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Post by primenova on Jan 28, 2024 18:03:56 GMT
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Post by Nigel on Jan 30, 2024 21:10:22 GMT
Um. I have seventeen variant covers for issue 1.
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Post by KnightBeat on Jan 30, 2024 23:06:18 GMT
Just seventeen?
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Post by The Doctor on Jan 31, 2024 8:51:34 GMT
Smash Hits was better.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 2, 2024 7:25:16 GMT
Fast Forward on that opinion.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2024 10:36:54 GMT
Fast Forward gave away good stickers.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 2, 2024 23:02:28 GMT
But it didn't have a Tripods comic strip. Beeb wins.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 2, 2024 23:35:27 GMT
Beeb is often overlooked, alas.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Feb 13, 2024 19:19:38 GMT
Anyone who miss the FCBD free copy of the comic in May - Skybound are selling the same comic 5 days later with 5 covers. So could this mean they are going to reduce the number of free copies to make people get the pay for one?
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Post by shaggydave76 on Feb 19, 2024 22:13:09 GMT
Smash Hits was better. -Ralph I preferred Look-In myself. . . but I doubt any of you whippersnappers are old enough to remember that  |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 19, 2024 22:39:20 GMT
I bought it for the Star Fleet strip Scans regularly on Graham Wood's Twitter - he does Smash Hits too twitter.com/woodg31 |
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2024 22:48:52 GMT
Smash Hits was better. -Ralph I preferred Look-In myself. . . but I doubt any of you whippersnappers are old enough to remember that Some of the comics strips have finally been reprinted in recent years! -Ralph |
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Post by shaggydave76 on Feb 20, 2024 8:01:01 GMT
I bought it for the Star Fleet strip Scans regularly on Graham Wood's Twitter - he does Smash Hits too twitter.com/woodg31Star Fleet was my absolute favourite! I would religiously sit and watch it every Saturday morning as a kid, and in my teenage years, my mates and I would scour the second-hand shops trying to find old copies of the VHS's. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2024 8:05:44 GMT
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Post by Nigel on Mar 17, 2024 17:55:15 GMT
I'm still in two minds about this series. In some ways, it's really good stuff, in particular some great depictions of aliens on an alien planet. But at other times, especially fight scenes, it's like something a child would write.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 17, 2024 18:35:30 GMT
I've enjoyed it, but the art has elevated it beyond the actual story. While it's nice to have gotten a sort of back to basics approach, something more is needed. {Spoiler}Also the whole oh look how deadly a combiner is, thanks but Dreamwave did that and so did IDW. While I know it's meant to be its own thing and i don't know if DWJ read any of the previous iterations, but someone should have said - been there, done that. |
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Post by jonathan85 on Mar 18, 2024 17:25:34 GMT
I would agree with the comments above. The art is great, there are a lot of good character beats (esp Prime) and I've enjoyed a back to basics style of story after the IDW years. However hopefully we get some fresher ideas from now on, rather than just lots of fighting every issue.
Jonathan
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Post by Benn on Mar 18, 2024 22:28:39 GMT
Yeah, I think I'm dropping to trades now. In the battle between space in my flat and how much this is doing for me, the comic is losing this one.
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Post by Llama God on Mar 24, 2024 9:30:45 GMT
I'll agree (because I've been saying this for some time now) that it's the art that really makes this one. Thinking back on it, I think one of the failures of the IDW 2.0 Transformers universe was that it didn't do enough to distinguish itself visually from IDW 1.0. Sure, they started with new artists, but it still wasn't quite enough. This is very much its own thing, and it's been nice to see. But...
I was initially going to complain had they actually killed off Prime after only six issues - or at least taken him out of action for some time. But then I remembered that he was out of action by issue 5 of the original Marvel US run, so it's nothing new there. (It just feels different for UK readers since we had all the UK strips before that all happened.)
But yes, as I've said before, it also needs to show us something new story wise. References to the '86 Movie are just getting tiresome now, in whatever media, so the deathbed scene in this issue was not welcome. But hopefully, hopefully they've got it out of their systems now and can forge on and make something new.
What I am hoping for is a very interesting dynamic with the human characters - both Carly and Spike suffered badly thanks to their Autobot allies this issue, so that could go in interesting directions. I'm really hoping it does...
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Post by Nigel on Apr 12, 2024 9:40:15 GMT
A different artist for #7. Similar, though I prefer the new guy. Spoiler
Ah, Cybertron! Ooh, new characters. Huffer, unusual! Damn, they're dead already.
Ooh, showing off a little-seen, ruthless, violent side to Soundwave. Starscream? Interesting. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 12, 2024 15:35:36 GMT
Same, I think he's just a little better.
Pleased with what they did with this issue, and I don't see an easy return to a standard G1 style setting anytime soon, which was always the fear with this book.
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Post by Llama God on Apr 13, 2024 8:08:23 GMT
Yeah, don't mind the new guy - not sure who I prefer yet, though. His work's a little more clean, but it lacks the kinetic madness of DWJ's work. We'll see.
I'm still interested enough to see where this is going to end up, although we are technically still in Marvel territory at this point, especially Marvel UK territory, with Soundwave now leading the Megatron-less Decepticons in exile. It's the Cybertron-based stuff that could make this interesting. We'll see.
As before, I don't mind them killing off characters to up the stakes a little, but that was a *lot* of characters in one issue - although I'd not be surprised if it turned out both Kup and Starscream had survived. I guess we'll see how the story plays out and how it all impacts things...
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 4, 2024 10:27:35 GMT
FCBD issue is out - solid little affair. {Spoiler}Void Rivals is very much the Sunbow Season 3 Transformers I think, which is nice.
Ryan Ottley art on the TF story is grand.
Duke, I liked, which is good as the last issue of Duke really shat the bed with Hawk going full moron and assuming all the robots are evil, when given the surveillance he clearly had, would have shown Prime and co defending the humans. |
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Post by earthbound on May 4, 2024 10:29:03 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 4, 2024 10:55:39 GMT
Yes I will be getting the trade, and that is a very nice cover indeed.
oh and welcome to The Hub!
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Post by Nigel on May 4, 2024 17:52:23 GMT
A Place in Space has the FCBD comic available for 99p plus £1.50 p&p. This seems to be the cheapest. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145758600861There is also a retail edition released next week. |
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Post by Llama God on May 5, 2024 7:33:58 GMT
Wait - there's going to be a non-free version of the FCBD comic available? So I don't necessarily need to panic about not being able to make it out yesterday, except for for completeness' sake..?
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Post by primenova on May 6, 2024 16:47:08 GMT
You can get about 5 covers for the priced FCBD reprint. 6 covers because rare Megatron cover been added
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Post by Nigel on May 7, 2024 18:39:57 GMT
Wait - there's going to be a non-free version of the FCBD comic available? So I don't necessarily need to panic about not being able to make it out yesterday, except for for completeness' sake..? Yep, released tomorrow: previewsworld.com/Catalog/JAN247516 |
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Post by tomwe on May 8, 2024 13:37:37 GMT
So it's all about the covers then. There are those who would have wanted multiple covers on the FCBD issue so instead there's a paid version the week after. Madness. And yes I realise there was scarcity too and those stores that don't even do FCBD (I'm looking at you *local shop*). The one I did go to was asking for a £5 spend to unlock three free issues (you could take just one). I ended up spending £75.
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