New IDW Transformers Comic News!

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 7:59 pm

Steam Driven Transformers in the 1800's! Chuck Dixon writes and Ted McKeever pencils the first arc of Transformers: Evolutions entitled "Hearts of Steel." The first issue's wraparound cover can be seen on IDW's message board, and here it is.

Thanks to Denyer and Chris Ryall for the news and pic, respectively.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:07 pm

What the..!

What in the world..?!

Ok, this could be cool. Not entirely sold on the designs, but I see potential.

Post by **Denyer** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 8:28 pm

http://forums.idwpublishing.com/cgi-bin ... f=21;t=993

Would've gotten around to posting here as well eventually, honest. Just getting distracted by other stuff...

Apparent the writer is big in Batman circles. Bes a good thing if it makes some new fans, anyway.

I'm hoping this will be more similar to LoEG/Hellboy than the G.I. Joe crossovers set in the past. Needs to have a premise more meaty than just redesigning some characters.

The Victorians were big on international threats, conspiracy theories and wacky science. There's plenty of potential there; enough that it doesn't need to get too anachronistic either in the ideas or the dialogue.

Original story:

Credit to Das Bender @ http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/thread89536.html

"This morning I was listening to an interview with comics writer Chuck Dixon on a podcast downloaded from John Siuntres' Wordballoon site and Chuck spilled some interesting news. He says he's working on a 4 issue Transformers series for IDW that features steam-driven Transformers back in the 1800's. The artist for the series is Ted McKeever." --> http://www.wordballoon.com/DIXON.html

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:07 pm

not what i expected.

good.

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 9:23 pm

About Chuck previous works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Dixon

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 9:51 am

Best First wrote:not what i expected.

good.

Exactly.

Looking forward to seeing this.
Cheers for the info, guys.

edit: someone just showed me the newsarama link:
It was long so I put it behind this.
comments are worth a read.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:27 am

Denyer wrote:
I'm hoping this will be more similar to LoEG/Hellboy than the G.I. Joe crossovers set in the past. Needs to have a premise more meaty than just redesigning some characters.

Indeed. Looks very cool tho.

The Last Autobot · Post by **The Last Autobot** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:54 pm

Mmmmm, could the guy be John Henry Irons?

Post by **Denyer** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:55 am

Steel in DC comics is based on the John Henry myth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_%28folklore%29