
This week, what unlikely skill from her TV show will help Joy save the day? And what do giant robots represent to archaeology? All those questions answered and more in my look at issue 138!
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![]() Happy new year! Welcome to the tenth anniversary of when Transformers the Movie is set. Though the good news is there's still a year to wait till the Marvel Winter Special is set. This week, what unlikely skill from her TV show will help Joy save the day? And what do giant robots represent to archaeology? All those questions answered and more in my look at issue 138!
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3/1/2015 07:08:45 am
I think the contemporary comic/franchise that comes nearest for few female roles is probably Mask, given the size of the cast. The first couple of years of toys have no female characters and there's only a couple of additions for the cartoon who were left out of the comics (although that could be licencing issues). Then one of them got a toy in the third year and there is a comic cover showing Mayhem and Dagger in shock and awe at the arrival of Vanessa Warfield. IIRC the comic didn't last long enough to reach the fourth & final year of toys when Gloria Baker finally appeared.
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Harry
3/1/2015 11:37:55 am
'The new Special Teams are a bit of a continuity nightmare - somehow they have the combining technology when so much fuss was made about it being developed on Earth with a helping hand from the Matrix and there's repeated indication that this group of Autobots and Decepticons have had no contact with Earth until now.'
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1/2/2015 04:45:48 am
I've generally assumed the Earthbound Decepticons shared the combiner technology with Cybertron and so both the Predacons and the Seacons were adapted either for work on their homeworld or when sent to Earth. Trading technological developments for logistical support is just the sort of thing Ratbat would do.
Stuart
4/1/2015 12:22:56 pm
I don't think the later combiners get refereed to as "Special Teams" in fiction, so you can always handwave it that the Technobots and company are, like the Predacons, a simpler and less impressive version of combination that was developed on Cybertron during the four million year absence.
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Auntie Slag
4/1/2015 04:10:05 pm
There’s something about Onslaught (not the Ben Stiller movie), that should have marked him out for greatness in terms of a second ranking leader, alongside Soundwave and Bludgeon… but he never quite made it.
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snowkatt
5/1/2015 01:12:16 am
dont you mean the enemy within ?
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Auntie Slag
7/1/2015 09:53:52 am
Enemy Within, yes! Thanks Snowcatt :-)
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Chris Chapman
8/1/2015 01:51:43 pm
Interesting that the Titan book that contains Ladies Night avoids reprinting this cover on its back with all the others - presumably they just thought it was far too cringey?
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Stuart
9/1/2015 05:52:19 am
ha, I'd never noticed that, considering Furman was editor of those books it's not impossible.
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There as one other female Thundercat: Wilykit. She and her brother Wilykat are still Thunderkittens, though.
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