AFTER TAKING OVER the rights to Transformers and GI Joe from IDW, Skybound Entertainment secretly launched the Energon Universe in June, when Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici’s Void Rivals was revealed to be part of a new line of books. That range will be augmented this month by the debut of Daniel Warren Johnson’s Transformers, and then by the Josh Williamson-scripted miniseries Duke and Cobra Commander in December and January respectively.
“Robert shared with me the idea of what years before we formally pitched to Hasbro,” editor Sean Mackiewicz tells Red Alert. “He wanted to create a new entry point for readers to explore the universe, which included creating new characters and civilisations and hiding a huge surprise in the centre of it all in the form of Jetfire. That idea grew to unite Transformers and GI Joe and merge them with this entirely new franchise.”
