Transformation 185: The Sound(waves) of War.

27/11/2015

If there's one thing we learn this week, it's that you can always depend on Soundwave to make any scene in any comic good.

Elsewhere though, Quintessons Junkions and Girls continue to let the side down. Also featuring Rodimus Prime's greatest foe: A Sharkticon.

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6 Comments

Nathan webb

27/11/2015 09:16:00 pm

Like most readers of the original comic I was first a fan of the cartoon and had quite a fondness for sound wave and his more robotic personality. I was often left feeling short changed whenever sound wave turned up in the comics in his more human personality. But for once I quite enjoyed reading sound wave as a jovial leader falling into a trap and fighting his way out.

If rodimus reverts to hotrod without the matrix does Optimus turn into Orion?

I entered the competition virtually immediately the morning my comic arrived with the morning newspaper and was very hopeful until I got to school and was informed by a more... Informed friend who told me it was dive bomb not swoop!

Tim Roll-Pickering link

28/11/2015 12:03:05 am

At last the story comes to life. I suspect my dislike of this one is down to the first half being inordinately slow in building things up - and then the ten month wait for it to be completed in the Collected Comics only for it to be forgotten can't have helped. It wasn't until I saw scans on the web in the late 1990s that I found how this one ended.

Although I didn't know too many details from the cartoon - at the time season three episodes were especially hard to find on second hand tapes - it was clear that this one was taking far too many of the weaker ones for no real reason. Oddly that didn't include Wheelie - but as my only exposure to the character back then was here plus a few lines in the Ladybird novelisation of the film he came across as a resourceful one-off character whose rhyming just made for fun scenes with Wreck-Garr and not an obvious target for hate.

Arcee and Rodimus is the silliest moment of all, and feels worse because prior to this story we haven't actually seen Arcee or their feelings for each other so it just turns into idiotic hero running into a trap. And removing the Matrix simply turning him back into Hot Rod also rather undermines him - he's not someone who has grown up but just a boy enhanced by magic.

Tetsuro

28/11/2015 02:33:48 am

The Trypticon contest actually brings up two interesting points; one being what I can only assume is a rather British view of UK not being part of Europe, but more importantly, that Trypticon was sold in the mainland Europe, just not the UK. That's complete news to me.

Benway

28/11/2015 05:18:03 am

He was really cool and everyone wanted the toy, so obviously he wasn't available. Hasbro hated us.

Tim Roll-Pickering link

24/12/2015 07:38:53 pm

At some point somebody needs to work out the exact continental TF releases back in the 1980s as there's so much confusion around this. It looks as if Hasbro had different divisions covering the UK (and Ireland too?) and the continent - wasn't the latter still using the Milton Bradley name? - and this would explain many of the disparities.

Ralph Burns

29/11/2015 02:46:03 pm

I love the air of desperation around pimping next issue's Action Force freebie. "See, kids, Action Force may be gone from the back-up story slot but we can't leave it alone for long! You will love it! LOVE IT!!!"

UNGH!!! HOPPER!!!
SPECIAL TEAMS!

Transformation 185: The Sound(waves) of War.

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