Here's a rumor for you that was said to be making the rounds at SDCC Special Edition 2021 last week. According to Bleeding Cool News, IDW Publishing's license to publish the Transformers comics may be coming to an end next year. This is not the first horse to leave IDWs stable as licenses for Marvel and Star Wars are said to have departed for greener pastures recently as well.

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Anyone have clue one how this affects collected editions? I've been picking up the IDW Transformers Phase books for years now and, at 21 books deep with the series almost complete, I don't want them to suddenly stop coming.

Here here! I agree with the post above. I own all the hardcover editions of phase 1 and phase 2. I will not be a happy camper if we don’t get the full run in hardcover. 

@Mikhael @Equinoxx You will have to wait to see if this is for real and what they say about it to know for sure. My guess is the license will expire for new publications and they may still be able to do the trades for past comics.

To be honest here. IDWs contract may end in 2022 and Hasbro and IDW havent renewed it yet.