
But the real question is, did you buy this or Action Force?
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![]() Goldbug is dying and a good soapy car wash is all that might save him. Sadly Charlene isn't about and he has to make do with Wide Load instead. But the real question is, did you buy this or Action Force? All in my look at: The Cure! Part 1.
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chris chapman
10/10/2014 01:21:40 pm
It must have felt very disjointed for readers at this time. They get excited (well, sort of) about the end of the Volcano storyline, but then get told they have to wait for the annual. They get excited (maybe) about what's going to happen to Blaster, Goldbug and the Scraplets, but have to wait an extra week to find out. They get excited (genuinely) about Megatron's return but have go and buy Action Force to find out what happens next!
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Stuart
11/10/2014 12:53:12 am
At least that uncertainty is over now, the comic will be running The Car Wash of Doom right through!
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11/10/2014 03:31:26 am
Being the summer holidays probably helped some readers and parents may have been grateful for an extra comic that grabbed their children's attention. (However Scottish schools would go back about two weeks earlier so that could cause problems further down the line. I wonder if that generated any specific complaints.) And there's the pain of holidays that could disrupt chances of getting the AF issues - and how many newsagents would set up a standing order for just three weeks?
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Stuart
11/10/2014 03:40:25 am
That is good timing for the holidays actually. I think part of the problem Action Force had generally (and this is something that will affect Transformers down the line) is that the three strip format isn't very satisfying, Stories written especially for it aren't a problem, but American issues suffer especially badly because they might split in half OK but into three pushes them into a disjointed mess.
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Ryan F
11/10/2014 08:00:35 am
In the 80s, the younger-me was a lot less precious about "having a proper conclusion". I never saw the Dungeons & Dragons kids get home, I never saw the episode where Jayce found his father, and the question-mark at the end of Flash Gordon never got a follow up. Add in Inhumanoids as well, and you have an eight-year-old kid who was by now battle-hardened to non-endings.
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Simon Hall
12/10/2014 03:10:10 pm
Good job Ryan, as D&D and Jayce were cancelled without concluding episodes, so presumably, the kids are still battling on somewhere and Jayce is still trying to find his dad...
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13/10/2014 04:51:33 pm
I never saw the D & D kids get home either - we were visiting a sick relative. And I remember never seeing Philip schofields last day in the BBC broom cupboard! As a kid I got transformers and also Roy of the Rovers so there is no way i would have asked my mum to get a third comic. For some reason I also felt totally disinterested in the megatron-return thing. I think I somehow knew it was the UK going out on a limb and it wasn't quite "canon". Which is weird because as an adult, Furman pretending UK G1 didn't happen really hacked me off.
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14/10/2014 04:12:15 am
Dungeons and Dragons never had a conclusion - Mark Evanier explains here: http://www.newsfromme.com/iaq/iaq14/
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Stuart
15/10/2014 12:53:24 am
You're right about TMHT season 1 not being shown on the Beeb, hence the How It All Began video being specifically released to cover that ground. Albeit in a slapdash fashion, taking a clip show that covered the early episodes but cutting out most of the framing device (why does Splinter have amnesia?) and adding bits of random other episodes at the end.
The idea of water being common to us but rare to aliens is an old corny sci-fi trope and it’s tempting to give Bob Budiansky the benefit of the doubt and say that he was aware of that and was referencing it rather than doing it unironically. But it’s hard to say.
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