Transformation 263: Bird With a Broken Wing.

25/5/2017

The hunt for the bird is on, and someone is going to be GUTTed if they don't get it.

Plus, Grimlock and Prime have a good chuckle.

All that and another surprise villain hidden in shadow and a special guest appearance from another comic company's valuable trademark in my look at ISSUE 263!

RIP Sir Roger.

5 Comments

Ralph Burns

26/5/2017 12:37:10 pm

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES!!!!!!

SPECIAL TEAMS!

JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMES!!!!

John D. link

26/5/2017 10:41:11 pm

James, James, Jim, Jimmy, what have you done? The go joe crossover was absolutely disgusting. I honestly didn't even read it. Even now the only thing I can tell you about it is that it has a conflicting origin for Goldbug. Or is it Bumblebee? I think the black and white strip was the embarrassing fight between Prime and Grimlock I moaned about a few weeks ago. Who is the cover by? Mr Baskerville? Some very odd proportions going on. Grimlock has a huge head and different sized hands.

Tim Roll-Pickering link

1/6/2017 10:16:41 pm

At the time I didn't mind the G.I. Joe crossover - the problem with schedules had been explained enough times by then and it was a step up from reprints. But it's a pity that it interrupted Matrix Quest so bluntly - running it three issues earlier would have been the least inelegant solution. And coming alongside some of the silliest of the Earthforce stories didn't help much (apart from elevating the greatness of Combat Colin).

Stuart

27/5/2017 02:11:45 pm

I feel I've created a monster.

Felicity link

8/12/2019 07:58:29 am

Ah, now I get it, because Cairo and Baghdad are both cities in the Middle East. 29 years later, the penny finally drops. On a related note, it took years for me to understand what that expression meant.

Despite being a physical object, the Matrix is evidently able to broadcast energy that can be used elsewhere, such as in Buster’s head or through the pirated signal Megatron used to create the Stunticons. In fact when Prime was just a head, was the Matrix remotely sending energy from his body to his head? And to Buster’s head?

The first time I read this story, the fact that B’ghdad is also a robot (with plumbing for facial features) confused me with regard to “The Robot Gang.” Then it turns out the Robot Gang is someone else. Deliberate misdirection, or a case of too many characters with overlapping attributes?

Unless I’m thinking of the wrong character and it wasn’t B’ghdad that had the metal face.

More assholery from Nightbeat as he wipes his hand on the innocent alien, misgenders it, throws it into the bad guy, steps on it, and implies something off-colour about what it’s doing to the bad guy.

I’m never a fan of the “refuse the call” bit either although it’s not so bad when it’s because the hero has a job to do that takes priority. What I find most tiresome is when the hero refuses the call because he thinks he’s too much of a cool loner to do anything that was someone else’s idea. Modern heroes never do the thing because it’s the right thing to do; they have to be dragged into it.

Speaking of which…Grimlock, being a jerk again. I hadn’t put two and two together until just now reading your review, where you point out that Bumblebee shouldn’t be all that thrilled to be around Grimlock again given what happened last time. And that raises a good point that goes all the way back to “Yesterday’s Heroes,” where he’s getting along so well with Grimlock, and as equals too, that he’s able to tease him about his caveman dialect.

At least Grimlock isn’t officially in charge of the Classic Pretenders in the US-only storyline. While he seems to be the physically strongest of the three, there’s no indication that the other two have to defer to him.

Thank goodness it was only a kite and not a little girl’s cat, as it sometimes is in other usages of the same general gag. I never like to see cruelty to cats.

I wonder what about the Guardian IV struck James Kinsey as being similar to Slapdash? It kind of has Getaway’s mouth.

If we’re talking about the “GI Joe and the Transformers” comic from 1987, OK, it wasn’t great, but it wasn’t *that* bad! The writing was a little weird but it was cool to see Cobra and the Decepticons team up. Plus it had Herb Trimpe art!

Roger Moore, class act and smooth customer. My favourite of the Bonds.

Transformation 263: Bird With a Broken Wing.

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