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Transformation 318: Living on the Edge.

21/6/2018

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This week...

Well, it's Geoff Senior going all out on the action. What more do you want?

Well, you've also got Simon Furman approaching getting rid of the old toys with glee and a nice and sarky Unicron.

All this and a fortnight in one in my look at ON THE EDGE OF EXTINCTION PART 1!


10 Comments
Tetsuryu
22/6/2018 07:55:15 pm

How about some good old fashioned heresy?

When I first read this story - coming fresh off a long string of Andy Wildman - I thought Geoff Senior's art looked crap.

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Stuart
22/6/2018 08:40:39 pm

Heretic! ;)

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Tetsuryu
22/6/2018 10:10:56 pm

Well when I first read it, I was going through the US comic alone, and until now I think the only Senior-illustrated story was Bird of Prey! - which followed a long chain of Jose Delbo-illustrated content, so the sudden change in style was nowhere near as drastic.

Reading it through the UK comic is a significantly different experience, when the constant change in artists doesn't really let you get used to any particular one too much.

Snowkatt
3/7/2018 01:54:58 am

Same
Seniors, US art is unusually flat. It could be the ink or more likely, Yomtov's crayons.
But Seniors US art is not nearly as good as his UK art. There seems to be something missing.

The way he drew Scorponok's claws never sat well with me either.

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Tigerbread
22/6/2018 07:57:50 pm

Chris McFeely, that guy knows his stuff. Does anyone else sub to his channel? His vids feel way more polished than they should for a channel of that size. The poster may not be by Senior but it adorned my wall for many a month, and I happened to love the gun that Wildman drew for Fangry.

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John D. link
22/6/2018 10:58:12 pm

It’s hard to remember now but I don’t think I found this issue, I would have drooled all over the Geoff Senior splash. The issues were now pretty hard to get - were shops not bothering to stock it? I don’t have a clear memory of the cover either, which is excellent - who recoloured it? I have a clear memory of the covers of the next 3 issues - the cover of the next issue I remember not liking very much as no scale of Unicron was conveyed. In fact none of the 4 UK issues would show a casual browser that there was a mad devil robot attaching the whole planet. They are also very Spoiler-y. Here’s the big question though. What was the poster of? I can’t remember it at all! Did the 4 issues contain a quarter each? Anyone got a photo? (Probably doesn’t need said, but this issue is Furman’s masterpiece! Wonder how long in advance Geoff Senior worked.)

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Tim Roll-Pickering link
23/6/2018 06:54:58 pm

The poster was a three parter depicting Unicron attacking Cybertron. Each part was A2 and they fitted together. I can't remember where mine went when it came down off the wall.

As I said on issues #299 and #312 I experienced some distribution hick-ups that meant my regular hold order at John Menzies didn't have the issue though I found both at a supermarket a little later. I'm guessing the comic didn't use Menzies as its distributor.

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Cradok
26/6/2018 11:19:09 am

Yeah, I've got a mostly empty gap from 298 - I have 300, 304 and 305 - through 322, so I missed everything from Rhythms to Extinction, only picking up with the aftermath of Unicron's attack. I'd always assumed it was down to apathy that I'd missed so much, but with all the comments here on missed issues from the same time, it looks like there was some sort of distribution issue too.

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Tim Roll-Pickering link
23/6/2018 07:44:48 pm

Brainstorm was one of the small number of TFs I owned, as were at least two other casualties in later issues. And Top Spin was about to get killed all over again in the next Collected Comics. Some years Furman just hates the toy box.

TfWiki has this for Brainstorm over the last four years:

"Brainstorm was displaced to Limbo along with a handful of other Autobots when Rodimus Prime traveled to the past with a group of Autobots of his own. (Time Wars) Later, he was one of the victims of a rogue Autobot Mark V Guardian droid, which resulted in him being thrown from the Ark and landing at the feet of Optimus Prime. Brainstorm's flaming body helped contribute to the Autobot leader regaining his desire to fight. (Yesterday's Heroes!)"

Like Getaway he's become a TF who just shows up to be a piece of recognisable canon fodder.

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Felicity
29/12/2019 07:11:48 am

Unicron kind of looks like Brak (the “Space Ghost” character) on that cover.

I thought Fangry was a Pretender, too. The confusion probably stems from the fact that his robot mode isn’t depicted as furry, while his alt mode is.

“A fortnight’s fun in one”: night? As a parallel to a “fort” night (14 nights). That’s my guess. But the fact that we had to think that hard about it suggests they didn’t communicate it very well. ☺

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