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Post by Jim on May 20, 2020 9:24:26 GMT
I don't think Living Nightlights was ever going anywhere as a title, but Desert Island Risks has endless possibilities that would be better than how it was used. The Constructicons set quiz questions as defensive traps while they rebuild Devastator as a separate robot? Surely Furman has been asked about what was going through the mind with these at some point in the past. If the Transformers UK Classics volumes had continued we'd probably know by now Didn't Roberts make a vague "Watch this space..." tweet last year about them? I didn't notice anything happening after that though, sadly.
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Post by Pinwig on May 26, 2020 21:41:14 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #272 GI Joe and the Transformers: Power Struggle - Part 4: Serpentor orders an attack on Blackrock's cruise ship to occupy the Joes. Dirge and Bombshell trail the power station and land alongside it, introducing themselves to Cobra. Dr Mindbender wonders if he can control the giant robots and secretly attaches a small device to Dirge. Mindbender proposes an alliance with the Decepticons and Dirge returns to Shockwave with the message. Anthony's mother takes him to Consolidated Medical Associates, who discover Bombshell's chip in his brain. Mindbender uses his device to listen in on Shockwave and learns the Earth will be destroyed as a by-product of the Decepticon energy plan. Cry Wolf: Needlenose tests the response time of the Mayhem Attack squad by calling them to his aid unnecessarily. He is worried Carnivac will attack them to take revenge for the death of Catilla. The others dismiss his fears and leave him. Later, he really is attacked by Carnivac, but his cries for help are ignored by his friends. Elsewhere, Transformation tells readers to look out for a new free gift and a competition to win new Combi-Micros coming soon; Julie Giggly is zapped by a strange ray and tries to whack Steve with a lampost; the IJ Adventure Club finally reveal their membership form offering a host of goodies in return for three tokens and £2.90; and on the letters' page, Dreadwind claims there will be a new GI Joe comic coming in September.
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Post by The Doctor on May 26, 2020 21:48:08 GMT
A new GI Joe comic? More lies!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on May 26, 2020 23:14:07 GMT
More crying wolf!
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Post by Shockprowl on May 27, 2020 6:04:08 GMT
Cry wolf, OHHH OHHHH! Time worry! Cry wolf, OHHH OHHH! Time to worry now!"
....sorry. Wife n kids like A-Ha.
...I... I'm just gonna go...
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 2, 2020 19:56:14 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #273 GI Joe and the Transformers: Ashes, Ashes - Part 1: Shockwave outlines his devastating plan to drain the Earth of energy and boasts about his brilliance to his minions. Cobra arrive with Alpha and Shockwave greets Serpentor and Dr Mindbender, all three thinking about how to betray each other. Wolf in the Fold: Springer, Broadside and Skids guess where Carnivac has gone and discuss whether to go after him. Springer concedes they need to see Grimlock. Having dispatched Needlenose, Carnivac settles next on picking off Bludgeon. His surprise attack is handled easily by the master of Metallikato and Carnivac is quickly overcome. The other Decepticons are alerted and Carnivac is shot by Spinister. Elsewhere, Transformation tells readers who've recently complained about not receiving letters page prizes to contact Hasbro directly because the comic offices no longer send out toys; Skywarp and Slag feature in the A-Z; Steve is turned into a giant carrot by the mysterious space ray while Colin is confronted by Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers; and on the letters' page, Dreadwind tells an excited Matt Packer of Farnham that the new Death's Head graphic novel is coming along nicely and will be serialised in Strip.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 2, 2020 20:01:05 GMT
The business about missing toys is a bit naff. They could at least have contacted Hasbro about it, not just said it isn't anything to do with them. It is, because the prizes are offered on their letters' page. They could at least have provided the address to write to. They didn't even do that!
This also reminds me Strip was on sale 30 years ago; issue 9 would have been on sale at this point. It's had almost no promotion in Transformers but the Pendragon advert is in every week. I think I need a Strip re-read now, although under lockdown rules I can't get at my copies.
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Post by The Huff on Jun 2, 2020 23:19:13 GMT
I found my old Strip issues the other week. I'm not suprised they weren't advertised much in Transformers. Some of the content was quite disturbing.
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Post by Shockprowl on Jun 3, 2020 5:53:40 GMT
Why didn't they try to get Quake in with his Double-Targetmaster buddies? I know he made a cameo fighting Megatron on Cybertron that time. But they had time since that odd occurrence to get him in there, surely?
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 3, 2020 17:48:39 GMT
I found my old Strip issues the other week. I'm not suprised they weren't advertised much in Transformers. Some of the content was quite disturbing. Yes, you're probably right. I thought Pendragon was a similar level of maturity but I've never read that. I can't remember where we're up to with Punisher now, but I had Strip delivered so I'm not back to where I rejoined Transformers. Must have been after that folded.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 3, 2020 18:55:50 GMT
I found my old Strip issues the other week. I'm not suprised they weren't advertised much in Transformers. Some of the content was quite disturbing. Yes, you're probably right. I thought Pendragon was a similar level of maturity but I've never read that. I can't remember where we're up to with Punisher now, but I had Strip delivered so I'm not back to where I rejoined Transformers. Must have been after that folded. Actually Pendragon is probably the most mature, and I mean actually mature and not in the way comics generally mean mature. Would recommend tracking it down
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 3, 2020 20:27:10 GMT
It's a name that exists in the periphery of 'I should read that one day'. I need to get my head round all those titles. Is Pendragon something to do with Excalibur? I get lost with what's a UK originated story and American reprints.
Having checked, Strip #2 has the same cover date as the final issue of Punisher - March 3rd. So I can see where my comic allegiances went. 2000AD was the staple by this point. 30 years ago this week 2000AD had Dredd in the middle of Necropolis and the last part of the first Armoured Gideon series.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 3, 2020 21:07:49 GMT
AVOID PENDRAGON II.
Only read the first series.
-Ralph
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Post by The Huff on Jun 4, 2020 7:51:48 GMT
I just remember Strip containing some really twisted, perverse, gory and quite frankly sick images and themes that really shouldn't be in comics with a character strip originating from a toy line series. Great stuff!
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Post by tomwe on Jun 4, 2020 8:19:59 GMT
And they had free gifts from the look of it!
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 4, 2020 8:44:40 GMT
I wasn't a huge fan of Strip. At the time, I much preferred 2000AD.
-Ralph
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Post by The Huff on Jun 4, 2020 10:34:20 GMT
I think it was Marshall Law that I remember the most - as it was the most disturbing. Saying that, was there a separate Marshal Law comic? Because I must have bought it if there was.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 4, 2020 10:43:46 GMT
My deep dislike of Marshall Law was the main reason I didn't read much of Strip. It was just horrible.
-Ralph
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Jun 4, 2020 11:22:06 GMT
If only it was Martial Law.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2020 11:49:26 GMT
I think it was Marshall Law that I remember the most - as it was the most disturbing. Saying that, was there a separate Marshal Law comic? Because I must have bought it if there was. IT was certainly published separately in the US by Marvel's Epic line IIRC Got a HC of it here I've never opened
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2020 11:53:21 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2020 11:53:59 GMT
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Post by tomwe on Jun 4, 2020 16:12:34 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Jun 4, 2020 16:30:19 GMT
I think it was Marshall Law that I remember the most - as it was the most disturbing. Saying that, was there a separate Marshal Law comic? Because I must have bought it if there was. IT was certainly published separately in the US by Marvel's Epic line IIRC Got a HC of it here I've never opened www.mikesamazingworld.com/mikes/features/comic.php?comicid=145787Still in it's shrinkwrap!
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Jun 4, 2020 17:33:14 GMT
I think it was Marshall Law that I remember the most - as it was the most disturbing. Saying that, was there a separate Marshal Law comic? Because I must have bought it if there was. Marshall Law then jumped ship to Toxic - another attempted answer to 200ad and Marshal Law had two specials - Kingdom of the Blind and Marshal Law Takes Manhattan they were on the Newstand in 91 and possibly 92
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Post by The Huff on Jun 4, 2020 18:00:26 GMT
Ah that's it. It mist have been Toxic that I also bought. Will check in my old comics.
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Post by Pinwig on Jun 4, 2020 20:31:58 GMT
I still have that badge. The patch has confused me because we recently saw the Punisher comic came with one too some time before this. I wonder if they were the same. I also wonder where the one is that isn't on my old rucksack.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 4, 2020 22:04:16 GMT
Didn't like Toxic either.
-Ralph
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Post by The Huff on Jun 5, 2020 7:51:39 GMT
Haven't found my old Strip issues yet - probably because I found an old Comic Relief comic that I ended up reading from around 1991. Anyone else have that? It had such a wide variety of characters and art styles in the story.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 5, 2020 8:02:00 GMT
Oh that is a blast from the past. Yes, I remember having a Comic Relief special. I don't remember it being that great.
-Ralph
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