Plus, the début of what is going to be the very short lived Mayhem Attack Squad!
And Scorponok gets ahead. It's all in my look at:
Time Wars: Part 3!
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It's Autobot Vs. Autobot, but are you team Fort Max or Team Rodmius? The alcoholic football thug headmasters are definitely the former. Plus, the début of what is going to be the very short lived Mayhem Attack Squad! And Scorponok gets ahead. It's all in my look at: Time Wars: Part 3!
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18/3/2016 04:12:00 pm
Fort Max's characterisation here is especially odd considering Furman does a decent job with him in 'The Last Autobot'.
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Stuart
19/3/2016 09:08:13 pm
He had help with Last Autobot though by just nicking Spike's story from Man in the Machine (which he did again for G2. Spike was always deciding his true fate was to be Fortress Maximus before sort of just forgetting and having to learn the lesson again. Till he died).
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21/3/2016 01:08:40 am
There's a line in there about imposters, which although focused on Rodimus Prime it could suggest the others are treated as such.
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Stuart
21/3/2016 06:15:10 am
The likes of Ironhide may be the result of that, but Wheeljack is specifically mentioned in dialogue (and we know Furman wrote "Full" scripts for the UK stuff) so presumably he was intentional. 22/3/2016 11:33:24 pm
<<There's a line in there about imposters, which although focused on Rodimus Prime it could suggest the others are treated as such.>>
Chris Chapman
18/3/2016 09:06:22 pm
Yeah, it's shit, ain't it?
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19/3/2016 09:00:38 pm
Oh I still love Time Wars - it's the first epic I actually read in real time, and for fuck's sake, look at Galvatron's spiky soles. It's insane, and the best is yet to come; Galvatron being sucked up into the time vortex deserves to be up there with "...Are All Dead" as an iconic Transformers moment.
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Ralph Burns
18/3/2016 09:09:06 pm
I will not hear a bad word about Time Wars!
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Stuart
19/3/2016 09:06:53 pm
But killing me will destroy you for I AM YOUR FATHER.
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I don't think I ever believed it was "megatron" in these stories, I treated the guy as some powerful random that galvatron had recruited. It's surprising in retrospect that Furman was allowed to write Megatron in Marvel UK as it was an obvious recipe for the big mess that followed. Was he perhaps assured the character was finished in Marvel US? It also seems odd there was no Powermaster Megatron. Anybody know why that was?
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Charles RB
22/3/2016 03:48:08 pm
He must have just made an educated guess - Hasbro hadn;t started up new toys for the same guys at the time. Furman himself was the one who cocked it up by bringing Megatron back after all, with no toy to pimp (and why he didn't have a page done that the Uk could edit, I dunno)
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22/3/2016 11:28:55 pm
Yeah, the real baffling decision here is the whole 'Two Megatrons' business - there must have been a more elegant solution and indeed, as we see later on with Deathbringer and Dreadwind and Darkwing's retrieval of Starscream, Furman had no problem putting in little references to UK stuff that would leave US readers nonplussed. 23/3/2016 10:56:01 am
However those are relatively small moments, mostly featuring bit part characters doing what sound like mundane tasks but actually weren't, although I wonder how many US readers were left wondering when the Deathbringer story happened. By contrast Megatron had been running around quite a bit and that would have been hard to handwave in such a way that he had been doing things on Earth but not seemingly spending years on Cybertron advancing a single plan using a form of technology not yet created to attack someone not yet in a significant post.
LiamKav
6/10/2020 07:17:13 pm
My main problem with the whole "Two Megatrons" fiasco is characters like Ratchet being under the impression that Megatron had been dead for several years. I know he wasn't present for these issues, but when shown all the Autobots he had to repair did no-one say "yeah, Galvatron and Megatron teamed up and went on a killing spree"? Did Blades never talk to him about meeting Megs in the sewers?
Nathan Webb
22/3/2016 03:35:04 pm
The whole autobot vs autobot is just a clique that all comics use every time heroes meet for the first time for example Batman vs Superman, daredevil vs punisher, ironman vs deaths head etc. It's dumb but it's just a formula of the comic format.
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I’m surprised to see Rodimus Prime and Fortress Maximus drawn as being the same size. I know that it was only in the cartoon that Fortress Maximus was a city Transformer, but didn’t he rebuild himself twice as big in “Trial by Fire”? That’s why he’s now a double Headmaster with Spike becoming the head of Cerebros and Cerebros becoming the head of Maximus. Rodimus Prime should be the size of Cerebros, unless the Matrix did a lot more than just turn Hot Rod into a truck.
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Snowkatt
12/9/2020 10:03:33 pm
Yes, but all the major toys shrink when their toy isn't on the shelves anymore.
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