http://www.actoys.net/bbs/read.php?tid-282216-fpage-2.html在SDCC 08上，Simon Furman透露了The 13漫画系列的消息
NRAMA: Moving on to The 13 now, it will finally reveal the long-awaited origin of the Transformers? Long-time Transformers fans should know some of them but none has confirmation of the others. Without spoiling it for the readers at this point in time, can you at least tell us what the 13 is as a concept in the IDW continuity? Are they past and present Autobot leaders? The first 13 Transformers ever built? None of the above but perhaps you could tease a little? Will it be set in the past? Or are you telling stories in the present with flashbacks to the past?
SF: The 13 was originally scheduled for late ‘08, but a lot’s changed since it was first conceived. The plan now is to make it an integral part of Hasbro’s plans for ‘09 (Transformers’ 25th Anniversary... that makes me feel so old!) and really define a big, big part of the whole Transformers mythology/back story. Expect lots of stuff that’s never been definitively, categorically set in stone to be established once and for all in The 13. We’re going right back here, to the original Transformers. The big guys, and a star-spanning conflict that foreshadows so much of what’s to come. These are the real heavy hitters of the TF Universe, and one of them is a weapon of mass destruction in his own right. This is big, sweeping cosmic stuff, the bedrock of the TF Universe. Questions that every Trans-fan has always wanted to ask will finally be answered. Plans for the series are still evolving as we speak, just because (perhaps more than ever before) we’re going hand in hand with Hasbro on this one. But I’m not ruling out possible links to what’s happening now. Certainly, there will be surprises and outright jaw-droppers aplenty as the series unfolds. I’m really excited about this series. Over the years, I’ve been involved in some big, big storylines, but this is shaping up to be the biggest. And what’s more, it’s utterly entry level. If you’ve never read a Transformers comic before you’ll be able to get right into this series. Largely because these are (for the most part) characters we’re all meeting for the first time! There’s so much more I’d like to tell you... but I can’t. So there.
简单的说，如果你知道而且关注元祖13是什么，那这个迷你系列正是你期待已久的。The 13原本应该是今年的系列，但因为它很重要，所以被整合在09年的25周年纪念项目中。元祖13是变形金刚宇宙观的根源之一，是每一个变形金刚迷长期以来都希望Simon Furman能讲解的故事。
为了帮助完全不清楚什么是元祖13的人去理解这个概念，我这做了一个简单的图
