Other than a second printing of Last Stand of the Wreckers #1, here's IDW's releases for February!

• February 10
  Animated Volume 13
  LSotW #1 2nd printing
• February 17
  Bumblebee #3
  LSotW #2
• February 24
  Ongoing #4
  War Within Omnibus reprint
  

Thanks to bassbot over at the IDW boards, or see the entire list at IDW!

Speaking of the "Takara Trilogy", here's Jim Sorenson with the transforming sequence lineart to Chromedome from The Headmasters! Note that Chromedome's character is different depending on which side of the Pacific you're talking about: in Western circles, he's an academic; in Japan, a hot-headed mech struggling with the responsibilities and duties of a leader.

Head On over to Jim's blog to see from car to robot mode!

Bad news on the Academy Awards®: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen didn't get nominated for Visual Effects. Good news on the Academy Awards®: ROTF got in for Sound Mixing. More bad news: it's got competition against 20th Century Fox's Avatar, fellow Paramount Star Trek, The Hurt Locker from Summit Entertainment, and Universal's Inglorious Basterds.

Head over to the Academy Awards®' page on nominated films for the entire list.

Possible Spoilers Ahead

Click here for the interview, and then discuss this rumor here.

Shout for Victory!

I was actually speaking to someone about this the other day.  Obviously, we have a very good relationship with Hasbro and would like to pursue additional titles from their library.  Without any promises, of course, are the Takara collections something you'd like to see on DVD in the States?  I have all three of Metrodome's volumes, which run the gamut of quality, in terms of both animation and all-around storytelling.  So is this collection, which has never officially been available in the U.S., something most Transformers fans would like to see done right?  Or is it something aimed only at the hardest core fans?

Let me know.  

Brian

Well, do you? Sound off on the Shout Factory Boards, and discuss it on our boards as well!

It's not the Academy Awards, but at least it does account for something! This time, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has been nominated in seven categories from the Golden Raspberry Awards. Notably, it's in competition with Land of the Lost for the Worst Picture category (the opposite of the Oscars' Best Picture). On the remaining six: Worst Director (Michael Bay), Worst Actress (Megan Fox), Worst Screen Couple, Worst Supporting Actress (Julie White), Worst Screenplay, and Worst Remake/Rip-Off/Squel. Compare that to the only category Transformers was nominated in, Supporting Actor for John Voight who played Defense Secretary John Keller.

Read it up at CNN Entertainment, or head over to the Razzies' site!

You going to say no to him?

Read up the press release from IDW! Share your thoughts on the issue at this thread as well!