We received our copy of Transformers Animated issue 3 today from Titan Magazines.  The comic contains two stories as usual an introduces another new character, Crossroads.   Crossroads is a human super villain character, whom the Autobots send Prowl, Bulkhead and Afterburn after him.

The story uses an interesting "focus" technique in some of the frames, which works well, and the colouring of Jason Cardy is top notch (as always).  The drawings, by TFA artist John McCrea follow the previous issues, and there is still something odd about the way Afterburn is drawn.  The style is unique to the UK Transformers Animated comic, giving it it's own style.

Issue 3 of the UK Transformers Animated Comic is released UK wide tomorrow.

Just a quick reminder that the 16th issue of Titan Magazines' Transformers comic is out today, so make sure you pick up the comic from your local stockest.

To help support the second longest running UK Transformers comic you may want to order a subscription to the comic.  This can be done online, in the post or via your local newsagent.  becareful if you try to order a subscription online though, as Titan Magazine's subscription service for the comic does not work properly.  Although we have informed Titan of the problems, they remain unable to fix the problem.

To make things more confussing your order will be processes as normal, you just won't receive any confimation of the order.  If you speak to Titan you'll get a generic answer about their being a problem, though they won't actually look into it.

We're sticking with the old fashioned way of buying it from the shops, which means that Titan miss out on the extra revenue, but at least we can get the comic that way.

When issue 15 of the UK Transformers comic was released last week, Titan Magazines named a new "Website of the Month". This time it was none other than TransformersAnimated.com. Sadly our copy of the comic has not arrived, so we will be trying to track down an issue to bring you a full review, but in the mean time here is a scan courtesy of Hoist of Total Transformers

I've just picked up out copy of the issue, so here's a little summary of what you'll find in the UK Transformers Issue 12.

Cover item - Transformers Pinball
Story 1: - Transformers : Twilight's Last Gleaming - Part 4
Written by Simon Furman
Art by Paul Ridgon
Inks by Andy Lanning
Colours by Jason Cardy
Letters by Jimmy Bentancourt / Comicraft
Summary: Nicely drawn, very nicely coloured and Optimus Prime final awakes.
Story 2: Transformers Movie Prequal - Part 12
Written by Simon Furman and Chris Ryall
Art by Don Figueroa
Colours by Josh Burcham
Colour Assistant: Mark Baistow
Letters by Robbie Robbins
Editor: Dan Taylor
Summary: The story still ticks through and still hasn't ended yet
Competition 1: Non Transformers related Nerf prizes
Poster: Double sided again this month. Cover art on one side, Transformers Animated Megatron / Starcream on the other.
Transformers Animated feature: Brief information on Megatron and Starscream, with an advert for Nicktoons and Transformers Animated.com - listed at the official Transformers Animated website)
Story 3: Transformers Beast Wars - The Gathering- Part 12
Written by Simon Furman
Art by Don Figueroa
Colours by Josh Burcham
Letters by Tim B Long
Editors: Chris Ryall and Dan Taylor
Summary: Includes an awesome two page double spread battle seen, which looks like it's been exploded from a smaller print (which of cause it was) but looks great and very colourful.
How to Draw: Features Blackout for 4 pages
Competition 2: Prizes include Transformers Risk, Transformers Movie / Classics toys and Transformers Titaniums.
Artobots: I still love the name of this section, simple but cool. 2 pages of artwork
Star Screams:6 letters, lots of pictures of kids and their collections as well as naming winners of all the competitions from issue 2 to issue 8. Website of the month is Polykarbon.com (Seibertron is still the only Transformers news site to be featured).

Issue 13 is out on June 19th, features a free Transformers disc blaster (try to contain your excitement folks)and is a Giant Bumper Sized Issue with Free Transformers Animated pull out section.

Simon Furman has updated his blog with information on the latest issue of Transformers (the comic by Titan Magazines) which is due for release on Thursday (tomorrow).