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Post by Pinwig on Aug 9, 2018 19:49:17 GMT
I've just discovered there was a fourth Peter Pez strip! But it wasn't published until two weeks' time thirty years ago!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 9, 2018 20:15:29 GMT
Was it his trial for a drug fuelled genocide??
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 9, 2018 20:22:00 GMT
We should write that! The TRUE ending!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 9, 2018 21:26:47 GMT
See? You really do want to do this TFUK Advert strip fanzine!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 15, 2018 10:22:46 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #179 The Cosmic Carnival - Part 2: Sky Lynx reveals that he wanted to take the Earth children to the Cosmic Carnival but didn't have the money to pay for entry, and so ended up as a circus act instead in debt to the human ringmaster Berko. Prime hatches a plan and manages to persuade Berko that he wants to return home, prompting the turncoat to abruptly switch sides. During Sky Lynx's next performance, Prime busts him out and the group escape, leaving Mr Big Top a sideshow attraction in his own carnival. Elsewhere, Transformation begins to build hype for the forthcoming 200th issue and promises free gifts and a new co-star in a few weeks for issue #183's relaunch; it also pithily excuses the cover mistake that Prime is fighting the Gilashark in the wrong mode by saying fans would want to see him in his new form *sometime* in the last two issues; and on the letters' page, Grimlock celebrates passing Grim Grams' 100th edition by musing that it might be time to pass the letter answering mantle on to someone else...
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 15, 2018 10:28:34 GMT
Visionaries arriving in #183 is such a weird merger. Even in this editorial, before it's even happened or mentioned that Visionaries is folding, it says that the new nameless co-stars will only have a temporary stay and that Action Force will be back "soon after". We know that's because like Inhumanoids, the Visionaries comic was cancelled in the US, but it can't be often that a merged title like Action Force is rested while another takes it's place and then comes back afterwards.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2018 11:50:38 GMT
...and I was hacked off when the Visionaries backup was a repeat of story in their own comic!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 15, 2018 11:57:07 GMT
I was just hacked off that GI Joe had been replaced by the Visionaries pish!
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Post by blueshift on Aug 15, 2018 12:34:15 GMT
I was just hacked off that GI Joe had been replaced by the Visionaries pish! Visionaries are far superior to GI joe
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 15, 2018 13:24:14 GMT
Aye. Re-reading this now, GI Joe is not floating my boat. In fact I have to wonder whether I ever read the strips the first time round.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Aug 15, 2018 13:44:46 GMT
I was just hacked off that GI Joe had been replaced by the Visionaries pish! Visionaries are far superior to GI joe Agreed.
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Post by inflatabledalek on Aug 15, 2018 14:43:22 GMT
The Joe stuff, often not that great anyway (the way it used to get treated as more of a "Proper" comic franchise than Transformers was ridiculous), really starts to hit that "What would Transformers have been like if Bob had written another 50 issues after Micromaster wrestling" stage by the time it finally leaves the book, so not coming back at all would probably have left it better remembered by a lot of readers.
Easy to forget we never really saw the best of Hama, it joined Transformers not long before the burn out really hit, and whilst there's still some good stuff (ironically it's dropped right in the middle of what was probably the last really decent arc) the drop off is really steep as the OTT Ninja obsession and racism against "Former Axis powers" (God forbid you buy a car made by a country America was at war with up to forty years earlier) can't counter the dearth of new good ideas.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 15, 2018 14:55:05 GMT
Yeah, I'd go with that. A *really* good Joe story has just finished before it joins TFUK and we're left with the leftovers. And as much as I like GI Joe 49 & 50, 45-47 was so much better. 66 is fab and then there's little good stuff till the Invasion of Cobra Island, where it bows out. Incredibly there's only 30 ish GI Joe issues reprinted by TFUK. tmukhub.proboards.com/post/161526/thread
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2018 16:02:20 GMT
I was just hacked off that GI Joe had been replaced by the Visionaries pish! NO, PHIL, NO! You have got that the wrong way round!!! -Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 15, 2018 16:08:18 GMT
I think not....
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Post by primenova on Aug 15, 2018 18:28:53 GMT
Larry Hama is a top writer but I never read his Gijoe issues apart from #138-142. Wolverine nuff said
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2018 19:27:29 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 15, 2018 19:28:18 GMT
Larry Hama is a top writer but I never read his Gijoe issues apart from #138-142. Wolverine nuff said So you never read the Action Force/Gi Joe back up strip in TFUK? -rALPH
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Post by primenova on Aug 16, 2018 6:14:44 GMT
I never read any of them
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 16, 2018 9:41:09 GMT
Um, fair enough. I always (and still do) read every part of a comic I get though.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 16, 2018 10:04:14 GMT
I do simply to get value out of them. I try to with magazines too, but I read so many I have to skip articles here and there to keep up.
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 22, 2018 18:35:50 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #180 The Big Broadcast of 2006 - Part 1: An unknown assailant tortures Wreck-Gar to extract the location of a mysterious canister. Giving in, Wreck-Gar recounts the time when Sharkticons invaded his home planet looking for it. The plan is one masterminded by the Quintessons, who are looking for a lost journal. The Sharkticon attack fails, and the Quintessons install a giant television on the planet to try and brainwash the Junkions instead. Sky Lynx informs Rodimus Prime of this, and Astrotrain informs Galvatron. Sky Lynx returns to Junk with the Aerialbots, who are attacked by an invisible presence. In the battle, the Quintesson ship is revealed, but Superion is hurt. Elsewhere, Transformation does its best to entice readers into the main strip by pointing out the prologue page will make it make sense, honestly, as well as devoting the sidebar to bicycle safety tips; Peter Pez appears for a fourth and final time to continue his sweet-fueled adventures; and on the letters' page, reader Jason Hotchkin informs Grimlock that the Sun recently ran an article accusing children's cartoons MOTU, Gobots and Transformers of being 'symbols of white male domination'.
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 22, 2018 21:55:50 GMT
WHITE MALE DOMINATION.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 28, 2018 18:06:21 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #181 The Big Broadcast of 2006 - Part 2: The Quintesson signal controlling the Junkions is corrupted during the battle, sending a message of violence throughout the galaxy. Galvatron is affected and heads toward Junk at the same time as Rodimus. He destroys the giant screen emitting the signal and everyone leaves, bewildered. Wreck-Gar ends his story by claiming the canister was lost in space. His captor seems satisfied with this, but the Quintesson in the shadows isn't and sentences the self proclaimed 'galaxy's greatest torturer' to death. Elsewhere, Transformation continues to plead with readers not to write in and complain about the ongoing nonsense in the main strip and claims it will all make sense eventually; Action Force reaches the final part of Launch Base, where it will halt for now to make way for a new backup strip in two issues' time; and on the back page, the new Transformers annual is promoted with the news that it contains action packed adventure, scorching text stories and... A-Z entries for the Seacons!
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2018 18:16:22 GMT
Farewell, Action Force!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 28, 2018 18:48:34 GMT
They'll be back.
Unfortunately.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Aug 28, 2018 18:55:23 GMT
Invasion of Cobra Island is FAB! Such a shame it was never finished in the UK
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 28, 2018 20:23:06 GMT
It wasn't??? I was sure that was in an Annual!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Sept 2, 2018 15:53:54 GMT
One of the later specials continued the story, but I am pretty sure it wasn't the final issue of the Invasion storyline.
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Post by inflatabledalek on Sept 2, 2018 18:43:27 GMT
From what I understand (I tried to get hold of a copy, but it was pretty elusive) the final Action Force special had the next US issue by itself, but the final part was never seen over here. It got lost in the same behind the scenes reshuffle that saw Time Wars never get concluded by the Specials.
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