Alt Mode Episode 70 – Desperate Measures

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On this episode of TransMissions Alt Mode, we go into detail about the universe-ending Transformers news out of WonderCon, review Transformers vs. Visionaries issue 3, you won’t believe what people are saying about the Bumblebee movie! All this and more!

Thanks to Jason Kirk for joining us this week. Check out his podcasts Podvocacy and Everlasting Minute!

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Show Notes:

• Donations! [00:01:20]
• Comics News [00:03:11]
  • Takara Transformers Legends Web Comic #50 Online – Jumpstarter Chapter [00:03:18]
    • Translated version discussed on Moonbase 2 #489
  • Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel Comic Book By IDW [00:04:03]
  • Wondercon News [00:05:43]
    • Unicron is Coming! First look at IDW’s Unicron in Robot Mode & IDW Transformers Continuity to Conclude
    • Bleeding Cool article
      “IDW has published Transformers comics for twelve years and will be bringing back familiar names for variant covers, including Andrew Griffith, Nick Roche as well as Bill Sienkiewicz reinterpreting his classic cover to Transformers #1 as a special variant, along with a new cover by Francesco Francavilla.”
    • IDW Transformers Wondercon Panel
    • Double shipping through summer so LL 25, OP25, and Unicron 6 all hit in the same month
    • John Barber thanks:
      • “The outpouring of love and heart and emotion at the news of our run on Transformers coming to an end has been overwhelming. Thanks everybody, I’ll talk more when I’m home from Wondercon tomorrow, but honestly thanks, and I for one am very excited about what we do next…!”
  • IDW Transformers Solicitations For June 2018 (SPOILERS in link) [00:31:49]
    • Optimus Prime #20—Cover A: Kei Zama
    • Optimus Prime #20—Cover B: Casey W. Coller
    • Transformers: Lost Light #19 — art by E.J. Su, Cover A & B both by Nick Roche
    • Transformers: Lost Light #20 — art by Casey Coller, Cover A & B both by Jack Lawrence
    • Transformers: The Wreckers Saga (solicited early for July)
      • Collects Last Stand, Sins, and Requiem in one volume
    • Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel #1—Cover A: Andrew Griffith
    • Transformers: Bumblebee Movie Prequel #1—Cover B: Fico Ossio
    • Transformers: Optimus Prime, Vol. 3 TPB
    • Transformers: Optimus Prime, Vol. 1 (TPB – Offered Again)
    • Transformers: Optimus Prime, Vol. 2 (TPB – Offered Again)
• Comic Review [00:34:21]
  • Transformers vs Visionaries #3 Spoiler Review
• Transformers Media News [00:50:48]
  • Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy To Premiere This Fall On Discovery Family [00:50:51]
  • Paramount Pictures Presentation At CinemaCon 2018: Summer And Beyond [00:51:42]
  • Steven DeKnight Says Bumblebee: The Movie Is Fantastic [00:52:02]
  • John Cena Says Bumblebee: The Movie Will Reinvigorate The Transformers Fans [00:54:34]
• Convention News [00:56:45]
  • Generation 1 voice actor Stephen Keener to attend TFcon Chicago 2018 [00:56:50]
  • Alex Milne will attend Windsor ComicCon Sept 29th-30th at Caesars Windsor [01:00:29]
• Feedback / Questions [01:01:20]
• Closing [01:09:49]

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