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IDW Publishing (Idea and Design Works) is an American publisher of comic books currently publishing several Doctor Who comics out of the USA. Many of IDW's titles are licensed properties based upon TV and film franchises. Besides Doctor Who, IDW is also the current publisher of comics based upon Star Trek, making this the first time since the late-70s/early-80s that one company has owned the rights to both franchises at the same time (the previous being Marvel Comics).

The company initially offered two Doctor Who titles beginning in winter 2007/08: Doctor Who Classics, which reprinted Fourth Doctor stories from Doctor Who Magazine, and Doctor Who, offering all-new adventures for the Tenth Doctor, starting with a six-issue miniseries. In summer 2008, IDW released a second miniseries, The Forgotten, which featured appearances by all 10 Doctors. In October 2008, IDW suspended Doctor Who Classics and launched a related title, Grant Morrison's Doctor Who, a two-issue miniseries which reprinted DWM storylines written by Grant Morrison. In December, the regular reprints continued as Doctor Who Classics: Series 2, continuing the DWM reprints with the Fourth Doctor; in April 2009 the series began reprinting Fifth Doctor strips.

In 2009, IDW published a series of one-shots, which began with The Whispering Gallery in February, followed by The Time Machination in May, and Autopia in June. It launched Doctor Who Ongoing in July (cover title simply Doctor Who), a new monthly series featuring the Tenth Doctor that is expected to run for at least 18 issues, and is anticipated to move onto the Eleventh Doctor around issue #18 at the end of 2010.

Concurrent with Ongoing, IDW continued publishing monthly one-shots until the fall of 2009. These stories occur during the timeframes of the third and fourth seasons and featured appearances by Martha Jones and Donna Noble. As of 2010, IDW continues to publish Doctor Who Ongoing and Doctor Who Classics with no further one-shots announced as yet.

The Ongoing title (which carries a cover title of simply, Doctor Who with the story's title appearing somewhere on the cover), takes place in the post-Journey's End continuity and as of January 2010 continued to feature the Tenth Doctor. IDW has announced that stories featuring the Eleventh Doctor will be launched in the Ongoing title near the end of 2010.

Aside from the comic magazines, IDW also publishes graphic novel-style omnibus collections of its comics. To date, it has reprinted three volumes of Doctor Who Classics (with a fourth announced), Agent Provocateur (an omnibus collecting the first six-issue miniseries), The Forgotten, and Through Time and Space, an omnibus collecting the first six one-shots.

External Link

• The IDW publishing site with news, information and previews of all its titles.

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IDW Publishing is the latest comic book publisher to have obtained the Star Trek licence. They did so in 2006 with the first comics published in January 2007. IDW's comics so far have been based either on The Original Series, The Next Generation, or Deep Space Nine. In their first year IDW tested the format with various innovative miniseries, in their second year they intend to push the line forward with the involvement of big names such as D.C. Fontana and Peter David, branding their output for the year Star Trek: Second Stage. ^[1]

Format

IDW's first Star Trek comic, "History Lesson"

IDW has so far released Star Trek comics in miniseries of between two and six issues over several consecutive months. Each comic is thirty-two pages in length, twenty-two of which are actually story. The story pages flow uninterrupted with the final ten pages consisting of adverts, previews and interviews relating to other IDW projects, letters pages, and in a hand-full of issues The Trek Life comic strips.

The inside front cover of each comic typically contains a title a credit page and sometimes an opening monologue like paragraph of text related to the miniseries or in the case of some part-stories a short paragraph of text to refresh the reader on the story so far. In a hand full of issues this title page has been moved to the first page after the story at the back of the book.

Most of the comics have been available in several covers. Earlier comics tended to have more covers, while the most recent releases have had increasingly few, with many issues being released in just one cover by May of 2008. "Against Their Nature", the first issue of the Klingons: Blood Will Tell miniseries has had to most covers to date, with a total of seven being available. For IDW's first year's worth of miniseries the back inside cover of each comic was used as a cover gallery for that issue. With the launch of the Second Stage titles the cover gallery was moved to the title page, occupying a smaller area using thumbnail images.

After the first few issue of the first series IDW released two comics a month throughout their first year. With the launch of their Second Stage titles they upped production to four issues a month, intending to deliver a new comic almost every week. Output has since fluctuated, with as few as one comic being release in a month, and up to as many as five.

Publications

For a detailed breakdown of all IDW's miniseries (past, present, forthcoming and potential future series) see IDW Publishing publications. For a list of all IDW comics by publication order see IDW Publishing release order.

Miniseries

Completed series

In production

Forthcoming series

Omnibuses

Typically, three months following the publication of the final issue of a miniseries an omnibus book of the series is released. There have been a few exceptions to this; Romulans: The Hollow Crown has yet to be released in an omnibus, awaiting the publication of the Schism with the intention of releasing a single omnibus of the entire John Byrne Romulan Saga. Similarly the new adaptation of The Wrath of Khan will be printed in an omnibus alongside previous movie comic adaptations.

The Countdown miniseries also brakes the normal rule, with the intention to release the omnibus almost immediately after publication of the final issue so that it will be out ahead of the release of the movie it is a prequel to.

IDW also publish collections of Star Trek comics originally published by previous holders of the Star Trek comics license. These have so far taken two forms: The Star Trek Archives series collects between four and six issues per volume, based on a theme while the Star Trek Omnibus format will see larger collections of entire series of comics.

IDW Publishing omnibuses
IDW miniseries	The Space Between • Klingons: Blood Will Tell • Year Four • Alien Spotlight, Volume I • Intelligence Gathering • Turnaround • Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment • Assignment: Earth • Mirror Images • Countdown • The Last Generation • Mission's End • Crew • Spock: Reflections • Nero • Romulans: Pawns of War • Alien Spotlight, Volume II
Star Trek Archives	Best of Peter David • Best of the Borg • Best of Gary Seven • Best of DS9 • Best of Captain Kirk • Best of Alternate Universes • Best of Klingons
Star Trek Omnibus	First Marvel Series • Early Voyages • Movie adaptations

Creators

IDW Publishing writers and editors
Writers	Mike W. Barr • John Byrne • Derek Chester • Peter David • Keith R.A. DeCandido • Ian Edginton • D.C. Fontana • Andrew Steven Harris • Tim Jones • Mike Johnson • Stuart Moore • James Patrick • Chris Ryall • Andy Schmidt • Paul D. Storrie • David Tipton • Scott Tipton • David Tischman • Ty Templeton
Story credits	Harve Bennett • Alex Kurtzman • Roberto Orci • Rick Remender • Jack B. Sowards
Editors	Scott Dunbier • Andrew Steven Harris • Chris Ryall • Andy Schmidt • Dan Taylor • Denton J. Tipton

IDW Publishing artists
Interior artists	Bob Almond • Josep Maria Beroy • John Byrne • Elena Casagrande • Chee Yang Ong • Steve Conley • Arianna Florean • Drew Geraci • Gianluigi Gregorini • Mike Hawthorne • Aaron Leach • Casey Maloney • Federica Manfredi • Jose Marzan Jr. • David Messina • Stephen Molnar • Sean Murphy • Tom Nguyen • Leonard O'Grady • Terry Pallot • Stacie Ponder • Sara Pichelli • Gordon Purcell • Wagner Reis • Rob & Joe Sharp • Bob Smith • Stephen Thompson • J.K. Woodward
Cover artists	Josep Maria Beroy • James Brown • John Byrne • Dennis Calero • Elena Casagrande • Chee Yang Ong • Steve Conley • Joe Corroney • David Deitrick • Jeremy Geddes • Mike Hawthorne • Zach Howard • Ken Kelly • Kevin Maquire • David Messina • Sean Murphy • Leonard O'Grady • Bob Peak • Nick Runge • Kelsey Shannon • Rob & Joe Sharp • Stephen Thompson • David Williams • J.K. Woodward
Colorists	2B Studio • Moose Baumann • Mario Boon • Chiara Cinabro • Andrew Elder • John Hunt • Jason Jenson • Lovern Kindzierski • Thompson Knox • Paolo Maddaleni • Giovanna Niro • Leonard O'Grady • Mirco Pierfederici • Priscila Ribeiro • Chris Sotomayor • Tom Smith • Ilaria Traversi • J.K. Woodward
Letterers	Robbie Robbins • Chris Mowry • Richard Starklings • Neil Uyetake

Appendices

External links

• IDW Publishing's website.
• IDW Publishing article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
• IDW Publishing article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki

Idea and Design Works, LLC, founded in 1989, currently owns the Transformers comic book license as of May 2005, following the financial collapse of the previous license holder, Dreamwave Productions, at the tail-end of 2004.

IDW's flagship storyline is a rebooted Generation One continuity, written by longtime Transformers scribe Simon Furman and told through a succession of mini-series and one-shot Spotlights. IDW has also been authorized to re-release trade paperbacks published by Dreamwave, such as the War and Peace mini-series and The War Within and The War Within: The Dark Ages. In May 2008, IDW's relationship with Hasbro proved to be quite healthy indeed as they snapped up the G.I. Joe comic book license as well.

Series published

G1 rebooted

The main IDW continuity is mostly overseen by Simon Furman, who has taken a fresh approach to the Generation One story. All the familiar faces are present, but a more sophisticated universe is unfolding around them. (Initial ideas for IDW's Transformer line included a Crisis on Infinite Earths-style story and a G1/Cybertron crossover that would start off two ongoings in the respective continuities [1])

Instead of an ongoing civil war on Cybertron which spills over to Earth by accident, Furman presents us with an interstellar cold war between the Autobots and Decepticons, a war of Codes of Interplanetary Conflict and alt-form-and-dagger covert operations, with energon the prize and whole planets at stake. A surprising development on Earth heats up the war and turns our planet from just another proxy battleground into the ultimate prize.

The general order of publications to date is as follows:

• Infiltration (2005–06) Establishes the presence of the Transformers on modern-day Earth and re-establishes the theme of "robots in disguise" as central to the new continuity; a seven-issue story arc (issues #0 to #6).
• Spotlight (2006–present) Series of one-shot stories focusing on a single Transformer per issue; this series has no fixed publication format and is ongoing.
• Stormbringer (2006) A four-issue miniseries tie-in to Infiltration, establishing Cybertron's current situation in the re-boot and focusing squarely on the Transformers.
• Escalation (2006–07) Sequel to Infiltration; a six-issue story arc.
• New Avengers/Transformers (2007) A collaboration between Marvel Comics and IDW featuring the first ever crossover between the Transformers and New Avengers. Though it will have minimal effects on the overall universe, it is specifically designed to fit into continuity between Infiltration and Escalation.
• Megatron Origin (2007) A four-issue story arc detailing the events surrounding Megatron's rise to power and the founding of the Decepticon faction.
• Devastation (2007–08) Sequel to Escalation; a six-issue story arc.
• Revelation (2008) Sequel to Devastation; composed of 4 Spotlights.
• All Hail Megatron (2008–2009) A twelve-issue maxi-series chronicling the aftermath of the defeat of the Autobots and the Decepticon conquest of Earth. The publication schedule will overlap with Revelation and Maximum Dinobots.
• Maximum Dinobots (2008–2009) Will take place chronologically between Revelation and All Hail Megatron (which it will be published concurrently with).

See also

• IDW continuity
• IDW timeline

Beast Wars

Taking place within the Beast Wars cartoon universe, this line eschews the previous 3H fan club comics that previously continued the show's story to strike out in a new direction, focusing mainly on the non-show toy characters.

• Beast Wars: The Gathering (2006) A four-issue mini-series marking the 10th anniversary of the Beast Wars franchise.
• Beast Wars: The Ascending (2007) A four-issue sequel to The Gathering that began publication in October 2007.
• The Beast Wars Sourcebook profile series is currently (November 2007) being published.

See also

• Beast Wars timeline (IDW)

Evolutions

A series of Elseworlds-like stories that exist in their own separate continuities, each taking different takes on Transformers. Only one has so-far been produced. (Reportedly, Hasbro has asked IDW to hold back on Evolutions as to not confuse customers looking for merchandise based on the 2007 film.)

• Hearts of Steel (2006) Places the G1 Transformers in the American West during the Industrial Revolution.

2007 film

• Transformers: Movie Prequel (2007) A four-part series detailing the lead-up to the 2007 Transformers movie.
• Transformers: Movie Adaptation (2007) A four-part comic adaptation of the film, released weekly in June 2007.
• The Reign of Starscream (2008) IDW's official sequel to the 2007 film, continuing where the Movie Adaptation left off. It began in May 2008.
• Saga of the Allspark (2008) Reprinting the UK Movie comics from Titan Magazine.
• Movie prequel: Alliance (2008-2009) The prequel to Revenge of the Fallen. The first of two parts.
• Transformers: Defiance (2009) The prequel to Revenge of the Fallen. The second of two parts.

Reprint series

• Generations – Reprints old Marvel Comics issues. Due to copyright issues regarding Spider-Man and Circuit Breaker, issues #3, #9, #22-23, #46, #68, #72-#80 can not be reprinted.
• Target 2006 (2007)
• Best of UK: Dinobots (2007)
• Best of UK: Space Pirates (2008)
• Best of UK: Time Wars (2008)
• Best of UK: City of Fear (2009)

Due to copyright issues with regards to Death's Head, several Transformers UK stories can not be republished in the United States, most notably "Galvatron: Wanted Dead or Alive" and "The Legacy of Unicron".

Other

• Transformers: The Animated Movie (2006) A four-issue adaptation of the original Transformers film, 1986's The Transformers: The Movie; marks the film's 20th anniversary and new DVD release.
• The Best of Simon Furman
• The Best of Don Figueroa
• The Art of IDW's Transformers
• The Transformers: The Premiere Collection, Volume 1
• Greatest Battles of Optimus Prime and Megatron
• Transformers: The Ark — A Complete Compendium Of Transformers Animation Models
• The Ark II— A Compendium of Japanese Character Designs
• Balancing Act

External link

• IDW Publishing