Transformers vs. G.I. Joe
Transformers vs. G.I. Joe is an ongoing comic book series published by IDW Publishing. It represents the first crossover between the two brands since IDW gained control of both licenses, and takes place in a separate continuity unrelated to either of the "main" universes the company has developed for the 'bots and Joes. The series is heavily influenced by the work of comic book legend Jack Kirby.
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Overview
The series begins with issue #0, released on Free Comic Book Day 2014, which acts as a prologue for the ongoing.
Creative team
IDW senior Transformers editor John Barber co-writes the series with artist Tom Scioli. Scioli, who had previously made his name emulating Jack Kirby on the Image Comics series Gødland, renders the series in an extensive, loving homage to the work of Jack Kirby—in particular, Kirby's solo work of the 1970s such as The Fourth World and The Eternals. Kirby's artistic and writing styles are faithfully preserved—replete with panoramic splash pages, kinetic figures, florid, bombastic prose narration that talks directly to the reader and/or the characters, scripts that make liberal (and questionable) use of "quotation marks", and hand-drawn lettering that fairly shouts at the reader, among many other Kirby hallmarks—but primarily, the main Kirby influence is that of imagination, as wild, outlandish cosmic sci-fi ideas follow page after page as a matter of course. Scioli heavily researched Transformers and G.I. Joe lore during production, and includes multiple references to both in the book.
The series is carving out an identity for itself as one with a visual style entirely unlike past Transformers and G.I. Joe comics; in-keeping with that, a variety of atypical artists provide variant covers for the series, including noted alternative comics artist Ed Piskor and 1990s trend-setter Rob Liefeld.
