Still, it's Doomsday for Nebulos, Volcano Day for Ultra Magnus and changed ending day for Optimus Prime. Only one of them is going to really enjoy their respective days.
All in my looks at:
The 1987 Annual!
and:
The 1987 Collected Comics!
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So we've finally made it, another 12 months without me having a comedy brain death. Oddly I found it much harder to do three in a week than I did the last two years, I must be getting old. Still, it's Doomsday for Nebulos, Volcano Day for Ultra Magnus and changed ending day for Optimus Prime. Only one of them is going to really enjoy their respective days. All in my looks at: The 1987 Annual! and: The 1987 Collected Comics!
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snowkatt
21/2/2015 05:33:08 am
This is gonna be a bit different,Iam commenting as I read.
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Ralph Burns
21/2/2015 09:29:27 am
I still have huge nostalgia for this book though even at the time I felt it wasn't as good as the previous ones. 'Vicious Circle' looked bad to my eyes with the lettering, the comic strips look small on the page and the general design of the book is a bit bland. But! I loved with a fiery passion back in the day and read the text Headmasters story to death!
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Ralph Burns
21/2/2015 09:43:02 am
Whoops. Was referring to the Annual there.
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21/2/2015 02:50:18 pm
Nice timing! Most schools have just had their half-term and I first read the annual book during a half-term when staying with my grandparents and the boy next door lent it to me. It was a treat to discover but later when I owned a copy myself I found the lettering and colouring weakened the strips whilst the Headmasters story felt rushed at the end to infodump nearly all the toyline in one chapter. And it just doesn't compared to the highs of the previous one (although fairness it also doesn't have weird forgettable tales in it either.)
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22/2/2015 09:33:56 am
The resuse of panels for the last page of The Complete Works V2 is from a Don Perlin pencilled issue, I used to be able to say which one, but I cannot recall off the top of my head.
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Staurt
22/2/2015 01:10:07 pm
@Snowkatt: Lovely summing up there and thanks to the link to the advert, nice to see there was a "Proper" Marvel Annual that year as well.
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As luck would have it I am an IP lawyer and I think the problem with UK reprints would be that Marvel UK was likely paying writers but not according to any particular Ts and Cs that definitely assigned copyright in the works to Marvel UK. Creator characters such as Deaths Head would have made things even more complicated - why would you want to introduce into the US cast a character owned not by Hasbro but a UK creator?
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Ps well done to Tim for so excellent legal analysis! The idea that this non-Transformer Deaths Head joined the cat and seemed more powerful than most of the actual transformers actually really annoyed me as a kid. You can imagine I was not too impressed with next week's showdown between Deaths Head and Shockwave (the sensational Geoff senior artwork excepted). As for the annual I don't recall this headmasters text at all, which is odd as I would usually read and re read all transformers stuff. I just do no think I liked the headmaster/target aster gimmick one bit.
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I wasn’t able to leave a comment on the previous entry (#145) as the “Comment” link takes us to the same page that it’s on (the article). I thought about manually modifying the URL but as I found out from examining another comments page, it turns out I’d have to know the comments page’s secret title to do that. :-)
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That changed ending to “The Last Stand” is more of a Mike Tyson punch than “Man of Iron” was! I’m surprised the British lettering merged so well with John Workman’s lettering. It helps that they kept the balloon style consistent, with the square balloons with electric spark corners rather than using oval balloons with electric zigzag tails.
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