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Transformation 94: He, he, he.

28/2/2014

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It's time for a long (he he he, long) hard (he he he hard) look at the Bevis and Butthead of Transformers, as they kick off 1987 with a bang (he he he, bang), all in:

Decepticon Graffiti Part 1!

Also, today (28/2) is your last chance to enter the TFArchive 30 characters poll, so go over and give Longtooth the love he deserves HERE.

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Auntie Slag
1/3/2014 07:57:09 am

Ugh, seeing that image of Skids twitching spasmodically as his brain is being zapped by Circuit Breaker completely turned me off brain surgery as a kid.

Clearly Doogie Howser loved that shit.

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Bouncelot
1/3/2014 02:29:22 pm

On the whole "this was never followed up on" thing, I think that it actually is (though only in the UK stories). In #96, the first issue of Prey, Megatron appears to be gearing up for just a one-on-one fight - and is persuaded to bring the Predacons to Earth in order to give him a cheating advantage.

Incidentally, this story is the one where Circuit Breaker goes from "single-mindedly obsessed" to "complete idiot". Up until now, she's never seen any direct evidence that the Autobots are the good guys (the closest being Buster's speech in "Christmas Breaker"), but next issue she gets some clear-cut proof.

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Tim Roll-Pickering link
3/3/2014 02:55:31 pm

I'd never thought of it that way - and if that is the case then it's not until the Neo Knights era that Circuit Breaker even gets the chance to be a "complete idiot" as I think that's the next time she actually meets any Autobots. Has she been unfairly described by some of the story so far summaries?

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Simon Hall
5/3/2014 01:27:11 pm

I like Circuit Breaker. Yeah, she's a daft character, but she fits into the pantheon of larger than life villains that Marvel excels in. I think she gets under people's skin precisely for that very reason: she has been created to be a protagonist, and as such not someone you should like. The fact she's always beating up on the good guys is designed to provoke a strong response because we the reader know that she's taking down the wrong guys. To her, all robots are alike. Its just unfortunate that the Autobots are always left holding the baby after any skirmish in a human settlement with the Decepticons - which usually leaves them ripe targets for any government agencies that turn up to mop up.

Although the Neo-Knights were a dismal bunch, what I did like was Blackrock trying to rehabilitate Circuit Breaker (and then giving up on that to get her to take out Unicron).

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Simon Hall
5/3/2014 01:35:55 pm

Just also thought about her costume - or lack thereof. Viewed from a modern standpoint, the amount of flesh she has on show doesn't look unusual for a super-powered female, as a cursory glance through any recent issue of X-Men, Witchblade or whatever other mainstream comic book you care to mention. Going slightly further back to the '70s, Ms Marvel was pretty much running around in just her knickers and a cape.

Not that this is acceptable, just that Circuit Breaker wasn't the first female with a major role in a comic book to have copious amounts of flesh on show. Comic books still aren't a terribly emancipated art form, with a lot of leery titillating angles used.

Circuit Breaker being so angry and volatile for most of her appearances means that unlike , say, Emma Frost, there's not much chance of you dwelling on whether she's sexy or not.

Her costume wasn't really much something I thought overly much about, tbh. Its only now that folk look back and go - she's practically naked!! - that its now a thing...and leads to ramblings like mine above.

Although how she'd be more practically attired without looking like Rescue (Pepper Potts off of Iron Man in her armoured form) and/or having the sort of figure hugging costume a lot of comic book females have anyway, I don't know.

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Stuart
6/3/2014 01:07:43 pm

Circuit Breaker has a very odd moment at the end of the next issue, which I'll be talking about tomorrow...

I think part of the problem with her costume is, they're trying to make someone who is horribly crippled wank fodder. Which feels even more unsavoury than these outfits normally are.

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snowkatt
6/3/2014 03:43:04 pm

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