All in my look at:
Target: 2006 Part 4!
But that's not all, as part of an experiment, may I present the first Transformation Christmas Quiz!
The questions aren't intended to be super hard, it's more a bit of fun, but there are prizes to be had.
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This week, it's all off to the pub for a drunken diversion full of references that only mad Robert Rankin fans will really love. All in my look at: Target: 2006 Part 4! But that's not all, as part of an experiment, may I present the first Transformation Christmas Quiz! The questions aren't intended to be super hard, it's more a bit of fun, but there are prizes to be had.
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6/12/2013 11:54:23 am
I have sometimes wondered if this was a fill-in issue, since it has all the hallmarks of a story treading water just to fill another issue. If so then it might be another sign of the uncertainty about when the Movie would actually reach British cinemas. Though given the new characters it's equally possible someone from Hasbro UK demanded even more toys be promoted, including perhaps some shelfwarmers (if the stories of the Jumpstarters being in oversupply are true). It's often forgetten just how many new toys there are in this story, including some who have no movie connection.
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Stuart
6/12/2013 12:31:37 pm
It's entirely possible it's a fill in, though if it is it's a sign of how confident the comic was by this point that even the treading water is this good.
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6/12/2013 01:08:46 pm
Marvel US at this time had a firm policy of "every issue is someone's first" with a particular focus on making middle parters accessible to casual readers; it's quite possible this sentiment was pushed across the Atlantic. Certainly it's standard for US books to give each issue of a multi-part storyline its own title (although in later years "Tremendous Crossover: Part 17" started appearing on covers) as part of a reader friendly strategy. I wonder if this is also why "Optimus Prime returns to Cybertron" is broken up into individual parts and mixed with other bits.
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Maccadam's Old Oil House always stuck with me, though mostly for the later story "Out to Lunch". To this day I'm still amazed at how much boozing Hasbro has let the TFs get away with - that stuff, as my old mate Dave was wont to remind me, kills more people than smack.
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