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Post by The Doctor on Aug 23, 2010 10:14:28 GMT
That's what I do.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Aug 23, 2010 12:05:04 GMT
I will be doing much the same with the Auto Assembly exclusive comic as well. Read it once and I certainly have no desire to do so again.
Karl
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Post by blueshift on Aug 24, 2010 8:41:48 GMT
I finally sat down to read this year's Botcon comic. But it seems Bogatan has played an elaborate trick on me, and put in my box set a terrible, terrible parody comic. When can I have the real one? I am sorry...but he gave you the real one. -Ralph D: I know it was supposed to be bad, but I was so bitterly disappointed by it, especially since the writers have done some really great stuff. To be fair there was some great dialogue, but it was just good moments in amidst an astonishingly pedestrian tale (Bots fight Cons, everyone gets powerups in a Budiansky style 'Now THIS is my POWER'). It would be amusing but that is pretty much all it is, so by-the-numbers that it hurts. The best bit was near the end when I realised that Double-Punch was supposed to be cockney or something
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2010 9:37:08 GMT
I would usually say the quality of writing in Fub Pub comic strips is fan-fic level, but that is insulting to most fan-fic. It's certainly never reached professional quality.
With regards to this comic, if you're going to ignore previous G2 fiction that's fine but at least have a good original idea.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2010 19:15:46 GMT
It's not the first time that Fub Pub have pretended that G2 never existed. If I remember correctly one of the very first Fun Pub TF issues took place after issue 80 of the Marvel US comic and never took into account anything that happened shortly afterwards in G2 (or is it me confusing this with something else?)
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2010 19:44:44 GMT
There was an issue of Timelines that was supposed to happen after issue #80 but was mired in cartoon stuff and pretty much had sod all to do with the Marvel run, which made the point of it rather oblique to me.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 24, 2010 19:53:43 GMT
It's not the first time that Fub Pub have pretended that G2 never existed. If I remember correctly one of the very first Fun Pub TF issues took place after issue 80 of the Marvel US comic and never took into account anything that happened shortly afterwards in G2 (or is it me confusing this with something else?) To be fair, G2 pretended that Furman's original official sequel to #80, 'Another Time and Place', never existed. And 'Another Time and Place' pretended that Earthforce never existed. And all that stuff disowned the future portrayed in 'The Legacy of Unicron' and 'Space Pirates'. And they were all written by the same guy! Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 24, 2010 19:58:30 GMT
especially since the writers have done some really great stuff. Really? I didn't pay much attention to who wrote it. What have they done? The Cindersaur scene is the only bit that sticks out in my memory. I think it's Pyro who is meant to be Tennants Doctor which I at least like the idea of. I guess that likely makes Clench a Who villan, or maybe Bond. Working out the accents is a challenge for sure. And Cockney Doublepunch is wonderful choice when you remember the Elites never got a UK release. Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 24, 2010 20:02:06 GMT
Did the AM Elites never come out over here? I thought they were a Euro exclusive.
-Ralph
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 24, 2010 20:05:27 GMT
I've been reading through the TMUK Informers this week and they cover the Elites release it did say Hasbro said products had shipped here, but no one ever found any in the UK apparently.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 24, 2010 20:25:25 GMT
It's believed they came out here. They're in the 1991 UK catalogue (a joyous publication, is it scanned in on the web?)
No Transformers fan I know remembers buying one here.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 24, 2010 20:28:44 GMT
It's believed they came out here. At the time I think it was concluded that they were only available on the continent. Martin
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 24, 2010 20:36:52 GMT
I know I never saw one and I got just about every other Euro actionmaster released, no way I would have no got them if I had seen them.
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Post by blueshift on Aug 24, 2010 21:26:39 GMT
especially since the writers have done some really great stuff. Really? I didn't pay much attention to who wrote it. What have they done? Well, that 'Shattered Expectations' April Fools Day comic for a start, which was about a million times better than Shattered Glass. I'm guessing this was an attempt to do something in the same style, but just without the same energy or drive, just by-the-numbers
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Post by Hero on Aug 24, 2010 21:42:03 GMT
I have the Double Punch figure.
I also remember seeing the Elites in TRU when the AMs came out.
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Post by Bogatan on Aug 24, 2010 21:56:26 GMT
Cool, your the first person I know who ever saw them. Wonder if TRU were the only place selling them. Would make sense for me at least as I didn't get to TRU as much as Woolworths and Atcost/Toymasters.
Andy
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Post by Hero on Aug 24, 2010 22:10:47 GMT
I first remember seeing Omega Spreem and wondering what was up with that name. Never forgotten that. I remember seeing Double Punch and Turbo Master and also wonder what the deal was with those guys.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 27, 2010 18:08:05 GMT
Well I had no idea they were so hard to come by. Perhaps that is why they fetch silly money these days?
-Ralph
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