We have just stepped out of the IDW Publishing panel here at San Diego Comic Con 2012, and we have some great news for you! Not only will IDW be offering a comic to lead into the third season of Transformers Prime titled Rage of the Dinobots, but they have also announced an online-only comic book that will serve as the prequel to Transformers Fall of Cybertron video game. Learn about these books and much more in our panel report!
Panelists
John Barber
Carlos Guzman
Michel Kelly
Larry Hama
Chris Metzin
Flint Dilly
Livio Ramondeli
Andrew Griffith
Brendan Cahill
Matt Johnson
TRANSFORMERS
August is Dinobot Month!
More Than Meets the Eye
Grimlock Returns!
The story in August is pretty intense and there will be a Decepticon justice decision
Robots In Disguise
Rest of Dinobots will appear on Cybertron
Regeneration One
Grimlock Returns to Nebulon.
Simon Furman, of course, is back, along with Andrew Wildman on the pencils
Annual 2012
Primus
The character will interconnect both the More Than Meets the Eye and Robots In Disguise comics and the Transformers find an unexpected thing on Cybertron.
Fall of Cybertron Art Book
The Fall of Cybertron Art Book is a collaborative effort with Hasbro and High Moon and will offer a behind-the-scenes look of
Transformers Fall of Cybertron
Fall of Cybertron Prequel Digital Comic
Broken up into eight parts, the prequel series will be hitting online bi-Weekly stating in August
12. The series will offer the back story on the game and is written by John Barber with Dheeraj Verma on pencils.
Transformers Prime Rage of the Dinobots
Despite saying at BotCon 2012 that the company will be focusing on Transformers More Than Meets the Eye and Robots In Disguise books, IDW has come out and announced that they will be developing a Transformers Prime book that is in the same continuity as the show and will lead up to the third season of the television series.
The series will follow the continuity established in the show, game and comic and centers around the Dinobots taking their last stand on a dead Cybertron after the Autobots leave.
The Dinobots are a crack team of soldiers that are on their own against powerful forces and are working to save the planet.
This series will take into consideration the War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron as well as the Exiles and Exodus stories.
GI Joe
Ongoing
Issue 15 and 16 wrap story line
Snake Eye Storm Shadow
July and August will offer some surprises
Target Snake Eyes
The six part crossover will begin in October and will feature the stories offered in Snake Eyes Storm Shadow and GI Joe Ongoing
Cobra
Issues 15 and 16 in July and August will have a huge revelation of the story
Oktober Is Coming...
Promises new characters introduced in the Joe Universe
Real American Heroes
The special SDCC issue is being offered this weekend! September will see issue 183
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