Main Points?
1. Spotlight : Blurr
2. Hasbro is making a toy out of a character Guido is making for AHM.
3. More movie tie ins on the horizon obviously
4. Transformers : Maximum Dinbots, 5 ish series
5. THE THIRTEEN!
Which leads one to think two things:25 years of hints finally come into light when the definitive Transformers origin tale "Transformers: The 13" debuts in 2009.
"This is still evolving as we speak, but the story I'm working on is quite focused on a period way back in the Transformers history," Furman said of the origin. "We're not going to feed everything into an ongoing Transformers storyline. It's going to be very much its own start up story. It's the very beginning. We're winding things back to show how it all started and how the big forces that shaped everything else came to be.
"I've never really had the chance to lay down the definitive story around these guys and what role they played in what came after them. Over the years for various publishers in various publications, I've laid seeds of this group called The 13 and hinted about who some of them might be and how they play into the bigger mythos. I think this is where we're finding answers to all the big questions. We're working very closely with Hasbro in this series so that whatever we do in 'The 13' is very much tied in to the whole Transformers Universe. They want to get all of their irons in the fire ready and in the right order for 2009, which is the 25th anniversary. We're all working hopefully to get a definitive, cohesive Transformers Universe in terms of the back story."
The writer added that the threads introduced in "The 13" will eventually payoff in current series and plots and possibly elsewhere within the Transformers family of media. "It's interesting that the second movie is using this character called the Fallen, which is a character that we created back in the Dreamwave days for this big series called 'The Dark Ages' which tapped into what had gone before. So these names and institutions like The 13 are rolling on into different incarnations."
1. Holy $%*$# that's going to be awesome! I NEVER thought Furman was going to tie in Marvel/G2/DW events into his IDW continuity.
2. The Fallen is in Transformers 2? I thought "The Fallen" was a reference to Megatron (who fell into the ocean) or something. WHY O WHY are they picking up DW concepts and dusting them off for movies? Even now, Pat Lee haunts us all. [/quote][/url]
He's much too good a character not to use again.