
All in Distant Thunder!
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![]() Yes, we've arrived at our second milestone issue, and have moved into tripple digits. Well done for making it this far, and I'm afraid it's a long, long waffling one this week, as Furman celebrates with a story that may not be what you'd expect. All in Distant Thunder! For those who haven't yet seen, the full results of the TFArchive poll have now been given out, see the full list of articles HERE (I am not responsible for all of them if anyone wants to escape me writing style).
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snowkatt
11/4/2014 04:52:12 pm
If those are your regular readers, which of those am I ?
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Stuart
11/4/2014 05:14:32 pm
Fully agreed Will Simpson was the best fit for the art, the story plays to all his strengths.
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Stuart
11/4/2014 05:16:10 pm
Oh, and you're bang on with A Nightmare On Elm Street, in the classics book Furman credits it as an influence.
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snowkatt
11/4/2014 06:05:16 pm
Frenzy ?!
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11/4/2014 05:25:08 pm
I wonder if Furman was inspired at all by Secret Wars? There some of the biggest names disappear and return in their regular series with what they got up to in the meantime only subsequently revealed (causing some problems when the writers didn't seem to have a clue as to just what big event was being referred to). It's a great idea in principle but in practice it can be hard to do something that's both spectacular & meaningful enough to justify it without at the same time making the intervening regular issues incomprehensible.
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snowkatt
11/4/2014 05:42:38 pm
i had not read distant thunder when i read G2 in 1994
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Stuart
12/4/2014 07:48:23 am
I believe this is the first back up to have credits for the second part of a split issue (indeed, as the American TF stories don't carry them either it's the first split issue full stop to have credits).
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12/4/2014 08:09:16 am
Well normally when you aim something at both sides of the Atlantic it lands firmly in the middle...
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Auntie Slag
12/4/2014 09:46:12 am
I quite enjoyed this issue, beginning with Will Simpson's stellar art, especially on Prime. Outback looked suitably destroyed and very dramatic with oil gushing from the sizeable hole ripped from his torso. I don't think we'd seen such brutality up to this point. And I wouldn't count facsimile Prime torn apart as anywhere in the same league emotionally, being a facsimile.
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13/4/2014 01:06:17 pm
At the time this issue was a titanic landmark for my young self. Being the age I was it has felt like an agonisingly long wait to find out where Prime and chums had went during Target:2006 and the extra story pages and wraparound cover just gave the impression this was extra special. One of stories I just can't think of objectively outwith the weekly context of the time.
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Stuart
13/4/2014 01:40:23 pm
I'm very much the same with Time Wars, objectively it's so easy to rip apart but I still love it.
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Auntie Slag
15/4/2014 07:12:01 am
Totally agree there Ralph. Its easy to forget that as kids weeks felt like years. The Prime/Prowl/Ratchet disappearance dragged on for eons, so it was totally captivating to find out what happened. That it was a flashback did not matter.
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Ralph Burns
15/4/2014 08:13:20 am
Also the mad limbo space/time interdimensional madness really stood out at the time, which is easy to forget after many 'out there' tales that followed, ie it's before time travel was a regular part of the ongoing story. This is still not that far on from when this was a 'robots in disguise amongst humanity' type book
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Auntie Slag
15/4/2014 02:03:25 pm
Oh quite so, quite so.
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Nick
18/4/2014 03:48:44 pm
Congratulations on hitting issue 100! I don't comment as much now as I was a few months ago, simply because I don't have the knowledge to do so but rest assured I'm still reading and loving the hell out of this blog. I don't remember much of #100 aside from Brawn hitting a textbook bodyslam on Soundwave on the cover ... I had no idea that was Alan Davis though. I just met the man himself at LSCC a month or so ago. I forgot all about the scary story inside with the cyborg tamarins knocking seven shades out of Optimus. I'm not the biggest fan of Will Simpson generally but he was the perfect artist for these antagonists. I remember buying a second wave Action Force figure, which featured Dr Mindbender on the inlay catalogue and thinking dumb ol' Hasbro had the name wrong. I also thought Brainbender was a rip-off of Major Bludd. Keep up the excellent work with the blog.
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snowkatt
21/4/2014 12:09:33 am
at least you will learn a few things reading this comic then ; )
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Stuart
19/4/2014 10:46:44 am
Thank's Nick, it's amazing to me I'm already close to a third of the way through this. No force in the Universe can stop me now!
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Felicity
9/10/2016 03:46:23 pm
It seems to be standard comic policy to use yellow speech balloons whenever the background is white, probably to help them stand out.
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