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Post by Bogatan on Jun 16, 2008 11:51:54 GMT
The main strip felt something of an anti climax, but its fair to say the main focus of this isue was the news. Just in case anyone feels the need to read it first Animated gets its own comic. Not really a surprise as Furman said it would happen at Botcon but I'm excited to get it confirmed. From the sounds of it theres going to be at least 2 strips one sounds like it will be the cartoon adaptation and hopefully new UK material but it could also be the US comic stuff. The best bit for me was seeing letters should be sent to Grimgrams. Andy |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jun 17, 2008 14:08:06 GMT
ANIMATED COMIC WOOOO! (And possibly answered by Grimlock! Double WOOOOOO!) Based on the preview, the strip looks fun too (the writing anyway, the art was a bit iffy). The reprints sadly fizzle out when there's only a few pages left to run (pity, I was enjoying Gathering a lot) but the original strip remains strong & has a lot of promise. I like the Decepticons explaining why they love their alternate modes, that was fun.  |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 17, 2008 17:43:07 GMT
Huzzah! FPG had it in early. Some bedtime reading then. I did get into a bit of a fankle at the till as I did not realise this issue was £2.99 instead of £2.60.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Jun 18, 2008 10:09:48 GMT
TFA should be out Sept08?
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 19, 2008 20:53:40 GMT
My heart wept with nostalgic joy to see that this issue's lead strip was 11 pages long! How long has it been since the last UK 11-pager strip?
The usual entertaining nonsense.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jun 20, 2008 21:10:56 GMT
Lead strip was pretty much what I expected of the ending of this story. It was nonsense, but it was decent enough nonsense. There was no particular depth to it, but it was told with a decent enough verve that it does what it needs to do. The title of the story still amuses me though. Mostly because I can't help wondering if there is some degree of reference to the film (a good film, but totally different in tone - even if it had had giant robots in it).
The Beast Wars strip and the Movie prequel by contrast, had endings that felt extremely anticlimactic. The Movie prequel has an excuse - it can play with the toys a bit but by definition can't do anything particularly major with them as it has to put them back where they were found at the beginning of the film. I have now read through all of this and find myself uncertain why I bothered in honesty. It felt rather lacking in any real sense of purpose (like most movie "prequel" pieces though). The Beast Wars strip... reaches its end and I still don't think I have much of an idea who any of the characters are , or why I should are what happens to them. It didn't really connect with me on any level whatsoever.
The features gave me a little bit of a smile - especially the "why my Earth alt-mode is so very wicked kewl" thing. There was just such a lovely tone of "rotarty-club boosterism" to it that tickled my funny bone. (Starscream especially has ensured he has a warm welcome in some quarters of the USAF corridoors of power there I suspect). Of course, Starscream's snark-filled answers to the letter column are always worth a read.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 21, 2008 10:18:10 GMT
Right, after five months I still have no idea what movie the title of 'Twilight's Last Gleaming' refers to. Please enlighten me!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jun 21, 2008 14:55:10 GMT
Right, after five months I still have no idea what movie the title of 'Twilight's Last Gleaming' refers to. Please enlighten me! -Ralph "Twilight's last gleaming" was a film from the 1970's - basically an Air Force General breaks out of stir and takes over a nuclear missile silo, threatening to launch the missiles at Russia unless the President reveals details of a secret meeting he held just before the Vietnam War. (Of course, it is possible that both are refering to the same line in "The Star-spangled Banner":- O! say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming. But given the previous track record of movie references in "Transformers" comics it is at least possible that it refers to the film. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 21, 2008 16:41:01 GMT
Ah, right. I knew about the Star Spangled Banner, but I'd never heard of that film. The cloud of confusion lifts from my mind.
-Ralph
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Post by Rich on Jun 30, 2008 19:08:44 GMT
I've got all of the UK comic, but haven't read it for about 8 months. Nevertheless, decided I could prob make sense of a part 5 on its own: it is a 'kids' ' comic after all, but frankly it made very little sense at all. You could maybe claim that that shows that kids aren't being written down to, but that wasn't it at all. The art was a bit disappointing, Matere has done a lot better, although maybe it was the colouring.
The preview of the animated strip was pants too, not sure if it was the artist, letterer, or writer's fault, but the panels were not easy to follow.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2008 19:38:53 GMT
I've still yet to read issue 12 but when I finally get around to it I think I'll read issue 13 straight after.
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