IDW Publishing has released its solicitation for titles coming out in May 2021. Check out the images and issue information below:
Transformers #31—Cover A: Diego "Novanim" Zúñiga
Brian Ruckley (w) • Anna Malkova (a) • Diego "Novanim" Zúñiga (c)“Lord of Misrule: Test Flight I”. Optimus Prime’s Autobots are starting to fray. They need energon and supplies that they just don't have access to. But Perceptor has a plan—if he can supercharge Jumpstream’s teleportation powers, the Autobots will have all sorts of new access to Cybertron. Of course, that relies on the experiment going right and things can never be quite so easy...
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers #31—Cover B: Chris Panda
Brian Ruckley (w) • Anna Malkova (a) • Chris Panda (c)*Retailer incentives:
Order 10 copies and get one free variant cover by George Caltsoudas!
Transformers Annual 2021—SPOTLIGHT
Brian Ruckley (w) • Alex Milne (a & c)“Light/Star”. Vigilem, an ancient force, a Cybertronian Titan, a seemingly unstoppable engine, broke the tether between Cybertron and its moon. Lodestar remains the only other active Titan and, together with her cityspeaker, Lightbright, has been tasked with bringing Vigilem home or taking him down. When Vigilem flees to a colony run by Thunderwing and his lackeys, Lightbright, Lodestar, and the Technobots will have to go on the most dangerous mission of their lives in pursuit of the Titan!
FC • 48 pages • $5.99
*Retailer incentives:
Order 10 copies and get one free variant cover by Freddie E. Williams!
Transformers, Vol. 4: Declaration of War
Brian Ruckley (w) • Anna Malkova, Fico Ossio, Beth McGuire-Smith (a) • Cryssy Cheung (c)
The bold new vision of the Transformers universe continues, filled with diplomatic drama, techno-thriller twists… and giant, sentient robots!
The Decepticons have officially overthrown the Senate–with the Autobots out of power and Sentinel Prime deposed, it looks like Megatron's vision of the future will take over. But not if the new Prime can rally what's left of Security Operations and the Senate Guard into a resistance! Meanwhile, with the Autobots and Decepticons declaring war on each other, a group of Cybertron's top scientists and diplomats launch a plan to get those uninterested in the fighting, including the alien A'ovan refugees living on Cybertron, a way out of the devastation to come.
Collects Transformers #25–30, the Valentine's Day Special one-shot, and Transformers: Escape #1–5.
HC • FC • $49.99 • 280 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-68405-806-8
Transformers: Beast Wars #4—Cover A: Josh Burcham
Erik Burnham (w) • Josh Burcham (a & c)
The Beast Wars rage on! When a seriously injured Maximal and a treacherous Predacon run afoul of an incredibly dangerous native beast, they’ll have to team-up to make it out alive. Even then, Megatron leads the Predacons on a hunting expedition for their traitor and their escaped captive, and they aren’t taking prisoners!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers: Beast Wars #4—Cover B: Dan Schoening
Erik Burnham (w) • Josh Burcham (a) • Dan Schoening (c)
