
yes, the endless crossover has ended!
Plus, Tracks is drop dead gorgeous as far as Grimlock is concerned.
All in my look at ISSUE 281!
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![]() Well thank fuck that's over with. yes, the endless crossover has ended! Plus, Tracks is drop dead gorgeous as far as Grimlock is concerned. All in my look at ISSUE 281!
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29/9/2017 11:16:19 pm
From what I can recall my attitude was probably more "meh" than hatred of the crossover at the time but I guess I was conditioned to accept that the alternative was more unpopular reprints (how little we knew at the time). Or perhaps I was more tolerant of a double B feature era on the book because I was also now reading the LEM Batman (probably now only remembered for an appearance in Mr Bean) which had just replaced the early 1980s stories with post Crisis stuff like Blind Justice and that may have given the necessary excitement fix. As I've said before, I think a key problem is the combination of the crossover and an excessively jokey period on the UK strip which feels like it was meant to be the antidote to the intensity of Matrix Quest. Had the black & white stories been doing something more serious and intense in this period then the crossover might have been accepted as a necessary interlude sideshow to something great.
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Yes Tim, it struck me this week that there has been a torrent of daft jokey Earthforce stories. 1 or 2 might have been ok but there must have been about ten in a row. All dross, which doesn't even add depth to characters or the "lore". When you think of the criticism James Roberts gets when he writes one issue of vaguely filler!
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The problem I had with MTME , ( I have since stopped reading in 2015) was the tone.
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Ralph Burns
9/10/2017 12:10:25 pm
Back in the day this was my last issue of Transformers having been a regular reader since #42. By this point only myself and one other person I knew were still buying this comic locally (that I knew of at the time) and 17 weeks of that awful crossover and crap Earthforce comedies had killed my interest. My loyalty to the title remained strong but it had increasingly felt like it was being made for little kids and not for my age group anymore. Kids son't like to feel they are being talked down to. I hung on for a while but this was the week I started Secondary School so dropped it. My friend still got the comic (he had to order it from his newsagent) and I still snuck a look at some copies until #319 when his newsagent couldn't get it anymore. I got the feeling I used to get some Transformers from 2000AD.
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Uraael
28/1/2018 12:52:37 pm
"How many of the people with no interest in reprints were still reading the lead strip by week 17? I must admit to have been at best skimming it at the time. Certainly the book has lost enough readers that the UK stories themselves are on their last legs."
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Felicity
17/12/2019 04:29:07 am
God, Grimlock was just awful. Especially as written by Furman. At least under Budiansky, when Grimlock was wearing his crown and being a terrible leader, it was clear that we weren’t supposed to like him. And more of this garbage is still to come with the Nucleon saga and Grimlock as leader after the battle with Unicron…
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