Author Topic: Good news/Bad news (Read 1604 times)

PC Gaijin · « **Reply #45 on:** September 18, 2005, 09:30:38 AM »

Black_Tiger you should try to get a set of the Starriors comic books. It was a 4-issue limited series released around the same time as the Transformers comic book started (around 83-84). Pretty good story and art for a comic licensed from a toy.

Did anyone collect the Transformers comic books? That was one of the first comics I got into as a kid, and I had all the issues up until the mid-20s or so. Again, it wasn't too bad considering it was based on a kids' toy. I liked the whole storyline about the Transformers coming to Earth, Sparkplug Witwicky turning the tables on the Decepticons by poisoning their fuel, then the shock ending (pun intended) of the limited series with Shockwave returning to wipe everyone out and take over leadership of the Decepticons. Then the whole bit about Ratchet being the only Autobot left alive and free, Optimus Prime's head (!!) captured by the Decepticons and used to create new Transformers, reviving the Dinobots, and finally Optimus escaping by using Jetfire (always one of my favorite Transformers, yeah I know it's actually a Valkyrie from Macross

). Pretty cool stuff to a ten year old.

Speaking of Megatron: do they still make Megatrons that look like a real gun? Kind of a sad story, one of my friends when I was a kid tried to rob a convenience store with a Megatron toy. He was only 12 at the time and is lucky he didn't get himself killed. Came from a broken home and all that, but even when I was 12 I was shaking my head in disbelief when I heard about it.

doomfarer75 · « **Reply #46 on:** September 18, 2005, 03:40:08 PM »

I know that storyline pretty well...when Optimus finally returns and kicks shockwave's ass i think it was issue 12..that was a triumphant moment in my early years..The comic did a great Job expanding on all the transformer's personalities..and Optimus Prime is one of the wisest, stalwart and Noble of characters..great storyline to kick off that series. The Dinobots origin issue was fantastic, as was the Megatron issue, where he has amnesia and gets in the hands of that petty criminal...that was interesting..i think it was issue 13...

lord_cack · « **Reply #47 on:** September 18, 2005, 03:56:08 PM »

I dont know about classic transformer comics but I recently perchased a graphic novel....Origins I think...it is great and the art work is incredible.

esteban · « **Reply #48 on:** September 18, 2005, 04:43:31 PM »

Damn, you folks are stirring up the old gray cells! The Transformers and G.I. Joe comics were very well done, I think, and they both dealt with adult "themes" as well. For example, there's an awesome scene in G.I. Joe when Major Bludd grabs a bazooka or grenade launcher to kill somebody... of course, there's a kid and 2 NUNS in a station wagon blocking his view. So he blasts them.

I might not be recalling all the details, but my jaw dropped when I saw that. They had been building up the story of the kid and the nice nuns who picked him up... you thought the story was going to revolve around them. Then BLAMMM! It's all over and it shifts to something else.

I read all the Transformers comics as well... they really brought the toyline to life, providing great back-stories and everything.

Wish I kept all my old comics...

Keranu · « **Reply #49 on:** September 18, 2005, 04:53:52 PM »

The G.I. Joe comic scene you described sounds awesome.

GUTS · « **Reply #50 on:** September 18, 2005, 06:36:56 PM »

They did a 12 issue run of Transformers comics in the 90s that were absolutely awesome, great story and artwork. I used to have them all but sold them like a dufus years ago, ugh.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #51 on:** September 21, 2005, 11:33:29 AM »

Quote from: "GUTS"

^^ I was pissed when I found out years later that the early Japanese versions of the Transformers (whatever they were called before they were called transformers, Micro something?) had little guys with them, and the springs even worked on the guns! I used to have an awesome Japanese version of a transforming gun that was part of the Megatron line (there was Megatron, a revolver, and the guy I had in the series) before there was Megatron, it was so kickass.

When I was young, I had the 3 guys who transform into the camera, but never made it here as a toy(but are still in the cartoon), plus the japanese versions of Shockwave and Slag.

Our local toy store had lots of japanese toys and models for some reason. I remember seeing the Macross models and saying "its supposed to be named Robotech!".

GUTS · « **Reply #52 on:** September 21, 2005, 01:08:02 PM »

Oh yeah, Reflector! He actually made it here but was a mail in offer only, I had the US version of him years ago when I collected TFs. Man I had this awesome book too that showed every transformer ever, plus a crapload of the Japanese ones but I lost it in a move, it sucked.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #53 on:** September 21, 2005, 03:19:28 PM »

Quote from: "GUTS"

Oh yeah, Reflector! He actually made it here but was a mail in offer only, I had the US version of him years ago when I collected TFs. Man I had this awesome book too that showed every transformer ever, plus a crapload of the Japanese ones but I lost it in a move, it sucked.

You just brought this thread full circle back to the original topic: losing stuff during moves.

TR0N · « **Reply #54 on:** October 03, 2005, 03:05:22 AM »

Quote from: "lord_cack"

I dont know about classic transformer comics but I recently perchased a graphic novel....Origins I think...it is great and the art work is incredible.

I use to read the, Transformer comic book by marvel it was pretty cool.

Pretty much it had it's own universe wich had nothing to do with the cartoon.

Still i all most wish i didn't... sell them but at, that point in time i move onto reading manga insted.

doomfarer75 · « **Reply #55 on:** October 03, 2005, 04:57:07 AM »

actually, apparently the transformers were in the Marvel Universe, as the opening limited series issue #3 featured Spiderman as a guest:)

The transformers universe was also a great publication by marvel...

Michael Helgeson · « **Reply #56 on:** October 03, 2005, 04:57:42 AM »

They have been rereleasing Transformers toys in Japan and the US.
You can find the classic remakes at Toys R Us.
In the US there are no plans to release the Megatron toy based of the p.47 pistol.Also,before the trasnformers were released over here,they were even under anothe rtoy line in Japan that Takara did.And there is a knock of fline the exactly cloned them too in Japan,in which soem of the clones made it here in the US in certain Scags Alpha Beta stores and Radio Shack in peticular,which sold the clone of Shockwave.
The japanese release of Megatron shoots little plastic pellets.Hit ebay,you are sure to find one for sale in the 80-100 dollar range.

Michael Helgeson · « **Reply #57 on:** October 03, 2005, 05:12:55 AM »

I liked in the GI Joe comics when they had the sense to kill off the entire "TechnoForce 2000" team or whatever it was called.That and the plot about food poisened trapped Cobra agents like Zartan and Billy,Cobra Commanders son,and how Firefly escaped this somehow to come claim revenge.GI Joe comics by marvel were overall pretty good for back then,for Marvel anyway.
I liked the original black and white Ninja Turtles more.Violent and with great stories and artwork.Eastman and Laird were great,up untill they started to burn out.I also have the 4 trade books that were color reprints of the black and whites by First Publishing.
Yet again wonderful releases.
Some other great comics are the First Publishing releases of Lone Wolf and Cub.Frank Miller usually did the cover art,and a opening talk about what was going on per issue.
Howard Chackins American Flag released by First Pub.
Wonderful future type comic,with silly type stories,Blade Runner esque type settings sometimes and so on.I remember it fondly.
Any Terminator or Aliens or Predator comics by Darkhorse in early 90ies.Espically if the artwork is by Chris Warner or Sam Keith.
Avoid the Terminator comics released by NOW,who did SpeedRacer comics,as Now publishing sucked.They sucked so bad that they lost the rights and DarkHorse got them instead.

Black Tiger · « **Reply #58 on:** October 03, 2005, 12:44:15 PM »

Quote from: "Michael Helgeson"

I like din th eGI Joe comics when they had the sense to kill off the entire "TechnoForce 2000" team or whatever it was called.That and the plot about food poisened trapped Cobra agents like Zartan and Billy,Cobra Commanders son,and how Firefly escaped this somehow to come claim revenge.GI Joe comics by marvel were overall pretty good for back then,for Marvel anyway.
I liked the original black and white Ninja Turtles more.Violent and with great stories and artwork.Eastman and Laird were great,up untill they started to burn out.I also have the 4 trade books that were color reprints of the black and whites by First Publishing.
Yet again wonderful releases.
Some other great comics are the First Publishing releases of Lone Wolf and Cub.Frank Miller usually did the cover art,and a opening talk about what was going on per issue.
Howard Chackins American Flag released by First Pub.
Wonderful future type comic,with silly type stories,Blade Runner esque type settings sometimes and so on.I remember it fondly.
Any Terminator or Aliens or Predator comics by Darkhorse in early 90ies.Espically if the artwork is by Chris Warner or Sam Keith.
Avoid the Terminator comics released by NOW,who did SpeedRacer comics,as Now publishing sucked.They sucked so bad that they lost the rights and DarkHorse got them instead.

I first got into comics by reading Transformers and then GI JOE. At one point, late into my Joe comic collecting I read someone's Uncanny X-Men and the door opened all the way.

Keranu · « **Reply #59 on:** October 03, 2005, 02:03:39 PM »

I have an issue of Uncanny X-Men along with the first issue of the Empire Strikes Back comic books that I bought from this comic book store in a town not too far away from me earlier this year.