Let the Bells Ring Out for Christmas.
The 2017 Christmas Quiz.
As we head into 2018 I’m going to hit the final phase of this insane idea. By this time next year it will be done and dusted and I’ll be wondering what have I done with my life.
Which means, depending on what I do after the main project finishes, this may well be the final Christmas Quiz! As is now traditional, there are 12 questions about the comics I’ve covered this year for which the answers can be found within either the reprints of the strips or my write up of the overall issue. All designed to task the turkey and eggnog addled mind.
I’m assuming you’re all eating turkey and drinking eggnog for the whole of December.
As the potential finale to my quizzes, I have a very special prize. A copy of the Transformers: Lost Light trade, signed by writer James Roberts (whom you will all remember from issue 288’s letters page) and artist Jack Lawrence. They even wish you a happy Christmas with all sincerity. Plus a copy of Combat Colin issue 1, containing the Action Force strips.
You will also win a signed copy of Transformation Volume 2, signed by my good self! Which is nearly a good a prize.
Simply email your answers to me at [email protected] by 25th December, with an address to send the prizes to if you win. Prizes will be posted out as soon as I can, probably in early January and you can enter from anywhere in the world.
Without further ado...
UPDATE 29th December: The Quiz is now closed, so if you're coming to it now, you're playing just for fun.
As we head into 2018 I’m going to hit the final phase of this insane idea. By this time next year it will be done and dusted and I’ll be wondering what have I done with my life.
Which means, depending on what I do after the main project finishes, this may well be the final Christmas Quiz! As is now traditional, there are 12 questions about the comics I’ve covered this year for which the answers can be found within either the reprints of the strips or my write up of the overall issue. All designed to task the turkey and eggnog addled mind.
I’m assuming you’re all eating turkey and drinking eggnog for the whole of December.
As the potential finale to my quizzes, I have a very special prize. A copy of the Transformers: Lost Light trade, signed by writer James Roberts (whom you will all remember from issue 288’s letters page) and artist Jack Lawrence. They even wish you a happy Christmas with all sincerity. Plus a copy of Combat Colin issue 1, containing the Action Force strips.
You will also win a signed copy of Transformation Volume 2, signed by my good self! Which is nearly a good a prize.
Simply email your answers to me at [email protected] by 25th December, with an address to send the prizes to if you win. Prizes will be posted out as soon as I can, probably in early January and you can enter from anywhere in the world.
Without further ado...
UPDATE 29th December: The Quiz is now closed, so if you're coming to it now, you're playing just for fun.
The Questions.
1: According to the copy of Frontline that Soundwave show to Starscream in issue 288, what animal has been involved in shenanigans with Elvis?
2: What is the only way Ravage has of telling the Two Megatrons apart?
3: What is Ratchet’s stated reason for rebuilding Goldbug into Bumblebee?
4: During which Bob Budiansky issue is Prowl’s Perchance to Dream story set?
5: What is the main change to Emirate Xaaron’s look when he arrives in the American stories?
6: Which actor does Nightbeat compare himself to when using the Bird of Prey as a club in the first part of Matrix Quest?
7: Which Autobot does Megatron mistake Prowl for during their battle in Flashback?
8: What is the name of the boy who get implanted with a Cerebro Shell during the event of G.I. Joe and the Tranformers?
9: What is the name of the Cybertronian insect the flyswatter Starcream uses in Bugged was intended to be used on?
10: Longtooth lost which leg to the klud in Deadly Obsession?
11: What was revealed to be Combat Colin’s real name in The Secret of the Combat Trousers?
12: Which Transformers appear in both the first British story, Man of Iron, and the final, End of the Road?
Good luck everyone!
ISSUE 290
1990
ANSWERS
1: According to the copy of Frontline that Soundwave show to Starscream in issue 288, what animal has been involved in shenanigans with Elvis?
2: What is the only way Ravage has of telling the Two Megatrons apart?
3: What is Ratchet’s stated reason for rebuilding Goldbug into Bumblebee?
4: During which Bob Budiansky issue is Prowl’s Perchance to Dream story set?
5: What is the main change to Emirate Xaaron’s look when he arrives in the American stories?
6: Which actor does Nightbeat compare himself to when using the Bird of Prey as a club in the first part of Matrix Quest?
7: Which Autobot does Megatron mistake Prowl for during their battle in Flashback?
8: What is the name of the boy who get implanted with a Cerebro Shell during the event of G.I. Joe and the Tranformers?
9: What is the name of the Cybertronian insect the flyswatter Starcream uses in Bugged was intended to be used on?
10: Longtooth lost which leg to the klud in Deadly Obsession?
11: What was revealed to be Combat Colin’s real name in The Secret of the Combat Trousers?
12: Which Transformers appear in both the first British story, Man of Iron, and the final, End of the Road?
Good luck everyone!
ISSUE 290
1990
ANSWERS