Transformation 327: Through the Eyes of a Killer.

15/8/2018

This week, Galvatron tries a very experiment psychology technique known as beating up your past self from a parallel Universe to sort out your mental issues.

Plus, Megatron and Ratchet are in two minds about their situation, Prowl has a good laugh and Bludgeon is a man on a mission. It's all in my look at A SAVAGE CIRCLE PART 1!

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bouncelot

19/8/2018 06:00:55 pm

Mention of the change of release day reminds me that at some point in the fortnightly era, I forgot to collect my reserved copy for several issues, and ended up collecting them all at once. Though it was probably earlier than this. The reason being that I wasn't buying anything else in the off weeks, so simply got out of routine.

Tim Roll-Pickering link

19/8/2018 08:04:41 pm

I don't remember a change of release day at all - maybe somebody over "corrected" the heading?

It's perhaps inevitable that Furman would turn to a Megatron/Galvatron encounter at the first opportunity - some of the letters in the US book had shown an awareness of the UK future epics and were hoping to see elements here. It's also notable that but for this encounter we wouldn't actually have any confirmation that this Galvatron is made from Megatron (and indeed there's a page out there arguing the Aspects of Evil Galvatron could actually be Thunderwing!).

A minor note but G.I. Joe has now dropped "the Action Force" from the branding and this would carry forward to the last two Marvel UK specials the following the year.

Jon Talpur

27/8/2018 03:50:29 pm

The Channel 4 Planet of the Apes TV series airings began in 1994, so I would guess "Blaster" is remembering further back to the 1970s ITV broadcasts. Probably over the head of many readers.

Felicity

31/12/2019 11:11:03 pm

Agreed! Credit to Andrew Wildman, the dying Megatron sequence was well-drawn! And Cybertron in Bludgeon’s eye socket was also cool!

Even the “Next Issue” section can’t resist fawning over Grimlock. Get a room! ☺

JeremiahEcks

1/4/2025 02:20:15 pm

Galvatron vs. Megatron is always weird in Marvel.

In Altered Image, it's Megatron's Clone vs. Galvatron whereas in this story it's Megatron vs. a Galvatron he can't possibly become.

So both times we don't actually have a legitimate genuine OG Megatron face the Galvatron he's going to become. Either Meggy is a fake fighting a Galvatron who is either from the real Meggy or the Fake somehow, or we have different universes fighting each other.

But we never have an actual genuine Megatron facing his actual future self in Galvatron. Just, doesn't happen.

JeremiahEcks

1/4/2025 02:21:46 pm

Caveat... except in Target: 2006 briefly.

Although I think that because Galvatron travels back in time he averts any possibility of the 'future' timeline actually occurring.

Transformation 327: Through the Eyes of a Killer.

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