Daniel Warren Johnson’s Transformers #1 Opens With Over 153,000 Orders

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The buzz round Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer’s Transformers #1 from Image Comics/Hasbro/Skybound has been rising.

The buzz round Daniel Warren Johnson & Mike Spicer‘s Transformers #1 from Image Comics/Hasbro/Skybound has been rising, a lot in order that the previous’s artwork rep in contrast the launch to Frank Miller and Klaus Janson‘s The Dark Knight Returns (although this 5-page preview, I feel Tom King and Daniel Sampere‘s Wonder Woman may need that comparability within the bag).

But at the same time as that debate stays inconclusive to some, we advised you simply yesterday that the early buzz on Transformers #1 orders would possibly simply, pardon the pun, remodel The Big Two (Marvel, DC) shared universe into The Big Three (with the Energon Universe placing forth the gross sales that will result in fairly the cheers for comparable books on the aforementioned corporations).

That explains why I’ve now heard from my sources that Transformers #1 has launched with orders in extra of 153,000 models – that’s not solely a report for any Hasbro licensed comedian launch this century but additionally the top-selling debut for Skybound (outdoors of The Walking Dead #1, together with all the following printings).

Skybound’s record-breaking Transformers #1 debut quantity occurred with the ever-popular retailer variants at lower than 20% of the entire print run for Transformers #1 and no ratio variant above 1:100, regardless of many different massive launches in reaching years counting on variant ratios as excessive as 1:1000.

Even extra spectacular, I’ve a sense that Dan Buckley at Marvel and Pam Lifford at DC is perhaps questioning how Transformers – a license that hasn’t offered six figures in practically 20 years – has all of a sudden offered at ranges they’d applaud for reviving their prime properties and locations the Energon Universe solidly subsequent to DC’s The New 52 launches, with the latter launching in a a lot stronger economic system.

Now the quick query, as we method October, is easy: Did retailers order sufficient copies of Transformers #1? Excitement appears at an all-time excessive for Transformers in comedian ebook type, surpassing even the thrill over twenty years in the past when Dreamwave launched Transformers: Generation One and made Pat Lee a comic book ebook rock star (with all of the unhealthy behaviour that will include it).

Perhaps much more importantly, one should ask how the warmth from Transformers #1 will switch to extra titles from the very Energon Universe that Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici stealth-launched in June’s Void Rivals #1 (which additionally had a six-figure debut). Every challenge of that sequence has gone again to print a number of occasions and new printings of the primary three points arrive in shops alongside Transformers, exposing it to the most important comedian viewers for a debut in 2023.

Then in December, we see the launch of Duke #1 from Joshua Williamson and Tom Reilly, which begins the MCU-like path to bringing collectively the organizations we all know as G.I. Joe and Cobra in a shared universe with the Transformers and Void Rivals. With mega-popular Decepticon Starscream on the duvet to Duke #1, it is clear that this sequence will not be solely a contemporary jumping-on level for G.I. Joe followers, however it’s going to have lots to supply for Transformers followers too.

Transformers #1 is on sale Wednesday, the 4th of October at comedian retailers in all places. Now if somebody might solely inform me what the spoiler is on that 1:100 foil variant cowl…

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SERIES PREMIERE THE ALL NEW TRANSFORMERS ERA STARTS HERE! Superstar creator DANIEL WARREN JOHNSON (DO A POWERBOMB, Wonder Woman: Dead Earth), alongside ENERGON UNIVERSE showrunner ROBERT KIRKMAN (VOID RIVALS, INVINCIBLE), reimagines Hasbro’s robots in disguise for a brand-new era. Optimus Prime was alleged to have led the Autobots to victory. Instead, the destiny of Cybertron is unknown, and his allies have crash-landed removed from residence, alongside their enemies-the Decepticons. As these titanic forces renew their battle on Earth, one factor is instantly clear: the planet won’t ever be the identical. New alliances are struck. Battle strains are redrawn. And humanity’s solely hope of survival is Optimus Prime. Discover THE TRANSFORMERS such as you’ve by no means seen them earlier than!In Shops: Oct 04, 2023 SRP: $4.99

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