IDW'S MEGATRON EXPANSION

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IDW'S MEGATRON EXPANSION



IDW Publishing has released details of the expansion of its Transformers: All Hail Megatron series.

Starting with #13 in July, IDW will publishing four monthly issues that will detail with the aftermath of previous 12 issues of the All Hail Megatron series and help set up IDW's next big Transformers storyline.

"The All Hail Megatron series is hugely popular with fans, and for good reason, it's striking off in a bold new direction while showing Transformers to the classic Transformers series," said Andy Schmidt, IDW's Transformers editor. "We decided to do the extension because we didn't want to leave fans hanging, and because we wanted to segue into our upcoming Transformers series."

In Transformers: All Hail Megatron #13, Ironhide and Optimus Prime deal with the fallout of All Hail Megatron, and the Decepticons begin to probe the mysteries of the Autobot Matrix. All Hail Megatron #14 offers a glimpse into the motivations of the traitorous Sunstreaker, while Galvatron undergoes a major transformation, setting up important events to come.

The short stories in Transformers: All Hail Megatron #13-16 feature a team of writers and artists, including Simon Furman, Shane McCarthy, Mike Costa, Andy Schmidt, Denton Tipton, Nick Roche, Zander Cannon, Guido Guidi, Chee, Emiliano Santalucia, Andrew Griffith, Casey Coller and Don Figueroa. Each issue will feature variant covers by the cover artist of the series, Trevor Hutchison.


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[Omega Steve]

I'm really excited about this. The 11 page format worked great when Marvel UK did it in the 80s and it'll be cool to get two stories per issue. I hope they cram a decent amount of story so it's not a quick read. AHM has really improved as the series has gone on, so I for one have no problem with it continuing in this way.

[zedebo]

Looking forward to the return of Galvatron and Cyclonus, hope Simon Furman's writing that one.

[partholon]

you know i really do hope they run with this "the decepticons have won" angle.

we get the gold that is the bots being a vastly outnumbered gurella force that always makes em more heroic, which lets be honest is when prime looks most like prime and harkens back tothe ol G1 comic continuity wherein they lost all of cybertron the cons before prime ascended to leadership, and for the first time not only get to hear about but SEE a decepticon masterplan put into effect.

i guess what i keep thinking of is imagine if "the age of apocalypse" in the x men books way back when wasnt just a gimmick but the ACTUAL contitnuity of the book.

the change really could be that radical

its pretty ballsy of ryall and co and i cant wait to see what furman makes of it as this sort of stuff brings out the best in him. the way things are going im actually starting to think the EU IS going to nuke new york at the end of issue 12