Transformation 209: Bye Bye Blaster.

13/5/2016

As the climax to the Underbase Saga hits the middle, it's time for the screaming to start. Will your favourite character be doomed? If they were more than two years old or a bit fishy, then yes.

All this plus is Optimus Prime a coward? And how are Godzilla movies made?

All in my look at Dark Star Part 2!

5 Comments

Ralph Burns

13/5/2016 08:04:52 pm

I GO NOW TO DESTROY THE CITIES OF GLASGOW, EDINBURGH AND NEWCASTLE!

*flies through the air*

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Stuart

13/5/2016 09:33:05 pm

How would you tell?

Tetsuryu

15/5/2016 02:04:34 pm

More importantly, how will he be able to tell the difference between before and after?

Felicity link

18/11/2019 12:10:45 am

Fortunately not only did the occupants of the island spaceship eject safely into space as it exploded but Fortress Maximus had time to get Buster inside him. Presumably when you’re a Headmaster or a Powermaster or whatever you don’t need to breathe?

Optimus isn’t indecisive in this issue, but he seems like it on the UK cover! Plus he isn’t punctuated correctly—the dash should be longer and at the end of the previous line! :-)

I agree, there’s no reason for Bob Budiansky to kill off characters when he could just not use them instead. Plus, characters are constantly disappearing from the ranks depending on the needs of the plot, so there’s a precedent.

LiamKav

7/10/2020 02:47:55 am

The placement of this story really hurts things. We've just had a big epic where a super strong Decepticon goes a bit mad and tries to kill all the other Transformers, and now we're doing it again. The difference is that, for all his strength, you believed that if everyone else had gotten their act together they could have taken down Galvatron. It was just the curve balls of Megatron turning up, the Wreckers/Mayhems being totally unable to think on their feet, Fort Max being an idiot for an issue, and a bit hole in space-time putting everyone even more off their game. The battle was scrapy, messy, and yet somehow more believable.

Here though we have an arguably even more powerful enemy and despite everyone being together and having the whole journey back to Earth to come up with a plan, the best they can come up with is "everyone take turns to be murdered".

Also, the fact that they actually managed to damage Galvatron again gave the feeling of "they have a chance". Galvatron was extremely powerful but he wasn't unstoppable. Here everyone just seems like absolute idiots for not realising that Starscream is basically invulnerable.

Transformation 209: Bye Bye Blaster.

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