Transformeration 170: Karma Chameleon.

14/8/2015

It's the start of the Marvel UK story even James Roberts struggles to be enthusiastic about, but is it as forgettable as its reputation? Can any story with an invisible Autobot and a giant lizard man really be that bland?

It's a surprise, surprise in my look at the themequel to State Games:

Deadly Games Part 1! Plus Magnus Monologues!

9 Comments

Ralph Burns

15/8/2015 02:46:41 am

I'm still bitter about that 3p price increase.

SPECIAL TEAMS!

Simon Hall

16/8/2015 04:04:29 am

I have bought THE BOOK

Stuart

17/8/2015 04:52:55 am

Top man!

Sadly for Ralph, volume 2 will be three pence more expensive.

Mark Stevenson

18/8/2015 04:09:58 pm

Yeah it ain't great this one, is it?
Just to pick you up on one minor point (and you're probably too damn young to remember this) but in the mid-80s there was an explosion of popularity for American Football amongst the yoofs of Britain. Mercifully it didn't last long, but I imagine at the time the competition in this week's TF would have been more popular than a modern reader would expect...

Benway

18/8/2015 11:20:11 pm

I wonder how it fits with the Channel 4 American football and the hilariously bad Weetabix advert. The one with an American football Weetabix to cheese rock ("Be a ONE man army... as hard as they COME! Or play the fool and have some fun! *widdly guitar*) rather than all the other hilariously bad Weetabix adverts, I mean.

Benway

18/8/2015 11:30:23 pm

Oh yeah! Transformers! (I promised myself I would actually talk about the comic and not just waffle on about random tat at some point.) I quite liked it. As with everything from now on I don't have it to read as it was stolen years ago, but while it wasn't as exciting as the previous story, or many other previous stories or some stories coming up it did have a twist. Carbon based TF sized aliens on Cybertron exploiting the war! Also the tie in to State Games (which I love and this canonised it). AND, the art is great. Honestly I could post "Well I liked it!" almost every week though. It's only really stuff like the Headmasters...on Earth and some later stuff... it's a bit vague. I may have blocked it out. Something about some crap bikers...?

Stuart

19/8/2015 06:28:36 am

On the American football thing, that might explain the "Spider-Man says watch out for Jimmy Saville" comic being based around a visiting game. Though that was, what, a couple of years earlier? did it really last that long?

Nice to see someone enjoys this story Benaway, thinking on it, is this the first time we've had Transformer sized organic aliens? I think it was all mechanoids in Wanted Dead or Alive...

Tim Roll-Pickering link

14/9/2015 12:19:19 am

As late as the start of 1991 the UK Superman comic came with a free sticker album for the current American Football season. Although as that was never mentioned on the issue itself it may have been a retailer trying to offload stock. I guess they just kept on trying...

Felicity link

9/11/2019 05:40:32 pm

Poor Ultra Magnus. He’s a good Autobot, brave, selfless, responsible, but he’s not the young hothead or the cool badass so he gets no love from the fanboys.

Over in the cartoon, the Quintessons also had gladiators fight for their amusement.

I still don’t accept that Megatron’s origin is that he was a gladiator.

Aliens providing brutal spectacle as a metaphor for the series itself reminds me of the “Doctor Who” episode “The Greatest Show in the Galaxy,” which is hard to follow and doesn’t make a lot of sense until someone tells you it’s the show commenting on itself.

Transformeration 170: Karma Chameleon.

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