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 This week, there's no beating about the Bush as Scorponok and Shockwave have at it. Plus, Galvatron is running out of time and the first George Bush shows he's just as smart as he son.
All this and Optimus Man in my look at ...All This and Civil War 2!
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18/5/2018 05:38:47 pm
One thing I love about Wildman's art in this issue is that, as Zarak here forms Scorponok's entire head rather than slotting into a helmet as per the toy, Scorpy's beast mode here also lacks the head it would usually have (something other artists generally failed to do, implying that Scorponok generates a beast mode head identical to his robot mode head when transforming). I had the Scorponok toy and it was huge! It towered over Metroplex. I wonder what the reasoning was for the toys getting gradually bigger. Why was there the story in the comic about Fort Max being made bigger too? Was someone caught out by not having the topy design in time and not realising his head was a separate robot? As for the art, Andy Wildman is on fire here, and I will speculate again - I wonder if his work on ReGen 1 looked a bit dodgy because the colouring was actually too good? Could it be that Yomotov's muted palette is the unsung hero of the whole franchise? 31/5/2018 06:42:24 pm
Hasbro and Takara presumably kept on upping the sizes as they realised they could sell at ever higher price points through pester power, though I wonder if the absence of Godbomber from the Hasbro line marked the point they realised they'd reached the limit, although Takara still had some big ones in later years.
Felicity
27/12/2019 09:59:18 pm
In their brief G1 animated appearances Fortress Maximus and Scorponok were cities, in other words equal to Metroplex and Trypticon in size. The toys may have been based on that scale. Of course that doesn’t explain why it has to be Spike ➡ Cerebros ➡ Fortress Maximus but only Lord Zarak ➡ Scorponok. Where’s the middle stage for Scorponok? Does Scorponok just have a really tiny head? ☻ 26/10/2020 04:14:47 pm
On Scorponok's toy the scorpion head becomes a giant helmet that Zarak fits into rather than him transforming into the whole head. US & UK fiction instead tends to depict Zarak as the whole head; I forget how the Japanese handle this.
Felicity
27/12/2019 10:06:18 pm
Shockwave’s inability to stand up straight after Scorponok has hit him with a boat really coordinates with Scorponok’s “computer on legs” line.
LiamKav
26/10/2020 11:22:34 am
Is there a more stereotypical Wildman image than that "Next issue" box? Leave a Reply. |
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