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Post by grahamthomson on Sept 30, 2008 8:20:04 GMT
This week; Desert Island Risks
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 4, 2008 19:16:22 GMT
I can't think of anything to say.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 5, 2008 13:16:07 GMT
Neither can I.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Oct 5, 2008 16:51:14 GMT
I must make a terrible admission here. I have no recollection of this story at all. Seriously, the title means absolutely nothing to me.
Karl
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 6, 2008 9:40:56 GMT
I'll sum it up.
The Decepticons decide to build a "Devastator" on a remote island, but abandon it half-finished. Ironhide and Bumblebee later infiltrate the island but discover a series of gentle booby traps based on human television quiz shows. Thus follows a series of mild tests and opportunities for puns and word play as the two Autobots, literally, bring down the unfinished Devastator.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 6, 2008 9:58:55 GMT
It's a piss poor filler story, but the art is nice with one really good panel with a close up of Ironhide being quite expressive. Sort of midway between Wildman and Anderson.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2008 10:17:49 GMT
I recall a knackered page of art from it turning up on ebay once. It looked nice.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2008 17:01:05 GMT
It was never explained why the Decepticons wanted to build this new Devastator. A short while later the Marvel editorial team said that it would be explained but the comic ended before any such explanation came forth.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 6, 2008 20:17:11 GMT
Midgets did it.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 14, 2008 23:48:29 GMT
DECEPTICON DAM-BUSTERS
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 15, 2008 12:34:53 GMT
I love the artwork in these two issues (sure there are a few swipes made by Stokes) but it's obviously the first time any of the UK artists got hold of the animation model designs. The story is a riff from More Than Meet's The Eye and is enjoyable as such but on it's own merits isn't really all that special, as part of the Guardian/Dinobot saga - which effectively wove it's way through the UK material until the end of In The National Interest it's good stuff.
Andy
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Oct 15, 2008 17:15:52 GMT
First appearance of Inferno (looking a little on the short side)!
Martin
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2008 19:56:51 GMT
It was enjoyable in that it pretty much made out that the Sunbow cartoon was just tales based on actual events and not a continuity directly connected to the Marvel UK universe.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 15, 2008 20:09:10 GMT
It proved that Soundwave and Grimlock were telling the truth in their letters pages that the cartoon version of Transformers was a fiction and that the comic chronicled the true events!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Oct 16, 2008 20:52:54 GMT
Ah, "Decepticon Dambusters".... I wasn't particularly fond of this story when I was younger - the fact that the story-within-a-story heavily referenced the Sunbow cartoon annoyed me (I was never particularly fond of Sunbow even back in the day). That said I have grown a little more favourable too it over the years.
It is a fairly inconsequential story, but it does serve well as a "breathing space" between the end of a US arc and the impending Dinobots-vs-Guardian slugging match. By giving the audience a week or two of something calmer with lower stakes it means that the impact of the fight with Guardian is higher than it would have been if it had come straight after the throw-down with Megatron.
It is also nice to see Ratchet take the time to try to explain to the Dinobots what being an Autobot on Earth can mean, and how it is different to the lives they have known on Cybertron. Of course, we know with retrospect that they aren't listening to a word he says but it reflects well on Ratchet that he tries.
(As others have observed, it is possible to take heart in the fact that the cartoon-isms in the story are reflections of Ratchet not being an entirely reliable narrator, and possibly bending the truth or outright making things up to illustrate his points.)
All told, it is a relatively inconsequential story in its own right, but one that serves a useful purpose in terms of the wider on-going narrative.
Karl
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 21, 2008 9:05:39 GMT
This week; Dreamwave's INFESTATION!
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Oct 21, 2008 11:19:23 GMT
Which one was that?!
Mx
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 21, 2008 11:25:48 GMT
Issues seven and eight from the ongoing.
Andy
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Oct 21, 2008 14:22:09 GMT
Clearly I'd given up by that point...
Mx
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 21, 2008 15:09:40 GMT
You are a wise man Mark.
Andy
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Post by grahamthomson on Oct 21, 2008 15:09:43 GMT
Mark, I shall make it my mission from this point on to make sure you endu-- enjoy this tome of Transformers history! You free Saturday? We'll do lunch and I'll read it out loud to you as you stick forks into your skull.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2008 16:37:41 GMT
I read this recently as part of my strange period of reading the crappest Transformers comics available.
IT WAS SHIT.
That is all.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2008 19:24:58 GMT
Infestation. What an apt name for a Dreamwave comic.
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Post by legios on Oct 21, 2008 19:41:35 GMT
I can honestly say that I didn't read it - as I had no interest in Dreamwaves stuff. I may have seen the first couple of pages of an issue, I dimly remember someone waving them past my eyes to see my appalled reaction to all the absurd in-jokes crammed into an opening splash. But other than that..... I have no recollection of their existence.
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2008 20:08:30 GMT
This was the one which started with a crap soldier watching a Nightbird movie in a cinema while his mate found a Beast Wars toy under a seat. It went downhill from there.
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Oct 21, 2008 20:40:58 GMT
This was the one which started with a crap soldier watching a Nightbird movie in a cinema while his mate found a Beast Wars toy under a seat. It went downhill from there. Takotank! That was the toy as I recall. I have a vivid memory of that page being waved past me, groaning in despair and then reading no more. I'm glad I stopped where I did then. Karl |
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Oct 21, 2008 20:44:22 GMT
And as I recall, they weren't just watching the film in the background, the issue opened with the Nightbird film.
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 21, 2008 21:33:02 GMT
Yes. It was the opening splash page.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Oct 22, 2008 8:58:13 GMT
Dreadful, dreadful stuff. It also had Marissa Faireborne in it. Wank. Wank. Wank.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Oct 22, 2008 9:37:46 GMT
No, Andu. Don't self-love to that! Find some proper porn!
-Ralph
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