The Transformers Spotlight by Nick Roche

Three subsequent less-good films have sort of painted Transformers back into the corner I used to be found cowering in, mocked for my devotion as a 'too-old' teenager. NR: That's the thing, isn't it? It was almost 'cool' (whatever that means) for twenty minutes in 2007 to be into Transformers, or be associated with it. If he's missing, the delicate peace between the Autobots and the Decepticons could crumble, and the whole galaxy could learn that the 'Heroic Autobots' have a very tenuous claim to their prefix. Though an Autobot, Prowl is a pragmatic schemer – a 'Mechiavelli', who knows where all the bodies from the four million-plus years of war are buried. And those members of the team that survived the original series with their limbs (if not their psyches) intact, have scattered to the four winds. The problem being… Springer is in a coma, and has been since the end of Last Stand Of The Wreckers.

According to an automated message triggered by his abduction,there's only one Autobot dogged enough that he trusts with his retrieval, and that's the leader of the Wreckers, Springer. The head of Autobot Intelligence – and permanent thorn in the Wreckers' side – Prowl, has disappeared. Sins of The Wreckers is actually quite different-more of a mystery. Nick Roche: Some of the soldiers actually WERE green. Is Sins of the Wreckers along the same lines? Spencer Ellsworth: Last Stand of the Wreckers was really, to me, a great war movie-a one-in-a-million mission, green soldiers and hardened veterans, and a bittersweet ending steeped in the fog of war. We'll find out what that's about shortly. Recently, he's been the house artist for British rock band, The Darkness, providing cover artwork for their album, Last Of Our Kind, and directing the music video for their single, 'Barbarian.' He has a reputation for shattering trousers with his artwork. He has also worked on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the creator-owned Monster Motors with MINIONS screenwriter Brian Lynch, and for Marvel, New Warriors and Death's Head (2014 incarnation). He's best known for the incredible Last Stand of the Wreckers (co-written with James Roberts), a sort of Saving Private Ryan with giant robots. Nick Roche got his start as a comics artist at IDW Publishing, illustrating and soon writing the company's incarnation of Transformers.

The Transformers Spotlight by Nick Roche