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 This week, the UK team play their best ever gag.
Plus, Primus hits you with the exposition, Grimlock doesn't know better than to check what he sticks his nozzle in and Thunderpunch thinks laughing in God's face is a good idea. All in my look at ISSUE 317!
17 Comments
Gareth
8/6/2018 04:30:07 pm
I like the 2 TF life signs on Earth reference - it teases the Fort Max/Spike conflict in issue 329-330 without giving away too much and shows that Simon was already considering a post-Unicron story. I'm not sure I understand your retcon comment though, Stuart. Are you suggesting this would have been played differently if the comic had been given more time? e.g. a human/robot merger story (ala HiQ&Prime) for the headmasters.
Stuart
8/6/2018 06:33:53 pm
Retcon in that there will turn out to only be one "part" of Fort Max on Earth, Spike. The rest of him is at that moment on the Ark. Presumably Furman's original plan they'd still be together if not always linked after Man in the Machine.
Stuart
8/6/2018 06:34:18 pm
Retcon in that there will turn out to only be one "part" of Fort Max on Earth, Spike. The rest of him is at that moment on the Ark. Presumably Furman's original plan they'd still be together if not always linked after Man in the Machine.
Gareth
8/6/2018 07:08:00 pm
I'd forgotten about that. Excellent point!
Tetsuryu
8/6/2018 06:38:02 pm
This right here is where it all ended for me. The Finnish publication of the comic did a weird thing by splitting this one in half, ending at the page where the labeled chambers are shown, ending with Megatron and also ending the issue with a nice cliffhanger. Think I sold my issue of U.K. 332 on eBay for about £40 back in 2012. I think I still have a copy of this issue somewhere. But not many others. Loved Andy Wildman’s 2 page splash. Target Masters Stu? Are those the guys kind of middle-left? In regen one I struggled to ID the target masters. Loved the black Transformation gag too. The Neo Knights were really rubbish, was it an extended ruse for Furman and Wildman to try and show they could do super hero stuff? I never thought the life signal thing was a retcon. Instead very nice writing. I have asked here before, but on the topic of fort max, why was Cerebros written into the comic in such an obvious way, and after fort max had been introduced? Had somebody made an oversight? Was the fort max toy even bigger than Scorponok? Seems odd since they were “new leaders” introduced at the same time.
Snowkatt
10/6/2018 10:43:25 pm
Yes, the Fort Max toy was bigger then Scorponok.
bouncelot
10/6/2018 11:24:48 am
I always assumed that the two parts thing was a reference to Thunderwing/Dark Matrix, who were last seen in Earth orbit. 12/6/2018 01:00:53 pm
"Now Unicron is the survivor of the Universe before this one" No idea who the action masters are. Fixit’s scale looks ok? I mean scale has always been a disaster - Starscream should be far bigger than Prime etc. One of the very few things Bayformers did right, or was at least interesting, was the idea the robots didn’t change size when they transformed. So I think that’s why the deceptions are squat and Prime is the biggest truck possible? 13/6/2018 12:45:49 am
The problem is that the Micromaster vehicle modes are the same size as regular sized Transformers'. Were it Ratchet or First Aid in the shot the ambulance would be much higher than Prime's shin. For sure scale in general is a pain in the series, but the Micromasters probably should have been treated as tiny robots transforming into little toy cars, which is the implication of the adverts and also the set-up of the Microman line from which the original Mini Autobots came. Instead they're small robots transforming into regular sized vehicles and that seems to defeat the point of the exercise. 19/6/2018 04:56:15 pm
As a young lad first finding out about the wider Marvel Universe I too came across the Galactus origin, and also the fact that he appears differently to each race. Since, in my head, the Transformers were obviously still in the Marvel Universe, I assumed Unicron and Galactus were merely one and the same.
Snowkatt
3/7/2018 02:17:06 am
the two next to soundwave might be the actionmasters
Snowkatt
3/7/2018 02:05:23 am
I am back ish.
Felicity
28/12/2019 09:20:02 pm
I notice that the image at the top of this comments page is a blank square—at first I thought a JPEG went missing but it occurs to me that it could be a clever reference to the void! ☺ Leave a Reply. |
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