Transformers Movie Novel and Avengers Crossover Announced

At the New York Comic-Con some additional information was released in regards to publishing plans for Transformers. The first is information on the planed prequel novel for the Transformers move called "Transformers: Ghosts of Yesterday by Alan Dean Foster. The novel covers the discovery of Megatron in the Artic and what I presume is Sector 7 sending out a manned craft named Ghost 1 to find Cybertron.

The second announcement, not related to the movie but riding on its coattails, is the comic book New Avengers/Transformers 4 issue mini-series that has the G1 Transformers from IDW's line meet up with the New Avenger from Marvel Comics. The comic will be written by Stuart Moore with art by Tyler Kirkman. The storyline is out of continuity that pretends that Transformers have existed in secret on the Marvel Universe's Earth but forced out in the open due to a war that breaks out between Symkaria and Latveria (Fantastic Four's Dr. Doom country). The first issue is expected to be out around July 4th.

Transformers Movie Prequel Comics Interviews

Wizard spoke with Simon Furman, TF writer extraordinaire of 20 years about "Transformers: The Movie Prequel", the first issue of which will be out in stores tomorrow. The main thrust of the story will be two explain the events how the Allspark gets to earth and how Megatron and later the rest of the Transformers come to Earth along with the creation of the Sector 7 agency created to hunt down and destroy the TFs. The story opens in the middle of the Cybertronian War and mostly follows the point of view of Bumblebee who also seems to have eyes for Arcee (betting she dies in the series). The mini-series intends to align up with movie events so when read the comics and later see the movie, know what was going on.

The entire interview can be found here.

Transformers Prequel Comic Preview

Newsarama has posted up a 6 page preview of the Transformers move Prequel #1 comics that shows the events that lead to the Transformers arriving on Earth.

The solicitation for the issue:

Simon Furman & Chris Ryall (w), Don Figueroa (a & c); Josh Burcham (colors)

Before the live-action Transformers movie spectacularly explodes onto theater screens next summer, read the official beginning of the story right here! In this four-part prequel to the film, “Prime Directive” written by Ryall and Furman and featuring artist Don Figeruoa’s take on the movie characters, travel from CYBERTRON to Earth as we see what momentous events led to the Transformers bringing their war to our world. In issue one, BUMBLEBEE and a cadre of AUTOBOTS experience the lethal battle of Tyger Pax!

The story is written in part by Simon Furman who wrote many of the Transformers titles in the last 20 years for both US and UK markets. Artist Don Figueroa has been doing the artwork for Transformers since the Dreamwave days and has been an influence on some of the toys released especially the Titanium line. To my knowledge, the comic is mostly set on Cybertron and would show the cybertron modes of probably multiple Transformers in the style of the movie which probably means lots of bug faces and sharp parts. The first issue will be in stores February 21st.

For all six images, click here.