Revolutionaries #1 Storytime

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>>89226007

>>89226007
Is that Action Man? who cares about some british lame-o

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>>89226013
This Issue starts with a timeline of the Hasbro Shared Universe, which I'm sure a lot of people will appreciate.

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>>89226027

>>89226021
Ian is best boy though.

>>89226046
no spike is best boy

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>>89226205

>>89226053
Go home, Costa.
>>89226046
Kind of surprised they didn't put the Nanzhao Invasion on this timeline. Still, you can figure it out; it'd presumably be in about 2009.

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>>89226214

>>89226205
I love Rom's irritation with how shit Earth is.

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>>89226238

>>89226238
I'm sad that the IDW Oktober Guard are really shit compared to the TF vs GI Joe ones.

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>>89226280
Ian is cute. CUTE!

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>>89226302
Cobra on the moon?

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>>89226312

>>89226312
>Cobra Moonbase
I told Barber to bring back a minor plot point from the original IDW Joe run and he actually did it, the absolute madman.

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>>89226321
>>89226326
This is the man who's bringing Hearts of Steel into the main timeline.

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>>89226345
And because you've been good anons, here's the full timeline in one spread.

That was fun.

>>89226007
Thanks, that was interesting.

Yo Joe!

>>89226027
Is 1320 just a joke or an actual plotline?

Comicosity Interview


>Revolution has wrapped and the Hasbro properties now exist in a shared universe. That universe poses unique challenges, and there’s a unique group of characters being assembled to handle them! Writer John Barber and artist Fico Ossio were kind enough to shed some light on who these Revolutionaries are and what will be coming at them in this unique title from IDW Publishing.

>Aaron Long: Revolution merged the Hasbro properties into a shared universe, with Revolutionaries now spinning out of the event. What will readers be seeing in this series?

>John Barber: Lots of fast-paced action and big world-building. The Revolutionaries team is made up of Mayday (who’s a G.I. Joe agent), Kup and Blackrock (who are Transformers), and Action Man (who’s English). So they’re already kinda all over the place to start with, but right off the bat they have to team up with Rom and the Micronauts to fight the Oktober Guard and the new Storm Shadow. Nothing’s off the table!

>So we’ll be seeing big crossovers between characters, plus we’ll be going all over the world. If you’re a fan of the Hasbro characters—from the comics or the toys or the cartoons—there will be little nods, or returns to places and ideas from all over. Remember when Cobra had a base on the moon? We do. And we’re trying to pull in things from all over the history of the characters—like, I don’t know if anybody was expecting the Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles relaunch of G.I. Joe, but that stuff plays a role.

>If you’re not familiar with this weird stuff, no worries—we’re introducing all these ideas, not ex-pecting you’re an expert. But that said, we’ve done our homework.

>AL: What corners of this new shared universe are you excited to explore with this multi-property team?

>>89227421
Knowing Barber, it's probably a plotline.

>JB: Well, I don’t know when we’ll reveal this, but issue 3 has a mind-bending reveal that is may-be the last thing people expect to show up in this shared universe, but it opens up a lot of new windows for storytelling—stuff that makes sense now, that maybe wouldn’t have if it was just Transformers, or just G.I. Joe or whatever.

>But in terms of literal corners: Issue one brings us to Schleteva, where the Karen Traviss/Steve Kurth G.I. Joe series took place; the country’s changed a lot since the flames of war were being stoked by Cobra. Issue 2 takes us to space and to Seattle, which has a needle from space, as I understand, so it all fits thematically. By issue 3 we’re looking back in time to when Soundwave first set foot on Earth, and we’re visiting the tomb of the mummy Amtoltec, from the old G.I. Joe Adventure Team days. We’ll see everything from the last ice age to the Iron Klaw’s nation of Ka-listan—the life and times of Atomic Man and the debut of Baron Ironblood and General Blitz— and the mysterious Cybertronian he commands.

>Every issue has a little bit of it’s own flavor—a slightly different style or take. We really push that as the series goes on.

>Fico Ossio: One of the things that Revolutionaries has that I enjoy so much is its ¨secondary¨ rotating cast. You’ve got the regular characters but on each issue or so John brings a new cha-racter into the story. And some haven´t been around for a while and I love to bring them back in a new, but familiar, look. We recently re-designed Baron Ironblood and I had a blast with it.

>AL: The ongoing cast consists of Action Man, Blackrock, Mayday and Kup. Can you dis-cuss how this mix of characters was decided upon to anchor the title?

>JB: At the Revolution writer’s retreat, Cullen Bunn suggested that since Action Man’s comic was a limited series, he’d be without a home post-Revolution. (Action Man, not Cullen, who has a nice home). So it might be good to have A.M. looking over what everybody else was doing—like, his mandate might be to monitor everybody worldwide. And Mairghread Scott sort of riffed on that that you could do with it, suggested it could be a little like Global Frequency and have self-contained stories about this world. And I wound up getting elected to write it because I’d done Action Man and sort of knew a lot about where the universe was going. (In the comics, I mean. Certainly not in real life).

>So, I thought if we made this a team with Action Man, really gave this a different feel, it’d be a good fit to add the Transformers character Blackrock, who’d just be coming out of the Titans Return story. Blackrock is a tech-CEO who discovered his memories were false and he’s a Cybertronian. He’s Cybertronian, but his alt-mode is basically a human.

>I knew we’d want somebody from G.I. Joe, but I suggested we could sort of push things here and use this to develop a new character, or anyway to build up a character Andrew Griffith and I had set up in Transformers, but who’d now be in G.I. Joe. We gave Anya Jones the semi-obscure out-of-use Joe code-name of Mayday, and she’s become sort of the leader of the team—Action Man is still new to the job; Blackrock is new to this life; so Mayday has the experi-ence with aliens and military tactics.

>Kup was originally going somewhere else, or so I thought, but then it turned out Kup wasn’t really going to fit into that other series, and I thought he was too good a character to lose track of, but he wasn’t really essential to what Kei Zama and I were going to do in the Optimus Prime comic… but with about a half-second’s thought, I realized Kup’s an old soldier, and the idea of getting him together with this young, mostly-inexperienced team was just the thing Revolutionaries needed.

>FO: Well, when I came on board the cast was already set. And I think they picked a great set of characters. Plus it feels a lot more tightknit and relatable than Revolution. Working on a smaller cast allows us to develop these characters more, and John is writing them awesomely. For my part, I focused on working more detail into their design. I got the chance to redesign Blackrock and it´s definitely a new look for the character, closer to his cybetronian nature. And well… I got carried away and kept going with Mayday: new armor suit! We did keep her hairstyle though… Nah, in all seriousness I wanted them to look the part of a lead character. Action Man´s design was pretty awesome already.

>AL: Will the Revolutionaries be addressing a particular ongoing threat, or will they be a specialist team facing new challenges all the time?

>JB: In issue one, they assemble because an ancient artifact called the Talisman suddenly mu-tates a bunch of people into Dire Wraith -like monsters. Everybody winds up in the same place for different reasons, and the pursuit of this Talisman—and, more importantly, its secrets—drives the team on all their different adventures. And the Talisman’s secrets will reveal a lot of… weird stuff about the planet Earth.

>AL: Different characters will be rotating into the cast, with their introductions will Revolutionaries be touching upon storylines and events from other titles or will it be largely standalone?

>JB: The comic is designed so you’ll be able to totally follow Revolutionaries without reading eve-ry other book, but people who’ve followed my writing on Transformers know I like making things fit together. So it all adds up into a bigger world.

>Like, there’s a thing in the Micronauts Annual that Cullen and I got on the phone and worked out how it fits in with the Micronauts’ appearance in Revolutionaries. The guest appearances are definitely significant, and some of the revelations about them—like with Snake Eyes in issue 4—will help fill in the gaps between what happened last time we saw Snake Eyes, and his return in REVOLUTION and the G.I. Joe series.

>AL: Fico, with Revolution and now Revolutionaries you’ve penciled the vast majority of Hasbro characters. Are there any particular characters or a particular group that you get the most excited to work on?

>FO: Well… It´s hard not to get excited to draw Blackrock with the new design. I also enjoy drawing Mayday a lot. I really feel it´s important to have a strong female character, and I very much love paying attention to every detail on how we portray her to reinforce that. She rocks.

>Action Man has the best lines, John is really bringing life to all these characters so it’s hard not to enjoy drawing all these characters.

>And lastly, I´m always exited to see them pop out of the pages with Seba’s colors. He is doing a fantastic job, as always.

>JB: I’m really lucky because Fico is amazing at drawing everything.

>AL: Last words are to you – any final tidbits about Revolutionaries that you’d like to reveal to readers?

>JB: This book is a dream to work on. We get to play in a massive sandbox and tell exciting sto-ries about amazing characters—and I get to work with Fico and colorist Sebastian Cheng, who’s phenomena, plus editor David Hedgecock who’s great to work with—plus getting to make ob-scure references to canceled comic books, 1970s advertisements, and Pound Puppies is more than a guy like me has any right to ask for.

>FO: Exactly, it’s fantastic to be working on this. I was expecting to ¨tone it down¨ after Revolu-tion. It was an immense gig and I knew it was gonna be hard to top…BUT, I´m having more fun with this one even. The story is paced different, and we got these characters that have a lot to build on.

>You know, every editorial has their big ¨flagship team¨ and I think that´s what Revolutionaries could be, and it’s exciting to be part of it, and more than anything to be working yet again with this group of exceptionally talented people. Working with John, David, and Seba is more than I could ask for!

>>89227421
>>89227446
That was previously established in IDW's Joe.

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>>89227421
It's from GI Joe volume 3. There was a two-issue set of mini-stories about historic Cobra Commanders.
The one who was around with Dante had a bitchin' Assassin's Creed look going on. Pic related.

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>>89227504
Thanks Anon

>>89227517
>>89227522
Right, it's been a while since I read the IDW Run.

The Talisman makes wraith mutants. Well, it would be nice to know that there is ancient alien shit on Earth that ISN'T Cybertronian...

>>89226273
>Kup looks like his now toys, but with bitching grill and overall better colors.

Hasbro are you even trying?

>>89228127
>Hasbro are you even trying?
Why ask questions you already know the answer to?

Thanks for the storytime.

I really need to get up to date with the IDW crossover stuff.

>>89226007
The artwork is so much better in this than the "crown jewel" GI Joe series. What the heck is their plan for Revolutionaries anyway?

>>89228646
Hey, the GI Joe art is great. I mean, I love Ossio, but don't knock Milonogiannis.

>>89226144
Those hairstyles are so godawful ugly.

>>89229127
To each their own.

That was really neat. Very action packed, I'm digging it.

>Rom's analyzer reminds Kup of "something he found" on the planet Ki-Aleta, an alien world introduced waaay back in Spotlight: Hot Rod. Ki-Aleta was home to the Magnificence, the magical ball of plot convenience that has been one of the biggest dangling threads from that era of IDW's titles... is that what Kup is referring to...?
BARBER

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>>89226312
>getting stuck on the moon
>"help us"
>dying there
Jesus

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I can't remember if I've posted this in a while or not.

Does anybody have the Victorion Revolution bio?

>>89230984
Yeah, it was pretty fucked up. Don't base your entire infrastructure on experimental teleporters, folks.

>>89226302
>>89226312
Yes Kup go save your dumb yet cute grandson.

>>89226093
Is this Alien?

>>89233205

Yeah, the Dire Wraith's are getting a pretty heavy Alien vibe.

IRON Army.

Moon Base!

>>89230535
This seems to be even more of a continuity fanservice book than any of Barber's other ones. I love it.

Yo Joe!

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What does everyone think of the new Cobra Commander's look?

>>89239804
Like most of IDW's designs, it's shit.

Does anyone have the Sgt. Savage comic?

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Revolutionaries #5

John Barber (w) Fico Ossio (a) Robert Atkins ©

M.A.S.K. vs. the ATOMIC MAN! The Revolutionaries uncover the deep, dark secret of Mike Power, the Atomic Manand enlist the help of M.A.S.K. to bring in the long-lost agent! But theres more to Powers story than anyone imagined, in the oddest story of 2017!

FC 32 pages $3.99

Revolutionaries #5Subscription Variant

John Barber (w) Fico Ossio (a) Ron Joseph ©

FC 32 pages $3.99

>>89239804

The fuck are they up to with this Hearts of Steel stuff?

>>89240058
>M.A.S.K
And skipped.

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Revolution: Aw Yeah! #3 (of 5)

Art Baltazar (w & a & c)

THIS IS IT! The confrontations youve been waiting for! DESTRO vs ROM! Micronauts vs COBRA! The team-ups youve only imagined while playing with your action figures! ACROYEAR and BUMBLEBEE! SPACE GLIDER and SCARLET! Action? Excitement? Yes. This one has it all! Oh, and the evil BARON KARZA, too. By the EISNER AWARD Winning Cartoonist, ART BALTAZAR! Aw Yeah!

FC 32 pages $3.99

>>89240077
It's not written by Easton, though.

>>89240014
Fuck you, the original IDW Commander is GOAT.
>>89239804
I like the kind of jumpsuit vibe it has.

>>89239804
Is the helmet meant to look demonic, or is that just the red lighting?

So is this the "original" Action Man story being adapted to IDW?

The only Action Man I've known up until this point was the Fox Kids CG show, and that certainly wasn't anything like this.

>>89240059
It's probably just Hearts of Steel-styled stuff, because actually bringing in actual Hearts of steel would really mess things up
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_X-Files:_Conspiracy:_The_Transformers#Notes

>>89240739
HoS Bumblebee's right there, though. Shit's already gone wild.

>>89239804
It looks like the original IDW CC look withbsome stuff added to it.

As long as what's his face is gone I'm good.

>>89240557
No, this is a new take.

Old Action man dies and Ian Noble takes over as the new one, there's a mini that tells the story.

>>89240798
No, some sort of HoS-styled, Bumblebee-looking robot is right there. That is all we know at the moment. Maybe Cobra's making their own robots and based it off of actual 'Bee. You don't know.

>>89240879
Then why give it an Autobot badge? And make it a fucking locomotive?

>>89240925
jesus christ chill out and wait until the comic comes out

>>89240798
Fun fact: comic covers canonically don't actually take place in the same universe as the inner pages

>>89241000
Just saying that your argument's flawed, and making robots doesn't really have much to do with Hearts of Steel.

>>89241125
Obviously, but they're still representative, and there's no reason to think the HoS bot on the cover won't show up in the comic featuring the return of HoS.

Barber tweeted this. Seems like there may have been a text mix-up with the #4 and #5 solicits.

yeah, I guess there was some confusion. I hadn't realized what solicit text went up with 4 and 5. We'll try to sort out the covers.

>>89241281
You are SPECTACULARLY missing the point here. I didn't say it wasn't legit HoS. I didn't say Cobra's making HoS style robots. I said WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT IT YET. The comic hasn't come out yet, so we DON'T KNOW what the deal is. It could be ANY NUMBER of things. It COULD be actual HoS. It COULD be the Cobra robot theory I came up with as an example. It COULD be ANYTHING.

Chill out and wait for the comic to come out. Then you'll know.

>>89241437
You're in more need of chilling out than I am, anon.

bumping to read

When the next number of OP is going to be released?

>>89244264
Next Wednesday.

>>89243562

>>89245113
Delayed in 3...2...1