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Post by The Doctor on Apr 16, 2008 20:30:46 GMT
So would I. But both are long gone from Burns Towers.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 16, 2008 20:33:25 GMT
Ah well.
Who knows someone else may choose to smite him with such evil tomes.....
Andy
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Post by legios on Apr 16, 2008 20:47:26 GMT
Ah well. Who knows someone else may choose to smite him with such evil tomes..... Andy How cruel a fate that would be.... Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2008 11:13:10 GMT
Do it, Andu! Do it!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 17, 2008 11:16:20 GMT
No! Resist today, resist tomorrow!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2008 11:16:56 GMT
Do it, Andu! It is your destiny!
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 17, 2008 11:19:30 GMT
I'll hunt them out, they should be in my cupboard I will give them to M along with his ROM dosage.
I AM EVIL INCARNATE!
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2008 11:22:41 GMT
YES!
Thus does evil TRIUMPH and hope FALL!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 17, 2008 11:25:18 GMT
Forgive me for asking, but I've been wondering for a few days now... what is ROM?
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 17, 2008 11:25:59 GMT
Andu: explain!!!!
I'm going back to studying.
-Ralph
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 17, 2008 11:55:52 GMT
ROM is quite simply the most awesome comic in existence. It has a Galadorian spaceknight on Earth fighting against shape-changing aliens called Dire Wraiths. He teams up with pretty much every Marvel character in the 80's. He manages to punch out a zombie woolie mammoth and does all sorts of other awesome things.
I've used the word awesome repeatedly because Rom deserves it.
Andy
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 17, 2008 13:25:30 GMT
Sounds cool! Wish I was a Spaceknight.
Loved the review Graham, you hit it on the head re the cast of thousands and 'clones' as you put it. Ascending would have been much much better with a simpler cast, and well, more refined story.
Ian
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Apr 17, 2008 13:32:51 GMT
I highly recommend ROM.
As for The Ascending - I bailed after the first issue (so far that's two IDW efforts to have not warranted further purchasing - that and Megatron).
Andy
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 17, 2008 18:25:54 GMT
Evil shall never triumph so long as there is breath within the cyborg breast of ROM!
I have a few extra comics from Phil, too, to be doled out to Andy and Gavin. To ease the pain of Ascending with two-fisted Mantlo Madness.
-Nick
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Post by legios on Apr 17, 2008 19:01:16 GMT
Must get around to asking nicely if I could borrow some ROM stuff off one of the Scots folk at some future date. I've read smatterings of it here and there, but I could benefit from some more exposure to the glory that was Rom. Karl |
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Post by kayevcee on Apr 17, 2008 20:33:17 GMT
I'll bring a few issues with me on Saturday.
-Nick
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Post by legios on Apr 17, 2008 20:52:12 GMT
I'll bring a few issues with me on Saturday. -Nick Thank you kindly, in the name of Galador. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 18, 2008 13:27:18 GMT
For those who require education, the glory of ROM: SPACEKNIGHT!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 9, 2008 10:54:25 GMT
Ralph gave me this at the weekend. I can't believe he read it twice first though. Thank goodness he gave me the sourcebooks at the same time or I wouldn't have been able to distinguish blue baboon bloke from... well other blue baboon bloke etc.
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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 9, 2008 11:24:03 GMT
There two blue baboon blokes?
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jun 9, 2008 12:05:14 GMT
B'Boom and Apache.
Apache is what they called B'Boom in Japan in the BWII line, so they're using the same toy twice.
I think Don did some differences when drawing Apache so he looked slightly different but this doesn't work well when he's the same toy.
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 9, 2008 15:24:53 GMT
Ralph gave me this at the weekend. I can't believe he read it twice first though. Thank goodness he gave me the sourcebooks at the same time or I wouldn't have been able to distinguish blue baboon bloke from... well other blue baboon bloke etc. Don't hold back! Tell us how you really feel! -Ralph |
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 9, 2008 18:21:23 GMT
It felt so right... yet so wrong.
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Post by legios on Jun 9, 2008 19:12:21 GMT
B'Boom and Apache. Apache is what they called B'Boom in Japan in the BWII line, so they're using the same toy twice. Hilariously the Sourcebooks are full of this - they seem to have crammed in as many of the BWII and Neo repaints as they can - leading to a large array of twins (and occasionally triplets). It isn't impossible to justify within the frame of the fiction, it is just that the end result is a little....absurd. Karl |
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Post by grahamthomson on Jun 9, 2008 22:07:11 GMT
All these Japanese variations will only lead in despair.
Sunstorm?
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Jun 10, 2008 15:45:02 GMT
I've been enjoying the fictional bio's in the sourcebooks far more than the comic series. I must have Beast Wars II on DVD now! Presuming that is where all the Anolgmousthing energy story was told...
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Post by legios on Jun 10, 2008 20:57:17 GMT
I've been enjoying the fictional bio's in the sourcebooks far more than the comic series. I must have Beast Wars II on DVD now! Presuming that is where all the Anolgmousthing energy story was told... Angolmois (or Angronmoa depending on which romanisation you go with) was the McGuffin of "Beast Wars Second", much as Energon was in early "Beast Wars". It also forms the McGuffin of "Beast Wars Neo" as well. Karl |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 11, 2008 16:27:58 GMT
It makes me sad that Beast Wars II is not on DVD, especially the barmy movie.
-Ralph
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Post by charlesrocketboy on Jun 13, 2008 11:33:26 GMT
I just got The Ascending from the library. Oh my GOD.  The first issue starts off so well with build-up and some nice Ravage bits and a sensible Predacon plot, and then they blow it with about half a million characters - most of whom have no lines and go unnamed - running around with no proper explanation for what's going on with the baddies. But I'm glad we see Big Convoy apologising to Bump for a two-panel argument! #4 at least has some nice character bits for Op Minor, Ravage and Magmatron ("find a suitable Maximal", heh heh) and the Predacon hordes being miffed they've been dumped on Earth. But it's still naff. |
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Post by The Doctor on Jun 14, 2008 10:19:18 GMT
Another satisfied customer!
-Ralph
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