Skybound/Image Comics Announce Three Energon Hardcover Collections For 2025
by Olly MacNamee
Skybound/Image Comics, in collaboration with Hasbro, has announced three Energon Universe deluxe hardcover collections to be released in the spring and summer of 2025. Below are the covers and a rundown of the creative teams on each hardcover, plot overviews and release dates.
Transformers Deluxe Edition Book One collects the first two arcs (issues #1-12) of the two-time Eisner Award-winning series from the creative team of Daniel Warren Johnson, Jorge Corona, and Mike Spicer in a deluxe hardcover for the first time.
“The Autobots and Decepticons have renewed their endless war on Earth, and one thing is immediately clear: the planet will never be the same. New alliances are struck. Battle lines are redrawn. And humanity’s only hope of survival is Optimus Prime.”
Transformers Deluxe Edition Book One is out on Wednesday, April 30th, 2025, and in bookstores on Tuesday, May 13th, 2025.
Void Rivals Deluxe Edition Book One from writer Robert Kirkman and artist Lorenzo De Felici will be in comic book shops in May 2025, this deluxe hardcover collects Void Rivals #1-12 and material from the Energon Universe 2024 Special.
“War rages around the Sacred Ring, where the last remnants of two worlds have collapsed around a black hole in a never-ending war. However, when pilot Darak and his rival Solila both crash on a desolate planet, these two enemies end up on a journey neither of them expected.
What dark forces await them? And will they be able to put aside their differences to confront them together?”
Void Rivals Deluxe Edition Book One is out on Wednesday, May 21st, 2025, and in bookstores on Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025.
G.I. JOE Deluxe Edition Book One, collects the bestselling Duke and Cobra Commander miniseries, as well as material from the Energon Universe 2024 Special by writer Joshua Williamson, with artists Tom Reilly and Andrea Milana.
“Conrad “Duke” Hauser made first contact with a Transformer and lived to tell the tale. Now, one of the US Army’s most decorated soldier is on the hunt for answers, drawn into a conflict that no amount of training could prepare him for.
Meanwhile, one man’s sinister plans utilize the mysterious alien substance known as Energon sends shockwaves across the globe. Who is Cobra Commander? Where does he come from? And what horrors is he planning to unleash that will rock the world — and maybe the universe –to its core?”
Codename: G.I. JOE Deluxe Edition Book One is out on Wednesday, June 11th, 2025, and in bookstores on Tuesday, June 24th, 2025.
