Transformation 261: Water Skiing for Beginners.

12/5/2017

This week, who is the bigger screamer, Bludgeon or Primus?

Plus, in order to get you to buy new old toys, Prowl tells you all your new, new toys are shit.

All this and Combat Fatigue in my look at ISSUE 261!

10 Comments

Ralph Burns

12/5/2017 04:58:34 pm

I cannot summon up enthusiasm for the slow slide into shit that is Earthforce. Instead I shall discuss the fine roll that I just had. It was wholemeal and contained both chicken and stuffing. It was very nice. I shall now have some grapefruit juice.

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Stuart

12/5/2017 05:22:58 pm

You love the April Fool's one. I can tell.

John D. link

12/5/2017 08:20:23 pm

"Slow slide into shit" I love it ha ha. How come there weren't alarm bells ringing about megatron suddenly appearing. Seems so far out of step with the stories we've just read, it's mental. How often did Stephen Baskerville contribute art (not "just" inks)? That totally passed me by.

Simon Hall

12/5/2017 10:42:28 pm

I can summon up the enthusiasm for Earthforce, but mainly because they're (mostly) recent discoveries for me (having only read the majority of them in the wee Titan collections from ten years ago. I like that they're little vignettes of slightly smaller scale Transformers adventures. They're cool, and good to read on the bus or whatever. They feel very much sort of Summer Special material, in that like the Beano and what have you, these stories just feel like familiar characters in a different setting, and I like that.

Doesn't bother me either that Megatron is just here, doing villainy things like in the cartoon - he's had such short shrift in the comic generally that seeing him just doing anything is nice.

...just on the main strip, one thing I've always been curious about is the US letters page from Furman's time. It's be interesting to see contemporary reaction to the writing - and in particular Senior's et al's work from this time.

John D. link

13/5/2017 07:22:33 am

The blogger Youseph Tanha reviews the US comics. His reviews are shall we say more "high-level" than Stu's (Stu is a tough act to match). but I think if you look at his review of US 65 you'll see the letters page and reactions to Geoff Senior's debut.

Stuart

13/5/2017 11:02:56 am

I'll have to check that out.

Though I'm disappointed you're seeing other bloggers John.

Burstingfoam

13/5/2017 06:18:51 pm

Heavens be praised, I thought it was just me that liked it. Same cause really, I only read these in the Titan paperbacks, and I love them. As I've said before, they're fun and work nicely alongside the 'meat' of the US strips. Plus there's good stuff for all four big Decepticons, particularly Soundwave. One of the disappointments of Furman's non-UK work is the short shrift that Soundwave gets, given that he was well-used in the UK. This gives him one last Marvel hurrah.

Harry

12/5/2017 10:43:02 pm

' Leading to the hilarious line from Snake Eyes: “Someone made a mistake. A ninja does not step on a land mine.” '

To quote Snake Eyes himself: ' '. ;)

Stuart

13/5/2017 11:03:41 am

Damn...well all those ninjas look the same to me.

Felicity link

7/12/2019 01:17:06 am

This is some classic writing by Simon Furman. All the things you pointed out. So many great lines. And done back in the simpler, more innocent times when it meant a lot more than it would now, with flippant irony being the default setting today.

After reading this entry, I finally decided to look up the origin of the phrase “They’re good dogs Brent.” I see it regularly on a humour website I visit.

Snake Eyes said something?!

“GI Joe”: IIRC Captain Minh is Vietnamese, and will have an important part to play in the upcoming history of Cobra.

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