
But which will he accept?
All this and the end of Action Force, in my look at ISSUE 305.
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![]() This week, Hector has three offers to consider. One from a virtually naked woman, one from a giant robot who wants to stick him in a orifice, and a guy who wants him to be in a terrible comic. But which will he accept? All this and the end of Action Force, in my look at ISSUE 305.
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Charles RB
16/3/2018 06:53:31 pm
"You might be hated and feared if you're a human dressed like a cartoon superhero that works for the US government to defend America from scary killer foreign robots that kill!"
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17/3/2018 06:53:42 pm
Well the X-Men have fought their fair share of non-mutants over the years and haven't come away from battles with the Sentinels as public heroes (although the original X-Factor somehow managed to attain great popularity and shrug off their mutant hunter cover after beating Apocalypse). It's just one of the quirks of Marvel that mutants are normally feared and hated no matter what they do.
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LiamKav
26/10/2020 12:11:39 am
The contrivance is that apparently the public don't mind if you got your powers artificially or by accident, but if you're born with them you're a terrible person. Circuit Breaker is much closer to Iron Man than Cyclops so there's far less reason for the faux-Marvel public to hate her. In fact considering how much the public dislike Transformers she could easily be a beloved hero. 16/3/2018 07:30:41 pm
The worst art I ever saw in relation to the Marvel US Transformers was the tail end of the GI Joe/Generation 2 crossover in GI Joe 139-142. Bearing in mind it was supposed to be advertising the new G2 book, it did a bloody awful job.
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Tigerbread
16/3/2018 09:00:37 pm
Baroness, didn't she rock a red bra and panties combo? (circa #200) She was into leather as well...Its telling that the Joe Strip far outshone the lead story at this point
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17/3/2018 07:10:53 pm
The cover may be the sign of another budget slip - the reuse of US covers probably wasn't just down to the artists being British but maybe another saving. Still it's an excellent piece to reuse.
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Uraael
19/3/2018 09:56:30 am
My brother and I were quite cross with the abrupt ending of the story. I hate unfinished stories particularly, so it was good to see an ending (if not the full ending) make it into a Collected Comic. A real shame, too, as the civil war itself was fairly epic.
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Loving this chat about the Governess. She certainly is a fine figure of a woman, though I can’t say I noticed at the time. I also never found circuit breaker remotely attractive, though I suppose I was still a wee bit young for it. Or maybe I couldn’t love a woman who hated the Autobots. Her and Blackrock were pretty decent characters, this Neo Knights stuff was deplorable though. I wasn’t even that into Deaths Head, never mind these Z-Men.
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Tigerbread
20/3/2018 11:20:59 pm
I saw a youtube review of the comic mention that the sales cut off point was about 100,000 in the '90s (Even US Batman sales can't reach that anymore) I'm pretty sure the sales were still well above 30,000 at this point.
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20/3/2018 11:25:57 pm
If memory serves correct that was Marvel US's general cut-off point. (DC was different as their viability figures took into account overseas reprints as well.) I'm not sure what the UK levels were.
Felicity
25/12/2019 06:34:48 am
As swipes of “Are All Dead” go, that was a pretty good one. Interestingly, Shockwave is coloured grey there, which makes him resemble the Radio Shack “Astro Magnum” Shockwave toys.
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