Annuals

[primenova]

We have never had annuals every year of the comic - or for the toy line. Or we would have 25 now.

But [going by print year not annual year stated on cover] we had

1985 - Insecticon story & Tracks/Ravage text.
1986 - Victory!
1987 - Galvatron
1988 - Time wars lead in
1989 - Pretenders / powermasters
1990 - Classics
1991 - after #332
1994 - G2
2004 - Armada #6,7
2005 - Energon #20
2007 - story book Movie.
2008 - Animated
2009 - ROTF

We had listed Energon/Cybertron annual for 2006 - but this never saw print. Mainly not having the issues - but they could have printed another DW Energon issue in it. Think also annual listed for 2002 [RID], 2003 in the UK that never got printed.

But if you had to make annuals for the years we did not have one released [note: you can't have new story because you only have budget for reprints of anything that's been printed - but also note that a UK annual was released that reprinted the Wizard Marvel 1/2 comics - so you could have a comic reprinted the Botcon comics]

So what would you have in the missing years - keeping in with the toy line out at the time.

1992, 1993, 1995-2003, 2006,

[primenova]

The 1995 annual should be Dinobots collection to try & make you forget that you ever picked up the 1994 annual & read it.

what i would have placed in the issues -

92 - B&W
93 - B&W

G2 issues
95 - G2 #1
96 - G2 #2,3
97 - G2# 6,7

Beast Wars era
98 - Dinobot Hunt
99 - National interest
00 - Grudge match + Dinobot heavy Earthforce stories

Beast Machines
01 - BW/BM profiles & screen crabs

RID
02 - #139,140 showing Combaticons RID profiles
03 - Combaticons again #141,142

06 - Energon #30 with Cybertron profiles.

[Grand Moff Muffin]

1993 could have compiled the TF-related bits from the US G.I. Joe comic and US G2 #2, so as to lead into the Fleetway G2 comic.

1995-7 could then pick up where the Fleetway comic left off and between them contain US G2 #6-12.

US G2 #1 didn't need a UK printing because Fleetway gave us a different version in the UK.

Not that I particularly liked the G2 comics, but given we had the Fleetway comic, this would have been the best way to fill those annuals.

Martin

[primenova]

Could there have been an issue with showing the GIJoe issues - while should be ok having Gijoe in the Transformers issues [dont know if they had the rights at the time.] Marvel still had right to TFCC from #20-27 1994 while G2 was out from Fleetway. Actionman didnt show up until late 90's?