Transformation 245: Pissed Prime.

20/1/2017

This week, the greatest Autobot of them all has had enough of your shit.

Plus, Megatron plans his revenge around a dead character he's spoken to about eight times in the last five years.

And Tailgate lets me make lots of More Than Meets the Eye jokes.

It's all in my look at ISSUE 245!

11 Comments

Ryan F

20/1/2017 04:45:58 pm

I have a feeling the Air Srike patrol did make a couple more appearances, both in the UK (Greatest Gift of All) and the US (I forget the title, but it's the one where Blackrock recruits the Neo Knights), and they were killed off in the latter!

I always think the Demons trilogy is Furman's attempt at doing Mega City One - Tailgate and co are like the Cadet Judges on their initiation test, there's an undercity populated with mutants (one of which has 'head butting' as his special power) and the demons are basically the Dark Judges.

And I know it's a black and white story, but there's a LOT of black here - it's really heavily (moodily) inked. Along with Big Shutdown this is probably the one other story that makes the most out of the lack of colour.

Ryan F

20/1/2017 04:47:24 pm

Oh, and if you think the Primus foreshadowing was good, count how many references to Hydrus 4 there are between now and the Nucleon arc!!!

Stuart

20/1/2017 05:27:26 pm

But other than the Greatest Gift and The Human Factor, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Bugger, I'd have sworn blind the Rescue Patrol were the only Micromaster to do anything after this arc (mainly due to the CMO vacancy).

Alex Smith link

26/1/2017 12:37:56 am

Quality stuff like this is probably why I've ended up with a lifelong love of black and white comic art.

Tim Roll-Pickering link

20/1/2017 08:31:47 pm

There's also Roadhandler popping up in Another Time And Place right at the end.

The mini-comic was certainly widely circulated - it also appeared in the Incredible Hulk Presents and I remember seeing standalone copies available in Gamleys. This suggests Hasbro probably had a hand in commissioning it hence some of the messes - as well as the whole separate team mess, it really should be Serpentor leading Cobra at this stage but I guess his toy was out of the British line by then.

The whole Megatron-Starscream relationship in the comics is interesting. It's set down in the Screamer's Universe profile and Furman has certainly accepted it as a core part of Transformers mythology - see things like Victory or Generation 2 - but it's a part that's had limited opportunity to establish itself on the page, not least because Megatron was rarely leader over Starscream for long. Perhaps Megatron has in mind the way Shockwave, Soundwave and Ratbat have all had to deal with Starscream's ambition and treachery or there's more back history from the days on Cybertron.

Snowkatt

21/1/2017 06:52:15 pm

just 4 comments ?
maybe i should comment more often again

John D. link

22/1/2017 03:45:32 am

Starscream was Megs' lieutenant and has also proven to be treacherous time and again, under several leaders. So I think he can be legitimately called a treacherous lieutenant. As for Optimus being an incredible fighting machine, I have a fundamental problem with the concept that Nebulans can build better transformers than Primus. What's to stop a robot if twice the size being crest? Ad Infinitum. A smarter solution should have been reached.

Snowkatt

22/1/2017 03:12:11 pm

Who is to say that Prime hasn't been augmented or improved on by Cybertronian technology in between the issues ?

The whole reason for Power masters to be, is that they are actually stronger then their normal counterparts.
So I have no issues with Prime being a wrecking machine.

Simon Hall

22/1/2017 05:17:56 pm

Hmm. Whilst Prime's Powermaster body was built on Nebulous, he was built using Cybertronian help / designs and maybe even materials. How about Goldbug, Getaway, Joyride and Slapdash having brought some inert protoform with them...?

Plus, what Snowkatt said :)

Love the idea of Action Force / G.I. Joe being laughing stocks on both sides of the globe. God knows what the world will make of Tiger Force and all that mad space / sci-fi stuff that's soon to follow in the line...

Ralph Burns

27/1/2017 06:16:57 pm

No! The creature in the darkness it -

-AAAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Felicity link

27/11/2019 12:25:52 pm

I like the way José Delbo draws Skullgrin’s inner robot mode.

“Well, by Primus, you’re gonna get one!” is a line I could hear in Peter Cullen’s voice.

Transformation 245: Pissed Prime.

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