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Exclusive Issue 0 Cover available at Botcon

Post by Best First » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:03 am

Newsarama have reported that attendees at this years Botcon will be able to pick up an exlusive varient of IDWs Transformers Issue 0, with a varient cover illustrated by Hasbro’s Brand/Marketing Creative Director Aaron Archer and his staff.

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Post by KingMob » Tue Aug 23, 2005 11:13 am

Sweet cover.

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Post by Señior's Covenant » Tue Aug 23, 2005 1:49 pm

It's okay. I hate the Prime on there, it looks too much like that Shockwave wrap-around cover (or whatever those are called).

The background sketch art is nice, and very welcome (love stuff like that) but I'd think it better for the cover of some guide rather than a Zero Issue.
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Post by divebomb » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:37 pm

I love the background art, but I can see what you mean about that prime, it does look a little weird

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Post by KingMob » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:41 pm

Again, I think this is a case of looking at what it is supposed to be. As a convention exclusive, I think it's a pretty smooth move. To get an exclusive cover done by yer actual Archer + his actual design monkeys is a clever idea.
And it certainly looks like what you'd expect from such a brief, ie covered in design drawings.
Like the other covers, it shows to me a company targeting market opportunites in a sensible way, as these things (pumping out variant covers) go.

Is the Prime the best I've ever seen? No. Sure as **** ain't the worst, tho. *Hi, Pat!*

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Post by divebomb » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:45 pm

Well better than the DW preview mags.

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Post by Señior's Covenant » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:48 pm

KingMob wrote:Sure as **** ain't the worst, tho. *Hi, Pat!*
True that.
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Post by Impactor returns 2.0 » Tue Aug 23, 2005 2:51 pm

right the design sketchs are pretty

but the optimus is rank - its more manga then pat-less with super deformed hips torso arms and legs.

I hope to god were not going to get a manga/transformer design set here. im switched off instantly.

A, because it makes transformers look like rubber
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B, because its what everyone who cant draw does.
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