
All in my look at:
Toy Soldiers! Part 2.
Make sure to check the dedications for The Book at the end.
The Solar Pool |
|
![]() This week, the Predacons go shopping and Buster plays a sick beat on his boombox. All in my look at: Toy Soldiers! Part 2. Make sure to check the dedications for The Book at the end.
11 Comments
chris chapman
2/5/2015 12:19:16 am
How lovely to be thanked! Good luck with the book - I'll certainly grab a copy and spread the word. :-)
Reply
chris chapman
2/5/2015 02:54:43 am
Reread it! As you say, the writing is better than you'd expect from the premise.
Reply
2/5/2015 03:31:17 am
I'd somehow managed to miss the US story partially presented in this issue in the US Floppy run so it was the first time I read it!
Reply
Nathan
2/5/2015 06:42:28 am
I was aware at a young age that some stories were english and some were american. But to be honest I assumed the naff ones that involved mind control car washes and transformers becoming radio control cars were British. I owe Furman an appology.
Reply
snowkatt
3/5/2015 04:19:46 pm
how the transformers saved christmas
Reply
Stuart
4/5/2015 01:00:50 am
Ah, you've discovered one of the things I'll be covering in the book.
Reply
Ralph Burns
15/5/2015 02:12:58 pm
I still think it was a missed opportunity not to have Throttlebots in the RPM toy line as a wee throwback to this tale!
Reply
I remember the issue with Roadblock’s rant about “yuppies driving cars built by former Axis powers to the detriment of American auto workers,” but I don’t think we can assume from this that Larry Hama’s politics are to the right. I remember stories where the Joes have to intervene in other countries and the Joes comment on how America has propped up right-wing dictators and amoral corporations and that this is why things have gotten so bad that the rebels have to work with Cobra. When I read that issue I also happened to be in the middle of a Noam Chomsky pocket digest and I was impressed at the overlap between the two. And you’ll notice that in Roadblock’s rant he specifically objects to over-privileged yuppies and their indifference to the plight of the American working class who were suffering during the recession of the late eighties/early nineties.
Reply
I remember the issue with Roadblock’s rant about “yuppies driving cars built by former Axis powers to the detriment of American auto workers,” but I don’t think we can assume from this that Larry Hama’s politics are to the right. I remember stories where the Joes have to intervene in other countries and the Joes comment on how America has propped up right-wing dictators and amoral corporations and that this is why things have gotten so bad that the rebels have to work with Cobra. When I read that issue I also happened to be in the middle of a Noam Chomsky pocket digest and I was impressed at the overlap between the two. And you’ll notice that in Roadblock’s rant he specifically objects to over-privileged yuppies and their indifference to the plight of the American working class who were suffering during the recession of the late eighties/early nineties.
Reply
Felicity
7/11/2019 07:37:45 am
Sorry about the double post. It *said* there was an error and that it didn’t post the first time. :-)
Reply
LiamKav
23/9/2020 01:58:05 am
To be fair, I think Hama's right-wing leanings are fairly well known. And, like Chuck Dixon, he never allowed his politics to dominate his work in the way that, say, Frank Miller or Steve Dikto did.
Reply
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorStuart Webb. Who knows everything about nothing and not a lot about that. Archives
February 2025
Categories
All
|