Transformation 73: I Must Face the Man Who Hates Me.

4/10/2013

Yea Ha! It's time for Skids to dry himself off and prepare to fight the killer pussy that is Ravage. Plus the first ever Transformers dream sequence from Skids, not involving Charlene rubbing his hubcaps oddly enough.

All in my look at:

Showdown! Part 2.

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Tim Roll-Pickering link

4/10/2013 12:55:48 pm

You know I've read many UK original issues from this period - and everything from #33 onwards - yet I cannot recall what even the basic premise of Matt the Cat is. I guess that says it all about it.

It's slightly curious they didn't hold back the Hercules mini-series to start until #74 and run a single four part stoy in the intervening period. I wonder how much thought was ever given to the back-ups when it came to scheduling.

Stuart

4/10/2013 01:12:54 pm

Matt and the Cat barely had a premise to be honest, just him and his cat walking about an alien planet for weeks on end doing what were almost, but not quite, jokes. Maybe I'm being harsh due to how good Combat Colin will be, but it really is terrible.

I would be willing to bet that the non-SF version that Kazybird did (and for all I know still does) for his local paper was a cut-price Calvin and Hobbs.

As far as back ups go, they did manage to do a new one for the last relaunch when it went weekly with Machine Man: 2020, though I suppose it might have been coincidence that his previous series had finished. They'll manage it with the Action Force merger as well, but of course, there was no real way round that.

Simon Hall

4/10/2013 03:35:53 pm

Perhaps in recognition of his poor writing skills, when Comics International signed Kazybird up to do a strip of comic collecting based shenanignas set in a comic shop, they threw the writing chores open to readers with predictably mixed results (again, mostly unfunny ones). On the plus side, Kazybird's art in CI (the only other time I've seen it) was massively improved over the dismal doodles seen here.

Although Combat Colin is better remembered, I do like Lew Stringer's Robo Capers too. Especially when the four eared aliens show up. Was there ever a trade of Combat Colin? I can dimly recall something being done, but I've never seen it.

Stuart

4/10/2013 05:44:14 pm

Lew Stringer actually reclaimed the rights to Combat Colin (or at rather was given them gratis), and whilst I don't think there have been any dedicated Colin collections- at least not the last time I checked- The Prisoner spoof storyline ("Countless numbers have tried!" "I AM NOT A NUMBER!") was collected in a limited run Brickman collection.

Ryan F

7/10/2013 06:59:16 pm

Also, as well as drawing himself into his own strips, Kazybrid also puts himself in the character names as well. Matt's little robot pal Olia-Cym is 'Mycalio' (Mr. Kazybrid's full Christian name) spelled backwards

Stuart

8/10/2013 01:37:35 am

I don't know what's more worrying, that he did that, or that the robot's name sunk in enough for you to remember it. :p

Ryan F

8/10/2013 03:09:57 am

Even sadder, I recall one of the Chromobots also having a similar name to 'Mycalio', which is real bad considering I'm on holiday with no access to comics right now...

Felicity

28/8/2016 06:17:34 am

I feel sorry for Wendell and Jake, actually. Wendell’s a nice enough guy, good-looking, well-built; just not very adventurous. He might end up not being compatible with Charlene personality-wise but she should give him a chance. As for Jake, although he was wrong to assume that Skids cutting him off in a previous issue was an intentional show of disrespect—after all, Skids was an alien who had no idea—you can understand how Jake could take it personally and hold a grudge, especially after it keeps escalating. I choose to believe he did the heroic thing on purpose. And that after the issue was over, Wendell’s cousin fixed his awesome Lambourghini.

Sean Hagins

10/11/2020 10:26:39 pm

Maybe I'm the odd one, but I LOVED Chromobots. Matt and the Cat was...ok, and I hated Combat Colin. Robo Capers was funny, but it got too repetitive. I think it is hard to know what kids liked then because there was no internet and the published letters were only a fraction of what was sent in

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