Simon Furman has coughed up some information over at his blog on one of his recently announced books "Spotlight: Blaster." IDW Publishing editor-in-chief announced this book last week with newcomer Emiliano Santalucia on the penciling duties.

What Mr. Furman unveils is that Blaster will be not be just the cartoon version or Bob Budiansky's Marvel version, but "an amalgam of the two with a new twist." You will see two versions of Blaster, a before and after version, he says.

A before and after of what? Well, "let’s just say there’s an element of murder/mystery (without the murder per se) about this particular Spotlight," Mr. Furman teases. "[A]s a killer (and perhaps even a traitor) stalks the Autobot Command Hub, out [to] finish something they started a while ago." He says that the book will explore who the real Blaster is once his "larger-than-life bluff and bluster" has been stripped away.

Mr. Furman also hopes that this book will satisfy the people who felt that the Optimus Prime and Galvatron Spotlights were not self-contained enough books. Source: Simon Furman: the Blog