
THE POWER AND THE GLORY!
Plus, the AMERICAN G2 COMIC!
And my friends, is where the third book will end. So thanks again to everyone who's read this far.
But, the journey continues next week...
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![]() This week, it's the final Marvel continuity post as I hit the fifth issue of the Fleetway comic: THE POWER AND THE GLORY! Plus, the AMERICAN G2 COMIC! And my friends, is where the third book will end. So thanks again to everyone who's read this far. But, the journey continues next week...
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I never saw any issues of G2 in Glasgow, it came as a total surprise to hear about it years later. I think I had moved on to Sega and sonic the comic anyway! Was Roy of the rovers still going? I recall getting the reboot of that (a monthly supposedly) starring Roy Race Jr. It was, like G2, very grim in tone and with similar art (heavy black ink lines, a lot of primary colour). In his debut match Roy Race Jr plays rubbish and actually gets sent off! I wonder where they took that story. Anybody know? I never saw another issue of that again so maybe the reaction was very bad.
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Stuart
26/10/2018 11:19:09 pm
I've (possibly exaggerated over time) memories of Roy having his foot amputated? Not sure if it was from that comic though, or even that extensive an injury.
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29/10/2018 01:06:25 pm
He had a helicopter accident (how predictive) at the end of the weekly strip and then the monthly title showed he'd lost a foot and was now a manager. However there was quite a bit of retconning and ignoring continuity in the last few years as the strip jumped from title to title.
Charles RB
27/10/2018 02:37:29 am
I too remember the days of "budding is a cool sci-fi idea" and agreeing (I still think it's a neat idea for a 'what man was not meant to do' story), and that days led to a subplot in Roberts' Eugenesis that people used to look down on "constructed cold" Matrix-built robots as freaks which got nicely reverse-engineered for IDW.
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I actually just reread G2 last month, for the first time in probably a decade and a half. I was really surprised at how slowly it got going! The first issue is obviously magnificent, but most of the rest of the first half of the series felt like it was killing time. Which is really odd because Furman must have known that there was a >90% chance that it wouldn't go past 12 issues. #6 through the end are great, though that obviously didn't help you UK readers much.
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Richard
29/10/2018 10:20:10 am
I’m a huge fan of the G2 series. I think I first discovered it when I randomly found issue 11 in a comic shop when I was about 13, thinking the whole franchise was long dead, and its over-the-top, 90s madness blew my tiny teenage mind.
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29/10/2018 02:04:26 pm
I did pick up the final issue of the UK comic but for whatever reason I never wrote off to Transmasters. Maybe I had decided to let it end, maybe I was put off by the "Your father's Autobot is back" suggesting going backwards not forwards or maybe some other reason. (I do recall that after I'd put an advert for missing issues in Comics International I received a letter from someone at the club asking me to pass on any replies. They sent the letter with the stamp sellotaped on so Royal Mail charged excess postage on delivery.)
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Jon Talpur
29/10/2018 09:56:49 pm
Yaniger still remains an inspired choice to spearhead the artwork of the first Transformers comic reboot. Which makes it all the more crushing that he obviously struggled badly to meet the monthly deadlines. Back then of course Marvel were still aiming on meeting deadlines, so Yaniger's days as the regular artist on the title were numbered pretty quickly. It all seems quite quaint now, compared with the almost-expected regular delays from IDW.
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Felicity
5/1/2020 09:45:03 am
To 2020 me, 1993 is a simpler, more innocent time, with lots to be nostalgic about. To 1993 me, it was the scary, depressing present-day, a dark time in my life, and with the quality of popular culture going steadily downhill to make matters worse.
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LiamKav
30/10/2020 11:24:25 am
I think its more a case of "the 1980s where when I was a child and therefore everything is better". The G1 cartoon was largely pap enlivened by some extremely good voice acting and a simple but effective trick of "funny voices are quick characterisation". Plus the 3rd season genuinely had more mature writing.
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