
Luckily it's a really good issue for the blog this week, making an effective celebration. Put on your party hat as I look at:
Resurrection! Part 2.
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![]() May the 8th was the 30th anniversary of the first publication of the American Marvel comic, effectively the début of all Transformers fiction. Luckily it's a really good issue for the blog this week, making an effective celebration. Put on your party hat as I look at: Resurrection! Part 2.
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Harry
9/5/2014 12:14:19 pm
I've always loved the whole 'He is Megatron/He is Straxus' pages in this. The art and narration combined so well, and Ratbat coming off as sly and shrewd here helped make his forthcoming takeover as Decepticon leader a little more believable than it otherwise would have been.
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Simon Hall
9/5/2014 03:05:14 pm
Battle Beasts/ Battle Beasts/ They Battle For Fun!
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10/5/2014 03:58:13 am
I guess nobody knew. Heck in later years even the comic staff had no idea about the Japanese TF cartoons and names. Maybe some kid came back from a holiday in Japan and told their mates only to be totally disbelieved - perhaps there's a letter to Grimlock in weeks to come.
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Harry
9/5/2014 03:42:16 pm
I certainly never knew a thing about any link between Battle Beasts and Transformers back in the day. If someone had even suggested one, I suspect I'd have laughed. Shows what we knew!
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Stuart
10/5/2014 01:17:58 pm
Yeah, the thinking behind Battle Beasts (and I suppose Visionaries which took the basic idea to the next level) feels like it was "Kids like the rub signs on Transformers... we'll make a toyline based entirely around that!"
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Ryan F
13/5/2014 02:31:09 pm
You're right in saying Thundercats aped the TF format. The back-up strip was Power Pack, and there were weekly A-Z-style profiles of the characters
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Ralph_burns@yahoo.com
19/5/2014 12:10:06 pm
I remember being endlessly puzzled by the Battle Beasts competition as I never saw the toys at all. Imagine my surprise many years later to see their AMAZING appearance in the (covers mouth with hand) Headmasters cartoon show. What's that you say! Haven't I seen you somewhere beforrrrrrrrre?
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LiamKav
11/1/2022 02:35:42 pm
There's always two thoughts that come to mind with this issue (and the last one, I guess):
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