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Post by Pinwig on Nov 14, 2016 23:12:11 GMT
This Geoff Senior cover may be an early and quite rough one, but it's one of my favourites and one that I took to the Orbital Comics signing for Regen One #100 to get signed. I handed it to Mr Senior and he looked at it and said he couldn't remember drawing it. He actually peered at it quite closely, as if retracing the lines mentally, and talked about how it was 'all airbrushing back then'. Nice moment I'll always remember.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 15, 2016 12:11:21 GMT
We'll never forget you, Impactor!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 15, 2016 16:12:55 GMT
Just like Bing Bong. My collection as a nipper started with #89 which was just as well as we only acquired T:2006 a few years later and not sure if I would have fully appreciated it at the age I was when it came out. Great ending to the story with Impactor sacrifice himself and Furman laying the seeds for another Autobot commander to be full of self-doubt.  |
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 15, 2016 17:07:53 GMT
You started with AERIALBOTS OVER AMERICA?
This explains much.
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 15, 2016 22:21:17 GMT
Yes. And even worse I got the Decepticon Dambusters collected comics issue instead of #90! Took My parents a couple weeks to figure out what was happening with the issues. Then we got both.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 16, 2016 7:11:01 GMT
Was that because they were SLAVES OF THE INSECTICONS?
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 16, 2016 8:05:58 GMT
It was confusing having a dam in both stories!
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 19, 2016 13:09:28 GMT
Question: we switched this to weekly for the National Interest/Target:2006 run, but before then I'd just been posting significant moments as they arose. Now 2006 is finished, do I go back to posting just for important issues, or continue weekly (with the caveat that either way posts will go back to appearing at weekends instead of Tuesdays because that's a headache for me).
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 19, 2016 17:21:51 GMT
Weekly! Weekly!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Nov 19, 2016 21:47:43 GMT
Indeed!
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 22, 2016 20:04:41 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #89Aerialbots Over America, Part One in which the Insecticons arrive on Earth and Bombshell indulges in his favourite pastime of mind control so he, his friends, and Megatron can infiltrate the Hoover Dam. Meanwhile, showing just how neatly Simon Furman can hijack the American narrative, Prime is repaired after his recent disappearance and Wheeljack puts the finishing touches to the Aerialbots dreamt up by Buster some 26 issues previously. Elsewhere, Transformation finally concedes that due to 'drastic rescheduling' the Transformers Universe books have been canned, but the pages will instead run in weekly form as a new look A-Z, which starts this issue with Air Raid and Astrotrain; the first advert appears for the movie... but more importantly so does the first for the STARS Battle Pack, displaying art for the £4.99 and four robot points cardboard command centre. On the letters page, Grimlock continues his recent run of astonishing predictions by hinting that if Optimus Prime should ever, y'know, disappear permanently, he might well throw his hat into the ring as a new potential leader himself! 
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 22, 2016 20:53:45 GMT
To this day I am still bitter that the Parental Units would not allow me to send off for the STARS Battle Pack because it's "just cardboard".
THEY JUST DID NOT UNDERSTAND.
*pounds ground*
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 22, 2016 21:14:49 GMT
I think I ignored it myself for the same reason. I can't think of any other reason why I've never had one.
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 22, 2016 21:22:56 GMT
I still want one.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 22, 2016 21:26:39 GMT
Oh yes, absolutely. I am now older and wiser and know the error of my youthful misjudgements.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Nov 22, 2016 21:31:04 GMT
A glorious issue.
And that Grimlock, such a smart, smart guy.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 22, 2016 21:39:43 GMT
Y'know, Transformers fans are inventive people and that set was cardboard. I'm surprised it hasn't been scanned and reproduced. I've got a cardboard Globe Theatre. There should be cardboard Autobot bases.
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 22, 2016 21:40:57 GMT
That said, pretty naff robot point rewards compared to Americans getting ACTUAL TOYS.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 22, 2016 21:55:59 GMT
To this day I am still bitter that the Parental Units would not allow me to send off for the STARS Battle Pack because it's "just cardboard". THEY JUST DID NOT UNDERSTAND. *pounds ground* -Ralph I will show you my Land of the Jawas one day. |
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Post by blueshift on Nov 22, 2016 21:57:31 GMT
"Hello? Police? The scary man is threatening us again with his 'Land of the Jawas'"
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 22, 2016 22:35:26 GMT
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 23, 2016 7:10:37 GMT
I am frightened.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 29, 2016 22:53:34 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #90Aerialbots Over America, Part Two. In which Jetfire muses on the Cybertronian pastime of Basketrek, Megatron demands to have his trigger pulled, Superion squares off against Cybertron's 'most elite warriors' before coming unstuck against a human, and Circuit Breaker swears she will mount any Transformer she can get her hands on. Elsewhere, Transformation brings news that the Transformers Winter Special, a 76 page adaptation of the movie, is now on sale for anyone wishing to wreck their enjoyment of actually seeing the film more than Target: 2006 already has; a spot the difference competition invites readers to win a full size movie poster; and Spitfire finally reaches the end of her thoroughly underwhelming debut issue.  
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Post by The Doctor on Nov 30, 2016 18:29:25 GMT
Great special. Great special. The best.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 6, 2016 19:04:52 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #91Heavy Traffic, Part One. In which Circuit breaker does a lot of frowning, Robot Master does a lot of grimacing and Megatron does a lot of laughing as he uses one of Bombshell's mind control chips to siphon Matrix energy from Optimus Prime for his new Stunticons. Elsewhere, Grimlock escapes the letters page for a week to bring readers an entirely unbiased review of the film; the comic unites with Ready Brek for a competition to win a Sony Walkman - "complete with its own graphic equaliser" no less; and Robo Capers joins the film promotion by poking fun at Grimlock's new found stardom. He wears a top hat now. 
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 6, 2016 19:07:14 GMT
I have a digital Sony Walkman but it is nowhere near as good as the proper cassette playing version.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 6, 2016 19:12:31 GMT
I just loved the fact the big selling point was that it had a graphic equaliser. It reminded me that back in those days those kind of things were important to us. I remember the checklist of essentials when getting my first proper stereo, tape to tape and a graphic equaliser were right there. All the cool kids had boomboxes with graphic equalisers.
I suppose the irony of that is that graphic equalisers did anything but equalise, and weren't particularly graphic either.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 6, 2016 20:41:44 GMT
I did get quite excited by graphic equalisers back in the day.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 6, 2016 21:29:30 GMT
V formation for bass and treble boost.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 6, 2016 21:55:15 GMT
MORE BOOST!!!
-Ralph
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