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Post by jamesr on Mar 15, 2012 0:58:20 GMT
Hey guys
Quick one, this: can anyone point me towards any adverts for TF UK or the Action Force crossover that would have appeared in other Marvel UK titles in 1986/7 (specifically between issues 78 and 112, and 125 and Action Force 24 - 27)?
I don't think there were (m)any beyond the one at the back of the TF Movie special..?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 15, 2012 1:23:48 GMT
I shall have a look and see if there are any in my Secret Wars II issues.
Andy
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Post by primenova on Mar 15, 2012 15:54:10 GMT
I never saw the ad for the cross over - so i'll look forward to seeing it in the book
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 28, 2012 23:59:27 GMT
Nothing in the issues of Secret Wars I have.
Sorry
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 29, 2012 23:35:18 GMT
That's your credit on v3 blown!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Mar 29, 2012 23:41:40 GMT
Hah!
Andy
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Post by jamesr on Mar 30, 2012 0:02:27 GMT
Thanks for looking, guys!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 22, 2012 6:42:53 GMT
The Book Depository on Amazon UK claim to already have Vol. 3 in stock.
Have placed order and will see what happens!
Martin
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 22, 2012 12:38:06 GMT
Did just the same myself, via the book depository's own website.
Andy
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Post by Jaymz on Jul 22, 2012 13:09:54 GMT
Yeah, it's hitting comic shops this coming Wednesday, already confirmed on my invoices.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 22, 2012 15:16:10 GMT
I must secure my copy!
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Jul 23, 2012 8:31:52 GMT
Just a question for James - are you going to include the altered US pages in the UK tpb - or could they be printed in the US classics? Don't know if any are making it for v3 or if these are to be collected for the last one? Main one with altered pages is #108.
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Post by The Doctor on Jul 25, 2012 19:25:46 GMT
Saw vol 3 in FPE so it is out. As it is £23 (!) there I shall save £8 and The Book depository shall serve my needs come August's pay packet. It features the Movie Poster Magazine!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Jul 25, 2012 19:53:54 GMT
I have an order in for it and it is hopefully rattling its way to me at the moment. If it arrives in time I shall set it aside for AA travel reading matter.
Besides, I am going to have to rejig the shelves once it arrives, as there is no longer quite enough room for the TF Trades and all of the art-books to coexist on the tall downstairs shelf so some will have to be banished upstairs in due course.
Karl
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Post by Jim on Jul 25, 2012 22:31:18 GMT
Saw it in Orbital today, but at £22 I'm afraid I have to go with the Book Depository savings as well with how times are.
Someone a couple of places ahead of me in the queue bought it though, along with Autocracy and RID.
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Post by Jaymz on Jul 26, 2012 8:36:46 GMT
Yeah, amazon and the like sometimes sell books for similar or less than our cost price. It's pointless trying to compete pricewise.
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Post by primenova on Jul 26, 2012 9:42:49 GMT
I found my letter from Dreadwind last night. I'm trying to find photocopies of original art sunday so then can photo copy & James may find use for them in later volume [art copies obtained from Michael Eve himself, so James could credit him in the book]
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jul 26, 2012 18:25:49 GMT
My copy was awaiting me today when I returned from work. I spent the next hour or two devouring all the new material. And the origin of Ultra Magnus is reprinted for the first time. I could never remember whether we fans made up the bit about him being given life by the Matrix Flame - but no, it was explained clearly at the time!
Some people who bought Volumes 1 and 2 for the stories never previously reprinted may be tempted to skip this one on account of the fact that its stories have already been reprinted by both Titan and IDW. But they'd be making a mistake! Ever since Furman's TFUS and G2 runs and convention stories and Beast Wars and everything else, my senses have become numbed to TF 'epics' and I've taken these earlier ones for granted as just more of the same - even when re-reading them in the previous Titan reprints. And as an adult I've come to see more merit in the quirkiness and diversity of Budiansky's work. But UK Classics Volume 3 has reminded me - in ways a no-frills TPB reprint cannot - why these early UK 'epics' were special. And it does this by the commentary which makes me see these stories again through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy awaiting his weekly instalment. It's in context that these stories should be judged. Yes, Bob provided the alien qualities and off-the-wall plots, but Simon was the one who delivered the excitement and tension. I don't think I've ever been as anxious to find out what happens next to the Transformers as I was when I read the stories printed here for the first time. Thanks for reawakening that forgotten memory, James!
Plus... ROBO-CAPERS!!!
Martin
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Post by legios on Jul 26, 2012 19:09:12 GMT
It's funny, I actually bought Vol 3 (which has shipped today apparently) without worrying too much about which stories were actually reprinted within - I have been so struck by the overall presentation of previous volumes that I figured it would be worthwhile regardless, and could always replace other versions of the contents that I have if necessary.
I rarely buy reprint volumes of anything without careful perusal of what is within. The fact that this has been an exception speaks well of the previous volumes.
Karl
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 26, 2012 22:25:23 GMT
In that case I expect my copy will get delivered tomorrow.
Great way to kick off the weekend.
Andy
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jul 27, 2012 12:24:20 GMT
And lo it arrived.
First thing to be read - the background material, another excellent job from James.
Andy
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Post by legios on Jul 30, 2012 20:43:20 GMT
And my copy has arrived today. I was originally going to save this for the Auto Assembly weekend, but I have already been sucked into the historical articles and I suspect they will be perused over the course of the next few evenings.
It is another cracking package indeed, it is going to sit very nicely in my library.
Karl
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 1, 2012 15:13:00 GMT
Mine arrived today!
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Post by Jim on Aug 2, 2012 9:35:27 GMT
I found my letter from Dreadwind last night. I found my letter from Dreadwind a few weeks ago, was thinking of framing it! I remember my Dad being confused by it starting "Dear Hume", thinking it had been sent to the wrong kid or something.
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Post by primenova on Aug 2, 2012 16:40:42 GMT
I've photocopied mine + some pages of original art so James might use in later collection.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 4, 2012 17:29:50 GMT
Ooops, something jumped out at me:
P13, 2nd Paragraph, 3rd line. Should that Ratchet be a Ratbat?
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 4, 2012 18:54:33 GMT
Ooops, something jumped out at me: P13, 2nd Paragraph, 3rd line. Should that Ratchet be a Ratbat? Yeah. I had resisted mentioning it. That and the Dark Rodimus Saga being four stories (with four different names) and not two. But it's like I said in relation to previous volumes - it is against the laws of nature for any work of man to be perfect. Martin
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Post by Jim on Aug 10, 2012 11:18:22 GMT
Currently reading through it on the tube, have had a mix of funny and curious looks (funny from the ladies and curious from men in their mid-30s. If only it were the other way around).
Continue to love the commentary, I'm sure there are people who would be astonished if they knew the level of detail and love which goes into writing about the UK branch of an 80s comic about toy robots.
I have to be honest and say Wildman's covers are a bit sub-par though, especially knowing what he's really still capable of. When I think "Galvatron riding Ultra Magnus in cab form" I think of Senior's magnificently dynamic, visceral art (as James says, it's an iconic image). On this cover he looks like he's standing on a stationary Magnus frustrated that it won't go.
The composition of these montages generally lacks flair, and it does the high quality of the contents a disservice, in my opinion.
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 10, 2012 19:01:28 GMT
Funny - those three covers are my favourite things Wildman's ever done.
Martin
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Aug 23, 2012 7:00:26 GMT
Re-read 'Fallen Angel' and a few questions occurred to me...
1. Where and how did Blaster, Perceptor, Warpath and Powerglide get their Earth disguise modes?
2. Why didn't Warpath and Seaspray choose more practical disguises?
3. Where were the Aerialbots?
4. Why were they apparently walking in the form of giant robots the entire (or at least part of the) length of the United States from New York or RAAT HQ in New Jersey on the east coast to Oregon on the west?
5. Would this walk really take them past the Decepticon coal mine base in eastern Wyoming? (Google Maps tells me it might just do that!)
6. Why wouldn't Skids avoid going near said base where he had such a bad couple of experiences previously?
7. Why did the UK artists choose to follow (from this story to RG1) the model of Blaster from the TF Universe book and cartoon rather than the visored Blaster from the US comics?
8. Is there a visored Blaster model sheet out there which the US artists worked from but which was accidentally not used in TFU?
I was also wondering where all the humans were in this part of the USA, but then I figured, Decepticon base and at least three groups of giant robots wandering about (Dinobots, Galvatron, Skids & co.)... probably sensible to clear out and write off this particular patch.
Martin
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