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Transformation 114: Rodi-moans Prime.

18/7/2014

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It's our chance to meet the new Autobot leader for the first time, and he could team Bay Prime a thing or two about shooting defeated enemies in the head.

Also, we learn that Bumblebee is alive and well in 2007 in the same issue that kills him in 1987, and Counterpunch gets pwnd by the better Autobot spy. All in my look at:

Wanted: Galvatron: Dead or Alive Part 2.

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Tim Roll-Pickering link
18/7/2014 10:59:42 am

When I first read this story I hadn't seen the movie and didn't realise this was a homage to a key scene. It does seem exceptionally brutal - perhaps the full on conflict of the war has been draining in a way oppression and resistance hasn't. Or maybe the accumulated wisdom of the ages in the Matrix means Rodimus has the accumulated experience of past leaders all weighing down on him.

(Is the comic actually calling the physical object the "Creation Matrix" yet or could one still assume this is a different thing from the computer programme?)

"officially because Action Force is currently too far behind for it to make much sense for British readers"

Whilst that's actually a pretty good reason to avoid it - as we'll see later on being deemed crap doesn't stop some strips having to be run but the limited series might not fall under the same contracts - and I can see this being a genuine concern at the time, it's a bit hypocritical given that even in the days of the weekly Action Force was willing to run out of sequence stories and start confusing the readership - the 1987 annual jumps ahead for one thing.

As for Bumblebee, I wonder if this was deliberately planned by Furman, though I think next week is the time to really delve into these sorts of questions, or if Simpson simply drew the panel with instructions no clearer than to include characters seen surviving in the movie. Certainly nothing is ever made of Bumblebee's presence one could almost write him off as a badly drawn & coloured Bumper.

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Stuart
18/7/2014 04:47:29 pm

In a momentous moment I totally failed to comment on, last issue's movie flashback was the first time physical Matrix and Creation Matrix were formally made the same thing.

I could buy Bumblebee being in the opening as unintentional due to unclear scripting (though Furman seems pretty on the ball editorially at this point, if he hadn't wanted Bumblebee there he'd have simply had him removed), but, as you say, the landing of 1986 ultra magnus will clarify that.

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Stephen link
19/7/2014 07:48:46 pm

I have just discovered this website!

Always liked Rodimus' execution of the random Decepticon, though never realized that it was a homage to TFTM myself until you pointed it out. Pity Rodimus Prime never really gets that much screentime post Marvel comics; it's always Optimus Prime and Hot Rod that mucks around.

I've never noticed the two Bumblebees being a foreshadowing for time-related shenanigans mostly because I know Bumblebee doesn't really die per se but will be turned into Goldbug.

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Stuart
20/7/2014 10:34:17 am

Another new reader! Welcome aboard Stephen. The two Bumblebee's thing never occurred to me until I reviewed the Titan trade for another website some years ago.

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