>>105545747Westfield: Will you be introducing any new Transformers robots?
Ruckley: A handful, yes. I’ve got a few possible introductions up my sleeve, but I won’t be rushing into it: only two or three, I think, are likely to show up any time soon, and they’re in there for specific reasons. There are particular things I wanted to do, or show, that happen to work nicely with new characters – the existing cast of Transformers bots is so vast, and so varied, that you kind of need to have a good reason to start adding to it. One of the newcomers will be in there right from the start, though, in a big way: Rubble, a newly-forged Cybertronian who’s very excited to see what this world, this life, he’s arrived into might have to offer.
Westfield: From the description of the first issue, the planet Cybertron sounds like a character itself. Do you find that to be true?
Ruckley: I’d certainly like it to feel true! We wanted to do something just a little different with Cybertron this time around. Nothing crazy drastic, just give it a bit of a new twist, a new flavor. Starting with the fact that it’s at peace, I guess! But lots of other things, too. There are alien species there. There are Cybertronians not just on the landscape, but in it, part of it. There are interesting things going on with the innermost moon. It’s a unique place in the universe in all sorts of ways, and it’s a living planet in all sorts of ways. Hopefully, issue by issue, readers will see that it’s a place of wonders.
Westfield: With all the big, over-the-top action you can do with Transformers, this begins with a murder mystery. Why did you start with something that feels much more personal?
