Great news!! and I'll be on the look out for this!! Thanks IDW! Nice to see that our votes did count!  

 

I just hope demand translates into sales.

 

I just hope there's a decent marketing push by IDW.

 

For the first time in 20 years I will be buying single issue comics. Here's hoping the stories are well done and the sales figures are impressive!

 

THIS .... this is going to be awesome. I love all the iconic background images from past issues. Megaton and Ratchet fused. Fortress Maximus' shattered face ... Bludgeon. Cold hard slag in a great way!

 

I'm totally in on this...

BUT

I was really really hoping that we wouldn't jump ahead 20 years and then pick up. They should have numbered it accordingly if they were going to jump ahead that far... #250 would be a more apt number to start at (depending on what month the first issue is going to start). Now we've got tons of stuff that we're going to miss...

The good news: G2 is being ignored. I hated the G2 comics. I can't even finish reading the TPB's I have because they're so awful...

Too bad they didn't use the logo the comics had after #50...

 

I hope alter-future Galvatron shows up. That plotline was never truly tied up.

 

I'm hoping they are able to eliminate the actionmaster effects of nucleon in a decent way and make them Transformers again.

 

Since when exactly does issue number have anything to do with time passed in a comic book?

 

I think simon had a lot of plans around its effect not just turning tfs into action masters, I hope we see that played out and then a good reason given for a "cure".

 

When I read the G2 comics, I'm not seeing whats printed on the page. I'm seeing what I am imagining I would do if I had some artistic talent to redo the G2 comics. Not just recolor them but actually rewrite them. Artwork, characters, characterisation and story. Nothing would be safe from being changed. If the end product is only vaguely similar to the actual G2 comic but I'm happy with it then so be it. Thats what I'm seeing.

Jhiaxus' Decepticons would now resemble the movie Decepticons in aesthetic while the regular Autobots and Decepticons remain a more traditional aesthetic.

but that would be dumb. what happened previously would be told in flashbacks. this isn't an ongoing series, its only going to last until #100.

 

While it's getting a bit old and not dedicated to any particular storyline, the TF: The Ultimate Guide book by Furman says that Grimlock and co eventually decided to purge the nucleon from their bodies like it was no big deal. He obviously had whatever outline for post-80 issues he had already made in mind there, so I don't think it will be a big problem.

 

I guess my point is that if you're going to continue the numbering as if it had never ended, you should also continue the story as if it hadn't ended. If the story is going to jump ahead 20 years, I thought maybe the issue number should reflect never having stopped publication in 20 years. That's all. A LOT can happen in 20 years (consider how much changed in just 6 years) and it could be an entirely different universe than we were familiar with (and loved).

Regardless, I'm in. I just hope there's lots of flashbacks so we don't feel we missed something.

 

I can't wait   Oh I don't know if anyone else mentioned this or not "Free Comic Book Day" is always the first Saturday of May each year, it is on May 5th this year.

 

Thats not how numbering of issues worked anywhere ever.

It did end. Nobody is pretending that it didn't. Now its back. Your idea would just confuse and annoy people.

 

Actually, it was kinda cool back in the day when Quantum & Woody did it. The book went on hiatus for a year and when it returned it picked up with #32 (#17 was the last issue published). They even had #32 as part 3 of a 4 part story... jumping the reader right into it. The next month they went back and did #18 so people could see what led up to that... Alas, the whole company went under before it all saw fruition, but I think it was a cool idea.

Anywho...

 

Speculate on what's in issue #80.5? Hmm, and it's a "Free" book?

I'm guessing an 11 page summery of the Marvel run with clipped art and some poor intern trying to write in a narative (which will be poorly edited and less acurate than 90% of the TF history available online) followed by 2 pages of Preview art, (some not even inked & colored) a preview of the cover of issue #81, a letter from the editor and 7 pages of adds for Infestation 2!

What do I win if I guessed correctly?

 

Don't be silly. Furman would stake Chris Ryall through the heart if that happened.  

Nice cover! It's kinda small, but in the background I can make out Prowl,Thunderwing, Unicron, Fort Max (damaged from his fight with Galvatron), Grimlock throwing a tantrum, the Ratchet-Megatron fusion, Nightbeat and someone else being awed by some light, Bludgeon, Shockwave and what looks like the Moon.

I still can hardly believe this is happening. We have waited so long... but it was worth it.  

 

I'm right with you... and I've NEVER been cover completionist, but come on... it's the Marvel TF saga. THE definitive Transformers tale. It has to be done!

Only disappointment? Waiting until May...

 

That's something that a few of the comic companies did in the past, but that has pretty much stopped. Find a copy of GI Joe 155.5 to get an idea of what you're in for. As far as I know, it was a shorter than normal book, but still a book with new art and story.


also to reiterate...op has the date wrong.. it's MAY 5th...