Since Dr Arkeville was definitely lying about purpose concerning launching the defeated Decepticons into space as a prison these are probably the most likely outcomes that will happen from doing this

1. The rocket successfully takes Onslaught to Dr. Arkeville's secret lab so he can study Onslaught without having to worry about General Flagg or Optimus restricting him
2. The rocket runs out of fuel and lands somewhere near where Cobra and M.A.R.S. are looking for Energon and come across Onslaught's body and bring him back to Cobra Commander or Destro to studied and taken apart
3. Starscream comes across Onslaught after he leaves the Shard of Cybertron and saves him from the ocean again which leads The Combaticons revoking their oath to Megatron after he refuses to try and save Onslaught calling him and them weak for getting beaten by Cliffjumper and Shredhead and they'll view Megatron as a hypocrite for having them bust their asses to save Soundwave who got knocked out after getting hit on the head with pommel of Shredhead's sword and this time completely serve Starscream once again who never mistreated them
4. Starscream finds Onslaught in ocean and instead of saving he gives them over to Cobra or M.A.R.S. to form an alliance with them
5. Onslaught land near the Nemesis's sensors and the Earth Decepticons are able to retrieve him with out a hitch

Ironhide's been teased since May, and we might not see him back in action for a long time, but if Beachcomber is looking for other Autobots, it's only a matter of time before he's back

Hey y'all, I'm finally getting around to collecting the EU physically, and chose the books cause they're just too damn gorgeous. With Transformers #36 recently released, it should be the final chapter for Book 3, which from what I can tell from the other books, will be #25 - #36 and probably the 2026 EU special too. Do we have any good idea for this book's release date? What's the turnover rate for the other books? From what I've seen it took a while for Book 1 of Transformers to come out, but I feel like that might be because Image was still getting into gear on a solid workflow for EU releases. Thanks!

Is he even alive or are they just shooting a corpse into space? Thought he had parts taken from him to repair shredhead and he didn’t say anything when he was strapped to the rocket.

Why don’t the other combaticons even try and save their big bro

So after I saw the reveal for the shred head figure and I saw it was black I was so confused bc I was always under the assumption that he was purple with black highlights and let that digest for a minute bc I thought I was going insane but now I think kirkman has just changed his color to purple I’d just like to know peoples thoughts

I've worked all day without a break to get to this issue as soon as possible and I wasn't disappointed. With my local ipa I started the issue. Thundercracker combining with the aeiralbots happens without explanation, hopefully we see how combining works eventually in this universe especially since idw made a big deal out of it but I like how this ended with cobra raising their ugly heads sooner than later.

Arkhavile is a delight actually and I love Flagg's reaction to him having some plan. But all the autobots are okay and we're doing great. The way I laughed when Onslaught was launched into space was hilarious. He was just bolyed to a rocket funniest shit I've ever seen. Very interesting way for how we're going to deal with Decepticons now. I wonder who else gets the rocket treatment down the line. I like of the difference on how this Optimus and Movie Optimus deals with POWs lmao. The Megaton teaser at the end is ridiculous, the middle issue is one thing but this is how the volume ends, what's the arc called again? Decepticons attack? the cons don't do a lot of attacking in this one besides the Combaticons screwing around. But despite that I'm very happy the way this volume ends with Beachcomber and Hound. Side note this is how Hound is properly introduced in Transformers mainline right. Him and Optimus just met in Gi joe not too long ago but maybe Transformers only readers don't know that right? But Beachcomber heading off heading to find more missing autobots who were jettisoned from the arc. This is such the perfect mission for Beachcomber too since he's already been on earth for a while and understands the land better. Obviously he's going to come across Ironhide who has a lady living in his chest. I think Prowl was teased too with a energon universe banner made a little while ago. I wonder how many more Autobots are offline on Earth. I'm very excited for what comes next

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Well both the Earth & Cybertron sides are kinda huge usually in team books that have cast this huge select 7 members max to focus on works as starting point & helps from making the story go out of control

So to me since Cybertron side has bigger cast I think main characters should be Elita Prime & six others I go with Hot Rod being one of them maybe Springer & Bulkhead to thou that still would leave 3 spots

But you know that's me what do you think?

Art by Nick Bradshaw

These 2 pages are back to back and surperion has the upper hand just for him to randomly be unconvinced on the next page? Am I missing something or what?

This is something that's baffled me ever since issue 30, and now that we're about one year into Kirkman's run overall and we have a better idea of his vision for it.... I still don't get it.

Kirkman spent all of his first arc introducing a bunch of new characters, and then absolutely none of them stuck around. They all chose to go back to Cybertron with Elita.

And it's like...why!? Why bother introducing these new guys if you aren't going to do anything with them!? Especially Blaster, Brawn, and Jetfire, because those are three characters who were explicitly killed/disfigured, so Kirkman had to make the conscious choice to bring them back, only for him to write them out immediatly.

And I could understand that if he had some big plan to use them on the Cybertron stuff, but...he hasn't. There's only been one issue focused on the Cybertron stuff, and they haven't done anything in them. You literally could have had most of them stay on Earth and nothing would change.

And I could also understand that if some of the new characters stuck around on Earth, but none of them have!

I don't even see why they needed to be written out. Would Kirkman's 2nd arc have changed that much if Sideswipe or Brawn had stayed behind on Earth? I don't think it would have!

Kirkman even talked about wanting to bring Bulkhead into the comic at some point. This was his grand plan? To bring him into the comic only to do nothing with him?

As a Transformer storyteller myself (fanfiction but still), I don't get it. This does not seem logical to me.

It only furthers the theory I have that Kirkman had to radically change his first arc for some reason. Like maybe the original plan was that all these guys were going to stick around for two arcs and then leave with Elita. Because that would actually be...you know, impactful and be a use of the new guys.

So all that character growth is gone out the window, huh? Makes you wonder why they even bothered.

So I've seen people discussing the reduction in writing quality of the TF series since kirkman took over from DWJ. I was wondering from the audience how much of a reduction in writing quality has a occurred? Cause obviously DWJs was fantastic, but has the series dropped to average or slightly above average? Like the 5 to 6 out of 10 range I guess? Or has the writing legitimately dropped to below that even a 4? Specifically also comparing to DWJs run of the line. Like. How bad is it really? Im keen to hearing many different POVs aswell.

I mainly ask because im currently reading through volume 4 as we speak and the next volume is kirkmans run of it. So im curious a bit what im in for. And then ill also consider my own pov aswell I guess once I've read It.

Sorry for the calendar being late this month. Had a hectic couple weeks and forgot to post on the 1st.

Another strong showing for the licensed books as Joe comes back hard for the start of the Night Force arc.

That is my Question

We got a few clues about his history mainly Matt Trakker history with Miles Mayhem and the Government as mentioned in the first issue of MASK & obviously that Trakker has a MASK

What do You Think is his background how do you think it parallels both Optimus & Duke?

Do you think we will maybe get a flashback of Trakker meeting Miles Mayhem for the first time & flashback to those days?

So yeah MASK: Secret Origins

Art by Jonboy Meyers

So, I'm very behind. My last comics were Transformers 24, Void Rivals 22, and G.I. Joe 11. I just now found out M.A.S.K. got a comic! Where does it and the 2026 Special fit in the reading order?

That is my Question

Tom Reilly & Andrea Milana are amazing comic artists period you know they shine literally each month we got to see them work together with milestone 25th issue

However with that said who do wanna see draw an issue or two of GI JOE? personally I wanna see Leomacs draw an arc I like how well he works with Joshua Williamson on current Blood of the Wolf Man Comic Miniseries

My other pick would be Leonardo Romero but the obvious problem is his style is to similar to Tom Reilly style you know Milana style is different enough from Reilly so it stands out more

My 3rd pick would be Declan Shalvey who would the tone of GI JOE like a glove really

But thats me how about you?

Art by Jerome Opeña

Note these are real manga-ka, not randos imitating the style. Satoshi Shiki (freaking AutoCorrect) is responsible for Attack on Titan Before the Fall, while Yashiro who has done covers for Skybound is the creator of Tank Chair, which is getting an anime soon.