Transformation 266: The Dukes of Taking it Easy.

15/6/2017

Bonjour! Yes, I'm back from Paris! Great city, and it was interesting to see the British election fall out from a foreign perspective (TF1 news was basically "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA "Strong and Stable" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA").

Back on home soil though, it's time to find out what happened to Prowl! Turns out he's taken on a very Parisian attitude.

plus, a Bombshell for GI Joe.

All in my look at ISSUE 266!

14 Comments

Ralph Burns

17/6/2017 05:01:19 pm

Week 2 of my descent into madness. The 'hilarious' Earthforce stories are just shit. Shitty shitty shit. They're just not funny and in context with the Marvel UK Real Ghostbusters comic of the time are shown up for how bad they are. Both comic's UK strips are essentially trying to do the same thing: short humour based strips revolving around puns which are aimed at younger kids but are fine for older ones. Ghostbusters pulls it off (partly due to quality and partly being like that from #1) and sadly Transformers does not. It's good the title survived for a year and a quarter past this era as I wonder if the comic would be remembered as fondly if it had died during Earthforce.

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Tim Roll-Pickering link

17/6/2017 08:28:25 pm

I do wonder if Earthforce and/or the G.I. Joe crossover would be more fondly remembered if they hadn't come at the same time. Put Earthforce alongside Matrix Quest and it would be a humorous counterpoint to quite a dark saga. Put G.I. Joe alongside the earlier black & white stories and it becomes more clearly the B feature but also doesn't suffer from featuring a rather similar cast of TFs (Dinobots aside). But stuck together and both really drag.

Simon Hall

18/6/2017 07:57:11 pm

I was under the impression those framing panels around the stories were new bits of artwork. This one does look like a composite though.

Stuart

18/6/2017 07:59:05 pm

They usually are new, but yeah, this is obviously the work of at least two guys.

Tigerbread

18/6/2017 08:10:02 pm

They could still be previously unpublished art. "Sudden Fright Chicken" I never got that pun until now, what an awful, pointless bit of word play, I'm actually seething with rage at how terrible it was.

Tigerbread

18/6/2017 08:13:06 pm

By the way, has hatchett stopped publishing the Generation one collection? I have it on subscription, but it seems to have stopped.

Stuart

18/6/2017 08:17:52 pm

It's still ongoing. Sounds like you're one of the many folk they've messed about.

Tigerbread

18/6/2017 08:36:37 pm

Bugger, there's been no activity on my account for 2 months, might have to do this the hard way..

knightbeat

19/6/2017 08:24:37 pm

There's a rumour that WH Smith have stopped selling the G1 collection as well. That said, I've not been able to find it in WH Smith since #6

Stuart

19/6/2017 08:47:55 pm

These things do usually stop appearing in newsagents after a few months though (annoyingly mine stopped carrying the Star Trek one just as there was an issue I wanted in the UK comics book!).

Tigerbread should at least have up to issue 12 at this point. The gross mishandling of their customer service is sadly one of the things I think might kill this off before completion, especially as subscribers are the lifeblood of something like this.

Felicity link

13/12/2019 12:54:18 am

I don’t think I would have gotten the “Sudden Fright Chicken” joke either. Jazz and Sunstreaker’s car modes look nice on that cover though. Very car-like (which is not always a given with “Transformers”).

Is each UK issue is re-running a complete issue of the original four-issue “GI Joe and the Transformers” mini-series? Or is this part two of what North Americans would consider issue one?

ISTR (actual) issue two being my favourite, maybe because it was the first one I bought, off the racks at a 7-Eleven (I must have bought the rest later from comic shops or at conventions). Plus I’ve always liked Dirge.

IIRC this is also the issue where the Baroness offers Serpentor what looks like a drumstick of fried chicken, although it’s really quail—so this sort of fits in with the UK cover above.

Of course if this is only part two of issue one, then never mind. I suspect it is, because we haven’t gotten to Bumblebee exploding yet, and that’s promised on the cover of issue one.

Wasn’t Megatron a little too much of a space cadet around this time to be thinking so proactively as using Power Station Alpha to repower Cybertron?

I like Senator Larkin’s frilly cravat.

Stuart

13/12/2019 01:13:21 am

It is indeed just the second quarter of the original first issue.

Felicity

13/12/2019 06:12:50 am

*(nod)* ☺

JeremiahEcks

25/2/2025 11:58:46 pm

Stuart's right in that the Battlechargers should be working for Shockwave, not Megatron, and that Stunticons (sans Motormaster) should be working for Megatron, not Shockwave.

Which is why the Hachette coloured reprint of this issue helpfully swaps them around to the right groups. So the Battlechargers are back with Shockwave and the Stunticon cars are now with Megatron.

All is well with the world.

Except the awful pun on the cover and the out of character actions for the Autobots within that never go anywhere...

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