The IDW related news that has come out of Auto Assembly was...1. Andrew Wildman has been intalks with IDW, but presently is not onboard for any of the comics. He's personally interested in working on the Gen1 title with Simon Furman.
2. Soundwave will not be appearing for at least a little while in the IDW comics.
3. Soundwave's alternative mode si yet to be decided. The only sure thing is that he will most definatly not be a tape deck. Andy Wildman's request is for an iPod, but as Furman explained, "that's like trying to explain Megatron being a gun".
4. Megatron's alternative mode has been decided, but they do not want to spoil it at present.
5. One of the biggest changes will be to Starscream and the seekers. Since their original forms are now out-dated, they have be bought up-to-date with military hardware.
6. The humans will be younger than Spike, and they hope to drop the target age bracket by one slot to try to bring onboard new fans.
7. Simon will be trying to stay away from any 'big epics' in the first few stories, to try to help pull in the new readership.
8. They still hope to pick up WW3 once the legal stuff settles.
9. Simon knows nothing more than the rest of us with regards to the new movie, but does visit Don Murphy's website to stay up-to-date.
We hope to have some sample video clips form the Q&A session available over the next few days.
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