CBR has posted the solicitations for IDW Publishing’s September comics, as the First Strike event continues in its main miniseries and a host of tie-ins. Meanwhile, Optimus Prime’s book has the Autobots go on a mission to rescue one of their own while the titular character is busy with First Strike, Lost Light features some long-absent crew members returning to the Lost Light to find some big changes, and Rom vs. Transformers continues as the Autobots and Solstar Order must team up against the Decepticons and Dire Wraiths. Plus, the trade paperback collecting the first six issues of Lost Light and Transformers vs. G.I. Joe: The Quintessential Collection are solicited for release! Check out all of the covers and solicit descriptions after the break.
First Strike #3—Cover A: Freddie E. Williams II—SPOTLIGHT
- Mairghread Scott & David Rodriguez (w) • Max Dunbar (a) • Freddie E. Williams II (c)
- Secrets revealed! G.I. Joe, the Autobots and M.A.S.K. make their way to Cybertron to stop the siege and encounter the COBRA leader, but all is not as it seems! Will their arrival help—or just bring more disaster?
- FC • 32 pages • $3.9
First Strike #3—Cover B: Max Dunbar
- Mairghread Scott & David Rodriguez (w) • Max Dunbar (a & c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
First Strike #3—Cover C: Alex Ronald
- Mairghread Scott & David Rodriguez (w) • Max Dunbar (a) • Alex Ronald (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
First Strike #3—Cover D: Rob Duenas
- Mairghread Scott & David Rodriguez (w) • Max Dunbar (a) • Rob Duenas (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- The Hasbro comic book event of 2017 continues!
- G.I. Joe strikes back! So, I guess you could call this issue “SECOND STRIKE!”
- “This book is fun!”—You when you read it!
- Variant covers by Jay Fosgitt, Davide Fabbri, Leonardo Manco, and Whilce Portacio!
First Strike #4—Cover A: Freddie E. Williams II—SPOTLIGHT
- Mairghread Scott & David Rodriguez (w) • Max Dunbar (a) • Freddie E. Williams II (c)
- Captured by Transformers! Even with the Autobots on their side, G.I. Joe is in trouble! Starscream doesn’t trust anyone, much less armed humans who show up during Cybertron’s darkest hour and he’ll do anything he can to keep G.I. Joe under control—including let COBRA get even closer to their goal!
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
First Strike #4—Cover B: Max Dunbar
- Mairghread Scott & David Rodriguez (w) • Max Dunbar (a & c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
First Strike #4—Cover C: Alex Ronald
- Mairghread Scott & David Rodriguez (w) • Max Dunbar (a) • Alex Ronald (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
First Strike #4—Cover D: Rob Duenas
- Mairghread Scott & David Rodriguez (w) • Max Dunbar (a) • Rob Duenas (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- The Hasbro comic book crossover event of 2017 is here!
- Time is running out! It’s G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K. vs. the Transformers vs. the other Transformers vs. COBRA!
- We’re in the home-stretch! It wouldn’t be hard to envision what is coming down the line! No tricks, no illusions, no holograms! So pony up because it is about to get wild! Okay, maybe not everything is part of the shared line, but some exciting stuff is! It’ll be a whole new status quo with all-new books!
- Variant covers by Jay Fosgitt, Davide Fabbri, and Leonardo Manco!
Micronauts: First Strike #1—Cover A: Nelson Daniel—SPOTLIGHT
- Christos Gage (w) • Chris Panda (a) • Nelson Daniel (c)
- Rom, remaining on Earth as the events of First Strike take place, finds himself in a most unusual team-up… with Earth’s smallest heroes, The Micronauts! Together, these two forces must prevent a catastrophe on Earth even while Cybertron descends into chaos!
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Micronauts: First Strike #1—Cover B: Chris Panda
- Christos Gage (w) • Chris Panda (a & c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- Tying into the events of First Strike—A Hasbro Comic Book Event!
- The first part of the Micronauts and Rom’s story—continued in next month’s ROM: First Strike #1!
- Variant cover by Nick Bradshaw!
G.I. JOE: First Strike #1—Cover A: Drew Johnson—SPOTLIGHT
- Aubrey Sitterson (w) • Ilias Kyriazis (a) • Drew Johnson (c)
- As Scarlett heads off to Cybertron to confront the events of First Strike, her G.I. Joe team on Earth faces an unusual enemy… V.E.N.O.M.! With the help of a former M.A.S.K. member, G.I. Joe looks to put an end to Miles Mayhem’s sinister group once and for all, in the Greatest Crossover One-Shot Of All Time!
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
G.I. JOE: First Strike #1—Cover B: Ilias Kyriazis
- Aubrey Sitterson (w) • Ilias Kyriazis (a & c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- Tying into the events of First Strike—A Hasbro Comic Book Event!
- The first part of G.I. Joe and M.A.S.K.’s story—continued in next month’s M.A.S.K.: First Strike #1!
- Variant cover by Nick Bradshaw!
Optimus Prime #11—Cover A: Kei Zama
- John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a & c)
- With Optimus Prime embroiled in the FIRST STRIKE event, the Autobots on Earth set off on a mission to find one of their own—before anti-Cybertronian humans get to him first!
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Optimus Prime #11—Cover B: Casey W. Coller
- John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a) • Casey W. Coller (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Optimus Prime #11—Cover C: Andrew Griffith
- John Barber (w) • Kei Zama (a) • Andrew Griffith (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- While First Strike blows up Cybertron, the Autobots must keep the peace on Earth!
- Variant cover by Marcelo Matere!
Optimus Prime: First Strike #1—Cover A: Sara Pitre-Durocher—SPOTLIGHT
- John Barber (w) • Guido Guidi (a) • Sara Pitre-Durocher (c)
- With Cybertron under siege by Baron Ironblood’s forces, Optimus Prime and Arcee defend their homeland! Caught in the middle is the human/Transformer team known as the Revolutionaries—and one of them has a secret that puts everyone at risk!
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Optimus Prime: First Strike #1—Cover B: Guido Guidi
- John Barber (w) • Guido Guidi (a & c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- Tying into the events of First Strike—A Hasbro Comic Book Event!
- The first part of Optimus Prime and the Revolutionaries’ story—continued in next month’s Revolutionaries: First Strike #1!
- Variant cover by Nick Bradshaw!
Transformers: Lost Light #10—Cover A: Jack Lawrence
- James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a & c)
- HOMECOMING! FIRST AID, the Autobots’ Chief Medical Officer, returns to the Lost Light to find that everything has changed: the ship is now under the command of the treacherous GETAWAY, half of his closest friends are missing, and—most shocking of all—the crew is actually making progress…
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers: Lost Light #10—Cover B: Nick Roche
- James Roberts (w) • Priscilla Tramontano (a) • Nick Roche (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Transformers: Lost Light #10—Cover C: Alex Milne
- James Roberts (w) • Priscilla Tramontano (a) • Alex Milne (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- Variant cover by Marcelo Matere!
Rom Vs. Transformers: Shining Armor #3 (of 5)—Cover A: Alex Milne
- John Barber & Christos Gage (w) • Alex Milne (a & c)
- Crash-landed on a mysterious planet and pursued by both Decepticons and Dire Wraiths, the Solstar Knights and Autobots will have to set aside their differences in order to save themselves!
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Rom Vs. Transformers: Shining Armor #3 (of 5) —Cover B: Nick Roche
- John Barber & Christos Gage (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Nick Roche (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
Rom Vs. Transformers: Shining Armor #3 (of 5)—Cover C: Casey Coller
- John Barber & Christos Gage (w) • Alex Milne (a) • Casey Coller (c)
- FC • 32 pages • $3.99
- An all-star lineup of Christos Gage (Rom), John Barber (Optimus Prime), and Alex Milne (More Than Meets the Eye) tell the never-before-revealed secret history of Rom and the Transformers!
Transformers: Lost Light, Vol. 1—CERTIFIED COOL
- James Roberts (w) • Jack Lawrence (a & c)
- Universe united, universe divided! In the aftermath of Revolution, Rodimus and his crew are stranded with no ship—and no hope of escape! Five years ago, Rodimus and a collection of traumatized, lovelorn and/or sarcastic Autobots set off on a quest to find Cyberutopia. So far, they’ve made a right hash of it. They’ve misplaced their map. They’ve lost their ship, the Lost Light, to a mutinous escapologist. Oh, and they’re dead.
- Collects issues #1–6.
- TPB • FC • $19.99 • 144 pages • ISBN: 978-1-63140-992-9
- 2017 promises to be the year of Transformers with the release of Transformers: The Last Knight.
- Advance solicited for October release!
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe: The Quintessential Collection—SPOTLIGHT
- Tom Scioli, John Barber (w) • Tom Scioli (a & c)
- Earth makes contact with an alien race—and G.I. JOE is on the front lines! But, when the Transformers arrive—well, let’s just say you’ve never seen Transformers vs G.I. JOE like this! Presenting the entire 13-issue Transformers vs G.I. JOE series—full of Kirby crackle and the relentless fun of Scioli’s vision—plus the all-new Transformers vs G.I. JOE: The Movie Adaptation one-shot in one unforgettable edition. Travel from Earth to Cybertron and back again as comic book luminary Tom Scioli turns his imagination loose on Hasbro’s beloved toys! This oversized deluxe hardcover also includes commentary and extras by creators Tom Scioli and John Barber!
- HC • FC • $49.99 • 420 pages • 7” x 11” • ISBN: 978-1-63140-860-1
- “Instead of trying to take ’80s toy nostalgia and make it sexy and modern, Tom Scioli and John Barber have made a comic that feels like playing with action figures in your backyard…”—Vice
- Advance solicited for November release!
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