Skybound Comet, Image Comics, and Hasbro have announced that they will publish a Transformers: Worst Bot Ever Special for Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) on Saturday, May 3, 2025. In celebration of the power of comic books, this special serves as a first look at the most anticipated graphic novel of the year.  

Featuring the first appearance of Ballpoint, everyone’s new favorite Decepticon, this FCBD special precedes the upcoming OGN release of Transformers: Worst Bot Ever: Meet Ballpoint, the start of a new OGN series about the misadventures of the bot who is mightier than the sword by Brian “Smitty” Smith and Marz Jr., available July 2025 for Middle Grade Readers.  

Plus, meet the most unexpected family of superheroes with a special look inside Family Force V, the soon-to-be YA OGN phenomenon about your new favorite alien fighting family, from writer Matt Braly (Disney’s Amphibia) and artist Ainsworth Lin, coming June 2025 from Skybound Comet. 

In Transformers: Worst Bot Ever: Meet Ballpoint, the Decepticons are known for being bad…but Ballpoint is truly the worst –the biggest failure of them all. After the latest attempt to take down the Autobots goes horribly wrong, he’s kicked out of the evil Decepticons, for good! Will Ballpoint be able to prove his worth by defeating the Autobots all by himself? Or will he keep failing and find that being the “best” is …More than Meets the Eye? 

Transformers: Worst Bot Ever: Meet Ballpoint (ISBN: 978-1-5343-2799-3 | SRP $12.99) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 9, 2025, and at booksellers, along with digital platforms including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.