All Hail Megatron issue 1 On your knees, human scum, and bow before the great and glorious Megatron! Omega Supreme, Devastator, and the Statue of Liberty. Bonus material includes a cover gallery and a 2-page art gallery featuring sketches of Reflector, Frenzy, Kup and Hot Rod. It marked a radical shift in tone and content in the ongoing story, showing a victorious Decepticon army on Earth while the Autobots are defeated and on the run throughout the universe. Whether planned or in response to this, with issue #7, All Hail Megatron abruptly began referring back to several of these elements (including what seemed a very hasty explanation for why Cybertron was habitable again), and soon, it was announced that a four-issue mini-series, All Hail Megatron: Coda, would follow the main twelve-issue series and feature stories set between Furman and McCarthy's runs that would deal with the assorted dropped concepts and continuity glitches. Prowl, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker are now in their, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp are now in their. And what of the missing Autobots? Thanks to Soundwave, the missiles guidance systems are easily scrambled and miss their targets. All Hail Megatron Book Club Edition; cover art by Trevor Hutchison, The Complete All Hail Megatron; cover art by Trevor Hutchison, The IDW Collection, Volume 5; cover art byE. Issue #14 added an epilogue to Sunstreaker's story by the returning McCarthy and Santalucia, while line editor Andy Schmidt planted the seeds for future stories with his contribution to issue #14, covering the return of Galvatron, with art by IDW cover contest winner Andrew Griffith. Sideswipe is on speaking terms with Sunstreaker. Scrapper makes a brief speech that they have come in peace, to Hook's confusion. Thundercracker, who's disgusted that the Decepticons are no longer a. Andy Reid set out to find his dead pal DJ's girlfriend, who might still have been somewhere in the ruins of New York City. Unfortunately for him, Megatron ominously makes his appearance mid rant. Note Thundercracker in the background of pages 8 to 10, looking a bit unhappy about the rampage. This new Autobot made his debut in the pages of All Hail Megatron proper, and his introduction was heavily hyped by the company, garnering the character quite an infamous reputation as a polarizing figure in the fandom and marking him as one of the most distinctive elements of McCarthy's tenure on the brand for good or for ill. A small handful of other Spotlights were published while All Hail Megatron was running, but had nothing to do with the story; regardless, they would go on to be collected with Jazz and Drift in a trade paperback labelled as the third volume of the All Hail Megatron story. Despite their initial remit of trying to fix glitches, the four Coda issues did not fare too well on the continuity front, immediately doing away with Starscream's change in heart from the main story's conclusion and partially re-writing a scene from Furman's Sunstreaker and Hunter story to skew it in another direction. The Decepticons conquer New York City and hold the population hostage, and the United States military proves unable to stop them. In New York City, a green construction vehicle nearly runs over some humans in Times Square. The first page's snapshot-to-snapshot, bare-bones retelling of the Transformers backstory mimics the first page of 2006's. Apocalypse Comics Cover. . Touch. Hunter into this, in order to access to Sunstreaker's mind. The Seekers make their grand entrance soon after. ***PAYPAL PAYMENT ONLY.GHOST SHIP COMICS strives to provide the best premium comics with top-notch customer service. Watch my video on the telling of the IDW All hail Megatron. The Matrix of Leadership was promptly retconned in as a key factor in IDW's history, despite not appearing in the story depicting the war's origin (years later, James Roberts's "Chaos Theory" would expand and explain this glitch), while the paucity of energon that drove the backstory of Furman's new vision seemed a thing of the past. the Autobots returning to Earth, and didn't think about the fact that the humans might be able to use Transformers weaponry. Cliffjumper's Earth mode is seen, which is essentially. Starscream instantly grovels, saying that their destruction of the city is going well. We answer questions fast, and ship even faster! Bonus material includes a cover gallery and the art sketches from previous collections. Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Sol Fury, May 5, 2008. Written with some assistance from James Roberts, this story transformed the "Rocherts" team into fandom darlings, resulting in their collaboration on the Last Stand of the Wreckers mini-series and defining the character of Prowl for the IDW universe. a truncated version of the original scene, he fights for a people that hates and fears their kind, Notice how Roadbuster's shoulders are scraping on the ceiling, will have done so by crushing me beneath your heel. Unlike Furman's ongoing series of mini-series and inter-connected Spotlight issues, All Hail Megatron's twelve-issue run is almost entirely self-contained, with the only supplemental issues coming in the form of Spotlight: Jazz, featuring a framing story set during the events of the main series, and Spotlight: Drift, providing some backstory for McCarthy's original character Drift. This article needs to grow up a little bit. DC/Transformers References Pt 1: The Killing Joke [Artwork] Killing Joke by Brian Bolland, All Hail Megatron by Casey Coller and Transformers UK #187 Lee Sullivan He doesn't know how right he is. Facebook: The Decepticons question their place now that the war is apparently over; Starscream begins to doubt Megatron's goals and secretly teams up with some Decepticons in another bid to overthrow Megatron. All Hail Megatron - book 3 chapter 1 | Cinematic Comics! This edition is erroneously referred to as. Writer Shane McCarthy pitched All Hail Megatron in direct response to a request from IDW for a tale that would change the whole direction of the line in hopes of regaining some of the ground lost as Simon Furman's run had wound on. Drift was not all that set the fandom's sensibilities ablaze: the abandonment of not just Furman's storyline, but nearly all of the unique elements (discussed in more detail below) he had introduced into IDW continuity, also sat ill with many readers. J. Su, Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 43; cover art by Don Figueroa and Guido Guidi, Definitive G1 Collection: Volume 44; cover art by Don Figueroa, Guido Guido and Emiliano Santalucia, Transformers: Best of Bumblebee; cover art by James Biggie. Copyright 1995-2023 eBay Inc. All Rights Reserved. Variant cover art by Casey Coller; Cover art inspired by Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) In 2012, a motion comic version of All Hail Megatron was pitched to IDW Publishing by Sideshow Productions. Cyclonus was just about to pull this on a dying Scourge until Galvatron showed up. The Transformers: All Hail Megatron is the overarching title of a widely-promoted event in the IDW Comics Generation 1 universe in 20089. Occasionally, I'll re-draw an drawing to see how much I have improved since last time. If anyone has see that one picture of G1 Megatron doing the 'Killing Joke' Joker cover, that is this but with Transformers Prime . 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This mix-and-match approach to design would only increase with the onset of the ongoing series, as artistic freedom resulted in characters changing designs from issue to issue, depending on artist. The first advertisement for the series was simply a red Decepticon symbol on a black background with "Swear Allegiance 2008" written in red. In real life, there is no such rank as "commander" in the, The equivalent rank in the U.S. Air Force would be a. DJ has a "soul patch" beard, which, in the real world, is not allowed for U.S. military pilots (as it would interfere with the sealing of the pilot's oxygen mask). I read everything that had been put out by IDW and there's no disrespect of what Simon's done coming from me. This page was last modified on 8 June 2022, at 22:09. To then see so much of this ignored or thrown out as another creator took the reins of the universe proved aggravating to fans, and garnered All Hail an especially negative reputation at the time. All Hail Megatron #10; The Arrival TPB More than Meets the Eye Volume 1 and 2 TPBs All Hail Megatron TPB Star Trek: Countdown miniseries Classic G.I. Shane McCarthy wrote all twelve issues of the main series, which were predominantly illustrated by Guido Guidi and colored by Josh Burcham. Skywarp mocks the humans, telling Starscream that the humans will really be terrified when Megatron arrives. As time has gone on and more and more creators have contributed to the IDW universe, making their own changes to what has gone before them, hindsight has seen All Hail's changes stand out far less in the grand scheme than they did when they first occurred, but as one of the more controversial aspects of a series that lasted an entire year, we here dedicate some space to noting the major offenses. The cast on both sides is basically the 1985 toy line, aka the Season 2 cast of the Generation 1 cartoon. Starscream is far from happy. less sense, as Hunter was Sunstreaker's headmaster partner, so whatever Hunter would have known Sunstreaker would have known as well. With the autobots at a loss and infighting going on. Judge Dredd Megazine (2003) 211-C (Magazine) By Rebellion. Shrapnel and Bombshell have different designs, taking more bug-like insect modes. The pitch (adapting a scene from the first issue) featured Daniel Ross as Starscream, David Sobolov as Megatron and Michael Bell as Scrapper and Skywarp. N/A The event spans the 12-issue All Hail Megatron maxi-series, a 4 issue "Coda" (appended to the main series for publication) and various Spotlight-series tie-ins. Starscream is far from happy. One of the men beats on his door, yelling that Long Haul is going to kill someone. You have everybody in the decepticon ranks challenging Megatron and his decision to take over earth.#Megatron #IDW #ComicsHey There!This video is intended for entertainment purposes only. Starscream instantly grovels, saying that their destruction of the city is going well. Comic V/f+, The Amazing Spider-Man Issues 352, 353, 355, 357, 358, 359, 364, 366, An. ", After it is revealed that Sunstreaker betrayed the Autobots, Drift tells Ironhide that the Decepticons had knowledge that Sunstreaker couldn't possibly have known, meaning there was another traitor in their midst.