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Post by The Doctor on Nov 9, 2007 23:22:43 GMT
...is of course the Official G2 UK Annual. Discuss.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 9, 2007 23:30:22 GMT
The very first annual is the finest of them all. If the last one had actually had some original content strip wise to go along with Another Time and Place it would probably take top spot.
Andy
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Post by Gav on Nov 10, 2007 8:07:46 GMT
I remember as a child that i won a competition on a T.V show called 'Splash' i believe with Gazz Topp (Don't quote me on this i was about 5) and recieved two Transformers annuals. The exact same one. Twice!
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Post by KnightBeat on Nov 10, 2007 11:21:47 GMT
That's one for each eye.
The annuals were fantastic. My personal favourite was the 1986 annual which, if I'm not mistaken contained the 'There shall be a leader' strip. It's a wonderful look into the deep history of Cybertron.
What does everyone think of the 'Altered Image' story that appeared in the 1988 annual? I recall several people in the letters page criticised it as a cynical move to encourage regular readers to buy another publication to read the ongoing Galvatron saga. I always received annuals for christmas, so I had no opinion on the matter.
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Post by Gav on Nov 10, 2007 11:40:24 GMT
From intense research i found that i had won the Transformers Annual from 1985. Earlier than i thought, actually. Although i remember getting it clearly.
I also remember being shit-scared of Circuit breaker when i was young.
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Post by Hero on Nov 12, 2007 9:30:42 GMT
I missed out on the G2 annual. I heard it was pretty bad.
1987 annual was my fave.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 12, 2007 10:31:12 GMT
The G2 Annual is of course, by any rational means, awful beyond imagining. However, if one engages their tat sensors, it is transformed into a thing of beauty!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 12, 2007 11:08:02 GMT
It's a horrific book and no mistake. Yet somehow still sits in my bookcase alongside the other annuals.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 12, 2007 11:13:52 GMT
'Moving Day: Planet Earth' must be recorded as a talking book!
-Ralph
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Post by Hero on Nov 12, 2007 13:05:22 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 12, 2007 17:33:42 GMT
Sweet zombie Outback! I now have great and terrible ideas forming in my brain.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2016 1:52:42 GMT
I wonder what they were.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 23, 2016 5:03:50 GMT
I think I can hazard a guess.
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Post by primenova on Dec 23, 2016 7:31:17 GMT
If you are going by year then it's 86 but I always class it has 85 - we didn't start the advance numbering until the last annual 1991 being 92 annual. But I never liked the feel of #3 1987. I like the stories in with continue #120 but that Headmaster text story throws it after we had the comic.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 23, 2016 8:02:36 GMT
I shall be reading the second annual on Christmas day, as I read the first a year ago, as part of my 30th anniversary re-read. The odd thing is that I know the stories in this annual of old, State Games obviously and the super Geoff Senior art in Victory, but until I bought a copy off ebay last year I don't seem to have ever owned it. Can't figure that out.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 23, 2016 11:11:24 GMT
It is the highest quality of the annuals.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 25, 2016 14:58:41 GMT
I may have had a bottle and a half, but fuck me 'To A Power Unknown' is a good story. Totally pre-furman UK style, robots as robots old school storytelling, and this is the best Will Simpson art going. You could put this between Man of Iron and Enemy Within and it would fit right in. The awe and wonder period before everything began to be defined.
I want more TF tales like this.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 25, 2016 16:25:52 GMT
Also features grim human death!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 25, 2016 16:47:24 GMT
It it does! One sentence to clear up the problem and boom! Heilmann is toast!
I don't ever remember reading this. I must have done, at least recently in the IDW classics book, but it's a great story.
The James Hill text story 'Return of the...' is top too. It's very carefully woven into the narrative of the comics, not only referring back to earlier comics and the last annual but working in the Aerialbots in a story that must have been written in early 86 around the time of the special teams insert. So downbeat too. It's the kind of story you'd only ever get in a British book. This is a fantastic annual.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 25, 2016 17:32:10 GMT
Jings. I would have got that annual 30 years ago this very day!
Along with my one surviving childhood TF toy (some of) Metroplex.
*jumps in the sea*
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 25, 2016 17:38:02 GMT
Not just you.
I too got the annual.
Andy
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Post by The Huff on Dec 25, 2016 17:45:08 GMT
Also features grim human death! -Ralph Despite being one of the most Earth loving Autobots, Jazz must hold the record for the Autobot who has killed or deliberately harmed the most humans in Transformers fiction. |
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 25, 2016 17:50:06 GMT
It's because you can't see those eyes. What is that visor hiding!
(Of course he has no eyes, as per the other thread in which faceplates not hiding mouths is discussed)
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 25, 2016 19:59:59 GMT
Jazz does not have eyes. He brings only the gift of death to all mankind.
-Ralph
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Post by The Huff on Dec 26, 2016 1:16:08 GMT
It's because you can't see those eyes. What is that visor hiding! (Of course he has no eyes, as per the other thread in which faceplates not hiding mouths is discussed) A thread about faceplates and mouths!? Might have to check that one out - that's always been a major bugbear of mine (along with robots with swords). |
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Dec 26, 2016 16:21:21 GMT
'To a Power Unknown' is great. Really treats the TFs as robots. I'd love the idea of humans hacking into TFs to have had more time in the comics. We got Professor Morris and Swoop, we got Brawn's accident in 'The Enemy Within', we got Floppy Prime in Multiworld... Was there much else in terms of properly treating TF minds as sentient computer programs that could be hacked or corrupted? Oh, yeah, the Road-Jammers! Why did they have to spoil that story idea by making them Hell's Angels? Ho hum.
The first two annuals were the best.
Martin
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 16:34:36 GMT
There were the two annual text stories were that kid hacked into the Autobots' computer.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 26, 2016 18:04:21 GMT
I was really impressed with it. Every story in that book is excellent, text or strip. Even the simple story about Jazz rescuing Hoist is written in the style that distances the reader from the Transformers to keep them feeling alien. If I've read that before I don't remember it at all.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 20:16:28 GMT
I agree with Martin. The first two annuals are the best. Good stuff in all of them (there isn't a stinker) but I feel the first two have the best overall packages.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 26, 2016 22:25:16 GMT
Indeed, I think the first two are the strongest.
Andy
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