UK series now permeates Transformer fiction - from Impactor and the Wreckers to Primus and succession of Matrix bearers - that it seems bizarre to sideline it, particularly since Furman and Wildman cut their teeth on the UK continuity.

1. YES I do prefer the animated series to the comics. One thing that fumanites dont realize is that unlike most other comic series, Transformers is unique. Animation history and Comic book history were being made AT TGHE SAME TIME as each other. One universe is not more valid than the other. Transformers is not like every other comic book hero who later had an animated series "loosely based" on their comic. But that being said, if that is your assesment of Grimlock in the animated series, then I pity you.

2. If you read my original post, I gave Regen 1 praise for its artistic style. IDW current ongoing is crap. When you pick up a book, and they have to have character descriptions on the back page just so you can recognize who they are, that goes beyond artistic license IMHO. Sorry I'll go back and read All Hail Megatron 100 times, and then Dreamwave G1 ongoing a few more times if I want good Trasnformers comics, which are so very few and far between.

I'm glad you think that signing your little petition got you this book, whatever makes you feel better. If there was so much confidence in this project why limit it to 20 issues

To me the vintage coloring is'nt in play and that kind of hurts.

More like that Four page Transformers United comic last year.

Also there is a lack of motion lines in the fight between galvatron and kup. Which the old comics had. I just feel not doing this makes the action less fluid . Maybe their trying to be more Dramatic this way. But I hope I don't see Jets or cars implied to be moving without it. Because that's something that bugs me in Star Wars comics when the X-wings are just floating around like a diorama.

the motion of this chopped slent storytelling motif unsettles me.
Yeah its different than what I've been reading in IDW lately. Maybe I'm just having trouble adjusting to it.

Don't like the designs... They look like people wearing transformer costumes...

I may just get this once it becomes a Trade since not only did I miss out on the free 80.5 issue, I have no idea whats going on with this story in the first place.

And don't know which books to read or if they're even around in order to catch up on it.

Well, to some extent, that's not really true. The early G1 comics were written by the guy who was responsible for developing Transformers from the ground up, and who created all the characters. In many cases, the versions of those characters who popped up on the cartoon were just watered down or outright corrupted versions of their "real" personalities, which were to be found in the original Tech Specs (and for the most part, in the Marvel Comics). Certainly, the fact that the cartoon was available to all kids, regardless of whether they owned many toys or purchased comic books, contributed to it's prominence in the Transformers canon, but I wouldn't say that that it is on precisely equal footing with the comics either.

During that brief phase in Marvel when Grimlock started falling into the personal-pronoun challenged imbecile from the cartoon, it felt like a profound selling-out. If nothing else, Furman at least dialed that back.

Oh save your pity.

No, that is actually Grimlock in the animated series. There's an adorable charm to him, sort of like a really comically stupid irish setter or an 7-year-old with delusions of grandeur, but there is no denying that he was an idiot, and by Season 3 was little more than a sideshow clown.

Actually, the character models for Transformers in IDW haven't been this consistent for literally years, and they're far more identifiable than they were during Figueroa's run on the Ongoing, as well as being more traditional and G1-reminiscent. Overall, the dynamism and general draftsmanship is superior to the Pat Lee stuff at Dreamwave as well.

I will say that Regeneration doesn't interest me... really at all. I'm also one of the few All Hail Megatron supporters out there... it has some great stuff in it and receives way more flak than it deserves. But nobody in their right mind would deny that the current MTMTE series is likely the best ongoing writing this brand has had... probably ever. The RID series is good as well, and the characters look pretty recognizable as well, despite being in "cybertronian" form. Maybe you should try that.

Wow, that's ignorant. Actually 20 issues is a shockingly confident long-term commitment for a miniseries. \The reason it's limited to 20 issues is because it was, from its very point of conception, a final resolution for Marvel's TF continuity. It is inherently an open-and-shut storyline, and an ultimate conclusion for what has been for a decade a dead continuity. The fact that IDW gave it 20 issues is pretty amazing. And it's been confirmed that the demonstration of fan enthusiasm for the project online (ie: petitions) was the driving force behind IDW going ahead with this (not surprising since the online TF fandom is pretty much the primary reading audience for the series).

So, uh... yeah. Your sarcasm and general snarkitude is misplaced.

zmog

wish they wouldnt have scrapped G2

Wish they would have done this between the two series or after g2

Because of that I am not buying the series, BUT it does look fun, does look great and very much like the g1 comic marvel did. Wish G2 LOOKED this good ( story was fine but the art was terrible )

Hope it goes VERY WELL for IDW, so well they rethink the 20 issues for you guys who dont mind scrapping G2

maybe simon will tie in the loose ends of G2

He mentioned on his blog that Jhiaxus will appear and will be a key player in the series. G2 will happen here too (here is Leadfoot amongst the wreckers, for example!) just not the same way. I know, it's odd for him to disregard the 12 issues of G2... but I can understand why. He always had to work in marvel by shoehorning his stories into Budiansky's stories... I can understand why he doesn't want to write a series that will just end with a "see the rest in Marvel G2, released 1994!" blurb.

Yes, that IS Grimlock of the cartoon. Especially in Season 3. And the other dinobots did not even have that much character development as him. In the comics we got the sociopath Slag, the nice guy with authority issues Swoop, or the dumb but gentle Sludge who is just too big to move around without breaking anything.
I said nothing about validity, both Grimlocks exist... both are G1 Grimlocks. But you gotta consider why all new material like WFC or the new comics use the smart, ruthless comic incarnation of Grimlock rather then the stupid one.

You are... sarcastic, I think? Or maybe you live in some odd upside down mirror universe? Dreamwave G1, and especially AHM, have been horrible comics, AHM being the worse of the two. And James Roberts is the guy who even makes me, an avid fan of Furman, to acknowledge him as currently the best TF writer in existence. LSTOW and MTMTE are masterpieces. I have re-read them a lot of times... while AHM, I am even trying to forget, especially the many issues where nothing at all happens, or Spike (I am a MAAAN!!!) Witwicky and how the previous hero got killed off-screen just to shoehorn him into the story. Or the toy-advertisment body changes without any reason whatsoever...

Most new comic arcs get a 6 or 5-issue run, so a 20-issue run is indeed a LOT. And if you would kindly look up your facts before trolling, you'd see it was Furman himself who WANTED this to be 20 issues long, to end the Marvel G1 series on issue #100. But hey, you obviously know better!