Botcon Incentive Cover. Simon Furman (w); EJ Su (a); EJ Su, Milx, James Raiz, Ed McGuinness (c)
The new era for Transformers begins now! After too-long an absence, the Robots in Disguise are back in comics form! This is the beginning of an all-new storyline and continuity that relaunches the Transformers from the ground up. If you've always been curious about these giant, transforming robots, this is the perfect jumping-on point! In this specially priced introductory issue, legendary Transformers writer Simon Furman is joined by artist EJ Su in presenting 'Transformers: Prelude to Infiltration,' the opening salvo in an upcoming six-part saga that returns the Transformers to glory. In this 16-page tale, runaway Verity Carlo absconds with a mini-computer that just might hold bigger secrets than she's prepared to handle. And when she's made aware of a larger conspiracy that involves gigantic alien robots, well, the skeptic in her refuses to believe what she's been told. Until she has no choice but to believe if she wants to survive at all... also contained in this 0 issue are interviews with the Transformers comics creators and a hint of what's to come in our new, ongoing Transformers series in January '06. Plus, more variant covers than you can shake a Decepticon at!
*Covers will be shipped in a 1-to-1 ratio. Cover price $0.99.
by Sarracini, Raiz, Armstrong, & Wang
Optimus Prime and Megatron are back, but wait until you see their new designs! Plus, new Autobots and Decepticons! Old and new fans alike will revel in these updated versions of the classic transforming robots. Now you can explore the future of robots in disguise! Featuring a stunning triple-gate cover by James Raiz!
FC, 32pg $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
by Furman, Guidi, To, Curtis, & Cheung The fallout from the epic moon base saga continues.
Buried in the Alaskan ice in their escape capsule, the Mini-Con Street Speed Team await rescue. But will the Decepticon Thrust reach them first? Worse, Cyclonus is now a threat to Autobot and Decepticon alike! NOTE: Not available outside North America.
FC, 32pg $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
by Simon Furman, Don Figueroa, Elaine To, & David Cheung
It's a race against time to retrieve Optimus Prime from a devastated Cybertron, one on the verge of total destruction. The dimension-traveling Over-Run and a Mini-Con rescue team are assembled and ready, but the vessel is in possession of Megatron! Featuring new regular penciler Don Figureroa (Transformers: The War Within)!
by Simon Furman, Don Figueroa, Elaine To, & David Cheung
"Worlds Collide," the epic cross-Generation Transformers saga, continues! The fabric of time and space is being slowly but surely torn apart, a super portal forming between realities... one that heralds the beginning of the end for the entire Armada dimension! Jetfire and the Autobot forces on Cybertron attempt to seize control of the Decepticons' master Space Bridge Nexus, but their way is barred by a remorseless assassin, steeped in dark science, versed in chaos. If Jetfire fails... everybody dies!
FC, 32pg $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
Written by Simon Furman Penciled by Don Figueroa/Inked by Elaine To Colored by David Cheung
'Worlds Collide', the cross-generational epic, reaches its world-shattering (literally!) conclusion! As OPTIMUS PRIME faces doomsday on a CYBERTRON not his own, so JETFIRE stands ready on Armada CYBERTRON for one last, desperate attempt to avert the coming of Chaos! Whatever happens. the end is nigh! By the ultra-hot team of Simon Furman and Don Figueroa.
FC, 32pg $2.95 Monthly Cover price $2.95.
Written by Simon Furman Penciled by Guido Guidi Inked by Elaine To Colored by David Cheung
That's right... Energon! Ten years on, Unicron is back and hungry... for Energon! Earth's right back in the firing line as the great devourer strikes a deal with current Decepticon commander, Skorponok! What about Megatron? Well, trapped within Unicron as a disembodied Spark, his only hope is his former adversary... Optimus Prime! From Simon Furman and Guido Guidi! NOTE: This issue ships with 2 covers in equal ratio featuring art by Guido Guidi & Pat Lee!
FC 32pp $2.95 Monthly Cover price $2.95.
by Sarracini, Raiz, Armstrong, Wang & Yeung
Dreamwave continues to bring you the newest and most exciting Transformers title to date ? Transformers: Armada! In this issue, Megatron unleashes a sinister attack on planet Earth in his desperate attempt to capture the Mini-Cons and take over Cybertron. And you won't believe who wants to join him! Just who will fall prey to the lure of the Decepticons? Pick up Transformers: Armada #5 to find out!
FC, 32pg $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
by Furman, Lee, Armstrong, Wang & Yeung
Writer Simon Furman (Transformers: The War Within) and Transformers: Generation 1 artist supreme Pat Lee present a special, two-part Armada story! You'd think that Megatron ? powerful beyond measure in his own right and now further augmented by Minicon might ? would be content. Well, you'd be wrong. Now, Megatron is looking to forge the ultimate Minicon weapon, the Star Saber! As for Optimus Prime and the Autobots, their own Minicons are missing ? and with them their only chance of survival!
FC, 32pg $2.95 Cover price $2.95.
Written by Erik Burnham. Art and Cover by Dan Schoening. 'GHOSTS OF CYBERTRON', PART 4!
The Ghostbusters and their Autobot allies search the greater New York City area for the missing ghost of Starscream-and discover something much worse has been drawn to Earth. Can our heroes overcome this evil ectoplasmic entity before it utterly annihilates everything in order to achieve its ends? Find out in the penultimate chapter of this team up for the ages: TRANSFORMERS/GHOSTBUSTERS 'GHOSTS OF CYBERTRON' #4!
28 pages, full color. Cover price $3.99.
Retailer Incentive Cover with various Hand Sketches by Dan Kahnnan.
Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (w) Nick Roche (a)
The biggest event in IDW Publishing's history infects the TRANSFORMERS universe with this two-part, bi-weekly series written by Infestation architects Abnett and Lanning! BOOM! BAM! SMASH! Buildings are falling, and the dead are rising! When Big-Bad GALVATRON crash lands on Earth, something ain't right. It's up to our 'Bots-in-blue to run to the rescue or... well... EVERYONE to fight off not just Galvatron, but the zombie horde spreading through Las Vegas! FC
32 pages. Cover price $3.99.
Simon Furman (w), Mark Bright (a), Bright, Nick Roche, James Raiz (c)
Presenting a series of one-shots, focusing on some of the best-loved (or loathed) characters from the Transformers Universe. The spotlight falls on Nightbeat, as he investigates one of the greatest Cybertronian mysteries: the disappearance of the first Ark! However, some mysteries, it seems, are better left unsolved!
Guest-starring the MICROMASTERS?! By Simon Furman (The Transformers: Stormbringer) and Nick Roche (Transformers Spotlight: Shockwave).
FC, 32pgs$3.99 Cover price $3.99.
Limited 1 for 25 Retailer Incentive Variant Cover by Joe Corroney (W) Paul Crilley (A) Dheeraj Verma
The Lone Gunmen's trail of secrets leads them to evidence of extraterrestrial life - mechanical extraterrestrial life! Will OPTIMUS PRIME and his allies trust these human interlopers - and what secret conspiracy could involve CYBERTRON, anyway?!
Cover price $3.99.
