
Also, small naked people.
All in my look at Afterdeath! Part 2.
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![]() It's the most controversial moment of Uncle Bob's run as Optimus Prime dies properly for the first time in the comic, and not in the way you'd expect. Also, small naked people. All in my look at Afterdeath! Part 2.
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Ralph Burns
23/5/2014 11:37:01 am
Hullo.
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snowkatt
6/6/2014 05:55:55 am
but what if we divorce all that UK backstory and just read thi sissue on its own ?
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Stuart
6/6/2014 06:02:43 am
Naked pink people though, who wouldn't find their life incomplete after playing that? 23/5/2014 02:08:30 pm
(I'm writing this in advance because I'm spending much of Friday in an election count or 21. Then another one on Sunday. Spare time will be limited. So I've written this in brief moments whilst travelling during the campaign.)
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Yeah, I didn't have a problem with Prime's death either. Prime was the one who pushed the button in the Ark and brought the war to Earth in the first place. He's on a big guilt trip and he hates himself.
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Stuart
23/5/2014 03:46:40 pm
@Ralph; That's a fantastic bit of writing Sir, as elegant a piece of counter argument as I've ever seen.
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24/5/2014 04:39:01 am
I try to keep my politics out of this but I wouldn't have read all five pages anyway! ;-P
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snowkatt
6/6/2014 05:57:46 am
came as an out of the blue shocker that wasnt hinted or telegraphed at all if i recall correctly
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Stuart
24/5/2014 01:37:48 am
Actually responding properly to Tim rather than making cheap jokes:
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Simon Hall
24/5/2014 05:48:31 pm
Apart from the frozen horror of Optimus' destruction - a bit like that Far Side 'Tethercat' cartoon - I was a bit indifferent to this story. I suppose its because my reading of Transformers was fractured and all out of order, so I never had the context into which this fit. Having seen the animated film before reading this, I also felt that -from my perspective - Optimus was just being bumped off because he was in the film. As I'd read the tail end of Bob's before getting to this point (Monstercon From Mars, The Road Jammers etc etc) , I just found it to be just another goofy story of the type the US comic did.
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Auntie Slag
29/5/2014 02:53:57 am
I agree with Simon on this. It was mildly shocking to see Optimus getting blown up, but the Don Perlin pencils, Yomtov colouring and Budiasnsky script really diminished the effect. I didn't know or care about these people at the time, but I did know it was an episode of the more day-glo happy US style TF strip where things aren't quite as nasty as they could be, so a different set of rules apply.
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snowkatt
6/6/2014 06:07:53 am
this issue ...oh this issue
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Sean
3/7/2015 03:51:15 pm
I think out of all the things that pissed me off the most about this was the lost opportunity. Think of it: you've been responsible for writing Optimus Prime's storyline for nearly two years. Then, you're told the higher-ups at Hasbro want Prime retired...permanently. And there's nothing you can do about it.
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snowkatt
13/9/2015 09:51:05 pm
and believe it or not
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