Heute war es soweit. Das IDW Comic Transformers Regeneration 1 Heft 81 ist erschienen und dazu wurden auf der Transformers Seite auf Facebook die ersten Seite online gestellt. Die Macher des Comics, Simon Furman, Andrew Wildman und Stephen Backerville haben dort auch ihre Kommentare hinterlassen.

PAGE 1: Bludgeon versus Kup, and we’re back in the original continuity. You guys have must thought this day would never come?

SIMON FURMAN: Yeah, it was strange (but nice) to slip back into this, and really tough to know how to start such an important issue. I’m always very aware of splash pages and not wasting them, so I wanted a big, bold image to kick off with, preferably action-orientated. The title of the story (back on the splash page – another nod to the old Marvel G1 comic), and the first story arc, is “Loose Ends,” and I wanted to establish exactly what that meant (and who those loose ends were) right up front. Of course, it’s kind of a “knowing” title too, because part of what we’re doing with Regeneration One is tying up loose ends. And Bludgeon? Well, to me, he’s one of the most visually exciting of all the Transformers, and Andrew always seemed to like drawing him, so it just made a lot of sense.

ANDREW WILDMAN: Are we really doing this thing? Amazing, isn’t it. I thought that it may come around at some point given that there has always been so much interest in that old storyline but to finally be here is a little odd. Feels like one of those ’80’s band revival things. Let’s hope it satisfies the 20 year wait. That opening page certainly gets things going with a bit of velocity.

STEPHEN BASKERVILLE: I thought two things when I saw Andrew’s pencils for this page; the first was “Wow, that’s exciting!,” and the second was “Yikes! Look at all that background jungle stuff I have to ink!”

JOHN-PAUL BOVE: My reaction was “look at all that background jungle stuff I have to color!” I wanted to have a slightly sickly look to the environment to emphasize that it’s not Earth.

Diskussion: hier!