
Is it Longtooth?
Is it Red Alert?
Is it the Micromaster Battle Patrol?
If you're too busy to read the comic, the editorial will tell you.
Plus find out who Optimus loves more: Ratchet or Powerglide.
All in my look at issue 252!
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![]() This week, who is the mystery killer? Is it Longtooth? Is it Red Alert? Is it the Micromaster Battle Patrol? If you're too busy to read the comic, the editorial will tell you. Plus find out who Optimus loves more: Ratchet or Powerglide. All in my look at issue 252!
15 Comments
10/3/2017 06:55:36 pm
Oddly the offending bits of the editorial would have worked almost perfectly next week, give or take the numbering - perhaps things got confused over the Christmas break? (I also recall last week's issue coming out a day earlier than usual, and the same thing happened a year later, suggesting disruption all over.)
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Stuart
12/3/2017 02:28:50 pm
Good catch on the release schedule getting skiffy, I'd not noticed that!
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Stuart
12/3/2017 02:30:26 pm
Earthforce was mainly about taking advantage of the need to do Classics Heroes promotion letting Furman write about the characters he liked better than the more recent ones.
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12/3/2017 06:41:04 pm
He's said he was also frustrated that it was proving impossible to tie into the US stories satisfactorily because reprints kept altering the schedule and so seized the opportunity to tell a bunch of stories set in their own bubble without foreseeing he'd be asked when they're set all these years later.
Ralph Burns
12/3/2017 05:37:34 pm
If only DARK RODIMUS had killed Longtooth!!!
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12/3/2017 05:51:47 pm
What's with Delbo and making the Rescue Patrol's vehicle modes huge? (Not that Micromasters' vehicle modes have ever made much sense, scale-wise).
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14/3/2017 05:04:03 pm
Just about all the artists seemed to struggle with the Micromasters' sizes, suggesting the reference sheets were poor.
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14/3/2017 05:55:10 pm
That was indeed the story behind the mini-cars - they were meant to be Penny Racers (or Choro-Q), hence the chunky, deformed proportions. As for pulling it off in fiction, don't forget the Throttlebots were toy cars for a while!
Burstingfoam
14/3/2017 04:30:56 pm
I’m sorry to ask this here, it’s got nothing to do with the issue in question, but I suddenly noticed something today, and I have to ask:
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14/3/2017 06:01:06 pm
Does Fusion have space for passengers? He's based on Prime's Cybertronian mode from the very first issue, and that was basically a box on wheels wasn't it?
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Burstingfoam
16/3/2017 09:48:52 am
I meant Bluestreak, honest. That's what you get for doing things from memory.
Simon Hall
14/3/2017 09:44:24 pm
The passenger compartments was a thing brought up during the Dreamwave days - it was used as a sign that the Transformers were perhaps supposed to integrate with other beings/ explore other worlds type stuff.
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18/3/2017 11:52:54 pm
I could have sworn I'd seen the Insecticons appear in small mode as well on Cybertron, but I could well be wrong.
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Budiansky Optimus was also occasionally angsty, but then again, Budiansky wrote Optimus out of the comic for quite a while, so that also has to be factored in.
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