kayevcee
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
The Weather Wizard
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 26, 2015 18:41:54 GMT
Another issue due out while I'm away from Brum! I'll have to pick this up on Friday.
-Nick
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Post by Llama God on Apr 26, 2015 22:25:15 GMT
I feel your pain. At least I've got a standing order with Forbidden Planet in Glasgow now, for when I am not in Glasgow, and nowhere near a decent comic shop. But... I don't want to have to wait!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 28, 2015 14:19:41 GMT
comixology chums.
Double dip - digital and print...
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 28, 2015 15:35:38 GMT
Aye. Buy it digitally and then get the trade is Phil's strategy.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Apr 29, 2015 7:07:39 GMT
I love reading MTMTE at Breakfast :-)
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 29, 2015 17:53:22 GMT
Bloody hell!
That was a powerful issue and no mistake.
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Post by Llama God on Apr 29, 2015 23:38:47 GMT
Having seen so many positive comments I had to go and get the digital copy. And...
Wow.
Just... Wow.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 1, 2015 21:58:33 GMT
Copy obtained today. Read with a cup of tea in a nice coffee shop on a sunny afternoon off.
I soon forgot the sun and my tea went cold.
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Post by Kingoji on May 2, 2015 16:35:17 GMT
I'm unconvinced by the characters selected as Ratchet's friends. It's a symptom of MTMTE forgetting that relationships existed before it's time. Nautica, especially, I can see no reason behind being chosen, and I lean towards that with Skids. Meanwhile, Sunstreaker is onboard, who has more of a history with Ratchet than arguably any of the ones chosen, yet is forgotten.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 2, 2015 17:44:47 GMT
Sunstreaker didn't come with the crew for the second part of the trip, he stayed on Cybertron. It's been on the wiki for ages, but I don't think it was shown till he popped up in a recent RID/Windblade
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Rich
Protoform
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Post by Rich on May 3, 2015 7:22:06 GMT
A simply marvellous issue.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 7, 2015 10:59:18 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 13, 2015 18:26:39 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 14, 2015 6:24:03 GMT
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 14, 2015 7:46:31 GMT
When is #41 out?
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 14, 2015 7:49:30 GMT
Not next Wednesday, the Wednesady after 27th according to Pulllist.
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Post by Benn on May 14, 2015 10:39:25 GMT
If Countdown is a 'hi then die' character I will be upset.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 14, 2015 13:28:43 GMT
Countdown is clearly the next Ace Rimmer.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 18, 2015 10:34:50 GMT
Yes thank you Wordery, I will have a copy of MTMTE v7 for £10.36
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 22, 2015 16:14:59 GMT
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kayevcee
Fusilateral Quintro Combiner
The Weather Wizard
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Post by kayevcee on May 22, 2015 16:21:54 GMT
I got Countdown for Christmas back in the day. His profile made him sound like the most amazing
character ever. Like a tiny giant (?) robot Flash Gordon. I too will be upset if he is offed on his second page.
-Nick
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 27, 2015 7:52:47 GMT
Got 41
Nick will be upset
There's a panel early in the issue, on the double page spread, that must have made Alex Milne tear his hair out, it has so many bots in it!
There's a lovely shot of Ravage later in the issue springing out on Nightbeat and Getaway that makes him look just like BW TMII Tripredicus Agent.
And fab to see four of the Protectobots on the dance floor together. Their presence, and Mirage in the big panel, dates it before Combiner Wars
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Post by Llama God on May 27, 2015 20:19:45 GMT
Oh yeah, there were a lot of great panels in that issue. But...
Nick is definitely going to be upset. Although technically Countdown actually gets killed just *after* the second page. So it's not quite as bad as he was fearing. Just pretty bad.
My only issue with this issue is that this is the first one that feels like it suffers from having a reduced page count. It's quite normal to end MTMTE wanting more, but this time I wanted even more. Because I hadn't had enough.
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 28, 2015 8:30:50 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on May 28, 2015 9:31:02 GMT
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Post by KnightBeat on May 29, 2015 22:16:18 GMT
My only issue with this issue is that this is the first one that feels like it suffers from having a reduced page count. It's quite normal to end MTMTE wanting more, but this time I wanted even more. Because I hadn't had enough. Ditto. I'd have gladly sacrificed the 3 pages of Getaway, Skids & Nautica banter at the start of the issue for more suspense later on. Anyone notice Megatron's Autobot logo has started to match the disgruntled mood of its owner?  |
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Post by Llama God on May 29, 2015 22:20:22 GMT
Yes! I did notice that on second reading. And first. And then forgot about it each time. Nice touch, that.
Also...
Skids has a headache. I'm pretty sure this'll turn out to be important. Like he's the source of the spores, or something...
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Post by Andy Turnbull on May 31, 2015 10:56:16 GMT
It was a great issue, some absolutely splendid storytelling from Alex.
I do want one of those Thunderclash badges though!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 31, 2015 14:38:25 GMT
Hmm. I was a bit disappointed really. There was some good stuff in their but much of the 'banter' stuff (which went too overboard this issue) was far too humanised for my tastes. Also too much fembot emphasis. My annoyance at the existence of fembots is known but there seems to be a thing to thrust them front and centre for no reason other than they are said to be female and so cool. Also if we must have fembots, where are the Auto-blokes?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on May 31, 2015 16:33:31 GMT
I've got to the point where I've just accepted that IDW MTMTE TFs aren't the giant living alien robots of the 1980s, but just the Red Dwarfy type characters James has stories in his head for, and he's using the Transformers brand because that's what he was given. And on those terms I'm really enjoying it. Another intriguing horror mystery this month. One mystery to me is how James got past issue #40 before introducing a reference to Quantum Leap.  Martin |
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