A DeLorean time machine Transformer? It’s like some kind of concept 35 years stuck out of time. And yet, the future is now–again. Back to the Future is back in the present, this time with Marty McFly stepping into another future, a future taken over by Transformers’ Decepticons. It’s a great mash-up idea and it actually works, as envisioned by IDW in its new mini-series, Transformers/Back to the Future. Issue #1 is now in comic book stores, and today we have a preview for borg readers.
Tomorrow–on Back to the Future Day–IDW Publishing is releasing the first issue of a new Back to the Future comic book series, spinning off of the films and written by trilogy writer/creator Bob Gale. Below we have a preview of the series courtesy of IDW as well as several variant covers from Issue #1 and next month’s Issue #2. All-in, the publisher is releasing 34 retailer incentive variant covers for the premiere issue. The standard covers for Issues #1-4 will form the above image.
Issue #1 provides two stories of Marty and Doc’s past. The first story in the series takes us back to October 1982, where we get to witness Marty McFly’s first encounter with Doc Brown and his dog Einstein. It’s a lighthearted and believable tale–consistent with the characters we know so well. The second story takes us farther back to Doc Brown’s past–to World War II and Doc Brown’s encounter with another famous scientist and his big project.
It’s hard to beat the black-and-white, original art style, retro-cover variant. And BacktotheFuture.com is offering its own great variant of Marty seeing Marty at the Twin Pines Mall (later Lone Pine Mall). Enough waiting! Click this link to download the preview to Issue #1:
IDW Publishing announced during this year’s San Diego Comic Con a new series spinning off from the classic Back to the Future movies, timed in honor of the series’ 30th anniversary. The original movie creator/screenwriter Bob Gale is behind the new series. Joining Gale in alternate timeline stories are IDW writers John Barber (Transformers) and Erik Burnham (Ghostbusters). The artistic duties will be split between Brent Schoonover (Batman ’66) and Dan Schoening (Ghostbusters). Each subsequent issue will feature rotating artistic teams.
“We’ve subtitled this ‘Untold Tales and Alternate Timelines’ because for years, fans have asked questions about things that happened before the events of the trilogy, in between the events of the trilogy, or in our alternate realities,” said Gale in the IDW news release. “In this series, we’ll finally answer some of those questions, with our focus squarely on the characters everyone loves.”
In the first tale of the debut issue, readers are taken back to 1982 and witness the very first meeting between Marty McFly and Doc Brown. Then the story heads back even farther to 1943 with a younger Doc Brown. This first issue will feature three standard covers, by Schoening, Schoonover, and Amy Mebberson (My Little Pony). Additionally, Back to the Future #1 will join in on Artist’s Edition Month in October with an original art styled cover by Schoening. And all four standard covers form the banner image above. Check out all these great covers for Issues #1 and #2:
