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Transformation 83: The Scourge of Scourge.

13/12/2013

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Friday the 13th is unlucky for Scourge, but even more so for Grapple.

Also: Geoff Senior.


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Tim Roll-Pickering link
13/12/2013 02:57:20 pm

Is it me or was Cybertron: The Middle Years the only time the original G1 comics made any attempt to fill out the four million year gap?

Oh and Galactus's travel ship has been around since the character first appeared in the 1960s. Since Darth Vader was reportedly based on Doctor Doom, maybe George Lucas got some more inspiration from the same source?

I guess Galactus's counterpart may have revived Stascream but it's a point left ambiguous. And a minor point but Cyclonus has found his toy colours at last - most earlier issues used the prototype with a silver head. However his earlier fate has been transferred to Nova in the Hercules strip where she's depicted in her Earth form rather than her space one.

But yes this is the big reveal moment and I'm another who first read the issue knowing it in advance. Is there anyone reading this who was there at the time who can share their memories?

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bouncelot
13/12/2013 04:35:28 pm

I was there at the time, but have re-read so many times since that it's difficult to recall my initial reaction. But I'm pretty sure I was shocked at the reveal.

As for Starscream's revival, the teaser two issues ago establishes how everybody missed the alarms that he was ready to wake up (they were too busy gearing up to take out Galvatron). As for the cause, I think the implication was that there was some kind of glitch in the system that caused him to revive and that if there had been proper supervision of the CR tubes, it would have been spotted and stopped before it woke him up. But yes, that one is left somewhat ambiguous.

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Auntie Slag
16/12/2013 06:37:47 am

I was there at the time too, but I think my mate at school brought in the Ladybird TF:TM book frequently so I knew the Megatron/Galvatron reveal. This is still an excellent story though, I think the art is particularly potent when combined with whoever did the colours for this issue.

That Ladybird book was magical, I didn't get to see TF:TM till Christmas '87 and the artwork, dynamic poses and shading in the movie made it look like... the greatest thing ever. Of course I hadn't even heard the music at that point!

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Stuart
17/12/2013 12:57:11 pm

It's rather sad that despite two other attempts the Ladybird book is by far and away the best adaptation of the film by far isn't it?

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Felicity
9/9/2016 06:09:10 am

Up until now I’ve only seen Geoff Senior’s art from the last 20 issues of the American comic. The scans here show an earlier Senior, not quite as solid, as seen by Scourge’s too-oval face, but even this early he had a strong clear line in his inking, and a confidence in his choice of how to draw the blend of metal and organic that the Transformers really are when it comes to drawing them.

I don’t think he ever got the hang of humans, as shown by Miss Fatale, GB Blackrock, and the Dragon’s Claws, but then I can’t think of any artist outside of the original TV series animators who was good at drawing both humans and robots. (Oddly enough, though, he was good at drawing the “humans” that were the Pretender shells of the Classic Pretenders!)

Anyway, it’s great to see Geoff Senior art in these reviews, as he definitely raised the bar. :-]

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Gary
16/6/2019 01:01:32 pm

Just recently come across this website and I never comment on anything normally, but I was one of the young kids completely bowled over by this reveal at the time.

I was at the last year of my junior school and me and my friend spent a lot of time that week processing what had happened and what it meant. This despite the laserbeak link in part one.

its so interesting looking back how as a kid you make the story fit. Its like the life spark bit spoken by cyclonus, then I thought life spark wasn't a name but the technique used to transform him which it clearly isn't. However it wasn't to long before I was at one of the rare trips to the cinema to see the movie and it all became clear.


I remember so enjoying this story at the time as I had been reading the comic since issue 1 but this was something else

Stuart thank you so much for this - I know I have been late to the party but this has been such an enjoyable experience.

you are an absolute star!

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Stuart
16/6/2019 06:07:02 pm

Hey Gary, thanks for jumping on and sharing your experience.

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