IDW Publishing Launches First-Ever Digital-Only TRANSFORMERS Comic Series, AUTOCRACY

IDW announces a digital-only Transformers comic - TRANSFORMERS: AUTOCRACY, a twelve part series that will be released every two weeks starting January 18th. The eight page chapters will be $.99 each.

The digital comic will have ties to the new series that have just started - TRANSFORMERS: ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, and TRANSFORMERS: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE. AUTOCRACY features the writing debut of  Chris Metzen – SVP, Story and Franchise Development at Blizzard Entertainment and one of the main creative minds behind the company’s Warcraft, StarCraft, and Diablo universes. The book is co-written by Flint Dille, who worked on the original  TRANSFORMERS animated series. Livio Ramondelli (TRANSFORMERS: CHAOS) will handle the art.

“This project is a dream come true for me,” said Metzen. “I’ve loved the TRANSFORMERS brand all my life – and the chance to take these characters for a drive with my good friend Flint has been an incredible privilege. But I think it’s Livio Ramondelli’s gritty, cinematic vision that really brings this story to life.”

“I feel beyond thankful to be a part of this project,” said Ramondelli. “These two have written a truly epic TRANSFORMERS story for the ages. I can’t say enough good things about Chris Metzen, and we should all feel lucky that Flint Dille is returning to TRANSFORMERS.”

“IDW is very excited to launch this digital-exclusive series,” said IDW CEO and Publisher Ted Adams. “The TRANSFORMERS brand has a broad international fan-base, this series will continue to increase the comics audience.”

Autocracy can be found in IDW’s Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, apps – Transformers Comics and IDW Comics, and on the Web at read.idwpublishing.com. The series is also featured in the Comics by comiXology platform for iOS, Android, Web and Kindle Fire, and Comics + by iVerse.