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Post by Pinwig on Aug 6, 2017 15:29:54 GMT
Good to know! It's a far cry from the days when I used to do B7 zines on an Acorn Archimedes and photocopy the insides at the library. It's fantastic. I'm thinking I might go your route with Sunbow Sundays when I've got it written.
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Post by blueshift on Aug 6, 2017 16:20:37 GMT
Good to know! It's a far cry from the days when I used to do B7 zines on an Acorn Archimedes and photocopy the insides at the library. It's fantastic. I'm thinking I might go your route with Sunbow Sundays when I've got it written. I fear that would be too many pages! I was looking into DIY book binding for a potential bigger project that never arose, but actually sites like Lulu that Invisibledalek is using seems to work well for that |
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 6, 2017 16:30:41 GMT
Good to know! It's a far cry from the days when I used to do B7 zines on an Acorn Archimedes and photocopy the insides at the library. It's fantastic. I'm thinking I might go your route with Sunbow Sundays when I've got it written. I fear that would be too many pages! I was looking into DIY book binding for a potential bigger project that never arose, but actually sites like Lulu that Invisibledalek is using seems to work well for that I stand ready to offer my assistance in formatting any publication for print. |
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 7, 2017 20:05:07 GMT
Ooh, thanks for the offer, Andy. I was thinking about a series of self produced volumes to stay purely amateur, so I could include illustrative screen shots and bits from scripts in a fanzine style. If it was an actual book I'd have to stay copyright infringement free. Blue's Rock Lords zine looked so good I'd be happy with that.
Anyway, it's a long way off. When I get to the end of season four I need to go back and start again. I need to redo at least the first forty episodes again to bring them up to the standard of the more recent ones. Be a year yet.
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Post by blueshift on Aug 9, 2017 15:02:24 GMT
Has anyone got their posted version yet?
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Post by Jim on Aug 14, 2017 15:24:31 GMT
Just got back home from holiday and mine was waiting for me, thanks!
Looks great, thanks for all the hard work!
-Jim
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Post by blueshift on Aug 15, 2017 12:57:36 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 19, 2017 11:11:14 GMT
A very enjoyable read.
Slickly presented as well!
Andy
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Post by Pinwig on Aug 22, 2017 17:24:40 GMT
I'd really appreciate it if anyone who got a copy of the fanzine could post a review/their thoughts! Feedback is the stuff that keeps the wheels turning! This has been on my mind for the last week. It's unfair on Blue that he puts his life and soul into putting this together and then no one gives the zine a proper review beyond applauding how amazing it is. I think the problem is no one wants to be critical of other hubbers' work and I've just been sitting here reading it again trying to think of something to say beyond the fact it's brilliant. The production quality definitely stands out, the cover is glossy and stiff and with Ed's art looks like a professional publication - helped by the way Blue crops the edges with his big chopper to square off the page edges. That's a pro touch that I've used before, a small thing but it makes a heck of a difference. It makes the whole magazine feel like it's been professionally printed. Blue's relentless positivity comes across in the introduction, which explains the premise well with an outline of the zine and provides the kind of nostalgic glow that sets the tone for the rest of the book. The art throughout is brilliant - be it individual pieces or the strip, which works well because of the way it uses Armada's unique character relationships to tell the story from Starscream and Swindle's points of view. The Memories of Armada piece reminded me of things I'd forgotten, and also that at the time I had very little to do with TF fandom and lived through all that pretty much in isolation. Armada coincided with a time when I had to work away from home, living in a rented room through the week, and a Friday lunchtime trip into town to see if Woolies or the local import shop had new toys in was a real treat to look forward to. That's one reason why I bought and still have almost all of the Armada line. Ben's piece on the game is great, but I think I liked that more than he did. Back when that came out, gaming was a big thing for me (being a game artist at the time) and I remember being overjoyed that there was finally a decent video game out with the Transformers in. I finished that several times over - was that the one with the level where you have to fight Starscream in the middle of an ice field? I remember finding that as hard as beating bloody Trypticon at the end of WfC. The humour pieces raised a few laughs, especially Optimus using the matrix as a mini bar and Peter Cullen being kept in a barrel of water being fed fish for doing his party pieces. I will try some of the ice cream recipes at some point, probably as a dare. I'm also really glad Blue put the bit in about JAam, because that made no sense to me until I read that, and I'm extremely impressed that his idea ended up incorporated into an actual Hot Shot toy. That is a real claim to fame. The love/hate pieces only go to prove how we all have differing perspectives on the toys we play with, which is what fuels forums like this when it comes to it, but cleverly tying both pieces together at the end took it to another level. Having now experienced Phil's distribution of toys across tables in pubs I can picture that happening. Being a big fan of InflatableDalek's Transformation books (so glad to have volume 2) it was nice to see him tackle the Armada comic with sincerity and the insight he gives on the Marvel comics. I hope that piece gets included as an appendix in volume 3. Equally informative, Phil's Minicon guide almost melted my brain trying to follow the contorted re-releases and reissues, and I can't imagine trying to keep track of that first time through. I think I was alright with the Hasbro stuff, but those Japanese exclusives and different versions - oh my god. I've read that bit three times now and I still don't think I could take a quiz on it. Then we have Blue's amazing poem, which has no right to be as good as it is given the subject matter he's dealing with, and my own small contribution in the minicon-capers, which really only works because of Matt's amazing mind reading abilities to draw the figures exactly as I'd imagined them. The fact Blue coloured the strip and didn't tell me until I saw it was the icing on the cake. So all in all a great mix of humour, insight and art that shows a genuine fondness for one of the more lambasted eras of the line. I think the only thing missing is some good old fashioned fan fiction, and of course a letters' page, but that was entirely my fault because I was going to do that. I just couldn't see how we could take Starscream's one hit 'insult the reader' joke and turn it into two pages that didn't repeat the same gag over and over again. Besides, the zine is too nice to have his negativity ruin it. I don't think a loving homage to a fading toyline could be done any better. edit: thinking about it Phil, could you move this post into the zine's own thread please? |
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Post by blueshift on Aug 22, 2017 18:00:45 GMT
Aaaw thanks Pinwig  |
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