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Post by Pinwig on Dec 13, 2016 22:32:09 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #92Heavy Traffic, Part Two. In which at long last we get some combiner-on-combiner action as Superion takes on Menasor in a battle of the giants, ruined by interference from irritating human characters who refuse to concede the comic isn't about them. Elsewhere, twenty-five Transformers: The Movie soundtrack albums are up for grabs in a fantastic competition; on the letters page Ragwan Ahmad of Cardiff complains about the lack of female Transformers just in time for Grimlock to mention Arcee; and Spitfire and the Troubleshooters... remains as dull as ditch-water. 
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 13, 2016 22:35:04 GMT
Phil likes Spitfire.
Easily the worst back-up strip that TF had if you don't count Planet Terry.
Andy
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 13, 2016 22:42:32 GMT
He does. Favourite New Universe title. Love the later armour design. Was pulled from TFUK just before Todd McFarlane's first published Marvel UK work in issue 4. |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 13, 2016 22:44:33 GMT
A mercy killing.
I liked the early JRjr Star Brand issues - where he really starts to hit the recognisable JRjr style we know and love.
Not much a fan of the new universe.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 13, 2016 22:54:47 GMT
I'll admit that the series strayed off concept very quickly. I liked the early JRjr Star Brand issues - where he really starts to hit the recognisable JRjr style we know and love. No, what Andu meant to say was when he started to wander away from the style he'd used so successfully on X-Men and was never so good again |
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 13, 2016 22:54:56 GMT
I remember buying and liking Starbrand from comic marts back at the time.
I love the fact the competition is to win actual LPs. Not cassettes or even CDs (this is 1986!), but LPs.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 13, 2016 23:05:50 GMT
On reflection, given the wait the combiners had to actually appear in the comic, Aerialbots Over America and Heavy Traffic really aren't that good. Still, only one US issue in the next twelve UK ones, so that's another ten parts of Furman comic goodness coming up!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2016 10:06:18 GMT
He does. Favourite New Universe title. Love the later armour design. Phil is insane. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2016 10:07:19 GMT
Phil likes Spitfire. Easily the worst back-up strip that TF had if you don't count Planet Terry. Andy The first run of Machine Man wins the title of shittest back-up for me. Though we all forget those 'tales from the vaults' filler. Eric the Red. That one about the submarine. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2016 10:08:09 GMT
A mercy killing. I liked the early JRjr Star Brand issues - where he really starts to hit the recognisable JRjr style we know and love. Not much a fan of the new universe. New Universe was pish, other than early Star Brand which was in Spider-Man and Zoids. -ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2016 10:08:30 GMT
I'll admit that the series strayed off concept very quickly. I liked the early JRjr Star Brand issues - where he really starts to hit the recognisable JRjr style we know and love. No, what Andu meant to say was when he started to wander away from the style he'd used so successfully on X-Men and was never so good again Phil! You talk pish! -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2016 10:09:47 GMT
I remember buying and liking Starbrand from comic marts back at the time. I love the fact the competition is to win actual LPs. Not cassettes or even CDs (this is 1986!), but LPs. And yet in the space year of 2016 I walked into the local Sainsburgeries yesterday and they're selling a vinyl album of the 1977 Star Wars score! -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2016 10:10:25 GMT
I remember buying and liking Starbrand from comic marts back at the time. I love the fact the competition is to win actual LPs. Not cassettes or even CDs (this is 1986!), but LPs. I entered that competition and am still bitter that I did not win. -Ralph |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 15, 2016 10:10:57 GMT
On reflection, given the wait the combiners had to actually appear in the comic, Aerialbots Over America and Heavy Traffic really aren't that good. Still, only one US issue in the next twelve UK ones, so that's another ten parts of Furman comic goodness coming up! PINWIG!!!! You cannot diss the SPECIAL TEAMS!!! -Ralph |
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 15, 2016 19:07:00 GMT
I would never diss the SPECIAL TEAMS! Just the lack of service uncle Bob gave them on their US debut. They deserved more!
It's also really noticeable how Menasor is drawn after the awful Sunbow model too - like the cars are stuck onto the robot rather than actually forming the limbs.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 20, 2016 16:08:56 GMT
30 Years Ago This Week: Issue #93The Gift, in which a doleful Jetfire confesses his inner woes to Buster, who realises that words of wisdom are a far more precious (and far cheaper) gift to give than a set of socket wrenches. Thus Jetfire is dubbed the first TERRAN TRANSFORMER and he flies home happy with his lot. Elsewhere, the cover allays fears that Galvatron's exit in the movie means he won't be returning to the comic; four weeks after the first installment, the new-look Transformers A-Z brings us Beachcomber and Blades; and Robo-Capers joins the seasonal fun with an exhausted Galvatron and Ultra Magnus hoping their new Christmas Day owners will soon go back to school. 
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 21, 2016 13:28:46 GMT
Nothing can compare to how furious young Burns was when this issue came out. He was so excited by the cover!
GALVATRON WAS BACK!!!!!!!
Then he opened up the comic and Galvatron wasn't £^$£££&* in it!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 21, 2016 15:55:27 GMT
Was a bit cheeky. I've also never been quite sure why he was shooting trees either.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 21, 2016 16:39:45 GMT
The tree is pointed. Unicron has pointed horns. Ergo: Galvatron hates all pointed things.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 21, 2016 16:53:31 GMT
I have always thought that tree looks like a Lego tree. I can't explain that, but that cover to me has always been the Galvatron and the Lego tree cover.
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Post by The Huff on Dec 26, 2016 9:04:02 GMT
'The Gift' was a absolutely lovely Transformers story to my 11 year old mind - and it featured the main present that I received the Christmas before! Such as shame that all Jetfire's now always come from Cybertron - I liked his uniqueness that he only knew Earth as his home and not only had to deal with being a former Decepticon (as well as being the only jet Autobot) that differentiated him from his colleagues he also came to terms with that.
Galvatron not in the issue?! Why, he was forced to battle Ultra Magnus by some kids in Robo Capers!
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 9:08:41 GMT
Still a misleading cover!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 26, 2016 9:25:40 GMT
Oh it's because he's destroying Christmas isn't it. Shooting the trees?
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 9:27:00 GMT
But they're normal trees rather than Christmas trees.
And who is he talking to? Who lurks behind Galvatron?
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 9:27:55 GMT
Which video was in the competition?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 26, 2016 9:33:24 GMT
No, the trees have rivets on. The leaves are all cut metal sheets. They have a kind of snowy Christmas scene feel to me. I think he's supposed to be looking at the reader and it's a pun on the "I'll be back" line.
The competition was for the first three VHS releases, Arrival, Masterpiece and Desertion.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 26, 2016 9:40:03 GMT
Oh you mean they're normal as in not decorated, not as in made of wood. Sorry, misunderstood.
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Post by blueshift on Dec 26, 2016 9:41:54 GMT
Oh you mean they're normal as in not decorated, not as in made of wood. Sorry, misunderstood. I thought they were real!!!!! |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 10:13:01 GMT
Oh, Matthew.
-Ralph
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 26, 2016 10:13:50 GMT
The competition was for the first three VHS releases, Arrival, Masterpiece and Desertion. A fine competition! Do you mean Masterplan? -Ralph |
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