Revelation (IDW)
| The name or term "Revelation" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Revelation (disambiguation). |
The Transformers: Revelation is planned to be the follow-up miniseries to IDW Publishing's The Transformers: Devastation. It has been revealed that in June, 2008, Revelation series will be played out through four Spotlight format issues, focusing on Cyclonus, Hardhead, Sideswipe and Doubledealer. This four-parter will mark the Autobots confrontation with the Dead Universe Cybertronians and the end of the "-tion" series "for the foreseeable". [1] It had been hinted that the following volume would be titled The Transformers: Expansion, but writer Simon Furman now states that "the stuff [he] had (mentally) prepared for Expansion may still happen, just later or in a different form. [2] IDW solicitations have confirmed that these four Spotlight issues will be in addition to the normal Spotlight series, with the first issue arriving the same month as Spotlight: Wheelie.
The four Spotlights will be issues #23–26 in the IDW overarching "sub-numbering", the only Spotlights to be incorporated in this way.
| The Transformers: Revelation issues: |
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| #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 |
Overview
Creative team
The creative team from Infiltration through Devastation (writer Simon Furman and penciller E. J. Su) will again work on Revelation, though Su will only illustrate the first and fourth issues. Nick Roche, who is doing a cover for each issue, will also pencil at least one of the issues.
Trivia
- IDW Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall made the decision to tie up the -ation run short here, explaining it as a basic business strategy for comics: "it's like any book on the market--sales start at a point and then they slowly dip until things are done to re-invigorate them... the reality is that sales numbers need to stay steady for a book to stay on the market. This isn't to say that things were by any means dire--they weren't at all--but we do need to occasionally mix things up so people don't just take a book for granted." [1]
- Revelation will be the third IDW miniseries in a row that borrows a title from Dreamwave Productions' The War Within: The Dark Ages series.
Collections
- The Transformers: Revelation TPB (Release date and ISBN unknown)
- Bonus material unknown.
