
The noir is played down this week as we get a less likely homage to a classic (apparently) comedy, plus a cut out Combat Balloon!
All in my look(ing) at (you kid) The Big Shutdown! Part 2.
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![]() It's the final of Decepticon Leader Factor, and all Thunderwing needs to do to win it is not have an Autobot shoot white sticky foam in his face. The noir is played down this week as we get a less likely homage to a classic (apparently) comedy, plus a cut out Combat Balloon! All in my look(ing) at (you kid) The Big Shutdown! Part 2.
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Ryan F
13/10/2016 09:37:27 pm
I think the sticking-point preventing this story being set 14 months ago is that one of the Headmasters here mentions getting back to the Ark, but 14 months ago the crews of the Ark and Steelhaven had yet to intermingle, so this must be set at the very earliest just before Club Con, which still puts it after A Small War, timewise.
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Tom
14/10/2016 02:52:04 pm
I always assumed the 14 months ago only applied to A Small War and not to this and the following Thunderwing story. I always thought that the eluding to Thunderwing as leader thing was just the present day narrator using the present day term for him but that the story itself was set earlier. That's just what I accepted as fact as a kid and moved on. That made The Big Shutdown and Rage set in present day without a problem. Of course there was still the confusion of where these stories were placed in relation to Two Megatrons and the U.S stories. And as I haven't thought about this for 25 years, I am now getting a headache.
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14/10/2016 07:30:02 pm
Similarly I always assumed Thunderwing was a junior commander in A Small War rather than overall leader. There's nothing wrong with introducing a character out of chronological sequence and this way round he gets a more impressive debut.
Ryan F
14/10/2016 07:50:27 pm
I have an inkling that A Small War was written before Big Shutdown, but was held back to tie in with the US Micromaster strips so they could do a wall-to-wall Micromaster issue and really push the toys. It'll be interesting to see what the Classics UK reprints will say about all of this!
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14/10/2016 10:53:57 pm
Furman said pretty much that in an interview about a decade ago. In some cases in this period it's easy to subtract the number of reprint issues and see exactly where the stories could have lined up - Out to Lunch in #240 is the best example. Assault on the Ark could also have worked well in that at the end of it Thunderwing is appointed leader of the Decepticons and the very next week would have seen his first US appearance in that role.
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Tom
17/10/2016 09:53:46 am
I was holding out hope that the new partworks collection would collect all these stories in chronological (Aspects of Evil and The Void etc notwithstanding) up until Perchance to Dream went awry but alas that appears like it is not to be.
Stuart
20/10/2016 09:21:46 am
In terms of the partwork, I wouldn't be surprised if how the couple of B&W stories in the trial are handled isn't representative of how the rest would be done if it goes nationwide. I think Furman has slipped the two stories drawn for colour into the trial so they at least get the treatment even if no more comes of it. I can see the rest getting their own dedicated book (or two).
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Tom
20/10/2016 10:20:54 am
Of course this is true in real time but as a kid I collected the American and U.K. Comics and the uk comics were received months behind their shelf date whereas the American ones seemed to arrive almost immediately at my comic store (I'm in Australia). So kids perspective was beautifully skewed:)
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Stuart
20/10/2016 10:36:39 am
Still not a bad theory.
Tom
20/10/2016 02:46:59 pm
I have no doubt that there would be separate books with the black and white stories in them if it continued, however I thought it would be cool if these stories of this era that were in continuity with the US books up until Perchance To Dream were published alongside the US ones as intended to be enjoyed when written. Deathbringer effectively kicks off Furman's run on the US stories and these Thunderwing stories help set up the future run ins that all these characters have with each other as well.
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Ryan F
20/10/2016 03:11:05 pm
I always assumed the newer Headmasters were on the Steelhaven all along, just lurking in the background just out of shot.
Tom
20/10/2016 03:38:12 pm
That might work if Hosehead actually knew the others. But yeah it's as good a theory as any. Otherwise a whole new thing happened on Nebulos off screen as eluded to in the universe profiles from Bird of Prey.
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Ralph Burns
23/10/2016 08:51:07 pm
Thunderwing is a very silly sausage!
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