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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 14, 2008 16:46:52 GMT
Prime caught a terrible disease that force his upper lip to grow and grow. That's the reason for his faceplate in the cartoon and Marvel series.
I've just noticed Spike's at the bottom of the panel - he's pretending to be a little teapot with a handle and spout.
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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 19, 2008 8:56:39 GMT
Perhaps a face plate is the robot equivalent of an Old Man Beard.
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Post by karla on Nov 19, 2008 23:17:42 GMT
thats just silly, optimus isn't old........is he?
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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 20, 2008 8:48:56 GMT
thats just silly, optimus isn't old........is he? A few million years old is old to me, I'm only 31! |
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Post by Mark_Stevenson on Nov 20, 2008 10:07:43 GMT
But he looks good on it. Clean living, taking Roller for walks...
Mx
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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 20, 2008 16:23:57 GMT
After four million years inside a volcano, the heat and steam has done wonders for his youthfulness.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 20, 2008 18:30:49 GMT
This is the most convincing reason for why some TF's have face plates I've ever heard of! Someone let Furman know!
-Ralph
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Post by karla on Nov 26, 2008 22:15:48 GMT
After four million years inside a volcano, the heat and steam has done wonders for his youthfulness. yes, he probably exfoliates with a pumice stone every day |
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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 26, 2008 22:59:42 GMT
yes, he probably exfoliates with a pumice stone every day Good for him. I've gone down a shoe size since getting one of those. |
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Post by karla on Nov 26, 2008 23:22:49 GMT
they are one of the most useful things you can have in regards to grooming, I give mine a little scrub clean after use to keep their pores open!
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Post by grahamthomson on Nov 27, 2008 7:36:44 GMT
Are we still talking about beards, here?
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2008 10:04:09 GMT
I wonder if Blurr has a beard.
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Nov 27, 2008 11:12:38 GMT
Finally got my copy - it's a lot better than All Hail Megatron, due to not having massive inconsistencies (including within itself), telling a story in 22 pages, and actually doing stuff. I like it, though the races never look that spectacular. The really annoying thing is the Circle bartender saying "haven't you noticed it's a warzone out there?" - no, of course he hasn't, the city looks completely undamaged and there's no sign of anything wrong except everyone's gone to bed! (Well, that and the FLYING Decepticons WALKING to Zeta. And Fasttrack's Decepticon logo being impossible to see unless you know it's there, which ruins the whole moment) EDIT: Piss, there is an inconsistency after all - Blurr showed no interest in inspiring people until Optimus mentioned he did.  ? |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 27, 2008 17:39:27 GMT
As Karl pointed out though, why is Starscream crusing bars looking for dates? Blurr doesn't look his type.
-Ralph
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Post by Rich on Nov 27, 2008 20:15:55 GMT
To start with a positive, I thought the art was much better on the page than it had looked online.
Beyond that, I didn't think much of it. It wasn't especially bad, it just wasn't really even mediocre - just rather bland.
But this comic brings me to a rant I've been thinking about.
TFs need to be fairly human, otherwise they don't make great stories for us to read about, but I hate this tendency to write large numbers of them as ignorant petrol-head American rednecks - it's just so shallow. I dunno, maybe I'm used to TFs speaking with slightly English accents (or a British attempt at an American accent) from all the years of reading Furman's stuff and TMUK fanfic (however, when Matt Dallas wrote the Autobots with over-the-top public schoolboy accents it was always for brilliant comic effect), but every time a Transformer starts talking like some idiot from a Bud advert I just want to throw the comic away in disgust.
I know Furman has been guilty a time or two, but I can't help but notice that McCarthy seems to be consistently falling into the trap in the same way the Mickmonster used to. And McCarthy's an Aussie, isn't he? What's his excuse?
If we had a new British writer would he think, 'cars?' and then feel the need to turn the Autobots into a bunch of tracksuit-wearing, Stella-spilling, sovereign ring-worshiping, neon-lit, Chavvy lightweights? Or perhaps, newly bouffant Decepticons in the mould of Jeremy Clarkson?
McCarthy could at least be consistent and make them wear vest-tops and drink cans of weak beer from little, insulating cups, mate.
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Post by karla on Nov 27, 2008 20:38:08 GMT
As Karl pointed out though, why is Starscream crusing bars looking for dates? Blurr doesn't look his type. -Ralph I'm sure he is looking to toughen someone up! he also said starscream does a speech, would it be like a Fraiser Crane speech?  |
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Post by primenova on Oct 8, 2009 11:19:49 GMT
Apart from the good art - Bulkhead, Optimus Prime in darkness, was ok okish issue.
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