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Hier haben wir die Vorschau zum IDW Comic More Than Meets The Eye Heft 10.

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Wir haben hier ein Interview mit John Barber über das IDW Transformers Comic Robots in Disguise Heft 11. Dazu gibt es auch gleich neue Seiten aus diesem Heft.

Aaron Long: In Transformers: Robots in Disguise you just took Optimus Prime on a mind-bending adventure through space and time. Can you discuss how this has mentally prepared him for what is occurring on Cybertron?

John Barber: Well, his focus is decidedly not on Cybertron at the moment. Optimus Prime–or Orion Pax as he’s calling himself these days–exiled himself from the planet responded to a call from some other Autobots in space who were guarding the captured mad scientist Jhiaxus. Who promptly escaped, and Pax and the other Autobots followed, and just found themselves in a… well, you were right to call it “mind-bending.” They found themselves caught in a situation that seems like it was carefully orchestrated by Jhiaxus’ student, Shockwave. From Pax arriving, to Jhiaxus’ escape, to the search for the 13 Ores that Shockwave planted in different worlds–all of it seems like part of a big master plan. Shockwave is back on Cybertron, pulling strings from a distance. He’s been unusually quiet during the rebuilding of Cybertron that Robots in Disguise has been focusing on–but his movements have become more overt. This will actually come to a head in the next issue of RID, #11 (that the exceptional Guido Guidi drew). Now some ‘bots on Cybertron know that Shockwave is up to something–and nobody’s going to be happy with that. But there are plenty of other Transformers with agendas and big plans competing on Cybertron… But in the respect of knowing that Shockwave has his fingers (plus his gun-hand) in some off-world actions–in that respect, Orion Pax has some crucial information for Cybertron… but Cybertron’s going to have some other problems to deal with first, in the form of the looming elections between Bumblebee, Starscream, and Metalhawk. And, er, maybe a surprise dark horse candidate, in a manner of speaking.

AL: The series has been focusing on two of the most cunning and devious characters in the Transformers Universe: Shockwave & Jhiaxus. From a plotting perspective, is it difficult keeping the machinations of this pair going forward without giving away too many details too quickly?

JB: Like I said, Shockwave was keeping pointedly quiet through most of RID. Suspiciously so. Keeping track of what he was doing behind the scenes, and when he was doing what–well, that’s part of the overall story going on. Lots of characters have secret goings-on, so it’s part of the challenge to keep up with everybody. What they’re saying versus what they really mean, and who’s really controlling who.

AL: In the upcoming issue you will be bringing back “an old friend”. Can you discuss the impact of this character’s return on the series? Will the tensions on Cybertron be pushed even further to the breaking point with their arrival?

JB: Tensions will be pushed very much past the point of breaking. Everything comes apart in issue 12.

AL: As an editor as well as a writer, do you find it hard to turn off ‘editor-mode’ while scripting? Or are you constantly reviewing your script as you would something written by someone else?

JB: Well, that’s healthy. I mean, if you write and don’t look at your work with a critical eye–don’t edit yourself at all–you’ve got a serious problem. I mean, you have to just press through things sometimes, write through stuff that isn’t working and then come back to it later and make it work. But it’s not like the “writer” part of me doesn’t care about story logic or the “editor” side doesn’t care about making it exciting. They’re on the same side. Carlos Guzman, who’s my actual editor on RID, he’s utterly invaluable to the process. He looks at the scripts and tells me what’s not working and his instincts are dead on. Likewise Michael Kelly at Hasbro, who’s also really involved in all this. But, well–important tip for anybody that wants to write comics: DEFINITELY REVIEW YOUR SCRIPT AS YOU WOULD SOMETHING WRITTEN BY SOMEONE ELSE. That is literally the only way anybody but you will ever read your stuff.

AL: Any final words for Comicosity’s readers regarding Transformers: Robots in Disguise?

JB: Thanks for everybody that’s been reading! The response has been phenomenal to this and our sister title, TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. Both our 2012 Annuals just sold out at the distributor level (meaning your store might have some copies left but they can’t order more–and stores are definitely trying!) so we’re going back to press on them. People’s excitement is still high on these comics! If you haven’t tried the book–or you’ve never read a Transformers comic before–give it a try! As our readers can attest–it’s not what you expect. Artist Andrew Griffith and I try to mix politics, action, intrigue, and powerful personalities in every issue–and things are really coming to a boil now, as we close in on the climax of our first big story.

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Heute können wir euch ein Interview mit Alex Milne zum Transformers Comicbuch More Than Meets The Eye Volume 2 zeigen.

Q: Hi Alex. We’re almost at end of the first year of More Than Meets the Eye. How have you been finding it working on the book?
ALEX MILNE: Has it been a year already? Wow, I guess it has. Where does the time go? So, how has the first year of MTMTE been? It’s been a real joy to work on. I don’t think there has been a Transformers book that I’ve worked on where I have had this much fun. I’m always excited to work on the next issue, even when I’m feeling drained.

Q: Compare the book from 12 months ago to where you are now. Has the direction it has gone in surprised you at all?
ALEX MILNE: That’s an interesting question since James always writes something that surprises me. It’s always exciting to get the next script to find out what going to happen next. Sometimes that can be a bad thing too, but only due to that fact that it makes me want to work on what’s coming up now. Like now, I’m working on issue 12, but I had a couple things mentioned to me about what’s happening in issue 14-16, and I now want to jump to work on those things since they will be epic. James sure does know how to keep me excited to draw. Throw a little tidbit out of what’s coming up and I just get all excited to work and get to that point.

Q: From all of the characters that you’ve had to design for the book, is there one in particular that you’re proud off? And would you change any if you were allowed to?
ALEX MILNE: Hmmmmm, it’s really hard to pick just one of them. I suppose if I can only pick one, then I would have to say Tarn. I love creating bad guys, and when I got the description of him, I knew he had to look like someone not to be messed with. He took a fair bit of time to come up with, but he wasn’t the hardest of the Decepticon Justice Division to design (that was Kaon) but I can say I spent a good day on the head design for Tarn until I came up with the final for him. Cover 7 is still one of my favourites ’cause it’s all a headshot of Tarn.
I don’t think I would change any of the MTMTE designs. Nick [Roche, who drew issue 1 of the series] did a great job creating most of the main cast, and I really enjoy drawing those designs, so no, I wouldn’t change any of them.

Q: How have you found the challenge of doing a monthly book? Has it been okay or a bit harder than you may have anticipated?
ALEX MILNE: Overall, I’ve found it to be as I expected for a monthly book. A lot of hard work. Each issue of MTMTE is just crammed full of TF goodness. There are issues that are harder then others, but that only natural depending on the story you’re trying to tell. I think the only thing that has been hard to deal with has been a few personal and family issue that have popped up over the last year, and it has been a bit rough at times to juggle them and work at the same time. Hopefully I’ve done a good job of keeping on track, but there have been times where it has been a little taxing. Everyone has been very supportive and I try to make the book the best I can.

Q: Do you have a favorite issue for the first year of MTMTE?
ALEX MILNE: Let me see. That’s also a tricky questions, since there are so many that I like. I’ll say issue 6. The whole story of Fort Max and Rung was just too good. I remember when I originally read the script for 6, I thought it was one of the best stories James has written. I also love to see books that Nick draws [like issue 6 was]. So yeah, issue 6 all the way. But I will say that issue 11 is also epic, but that hasn’t come out yet.

Q: Would you say that you have changed much in the last 12 months as an artist and how you approach drawing the book?
ALEX MILNE: I would say yes. Part of being a artist is that you’re always changing how you do things. I look back at even the first issue of MTMTE that I worked on, and there are things I have changed in the current books. MTMTE is a very expressive book, and I really couldn’t approach it the way I did with the Ongoing [series that preceeded More Than Meets the Eye and Robots in Disguise]. Even with Ongoing issues 22 and 23, I was playing around with how I did things. It’s a really fun book to work on, and I feel it allows me to have fun while drawing it. As I said earlier, this is the first Transformers book I’ve worked on where I’m always having fun working on it, even when it’s a pain in the butt at what James asks me to draw. Overall, its just been great fun to work on, and hopefully that comes through in the pages ;0

Q: How have you found the fan reaction to the book, at the various shows and cons that you’ve attended throughout the year?
ALEX MILNE: That’s a very funny question, since I’ve only done one convention this year. I will be at another one in a about a week or so, so that will be 2 for the year. MTMTE has kept me very busy that I haven’t really been able to go to many conventions at all. A bit sad, but it had to be done. So the first con that I went to was back early in the year, I think only issue 3 had come out by then, so the buzz was just starting up with the fans. I guess I’ll see in a week how it’s doing now. Issue 10 should be out by the time this convention I’m attending rolls around, so it should be interesting. Hopefully I’ll get a lot of requests to draw Rung and Swerve. ;)

Q: If you could have any character from the series you’ve designed appear in a future TV show, which one would it be and who would you have voice them?
ALEX MILNE: Aghhhhhh, what’s with these questions where you make me pick only one? It’s so hard. So I’m going to pick two. I would like to see Rung appear in a show, and voiced by Brent Spiner or David Hyde Pierce. Those were the two voices I had in mind when designing him back in Ongoing. I push more towards Brent, since I’m a huge Star Trek fan, and having Mr. Data voice a character of mine would be the bee’s knees. My second pick would be Tarn, and have him voiced by Keith David. He’s the voice of Goliath from Gargoyles, and I feel he would suit Tarn perfectly.

Q: Is there anything you can say about what we might see in the last batch of issues from the first year of MTMTE?
ALEX MILNE: You will see pain. You will see suffering. You will see death. You are about to move into areas of MTMTE containing wonders more incredible then you can possibly imagine, and terrors to freeze your soul. It’s wondrous. With treasures to satiate desirers both subtle and gross, but it’s not for the timid. So, fun times all around.

Q: Obviously you and James Roberts have hit your stride on MTMTE this year. How would you describe the process you go through to make an issue into what it is?
ALEX MILNE: Well James writes its. I then read it, then cry and complain about it for a whole day. After the tears of my free time wash away, I start making thumbnails of every page. I mark some of the characters expressions in the thumbnails, then I send them to James and we go over them. I will tell him why I think a panel works better a different way, or which panel visually I feel need to be stronger. We have a good chat about it, then when we’re both happy, I go off and draw up the pages. Sometimes I’ll have a panel where I re-read the script to see whose talking, then I might play around with that panel to make it easier for the word bubbles to fit. There have been a couple times where the final image of a panel is completely different from my thumbnail. Then I ink them and send them over to Josh Burcham to be coloured. Pretty basic stuff.

Q: Is there any hints or words you can say about what the second year of MTMTE has in store for the fans?
ALEX MILNE: It’s not for the timid.

Q: In the next 12 months, do you have any more ambitions you’d like to fulfill or have any expectations about where you’d like to be?
ALEX MILNE: That’s a good question. There are a few things that I would like to do, and I am working slowly on, but I’m pretty happy working on MTMTE right now. Who knows what the future will have in store for me. Only time will tell!

Gleichzeitig können wir euch mitteilen, das es Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye Volume 3 auf amazon.com bestellen.

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Heute zeigen wir euch, welche Comics im Januar von IDW kommen.

Spotlight: Thundercracker!
All this, and in More than Meets the Eye #13: Swerve tries to teach Ultra Magnus how to have fun! Read on to check out the full solicits for the Transformers books only, or open that link above to check out everything coming out from IDW in January.

TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE ONGOING #13
(W) James Roberts (A) Guido Guidi (CA) Alex Milne, Nick Roche SHORE LEAVE! The AUTOBOTS visit the planet Hedonia-and get a chance to put recent events behind them, ingest some energon, and relax. Everyone, that is, except SWERVE, who faces the toughest challenge of his life: in just six hours, he has to teach ULTRA MAGNUS how to have fun.
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TRANSFORMERS PRIME RAGE O/T DINOBOTS #3 (OF 4)
(W) Mike Johnson, Mairghread Scott (A) Agustin Padilla (CA) Ken Christiansen SPAWNS OF SHOCKWAVE! The mind-blowing introduction of the DINOBOTS into the PRIME universe continues here! The Dinobots enter the belly of the beast in an attempt to save their comrades. But when SHOCKWAVE’s minions turn the tables, GRIMLOCK will have to decide whether to beat them…or join them!
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TRANSFORMERS REGENERATION ONE #87
(W) Simon Furman (A) Andrew Wildman (CA) Andrew Wildman, Guido Guidi WAR CRY! The conquest of IACON begins in earnest, as SCORPONOK’s game-changing strategy threatens the very nature of what it means to be AUTOBOT… Or DECEPTICON! And HOT ROD begins his own personal odyssey to the very heart of CYBERTRON-where ancient forces are stirring!
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TRANSFORMERS REGENERATION TP VOL 01
(W) Simon Furman (A) Andrew Wildman, Stephen Baskerville (CA) Andrew Wildman The TRANSFORMERS comic that began it all-is back. With a vengeance! 21 years have passed since CYBERTRON was restored to its former glory, and finally there is peace. But, after millions of years of bitter civil war, can all ever truly be one?
$19.99

TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE ONGOING #13
(W) John Barber (A) Andrew Griffith (CA) Casey Coller, Andrew Griffith ON THE PROWL! It’s “no more mister nice guy,” as CYBERTRON burns and one AUTOBOT is all that stand between order and anarchy. Meet the new PROWL-deadlier than ever, colder then any other AUTOBOT, and ready to end the DECEPTICON threat-forever.
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TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT THUNDERCRACKER #1
(W) John Barber (A) Chee (CA) Chee, Livio Ramondelli In the dark days of the war for Cybertron, THUNDERCRACKER had a special mission-one never revealed before! Now, as he faces off against BUMBLEBEE for the first time, the fate of METROPLEX-and an entire civilization-is at stake!
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MARS ATTACKS TRANSFORMERS (ONE SHOT)
(W) Shane McCarthy (A) Matt Frank (CA) Ray Dillon The weekly invasion continues: AUTOBOTS vs. DECEPTICONS vs…. MARTIANS?! The invaders from Mars take advantage of the colossal Cybertronian’s conflict and begin their assault on Earth in full force. It’s Martian vs. Machine as the audacious Autobots and the devilish Decepticons begrudgingly join forces to repel the inhuman invaders and save the planet!
$3.99

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Auch heute zeigen wir euch das neuste Mosaic der Woche.

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Auf der NYCC wurden auch das kommende Comic von IDW vorgestellt. Rage of the Dinobots ist wohl der Titel und wenn ich das richtig verstanden haben, wird es zwischen Fall of Cybertron und Beast Hunters erscheinen. Hier schon mal ein paar Bilder.

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Hier kommt die Vorschau zum IDW Comic Transformers Regeneration One Heft 84.

Dazu hat Schreiber Simon Furman auf seinem Blog ein Script veröffentlicht. Das könnt ihr hier lesen. ABER ACHTUNG!!! SPOILER!!!

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Hier haben wir das neuste Mosaic für euch.

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Heute zeigen wir euch die ersten Seiten zum kommenden Transformers Robots in Disguise Heft 10.

Quelle: comicbookresources.com

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