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Post by Pinwig on Jul 16, 2019 17:38:02 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #227 Headhunt - Part 3: Reprinted from #134Aspects of Evil - Unicron: Unicron attacks Cybertron again in 2010. He causes massive destruction before Rodimus manages to absorb his soul back into the matrix, tainting it again. He warns Kup and Arcee to keep away from him, worried he is possessed by Unicron. In 2356, Rodimus' student doesn't believe the story, tears off his Autobrand and declares he will find Unicron himself. Within Rodimus, a chilling voice chuckles, "soon, soon". Elsewhere, Transformation gets caught up with recent publications and vaguely hopes everyone bought Collected Comics #12, because #13 is out now reprinting Under Fire and Distant Thunder from issues 99/100 along with A-Z entries for Apeface and Brainstorm; Prowl and Ramhorn feature in the A-Z; and on the letters' page, Megatron is revealed to have green blood instead of purple because he is royal, and Dreadwind can't explain where Galvatron went after being sucked into the Time Wars rift despite him featuring in a story three weeks earlier.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 16, 2019 18:07:54 GMT
That wasn't the student's Autobrand. It was... TIME WARRIOR!
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 16, 2019 18:10:06 GMT
Unicron himself comes back from 30 years ago to launch his Haslab incarnation!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 16, 2019 18:26:20 GMT
I don't believe in coincidence.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 20, 2019 17:02:52 GMT
Unicron himself comes back from 30 years ago to launch his Haslab incarnation! -Ralph HHHHAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 23, 2019 18:23:01 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #228 Headhunt - Part 4: Reprinted from #134[Double] Deal of the Century: Chainclaw is about to deliver secret Autobot plans to Optimus Prime when he is carried off by a mysterious falcon. The bird radios Prime and claims to be Dealer, a Decepticon who will sell the plans back to the Autobots for 5000 energon units. Prime listens and settles on sending one of the Race Car Patrol with the energon when an Autobot called Double appears and says he will take the ransom because he should have been guarding Chainclaw. Dealer, meanwhile, sells the plans to Scorponok for another energon payment and Double then returns to Prime carrying Chainclaw but claims he was attacked by more Decepticons and lost the energon. While Prime goes to investigate, Double and Dealer reveal themselves to be the same duplicitous robot and make off with both the Autobot and Decepticon energon. Elsewhere, Transformation gets excited about the fact a brand new monthly Punisher title will launch next week with a special 64 page issue; Action Force monthly will become Action Force Fortnightly from issue 17; and on the letters' page, the debate about headless Transformers continues as Dreadwind explains Cloudburst survived losing his head in issue #220 because the first one replaced it, whereas no one put Cyclonus' back on.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 23, 2019 18:28:29 GMT
I... I don't remember this issue...
Gosh, is this where I dropped out?!
I remember the last issue, Unicron 'n'all...
Oh Man-a-live, this must be be I dropped out....
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 23, 2019 18:41:19 GMT
I got swayed by the Punisher, switched to that and then back to TFs when that finished. By this point I was coming up on 16 years old and five-page done-in-one strips weren't doing it for me compared to the kind of thing I was reading in 2000AD. Punisher looked a much better option, and that's where my fondness for that character started. I can pinpoint this because the newsagent scribbled address on the top of my issues will switch from Transformers to The Punisher. Reckon it was about #230.
The interesting thing is the claim Punisher #1 was a special 64 page issue launching a monthly title. Punisher was weekly so there must have been a very late change based on popularity at the time. I don't think the Lundgren film was out at that point. I can't remember now why the character was so popular, but I do recall him being the 'Deadpool' of the time.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 23, 2019 18:48:50 GMT
My parents stopped getting me it. All of a sudden. Ordered as it was as part of the weekly Radiotimes/TVtimes order from The Local.
I... didn't fight it. Didn't order it myself. I... I don't remember thinking much about it even, at the time. A moment of outrage, then... nothing.
But I'd drifted away before that. I didn't want to, I remember trying to make myself interested, but....
The magic had gone, somehow.
The child had grown.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 23, 2019 19:00:55 GMT
MORE TRANSFORMATION LIES!
I searched high and low for Action Force Fortnightly BUT IT DID NOT EXIST.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 23, 2019 19:01:48 GMT
Thing is I was still getting the US comic, which at this point was on issue 57 where Furman's influence was just getting going. That felt a better read.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 23, 2019 19:02:05 GMT
The Punisher was ace. So violent! YOUR AUNT MABEL WOULDN'T LIKE IT.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 23, 2019 19:04:56 GMT
Plus it had RoboCop. Which was possibly the draw for me at the time, because I was and still am a big RoboCop fan.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 23, 2019 19:08:55 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 23, 2019 19:14:30 GMT
Plus it had RoboCop. Which was possibly the draw for me at the time, because I was and still am a big RoboCop fan. IN GLORIOUS BLACK AND WHITE. This was my first exposure to Robocop. It would be several years before I saw the film (and even longer before I saw a non-censored-by-ITV cut). Amazingly, Robocop got the cover image for #3 rather than the comic's star. Drawn by GEOFF SENIOR. EXTREME VIOLENCE! -Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 23, 2019 19:32:56 GMT
You know, now I think about this I may not actually have read the TFUK only comics in the issues I had to get from eBay later on. I bought the missing issues and do have the full 332, but I'm not sure I ever got to reading them.
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 23, 2019 19:33:55 GMT
I also realize having re-read Thundercats on the 30th anniversary of the issues I must now do the same with the Punisher.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jul 23, 2019 22:07:04 GMT
Why would a mechanoid need a hand calculator??
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 23, 2019 22:15:05 GMT
That whole cover is a lie. Optimus doesn't punch Scorp and Doubledealer isn't paid in cash.
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Post by The Huff on Jul 24, 2019 7:52:02 GMT
This story did make good use of Doubledealers abilities and it worked, I thought. And was this the first time of many that we see Chainclaw get beaten up? Poor guy - everyone is just after his chocolate shell!
I also started buying the Punisher - I remember having the free sew on patch on my school bag for years.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2019 12:15:41 GMT
My patience with TFUK took another beating this week as we begin the slow slide into throwaway comedy strips of dubious quality. It really felt to me at the time that the comic was getting really dumb. It's hard to believe this comic was doing the likes of TIME WARS (or UNDERBASE) not long before. No wonder the likes of The Punisher was engaging me more. It had the EXTREME VIOLENCE that TFUK used to have!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 24, 2019 15:32:42 GMT
I also started buying the Punisher - I remember having the free sew on patch on my school bag for years. Oh! that's on my old rucksack. Oh! Where is my old rucksack? I don't know where it is! Disaster!
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 24, 2019 18:27:14 GMT
Perhaps you need to...PUNISH.
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jul 30, 2019 21:12:44 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 30, 2019 21:37:20 GMT
He's too busy taking part in another gruelling round of The Pinwig Factor.
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 30, 2019 21:55:45 GMT
I think he's probably gone into hiding...
Not that there's anywhere he can hide from-
The Doctor...
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Post by Pinwig on Jul 30, 2019 21:56:21 GMT
Pinwig is on holiday! But fortunately, thanks to the magic of OneDrive... 30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #229 Resurrection - Part 1: Reprinted from #103The Hunting Party: The new-look Mayhem Attack Squad undergo training on Cybertron using a solid light simulation of Autobot controlled Slaughter City. While the Decepticon pretenders enjoy the experience, Needlenose expresses doubts about his position through an inner monologue. His hesitancy is observed by Spinister, who puts hismelf into danger to see if Needlenose will react. He does, just, and when Snarler asks if the squad are ready to go to Earth to track down the traitors Carnivac and Catilla, Spinister glances at Needlenose before saying yes. Elsewhere, Transformation informs new readers that if they want to know what happens after the stories reprinted in the current Collected Comics they have no further to look than this very issue; among news about upcoming stories, one is promised for feminists!; the August calendar, featuring Dan Reed's cover for #142, replaces Dread Tidings; and Colin and Steve are captured by The Brain from the planet Wobblestar, who is intent on invading the Earth by turning everyone's brains to mush with rubbish TV.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jul 30, 2019 21:59:16 GMT
Oh! Oh I remember this issue! I hadn't dropped out yet! I must have just missed the last issue!
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 6, 2019 8:00:11 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #230 Resurrection - Part 2: Reprinted from #103The Big Shutdown - Part 1: Nightbeat, newly arrived on Earth, surveys a Californian beach where the body of a deceased Autobot lies on the shore. He has been sent to investigate with his noisy partner Siren. The pair observe a small figure by the corpse, who makes a break for it with two vehicles. Siren follows and discovers the strangers are Hosehead and Horsepower, escapees from Cybertron whose friend, Playback, is the dead Autobot on the beach. Before either party can properly explain themselves, Thunderwing appears claiming to be heir apparent to the Decepticon throne. He thanks Siren for leading him to his prey. Elsewhere, Transformation attempts to placate readers angry with the recent run of reprints by explaining a new US strip will begin in issue 232 alongside the British black and white one; Colin defeats The Brain by throwing an ugly bomb at him before unleashing the Combat Yodel; Action Force begins an exciting new story with several pages of drawings of planes; and on the letters' page, Dreadwind tells Alex Wardle of York that if he wants info about new Transformers toys he'll have to watch for adverts on TV, and reveals fiction shattering information including the fact that Powermasters can still transform if they lose their Nebulan partner because there's a little button they can push to do it.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 6, 2019 8:31:43 GMT
Brothers, we are living a lie. Much effort back in the day went into working out the right date on which to post these 30th anniversary recounts. Phil resorted to asking James Roberts, who confirmed our thinking that the cover dates on issues are the Saturday the issue went off sale, which meant the on sale date for the issue was the Saturday before: I went to the experts So the dates are: 78: 06/09/1986 79: 13/09/1986 80: 20/09/1986 81: 27/09/1986 82: 04/10/1986 83: 11/10/1986 84: 18/10/1986 85: 25/10/1986 86: 01/11/1986 87: 08/11/1986 88: 15/11/1986 Which WERE Saturdays but WILL BE Tuesdays for us. But let us look at this week's issue. Cover date 12th August 1989, which was indeed a Saturday. Which makes the previous Saturday August 5th. Yet I've been posting religiously on Tuesdays, but today is August 6th. So I'm a day out. These recaps should now be being posted on Mondays. I had it in my head that this would happen at some point due to leap years, but the last leap year we had was in 2016, after the discussion we had previously about the right date. Ah! It is because there was a leap year in 1988. The recap for issue 155 went up on the right date, but 156, the first issue published in March 1988, is a day out (the wrong way actually, but that's because I posted early due to being away that week anyway). I must now travel back in time to correct this and repost everything from 156 onwards a day earlier. Can someone invent a time machine please? From now on, 30 Years Ago This Week will be posted on Mondays!
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