
All this and Machine Man Update Updated in my look at The Eye of the Storm part 3!
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![]() This week, it's the final weekly issue. Optimus barely pauses between speeches, Triggerhappy and Mindwipe try to get away from Starscream and Nightbeat's attempt to rescue Racthet is 50% successful. All this and Machine Man Update Updated in my look at The Eye of the Storm part 3!
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Anonymous X
7/4/2018 05:57:05 pm
I have to agree that the Machine Man backup strip did feel quite the relic when it was reprinted – I hadn’t remembered it from the first time round given my young age during the early days of the comic, but I could tell straight away that the story was old material. Did read every part though, literally the only non-Headmasters backup strip I ever bothered with in during the comic’s run. It’s still memorable to me as the first cyberpunkish-themed fiction that I remember being exposed to.
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Simon Hall
8/4/2018 08:47:56 pm
I wonder if budegtary problems were the reason Machine Man was pressed back into service, rather than a (relatively) contemporary Iron Man or similar story. Easy to keep costs down when there's something you've already bought and paid for to hand.
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Yes I remember being very confused by Machine Man and wondering if it was some kind of Iron Man rip-off. Then a bad Iron Man actually appeared. And (spoiler) they had a terrific punch up. All incredibly confuding. But finally a back up strip that thematically matched the main feature. Megatrachet is indeed Nightmare Fuel! Fixit did well to reassmeble two separate robots from the pile of poo he was left with...and I liked Fixit being involved as I actuallty had his Micromaster team!
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bouncelot
9/4/2018 08:40:26 pm
The change to fortnightly meant that I forgot to go to the newsagents a couple of weeks running. Fortunately I had my copy on a regular order, so I didn't actually miss an issue.
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Auntie Slag
9/4/2018 11:11:56 pm
I remember reading Machine Man 2020 the first time round. The art style made it seem much more adult, and the theme darker. It was probably about two years before I gave it a proper read, but what a story.
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18/4/2018 03:30:53 pm
Can you really threaten a Headmaster by the neck?
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I can only think of two possible puns the cover was trying to make, neither of them very good. “Chill-out” [sic] because these are the Decepticons believed to be dead, i.e. in cold storage? Or “Understand?!” because Shockwave is literally standing over him? Neither really works.
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