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Post by Pinwig on Dec 7, 2021 22:24:12 GMT
There can never be peace because it... Never ends.
Thinking about this, do we know now the point Furman knew the issue the series would end with? I'm sure there have been interviews about it, was it that he was working toward 75 as the end, but when it got extended past that, did he know he had a five issue wrap up? Or was he writing blind not knowing when the axe would fall?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 7, 2021 23:25:46 GMT
He's said no that 75 wasn't intended to be the end, pretty sure he was partway through 77 when he was told.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 8, 2021 22:13:27 GMT
Ah, that might make sense when you look at it. 78 is a curious issue in the way everything suddenly speeds up toward the end, then 79 starts with the sudden reappearance of Spike.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 21, 2021 10:40:17 GMT
30 Years Ago This Fortnight: Issue #331End of the Road - Part 1: On Klo, Bludgeon's forces have overwhelmed the Autobots. Darkwing and Dreadwind destroy Getaway and Bludgeon dispatches Siren with his katana. Grimlock, Prowl and a handful of others hide from Bludgeon's mop up crew but are caught and Blaster is shot. Just as Bludgeon is about to kill Wheeljack, the Neo Knights attack and stall the Decepticons long enough for them to realise other reinforcements have arrived... The Big Shutdown - Part 2: Colourised reprint of #231. Elsewhere, Transformation tells readers to look out for the new Death's Head II mini-series, only available in specialist comic shops from January, and that the first issue will contain details of new Marvel UK comic series starting in April; there are adverts for Digitek, Knights of Pendragon and Doctor Who Magazine's UNIT special; and the letters' page makes way for a double page Combat Colin as he and Steve head toward the end of The Last Ooer!
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 21, 2021 10:41:16 GMT
Cannot believe we are nearly at the end of the regular run. Quite sad really. Seven years this re-read has taken!
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Post by Benn on Dec 21, 2021 11:19:04 GMT
wow
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 21, 2021 11:46:23 GMT
The cruellest issue of all as hope had been raised that the comic had a future and the axe was yet to fall.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, TRANSFORMERS UK FANS.
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 21, 2021 11:52:20 GMT
This one is suspicious because the letters' page goes AWOL to fit in two pages of Colin. That would have set alarm bells off.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 21, 2021 12:22:17 GMT
They knew...THEY KNEW...
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 21, 2021 12:33:09 GMT
And the general layout and fonts in the last issue are bloody awful, like it was an after thought before they packed up for Christmas. It looks like the later Thundercats issues.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 21, 2021 12:34:47 GMT
One has to wonder then if Another Time and Place was basically Furman offloading the plot he'd worked out for the next few issues of the comic but didn't get a chance to write properly. He'd have been writing that around the same time the scripts for issues 79/80 were being done given how far in advance annuals are prepared.
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Post by Benn on Dec 21, 2021 16:18:49 GMT
This one is suspicious because the letters' page goes AWOL to fit in two pages of Colin. That would have set alarm bells off. I think this was what got to me too. Colin at least, seemed to be wrapping up, even if the TF strip seemed like it had a few more issues to run. |
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Post by The Huff on Dec 21, 2021 22:35:46 GMT
But wasn't there a newspaper in the final Combat Colin strip reporting the new monthly TF comic as front page news?
Either Colin entered an alternative universe or they lied to him too!
Gits.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 22, 2021 9:48:00 GMT
I'm a bit confused actually. I had it in my head that Matt had a letter about TMUK in the last issue with his address, but it evidently isn't. Have we already been past that and I didn't realise? (Not that we've got that far yet but I'm just getting prepared)
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Post by Philip Ayres on Dec 22, 2021 10:15:24 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 22, 2021 10:52:24 GMT
Ah that makes sense. Got it.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 22, 2021 11:02:55 GMT
ANDU'S EYE IS SPITTING FURY AT YOU FOR YOUR POOR KNOWLEDGE OF G2UK!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 22, 2021 11:12:06 GMT
Which eye?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Dec 22, 2021 11:24:38 GMT
ALL OF THEM!!!
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 22, 2021 12:09:38 GMT
Woah. Triple threat action...
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Post by The Huff on Dec 22, 2021 20:14:58 GMT
There must have been another letter that we've missed from a John Moore - that's who I wrote to first.
Also remember the one in the US comic from Lianne Elliot.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 23, 2021 10:45:10 GMT
We did do that one, it was #311 back in March: Elsewhere, Transformation encourages readers to send in their drawings of Transformers for a fantastic competition to win new Classic Hero Triplechangers; Joyride and Getaway feature in the A-Z; Colin defeats the Mad Hatter; and on the letters' page, John 'blip' Moore of Nottingham tells Blaster about the Transmasters club and claims Hasbro are going to make a new toy line with a 'second universe mini series' to support it. I just got mixed up where your one appeared, but I see now it's on the editorial page of the last G2 issue. |
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Post by chrisl on Dec 23, 2021 11:36:14 GMT
Whenever I read my old G2 comics I always think it's quite sad that Matt Dallas doesn't get the credit & recognition he deserves for everything he has done for both the TF fandom and the impact this has had on Transformers as a franchise. Between 1994 and 2001, he (along with Martin M & Graham T) pretty much held the UK Transformers fandom together by acting as its main hub of communication via his Informer G2 newsletter and writing/drawing the vast majority of the monumental fanzine Transformers: The Continued Generation 2. The latter of which also provided introductions between (and published early work of) James Roberts, Nick Roche, and Jack Lawrence, as well as introduced several other fans to each other who went to organise BotCon Europe 1999.
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 23, 2021 12:36:09 GMT
I really wish I'd made more effort back then to get more involved. I was at Botcon 99 but didn't know anyone and didn't speak to anyone all day. I remember being enthralled by Simon talking and by the atmosphere there, looking at all the toys. If only I'd actually spoken to anyone.
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 24, 2021 22:52:58 GMT
Whenever I read my old G2 comics I always think it's quite sad that Matt Dallas doesn't get the credit & recognition he deserves for everything he has done for both the TF fandom and the impact this has had on Transformers as a franchise. Between 1994 and 2001, he (along with Martin M & Graham T) pretty much held the UK Transformers fandom together by acting as its main hub of communication via his Informer G2 newsletter and writing/drawing the vast majority of the monumental fanzine Transformers: The Continued Generation 2. The latter of which also provided introductions between (and published early work of) James Roberts, Nick Roche, and Jack Lawrence, as well as introduced several other fans to each other who went to organise BotCon Europe 1999. Bloody heck- wow They did that?! |
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 25, 2021 8:39:56 GMT
We've told you before!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Dec 29, 2021 22:20:28 GMT
But but but...
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 31, 2021 10:11:06 GMT
Are we all ready for the death-knell of #332 this week?
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Dec 31, 2021 10:16:46 GMT
Yes because... it never ends.
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Post by The Doctor on Dec 31, 2021 18:40:56 GMT
I don't want to go.
*blubs*
*room explodes*
-Ralph
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