Transformation 280: The Final Year.

21/9/2017

With only a year to go on this project, we're really hitting the endgame now. Unlike the the G.I. Joe crossover which has more game than end.

Also this week, Slag goes crrrrrrrrraaazzzzyyyyyy and Optimus Prime is The Queen.

It's all in my look at ISSUE 280!

8 Comments

Burstingfoam

22/9/2017 04:50:34 pm

Schadenfreude...

As a fan of Action Force/GI Joe, who has endured your many dismissals of that fine comic, somehow your suffering makes me smile.

I'm sorry. I'm not proud. But it is so.

Love the Earthforce story. And I've always been a fan of the deeply underrated Jeff Anderson, so it's always nice to see him in action. I'm also glad to see Earthforce being enjoyed a lot more than might have been anticipated. I'm very fond of it, but as I've said before, that might be because I came to it after the event, when we got those 'digest' books from Titan.

John D. link

22/9/2017 09:10:28 pm

Dear Lord I think I just stopped reading the crossover altogether. Why were 2 combiners fighting?
What are the ethics here, could Marvel UK have chopped some splash pages or panels to make it a bit shorter? I suppose the length was fine by them as they were just trying to get a comic, any comic, out each week.
I never ever rated Jeff Anderson. I never saw anything by him that I genuinely didn't feel I could have had a decent crack at drawing myself. Geoff Senior, Andy Wildman (for Marvel US, when it was clearly in his career interests to be at his best), Lee Sullivan - these guys drew some incredible stuff, humbling and worth savouring.

Snowkatt

13/12/2017 09:07:20 am

Thats kinda uncharitable towards Anderson.
His art could be stiff at times, but if he was anything his art was workman like and he knew how to compoistion a page and layout.
Which is a lot more, then can be said for a lot of other artists.

Nor is his art as rubbery, filled with water like Dan Reed's
or crushed by deadlines Manny Galan.

JeremiahEcks

1/3/2025 10:36:01 am

Art is absolutely subjective and you're in your rights to dislike Jeff Anderson's work...

... but I'm of the mind that entirely disagrees. Anderson is never the Best artist TF UK had but nor is he the worst. I think he was a solid reliable hand and I've always liked his stuff.

I've only seen one non-Transformers work he's done and oddly enough it was a hand painted 'comic style' illustrated entire Bible. And I have to say that the art was stunning. I bought it simply because it had his name on the cover and I knew it was the same TF Jeff as I'd heard him talking about it as a passion project. Worth it for the art to be fair.

Simon Hall

25/9/2017 05:38:48 am

...all comment on this weeks strips has been over-ridden by that Milky Way advert which has started re-running in my mind. So thanks for that. All together now:

The red car and the blue car had a race
but all red wants to do is stuff his face
he eats everything he sees
from trucks to prickly trees
but smart old blue he took the Milky Way

(pretty sure there was another verse when this ad originally ran, but I can't remember that)

Wouldn't get away with an advert like that now. Jamie Oliver would start a campaign and it'd get banned for directly appealing to children. Sadly for Mars, the ubiquity of this advert actually had the opposite effect and put me off 'the snack you can eat between meals without ruining your appetite'.

Burstingfoam

25/9/2017 12:11:04 pm

Oh no the bridge is gone,
Old red can't carry on

But smart old blue he chose the Milky Way.

Actually, I was more of a 'satellite and meteor' man myself.

Ralph Burns

25/9/2017 09:28:33 pm

I feel the cover fully illustrates how every reader felt upon learning the GI JOE V TF crossover still had one more issue to go.

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Felicity

17/12/2019 03:48:42 am

Minor proofreading note: it looks like you’ve listed the title as “…Ashes to Ashes! Part 4” in place of “…All Fall Down! Part 4.”

Transformation 280: The Final Year.

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