Transformation 148: RIP Sir Terry.

13/3/2015

Another Friday the 13th brings bad news with the second death of one of my heroes in a fortnight. Despite being hit badly by this, the show goes on as I look at the single biggest fight the British comic ever did, in:

The Legacy of Unicron! Part 3.

12 Comments

Ryan F

13/3/2015 09:57:35 am

Were they really trying to rebuild Unicron from the neck down? My recollection was that they were just connecting Unicron's head to Junkion, and that the planet itself would form his new body. I could be wrong, though!

Stuart

13/3/2015 10:32:40 am

That could work! Though it really doesn't look like it to me.

Benway

14/3/2015 03:21:16 am

It looked like they were building a smaller Unicron out of rubbish to me. Still, clearly bad news and I guess he could have built himself up by eating the rest of Junkion later.

snowkatt

13/3/2015 07:40:55 pm

and next week we will have one of the worst damn covers
that stupid speech bubble with a joke that is anything but funny ruins what is other wise a pretty damn good cover

just as this cover is ruined by the speech bubble which makes no sense and ruins the whole cover as if we cant suss out for ourselves whats it all about and if we cant its explained inside

its especially egregious because the previous 2 covers and the next 2 after reeds issues will be mercifully idiot speech bubble free

as for the comic it self its a good read if a bit on the short side
and the dingy dirty rubbery art reed employs fits the nature of the art quite well

the comic is firing on all cylinders here and it wil never again be quite this good
oh the US stories will be aces when furman takes over but the homegrown stories will start to drop off around 200

as for the new
i heard it the day it happend
the world is that much darker and that much less funnier without pratchett in it

but he left one hell of a legacy behind and we will not forget him

i started readin discworld about 15 years ago and stopped around book 25
( i read unseen academicals but didnt like it that much it didnt help that it was a library book and some plonker burned a hole through pages 44 to 300 )

maybe now is a good time to reread them all and relisten to all the audio books i have

morporkia we wil rule you wholesale
ner ner nerr ner ner own your generals
ner ner ner

Alex Smith

18/3/2015 04:48:23 pm

Speech bubbles on covers are essential!

Ralph Burns

14/3/2015 12:37:18 pm

RIP Terry Pratchett.

Regarding this issue, the double page spread blew my tiny mind back in the day. It still does. Reed's art has a dynamic manic edge to it which I've always loved. Also no-one else draws Rodimus as if he's permanently shitting himself. Brilliant.

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Alex Smith

18/3/2015 04:51:28 pm

He is my definitive Rodimus artist as well, strangely - I suspect it's the inside covers of the Scorponok/Highbrow annual that have imprinted it into my mind.

Ryan F

16/3/2015 12:19:46 pm

It just struck me that the Shockwave/Death's Head fight last week is a dead ringer for the Bond/Scaramanga battle in "Man With The Golden Gun", complete with fake characters that move, and walls at jaunty angles.

Huh, it has also just occurred to me that Death's head is Scaramanga, his screwing in his various arm attachments is like Christopher Lee nonchalantly screwing a fountain pen into a cigarette lighter.

Also, Wreck-Gar trapped next to the bomb countdown is like Bond handcuffed to the bomb in Goldfinger. Unicron's plan to get The Bots and Cons to wipe each other out is like when Blofeld pits East against West in You Only Live Twice. There's even a sequence in part 1 involving heat seeking missiles that evokes memories of Little Nellie.

The Legacy of Unicron is, when you think about it, the greatest hits of 007. Except for the whole astral plane / lords of order and chaos stuff, which to my knowledge isn't a Bond thing.

Harry

17/3/2015 06:15:18 am

'The Legacy of Unicron is, when you think about it, the greatest hits of 007. Except for the whole astral plane / lords of order and chaos stuff, which to my knowledge isn't a Bond thing.'

Not yet, anyway. Perhaps that will be a plot point in 'Spectre'...

Stuart

19/3/2015 12:02:27 am

Furman does love his Bond homages, something I'm subtly acknowledging in my choice of song lyric for each chapter title (though 150 will be the odd one out there).

Ralph Burns

6/4/2015 11:34:46 am

It is perhaps for the best that the cartoon show 'James Bond Jr' did not exist at this point. Think about it.

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Felicity link

6/11/2019 07:53:43 am

I just realised that Hook of Hook, Line, and Sinker looks a little like Death’s Head. Maybe Unicron was inspired for that design by having met Death’s Head here.

Transformation 148: RIP Sir Terry.

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