Transformation 214: Meet the Meat.

17/6/2016

This week, Cloudburst and Landmine find out what happens to former comedy human guest stars. They hit the bottle hard. Plus the amazing Mr Master Mouth.

Over in the other strip, Megatron has a drastic epiphany that will totally inform his character for the rest of the book's run and not be ignored almost immediately. Plus the début of the amazing Quake!

Elsewhere, the book carefully prepares readers for the shift to black and white. It's all in my look at ISSUE 214.

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Tim Roll-Pickering link

17/6/2016 09:44:08 pm

And so Megatron reaches his greatest moment with plans to go further. A pity about what happens...

And yes, these broken up US stories are hard to get excited about in such chunks, particularly when flashbacks get split across the cliffhangers.

Regarding the DWM listing, Eric Saward's novelisation of Attack of the Cybermen came out just a few days after this issue so that's what DWM is no doubt promoting. Plus by this time I think it was no longer even kept secret that Saward had had some role on the scripts (although he would make contradictory claims about exactly what is was that meant the 1990s reference works often contradicted each other on this precise point). As for Silver Nemesis, does anyone know how it did in the DWM season poll? It's my impression that during this era DWM still formally had a younger pitch than it would get in the 1990s and Silver Nemesis is the kind of fast paced action, don't think about it too much and don't keep rewatching it to notice the plot and editing holes, story that did appeal to younger fans.

(Thanks for the namecheck!)

Lupus753

18/6/2016 12:55:41 am

"the UK corrects the name of the combined form to its proper title of Dreadwing, badly"

I'm disappointed you didn't actually show that. I expected something similar to The Desert Island of Space, where the new text was added as messily as could be.

Ralph Burns

19/6/2016 04:50:24 pm

The picture you have there is a perfect reflection of many reader's reactions to next week's black and white shock. Megatron is the reader, the "AHAHAHAHAHA!" goons are editorial.

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Nathan webb

26/6/2016 08:47:30 am

The think the reason they had to undo this transformation of megatron is because he was almost 'hero' like in his decision making even if his motives well still evil.
It would have been bad if readers became more invested in the villain than the Heroes of a kids comic.

Felicity link

19/11/2019 06:35:00 am

Energon being currency may be something the comic got from the cartoon episode “The Gambler” (which was also a story where the organic beings were Transformer-sized, come to think of it).

It would make sense, in a “Star Trek: The Next Generation” sort of way, for energy to be the most important resource since whatever form of matter you use for cash can always be replicated. And energon is a highly concentrated form of energy, making it very portable.

The only flaw in this explanation is that energon is also an easy way to collect energy from all kinds of sources, such as you could just hold up an empty energon cube and collect the light of the nearest star, so even energy shouldn’t be that scarce.

It’s hard to imagine a post-scarcity economy, isn’t it?

During the RealVision issue I talked about observing a story and knowing you can’t change the outcome but still feeling like if you try hard enough can you will it to come out differently. This is one of those stories for me. If only Cloudburst and Landmine had walked a little further and been out of sight when they revealed themselves to Berko!

I wonder if the Mecannibals could eat Unicron? That would be ironic, poetic justice.

The Mecannibals show up briefly at the beginning of Furman’s US run, happily chomping their way through the Dead End after apparently getting distracted from chasing their former robot-spotters. Sadly this is never touched upon again…I was concerned about those poor Empties who got eaten!

Transformation 214: Meet the Meat.

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