Simon Furman interview
http://comicnewsi.com/article.php?catid=208&itemid=9670
Sounds interesting... so, unlike what I guessed (that Shockwave and the Dinobots will feature in the next story arc), Devastation (apt to the name) will showcase more of Sixshot and his Reaper 'friends'... While the reactions to that Spotlight were not too good, I for once liked it pretty much (and I guess 50% of the negativity will vanish if EJ will be drawing the characters instead of Ruffolo). I guess humanity will be in trouble if Earth catches the attention of the Reapers...
Also, the Machination subplot will be in the center too, especially about what happened to Hunter and Sunstreaker, I guess we'll finally see the mastermind behind the Machination (Scorpy) too. The First Ark mystery will continue as a subplot too.
Also read what Simon says about the Galvy Spotlight. Sounds really intriguing - at first I was not sold on him and Megs being different characters, but now I'm curious how Galvy predates Megatron.
Read the Movie stuff too - Simon tries to remain polite and doesn't says out loud that the movie butchered the characters and thus he'll remain at using the old G1 personalities for them.
Simon also does a flashback about how working at Marvel, DW and IDW is compared - pretty interesting thoughts.
Eric Holmes Interview about the Megatron Origins comic:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=110246
The more I read about this guy, the more I'm looking forward to his work. He sounds like a real Marvel fan and seems to know it through and through (UK included). Also he wants to treat the material with respect, no DW (or as he mentions, Hannibal Lecter style) re-writes (read: butchering) of classic characters. And I must agree with him - with TFs there are no heroes or villains, it's simply a war with many different personalities mixed up on either side.
Also it'll be funny to see who was who before the war. My guess is that Soundwave worked in the media... or politics.
His other ideas about Spotlights sound cool too. And Prowl and Grimlock - Electric Dreams? Man, I loved those issues where these two bicker back in and after the Unicron battles. That could be so built upon. (I wonder what place Grimlock had in the Autobot chain of command before he went AWOL).
Nick Roche interview about KUp Spotlight:
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=110270
Perhaps the strangest spotlight so far, and a TF Zombie story - wonder if it can top City of Fear. Also -alas, poor Outback. I really liked him in Marvel UK.
