Transformation 259: Carry on Screaming.

27/4/2017

This week: The never before told (honest, forget issue 150) origin of the Transformers!

Plus, Geoff Senior is here to chew bubblegum and show the Americans how it's done. And he's all out of bubblegum.

Meanwhile, Silverbolt barges his way past Jazz to take centre-stage in a story Furman doesn't know how to end.

All this and pancakes in my look at ISSUE 259!

7 Comments

Alex Smith link

29/4/2017 12:51:26 am

Is it not possible that, with both Furman and Senior working together again, they quietly dropped working the 'Marvel' way and simply went back to doing it full-script?

Stuart

29/4/2017 01:26:24 am

Possibly, though with Furman at least keen to break America (I'm not sure when Geoff Senior became disillusioned with comics) he'd probably have had the discipline to keep to the method he'd be expecting to use on all future work. Plus Senior is probably the artist he'd trust above all to work that way.

IIRC (it's not to hand) the script for the final issue is "Marvel" way, so he didn't switch techniques with Wildman.

All this assumes the editor wouldn't care either way. Presumably they'd not want something that couldn't be easily handed to another artist quickly if they needed a fill in due to illness or whatever.

Come to that, it's more than likely Furman wasn't sure Delbo wouldn't be drawing this when he wrote it, even if he was pushing for home talent.

Ralph Burns

29/4/2017 10:59:08 pm

IIRC the sticker was just the current TF logo!

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Stuart

30/4/2017 07:08:14 am

Well that's...underwhelming.

Ryan F

1/5/2017 06:49:34 pm

The sticker bore the message "Caution - Transformers live here!" Presumably to be stuck on kids' bedroom doors or toyboxes or whatever.

Photo here: http://imgur.com/Obx9wiM

Tim Roll-Pickering link

3/6/2017 06:08:05 pm

I seem to recall it was just soft plastic for pressing onto a flat surface rather than an actual adhesive. It was thus easy to remove later on.

Felicity link

6/12/2019 08:43:22 am

It’s hard to remember how Geoff Senior’s art seemed to us when we North Americans first encountered it here in this issue. I suspect that it went down pretty well. Senior’s art is pleasantly clean and extremely competent, he does great architectural backgrounds and textures, and he comes close to achieving the quality of the original animated series, his only failing being not making his Transformers chunky and long-legged enough. (A common mistake when trying to make Transformers pose and move more naturally is to draw them as humans in armour, when in fact their proportions are different, with a much higher centre of gravity, much longer legs, broader shoulders and chest, and a smaller head size relative to body size, compared to humans. For an interesting example of the reverse phenomenon, see “Fist of the North Star,” in which humans are drawn in the proportions which would be correct for Transformers.) Basically I would guess he won us over. Now that you’ve evoked the mental image though I am very curious as to what it would have looked like if José Delbo had drawn the origin sequence.

Grimlock’s description of a thing that happened off-panel, of the Keeper of Primus making a hole appear in the wall so he can walk through, is spoken of by Grimlock as though it was meant to be impressive, part of the package with having a voice like thunder. You would think a Cybertronian would be familiar with an automatic sliding door. I picture it being like the cinematic trailer for “Spaceballs” where the word “Spaceballs” thunders onto the screen in giant letters and then a tiny door opens in one of the letters and Mel Brooks quietly steps out of it.

Minor proofreading note: “Aerialbots.” An Arielbot would be Orion Pax’s girlfriend. :-)

Transformation 259: Carry on Screaming.

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