Transformers #25 - ECC NYCC Exclusive Franck Uzan & Martin Zavala Sketch Variant (10/08/25)

🤖✏️ Transformers #25 — ECC NYCC Exclusive Franck Uzan & Martin Zavala Sketch Variant (10/08/2025)

The Sketch Variant from New York Comic Con 2025 — a dual-artist collaboration between Franck Uzan and Martin Zavala for Transformers #25, released October 8th, 2025. ✏️ The Sketch format presents the linework of the cover composition without full color rendering, allowing the underlying architectural choices of a two-artist collaboration to take center stage. For collectors who prize the craft process visible in cover linework, the Sketch Variant is the most revealing format in the ECC NYCC lineup — you see the drawing, not the painting.

📜 Transformers #25: A Milestone in the IDW Run

The Transformers franchise needs no introduction — the Autobots versus Decepticons conflict that began as a Hasbro toy line in 1984, became one of the defining animated series of the 1980s, and has generated comics, films, games, and collectibles across four decades. 🤖 IDW Publishing has run multiple Transformers comics series across different continuities, each finding new angles on the enduring conflict between Optimus Prime's Autobots and Megatron's Decepticons.

Issue #25 represents a significant chapter in any ongoing Transformers run — the point where a series has established its creative identity and is deep enough in its narrative that the milestone issue carries genuine story weight. 🔢 East Coast Comics' decision to commission a dual NYCC exclusive for this issue signals both the strength of the ECC collector community for Transformers and the significance of the #25 chapter within the ongoing story.

✏️ Uzan & Zavala: The Sketch Collaboration Revealed

The Sketch Variant for a dual-artist cover is a uniquely revealing collector piece — where a finished color variant shows the polish of the completed work, the Sketch format exposes the compositional bones underneath. 🎨 Franck Uzan's characteristic precision linework meets Martin Zavala's contributions in a format where both artists' approaches are visible and traceable. For collectors who follow the craft of cover art as closely as the content, the Sketch Variant for this NYCC Uzan-Zavala collaboration is the version that shows the most.

The Sketch pairs with the Uzan-Zavala Virgin variant as the complete NYCC ECC exclusive set for Transformers #25 — two formats, two views of the same collaboration. 🏆

✅ East Coast Comics NYCC Exclusive | Franck Uzan & Martin Zavala Sketch Variant | Issue #25 | Transformers | IDW Publishing | NYCC 2025 | Released 10/08/2025 | Near Mint Condition

🤖✏️ Transformers #25 NYCC Sketch: two artists' linework visible, the collaboration's architecture on display. 💎 Near mint, IDW Publishing, NYCC 2025.