UK: New Titan Press Release

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:47 am

TITAN BOOKS PRESS RELEASE

TRANSFORMERS: LAST STAND

25TH MARCH 2005 € PAPERBACK € 14.99 € ISBN: 1-84576-008-5

2005 is the 20th Anniversary of the Transformers! As part of the celebrations, Titan is completing its re-issue of the entire Transformers US series with Transformers: Last Stand! Featuring a gallery of pin-ups by comics’ hottest stars and fantastic, never-before-collected stories, Last Stand is packed with action and epic adventure for all ages!

A terrifying new threat has surfaced - one that seeks to make a meal out of the Transformers! Autobot agents Landmine and Cloudburst are on the Mechannibals’ menu, and Decepticons Dreadwind and Darkwing are looking to serve them up on a silver platter!

Plus: the breathtaking debut of the Micromasters (now stars of their own hit Dreamwave miniseries) and a wrestling smackdown between man and robot you’ll have to see to believe!

And the battle isn’t over yet… Stay tuned for rare Transformers adventures in a fantastic new format in 2005!

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“A live-action (that’s right, live-action) film is set to appear in our cinemas in
2006, exec produced by Steven Spielberg himself. Can I get an ‘Oh yeah’?”
Empire

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€ 200,000+ Transformers graphic novels sold to date!

€ Gallery features exclusive Transformers artwork by Bryan Hitch, Alan Davis, Dave Gibbons, Phil Jiminez, John Byrne, Ron Garney, Howard Chaykin and many more besides!

€ An excellent Transformers: Armada game is out now for PlayStation 2!

€ Box sets of the original series, along with the movie, are now available on DVD!

Thanks as ever to Andrew James at Titan for this info.

Legion · Post by **Legion** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:51 am

Best First wrote:Plus: the breathtaking debut of the Micromasters (now stars of their own hit Dreamwave miniseries) and a wrestling smackdown between man and robot you’ll have to see to believe!

hmmm... two high points, both worthy of metioning in order to sell the tpb....

Shanti418 · Post by **Shanti418** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:44 am

Legion wrote:
Best First wrote:Plus: the breathtaking debut of the Micromasters (now stars of their own hit Dreamwave miniseries) and a wrestling smackdown between man and robot you’ll have to see to believe!
hmmm... two high points, both worthy of metioning in order to sell the tpb....

Exactly what I was thinking.
1. Not breathtaking
2. Not a hit DW miniseries
3. You don't have to see it to believe it

But what do they mean by "rare TF adventures?"

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:14 am

Best First wrote: € Gallery features exclusive Transformers artwork by Bryan Hitch, Alan Davis, Dave Gibbons, Phil Jiminez, John Byrne, Ron Garney, Howard Chaykin and many more besides!

Am I to believe that Titan commisioned all these graphical geniuses to do TransFormers art? If so: Keeeeeewwlll!!!!

I do wonder, do you think there'll be any little tidbits on the net? I'd love to know what a John Byrne Transformer looks like.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:27 am

generally it looks like G2 Megs...

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:35 am

Best First wrote:generally it looks like G2 Megs...

Dear god.

Please do say that, that implies he was commisioned to do G2 Megs and not that the quality and style of that work was on par with that of the two main-pencillers of the Marvel G2 comic.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:37 am

uh, no - that implies he did an exclusive cover for one of the G2 collections.

you can probably find it if you beat your google hard enough.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:10 am

Bless 'em. They're trying to make it sound exciting, but this book is a genuine contender for worst Titan reprint.

However, it has to be said that Titan have done a fantastic job with the reprints of the US stuff. Who would have thought a few years ago that the entire US run (1984 to 1994) would see the light of day again?

And the UK reprints have been a little erratic, but having the likes of Target 2006 in a single volume would have been unthinkable once upon a time.

Shanti418 wrote:
But what do they mean by "rare TF adventures?"

The UK black and white stories. It's time to rediscover some lost gems.

Optimus Prime Rib · Post by **Optimus Prime Rib** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:14 pm

Best First wrote: you can probably find it if you beat your google hard enough.

OI! This is a family show!

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:32 pm

Predabot wrote:Please do say that, that implies he was commisioned to do G2 Megs and not that the quality and style of that work was on par with that of the two main-pencillers of the Marvel G2 comic.

Yaniger's a damn sight better than most of the artists who've worked on Marvel TF comics...

KingMob · Post by **KingMob** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:16 pm

The John Byrne pic is the Ltd Ed cover to Dark Designs.
You can see it here: http://www.titanbooks.com/transformers.html# by scrolling down to near the bottom.

I think you could probably still find the pencils on his site/forum/devil's pulpit. I think one of his Victims posted it in the art thread they have there.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:40 pm

Denyer wrote:Yaniger's a damn sight better than most of the artists who've worked on Marvel TF comics...

Perhaps but that does not automatically imply that his style pleases everyone, (me for example) or that he is the greatest TF-artist that's ever lived, something wich I obviously should not need to point out.

Thank you KingMob, I thought it was that pic. Ah, nice clean lines. Pretty good. I may have to track down those black and white lines for some more coloring fodder wich I'm never going to be able to complete.

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:45 pm

Yaniger's brilliant. His battered G2 Megatron was ******* legendary.

He was in my Top 3 before Don showed up.

Post by **Denyer** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:47 pm

Predabot wrote:Perhaps but that does not automatically imply that his style pleases everyone, (me for example) or that he is the greatest TF-artist that's ever lived, something wich I obviously should not need to point out.

Perhaps, but that doesn't automatically imply that an empirical and/or objective, quantitative "greatest TF artist who's ever lived" could exist, which I obviously should not need to point out.

It's being a pedantic day.

Predabot · Post by **Predabot** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:56 pm

Bah. How is that any different from any other day at TransFans?

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