IDW’s New Transformers Comic Series: Malkova Cover Art

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  1. weevil

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    Cyclonus\'s design is based on CW cyclonus.

    I wonder if Cyclonus used mind control to combine with other robots into Galvatronus.
     
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    This is the most stoked I've been for Transformers comics on ages.
     
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    I forget what led me down this path but I was speculating a few weeks ago that maybe the WFC Reboot could have the Ark and Nemesis bots leave and introduce Galvatron and upgrade Hot Rod to Rodimus after the launch. (I think I was speculating Galvatron as an upgraded Straxus as a Marvel nod. But maybe with some Serpentor elements with Shockwave playing Dr. Mindbender.)

    So the movie characters would now occupy the three million years or however long between the Ark launch and the space bridge.

    There are strengths to that. It gives them a key place in the lore and a huge window of activity without upsetting the more classic S1-2, Animated, Prime, Bayverse dynamic of Prime and his team on earth.

    You get away from all the “TFTM RUINED MY CHILDHOOD” takes and really amplify Rodimus, Kup, Arcee, Blurr, etc. as the torchbearers in a lost era that was originally just Shockwave and some minions vs. Fembots and Alpha Trion.
     
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    Not really surprised to see Cyclonus here, I think people forget that in IDW the eight spotlight was Galvatron. Hope he\'s not a timetraveller or anything like that, I like Cyclonus being just a Decepticon or Neutral. Still super prefer his skull face in IDW, but hell, his skull face has been ignored by pretty much every subsequent artist after milne, and turning his jaw into just... holes in his face. Still, I still vastly prefer this over Lawrence\'s Cyclonus.
     
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    Oh, I like this! The shading, the lines, and the color palate remind me of Samurai Jack, which I quite like. And of course, it's Cyclonus, which makes the whole thing objectively cool!
     
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    Nice art.

    I'm gonna jump on board with this and see where it goes. I gave up on IDW's first run at Transformers finding it a confusing mess of intertwined timelines....only to learn later that MTMTE/Lost Light was one of the best books on the news stands.
     
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    So we doin the whole Megatron and Galvatron are seperate bots thing again? Can we make it less convoluted this time please?
     
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    No it just means cyclonus is just cyclonus. Nothing to do with galvatron
     
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    I'm glad to see classic Cyclonus bunny ears!! :D 

    Let's hope they just do one or 2 series and keep things in order and not a ton of different series that overlap with their own numbering system and dozens of one-shots. TMNT was the same way. You shouldn't need a guide to figure out how to read in order. Or at least do what DC used to do (and all comics should do) have a chronological order at the top of the cover, especially when there's a crossover but even when there's not. It makes rereading possible. Even with a guide, Unicron still feels so out of order and like we're missing stuff. Not that it's needed but it feels really disjointed and convoluted. I really did enjoy the IDW TF universe. Especially before All Hail Megs, All Hail Megs, and then again after Dark Cybertron. It was iffy when they tried to force Mask and Visionaries, etc... into it.
     
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    That’s my problem I’m facing. I didn’t read IDW while it is going on, but I really like some of the story arcs I’ve been hearing about; yet I can’t figure out where to start and what to skip. (Granted I could probably just buy the hardcover and just elimate some of the guesswork but still...)
     
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    Cyclonus? Alright! Glad to see it\'s not just about the 84 guys. He looks great. 
     
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    I hope he will be a Decepticon. And I hope he will play a role of importance. Also hope Galvatron and Scourge will play a big part and will be portrayed better than in the first IDW series.
     
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    I found this to be verrrrrry helpful. I'm all digital now and fortunately IDW lets you download the comics so I can keep folders with numbers and even sometimes put a number in front of the name like with Dark Cybertron or Unicron, etc...

    IDW's Transformers Chronological Reading Order Checklist
     
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    If he's based off his CW design then I'm guessing there's a chance that he'll be a combiner in this universe which is already a cool way to set him apart from the other Cyclonus's aside from the RID15 Cyclonus who was a combiner in that series.
     
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    Cyclonus and WB are based off of their last existing toys because no newer Generations toys were made for them.

    It doesn't mean that Cyclonus must end being a combiner torso or that the new IDW Windblade is a headmaster. It just means that the most up-to-date toyetic designs for them were those.
     
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    My preference if they go that route would be to make Galvatron a Serpentor type created by Shockwave after the Ark/Nemesis disappearance.

    Serpentor is one of those things that's an awkward fit in G.I.Joe but Shockwave is basically the Dr. Mindbender of TFs.

    And after Megatron disappears, there's a leadership vacuum. So Shockwave tries to create a composite Decepticon Emperor from the spark traces he can get of past great Cybertronian commanders (including traces of Megatron's spark DNA). But the result is a mad tyrant who is part Megatron but who has other voices in his head. Perhaps including fragments of Unicron.
     
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    While I'm really glad to see Cyclonus and the artwork isn't bad...

    ... I really dislike that CW design.

    I'm not a fan of all this artwork that's been released so far being fairly slavishly based on a toy. I'm probably on my own but I like my comic-art to look less like the toys and more like their own iterations.
     
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    I juuuuust noticed that too. The maybe G1 one but that body is definitely looks like the CW one.


    Nice:cool: 
     
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    I got really excited about this Cyclonus until I found out that it\'s just the Combiner Wars version again... * Sideshow Bob grumble *
     
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    How was Megatron and Galvatron being different guys convoluted in the first place?
     
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