Transformation 136: It's Da (Dive) Bomb.

19/12/2014

Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the comic, not a thing was stiring, except the Predacons being ass whupped by the Dinobots.

All to be found in my look at issue 136!

Happy holidays to everyone reading, try not to have too much high grade Nucleon to drink.

12 Comments

snowkatt

19/12/2014 02:09:50 pm

i am more interested in hearing the story about the exploding tv to be honest

Stuart

19/12/2014 02:59:21 pm

We were watching an episode of the 70's Spider-Man TV show. Our TV exploded. We had to get an ancient black and white one out of the loft to watch the end.

That is the amazing story.

snowkatt

20/12/2014 12:52:05 am

amazing !

i meant what happend anybody injured ? ( probably not )
did the crt explode or implode

noen of my tv's actually ever exploded they just died in a very anticlimatic way )

Stuart.

20/12/2014 04:37:58 am

No one was hurt (carrying on watching Spider-Man afterwards would have been seriously skewed priorities) and the screen just impoded with a fsssssssssssssssssssssst noise.

Not terribly exciting really.

snowkatt

23/12/2014 03:34:17 pm

i figured as much but it cant hurt to ask

Tim Roll-Pickering link

20/12/2014 03:53:28 pm

At the risk of prempting your final (?) post, I first read the main story in the 1992 Summer Special. It was a shock in itself to get a complete story for a change but it didn't include the annual tale (instead Victory! got another truncated outing) so there was still something missing. Oddly the special's layout would have made perfect sense for including What's In A Name? between the two parts.

You're right about the lack of a follow-up though here events in the short to medium tem were beyond Furman's control for years with the Ark Autobots in space for fifty + issues then almost immediately after that both Divebomb and Swoop die in the Underbase Saga so there wasn't much time to get another round in. By the time of Earthforce this would have been ancient history and Marvel probably expected most of the readership to have turned over. (Now if they'd thought it through in advance and used Grudge Match! as one of the reprints they could have easily gone back to it afresh much as they did with Straxus.)

Stuart

21/12/2014 12:42:57 pm

Yeah, it's easy to see why it didn't happen, but it's still annoying because dropped plot threads are going to develop into one of Furman's main weaknesses as a writer.

I have a feeling without looking that the '92 special is one of the few I don't have (though when I get there I'll say "This happened"), I'm missing a few of the very final ones as they're blooming expensive.

The Christmas quiz is now up and can be seen in the blog post above this one!

snowkatt

23/12/2014 03:34:47 pm

any plans for christmas ?

Stuart

23/12/2014 05:25:05 pm

I'm having a hugely Christmassy Christmas this year. Lots of TV and film watching, hats, jumpers and glitter.

snowkatt

24/12/2014 11:21:02 am

how christmassy glitter even
there better not be goldfinger on the tv i cant stand goldfinger

maybe a doctor who special

speaking of doctor who here is a doctor who audiobook bundle from humble budnle
https://www.humblebundle.com/books

400 dollars worth of who for $15 dollars

Felicity link

5/11/2019 03:57:18 am

Trouserless Duros supports my theory that futuristic people dress provocatively by present-day standards. :-)

Felicity

5/11/2019 05:01:31 am

PS: I love how moai-like the rock-covered Transformer head is on the previous page (“Next” section)! :-)

Transformation 136: It's Da (Dive) Bomb.

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