Then it cuts to the plane with the Nuclear bomb, and inside a Decepticon symbol flashes, as Tankor heads to New York. Something went wrong. Oct 2003 | View Details. A brief flashback shows the war on Cybertron, its evacuation, and a battle on Earth. Meanwhile, the Autobots are in a sorry state on Cybertron, with Optimus Prime in critical condition, the Matrix of Leadership in Decepticon hands, and a traitor suspected in their ranks. This all-new series picks up one year after the Revelations saga, and finds the Decepticons alone and triumphant on Earth, with not an Autobot in sight. The Transformers: All Hail Megatron is the overarching title of a widely-promoted event in the IDW Comics Generation 1 universe in 2008-9. In New York City, the Autobots and Decepticons continue to battle. Shane McCarthy wrote all twelve issues of the main series, which were predominantly illustrated by Guido Guidi and colored by Josh Burcham. Follow-up ads used a Communist propaganda visual style. 1, January 1955, The American Cinematographer, Vol. Bonus material includes a cover gallery, a 1-page art gallery featuring the. . Lots of characters show up with new bodies! If anyone has see that one picture of G1 Megatron doing the 'Killing Joke' Joker cover, that is this but with Transformers Prime . Cliffjumper's Earth mode is seen, which is essentially. Responses by Shane McCarthy at the IDW forums. The Transformers: All Hail Megatron was a story arc in The Transformers from IDW Publishing. As the human jets are decimated, one of the pilots, a man named DJ, attempts to crash his fighter into Megatron, who just swats him away. The Transformers: All Hail Megatron was the second major "act" of IDW Publishing's first ongoing comic universe, intended to serve as a "soft reboot" of IDW's increasingly complicated storylines and create a jumping-on point for new readers following the truncated ending of the previous collection of mini-series and one-shots. Joined: Jun 21, 2002 Posts: 9,872 News Credits: 2 Trophy Points: 287 Likes: +17. Mixmaster takes a moment to marvel at how fragile everything feels. The first advertisement for the series was simply a red Decepticon symbol on a black background with "Swear Allegiance 2008" written in red. Watch my video on the telling of the IDW All hail Megatron. In issue 10, Starscream attempts to usurp Megatron's position with help from the Insecticons. This idea ultimately fell through; instead, the four "Coda" issues were appended to the end of the series as issues #13-16, and mostly featured stories set after All Hail, paving the way for the upcoming ongoing series.[5]. Starscream bristles, taking pot shots into the crowd and claiming how he is the master of terror. TFArchive.com's comic sales discussion thread, There is no such rank as "commander" in the United States Air Force. 36, No. !Posted with eBay Mobile, If this item contains incorrect or inappropriate information please, Relevant A standalone sketchbook and preview comic, "Focus on Decepticons", may be considered "All Hail Megatron #0". The machine guns, surprisingly, have no effect on them. The Decepticons conquer New York City and hold the population hostage, and the United States military proves unable to stop them. [8] The Seekers actually reflect both these approaches, as they've reverted from modern F-22s to F-15s (which they were in the original cartoon), but they're drawn in the style of their Masterpiece toys. Transformers: The Complete All Hail Megatron (:), This comic series, compliation/TPB, feature or continuity article is a stub and is missing information. 9, No. this auction is for transformers all hail megatron #1 cgc 9.8 killing joke homage variant*see photos of condition of items -----.from . Prowl delivers a message on a device to Jazz, who angrily throws it away. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. 3, June 1925, Columbia Records Hail Columbia Happy Land (July 1921), 2023 - WorthPoint Corporation | 5 Concourse Parkway NE, Suite 2900. Facebook: DECEPTICONS FINALLY WIN. 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. Sol Fury The British Butcher Veteran. Cliffjumper's Earth mode is seen, which is essentially the same design as Bumblebee's, but adapted to turn into a sports car. 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. Contents [ hide ] 1 Synopsis 2 Featured characters 3 Quotes 4 Notes 4.1 Continuity notes 4.2 Transformers references 4.3 Real-world references 4.4 Errors 4.5 Other trivia 4.6 Covers (5) 4.7 Advertisements 4.8 Reprints 5 References Synopsis Entertainment I COMBINE SHIPPING FOR FREE WHENEVER POSSIBLE. All Hail Megatron On your knees, human scum, and bow before the great and glorious Megatron! July 10th, 2008. Characters in italic text appear only in flashbacks. Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. 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. Prowl, Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker are now in their, Starscream, Thundercracker, and Skywarp are now in their. It's not as apparent here as in later issues, but Josh Burcham was clearly having some difficulties colouring Black skin correctly. Your credit card or PayPal account will be charged. Each book is numbered and signed by artist. 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. Skywarp mocks the humans, telling Starscream that the humans will really be terrified when Megatron arrives. and our Prowl, who had Perceptor install some subroutines into Kup, so Kup can be Prowl's proxy when it comes to have his advice being taken seriously. Immediately after this is forgotten and never brought up again, however the next page shows Hunter being tortured by Bombshell, implying that Hunter is the source of the con's information which makes even. IDW rejected the pitch and the motion comic went unproduced.[11]. (i.e., NM $900) Indicates a raw comic with no sales info available at any condition range. The creation of the Insecticons is a major plot point in All Hail, despite two of the team's members previously appearing in Spotlight: Blaster and Megatron: Origin, while past depictions of IDW's eloquent Soundwave were ignored in favor of instating his monotone speech patterns from the original The Transformers cartoon. Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Sol Fury, May 5, 2008. 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 The Complete All Hail Megatron HC ( July 27, 2011) ISBN 1600109551 / ISBN 978-1600109553 Collects issues #1-16, and the Spotlights of Volume 3. And then on the opposite side with Decepticons conqueing earth and finally seeing victory for the first time. Of course, this is all a joke and the Constructicons begin blasting into the crowd and street, blasting everything and everyone in sight. 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All Hail Megatron is a 16-issue maxi-series published by IDW Publishing, starting in July 2008, and set in the primary IDW continuity . Powered by Shopify, (W) Shane McCarthy (A) Guido Guidi (CA) Klaus Scherwinski, TRANSFORMERS ALL HAIL MEGATRON #1 APOCALYPSE COMICS KILLER JOKE HOMAGE VARIANT CGC 9.8 - VERY RARE. All Hail Megatron is the latest mini-series in the ongoing TF narrative, detailing what happens when the Autobots are forced to tend to a wounded/damaged Optimus Prime. Apocalypse Comics Cover. Frazier Irving "Killing Joke" Homage cover. Or is it? The machine guns, surprisingly, have no effect on them. [2] Similar to a tactic DC Comics had employed after its series Infinite Crisis two years prior, McCarthy jumped the entire IDW universe forward one year in time in order to present a story that could shock readers with its sudden, dramatic differences, the product of unseen changes that occurred within the "missing year". I knew from day one that this was going to piss some people off. This all-new series picks up one year after the Revelations saga, and finds the Decepticons alone and triumphant on Earth, with not an Autobot in sight. 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. Touch. The violence was toned down since the preview in ", When July sales data came in, it turned out. This amount is subject to change until you make payment. Bonus material includes a cover gallery and the art sketches from previous collections. Optimus and Spike's dialogue while Sideswipes finds Hunter, and the subsequent actions. Sparkplug's group is attacked by Dropshot, who was hiding as one of their missile launchers all this time, and panicking he asks if they can be under their noses all the time, where else can they be? The cast on both sides is basically the 1985 toy line, aka the Season 2 cast of the Generation 1 cartoon. 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. As the human jets are decimated, one of the pilots, a man named DJ, attempts to crash his crippled fighter into Megatron, who just swats him away. Atlanta, Georgia 30328 | 877.481.5750, *****TRANSFORMERS ALL HAIL MEGATRON #1 APOCALYPSE COMICS VARIANT*****IDW, 2008.Super rare Apocalypse Comics Casey Coller "KILLING JOKE" homage variant cover!One of the most sought-after and hard to find Transformers comics! 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. Megatron, Astrotrain, Blitzwing, Jazz, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Wheeljack, Ironhide, and Optimus Prime manage to retain their unique-to-IDW bodies. In New York City, a green construction vehicle nearly runs over some humans in Times Square. Tensions and tempers flare. 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. Virtually all of the new technologies Furman introduced during his run such as Ultra-Energon, the Magnificence, and holomatter avatars were entirely discarded, with Pretender technology only getting a late-on nod in Kup's "Coda" story, its conveyance of ultimate power seemingly completely forgotten by the time of Perceptor's "Coda" tale, given the depiction of Bludgeon therein. The crowd marvels at the giant robots, some thinking they are movie props. Fighter pilots are sent to intercept the Decepticons, but they think it's just a joke Until they see the robots in person. Click below to begin your paid subscription. The Decepticons are driven off; the intervention of a disgruntled Thundercracker prevents the European Union from nuking New York City, though he pays for his "betrayal". Chris Ryall tells us that the love of this cover will be sent overseas to UK . Originally, the series was slated to be issues #3546 in the IDW overarching "sub-numbering" scheme,[3] leaving Furman twelve issues set during the "missing year" to wrap up any loose ends he could (though in the end, only nine issues were published across Revelation and Maximum Dinobots). The AUTOBOTS had been driven back to a desolate Cybertron, their mighty leader grievously injured and bereft of the Matrix of Leadership. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This edition is erroneously referred to as.