Transformers Classics UK Volume 1

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There is some confusion over when issues first appeared, due to changing practices regarding the cover dates. When the comic began in 1984, Marvel issues were normally cover dated four months ahead of their going on sale. This was partially a hangover from the days of fierce newsstand competition when each company tried to make its comics look newer than its rivals and partially a mechanism to compensate for slower distribution on newsstands and overseas sales. Balancing Act, released by IDW in April 2007, is a collection of stories from the Hasbro Collector's Club Magazine that were published from 2005 to 2006. The stories were written by Forrest Lee and illustrated by Dan Khanna. The " ...Perchance to Dream" story in UK #255-260 began the Earthforce storyline and heralded a nigh-irreconcilable division between U.S. and UK stories. This was in part a deliberate decision to not try to maintain continuity due to past problems. [7] Publication and format

Thunderwing's inner robot transforms into a rather simple Cybertronic shuttlecraft. His Pretender shell also transforms into a starship mode of its own. The inner vehicle can be attached underneath the nose of the larger vehicle to create a combined starship mode. The inner robot is relatively generic in appearance (as with most Pretenders) while his outer Pretender shell resembles an alien warrior with Japanese oni influences. The inner robot carries a small "cyclone cannon" laser, while the shell is armed with two large laser blasters. All three of his guns can be mounted on his shell's vehicle mode. The large laser blasters can be mounted on the jet two different ways, either perpendicular or parallel to the wing undersides.A four-part series released throughout the Armada toy line. The series was produced by the same team that started on Dreamwave's Transformers: Armada comic, story by Chris Saccarini and illustrated by James Raiz. The first 2 volumes were printed in English, Spanish, and French. Issues 188, 200, 218, 222 were completed stories from multiple issues so I’ve replaced them with the proper comic minus only the strip from another comic series like Action Force.

Optimus Primal/Megatron Mini-Comic – "Beast Wars" ". Archived from the original on 4 November 2015 . Retrieved 24 February 2013. By this point, what kept TFUK alive were the new UK stories, the first of which (‘Man Of Iron’ by Steve Parkhouse) had appeared in 1985. Drawn by a variety of artists but nearly all written by Simon Furman, they began as a buffer to buy time between reprints of the American material but soon took on a life of their own, telling epic adventures about time travel, gods and monsters. Following a renewed interest in the brand, coinciding with the big "nostalgia boom" of the early-Oughts, Hasbro granted the rights to produce Transformers comics to up-and-coming Canadian comics house Dreamwave Productions, a decision based heavily on a piece of "concept art" by Pat Lee (well, theoretically by him, at least. He was given credit for it. But... well....) This is probably the closest look we'll get at Thunderwing's unpublished character model. José Delbo was a copier. At BotCon 2010, the Hasbro design team noted that they had wanted to make the aerial drone unit transform into a robot but were unable to do so (presumably for budget reasons, though they didn't go into that detail).The exact reason for this change is that doing new strips would've meant spending money, and Marvel UK's then-head Paul Neary didn't want to spend it on what he considered a 'dead end' of relying on licensed material. It's also possible he saw cancelling the comic as a way to shake things up. (He would later tell Comics World #33, regarding Death's Head's original self), "I didn't think there was much future in Transformers-based robots". Interestingly, Furman hadn't been asked to write the planned new tales and we don't know if that was due to timing or someone else would've been tapped. [6] Cover dates The first issue of Stormbringer contains the number 7 on the UPC, continuing from Infiltration' numbering, meaning that despite being sold as mini-series, the G1 comics by Furman are essentially being considered by IDW as a single comic series. This also is continued in Escalation which starts at #10 on the UPC. Thunderwing, along with Scourge, Bludgeon, Dirge, and Galvatron, was sent to prepare another universe for Unicron's arrival. Porting into Decepticon Command Headquarters on Cybertron, Galvatron left Thunderwing and the others on Cybertron to accomplish their task. Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4 Though they destroyed all of the Decepticons in their headquarters and established a network of space bridge portals, this universe's Megatron was not amongst their victims. Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4 Various parodies and homages to its distinctly surreal cover art including an incentive cover of " The Death of Optimus Prime", Cover B of the final issue of Regeneration One, a convention exclusive cover for Till All Are One #1, the "cover" for " The Inexorable March", and a retailer incentive cover to Unicron #1. Devil's Due Publishing experienced success with their revived G.I Joe series under license by Hasbro. Both companies produced their own six-issue mini-series detailing a crossover between the two with permission from Hasbro, but Dreamwave had the exclusive license to produce Transformers comics, while Devil's Due had the exclusive license to G.I. Joe; hence the two different miniseries from both companies with two different ideas behind each company's respective franchise. A second series followed in late 2004, followed by a third in 2005, and a fourth in 2006.

Did 1994’s Winter Special put the final nail in TFUK’s coffin by selling so poorly that another special (which would most likely have been scheduled for April 1995) could not be justified? Maybe not — and this is where Generation 2 comes in. Scattered across the UK, a handful of readers had reason to be optimistic. Transmasters UK was a small, unofficial fan club established in 1990, practically all of its members having grown up on TFUK. November 1991’s Trans Talk, the fan club newsletter, led with a bulletin entitled ‘Transformers #333’. The brief article described how, earlier that month, a member of Transmasters UK, favouring the direct approach, had telephoned Marvel UK’s offices to ask after the fate of the comic. Presumably speaking to a (very candid) Papadopoulos, they’d been told that the comic was going monthly, and that it would include brand new stories set on Cybertron. “Congratulations to everyone who wrote to Marvel begging them not to cancel the comic,” the Trans Talk article concluded. “It worked!” That all came to a crashing end in late 2004 as the company basically imploded, with creators going unpaid, numerous license-granters going unpaid (not just Hasbro!), and Dreamwave head honchos going somewhere far away with wads of cash to try and pull it off again. This left multiple storylines in cliffhanger limbo, but unlike with 3H's stories, nobody bothered to cap them off later (well, with one minor exception), though some scripts for unproduced issues have since surfaced.

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Let us never forget our primary purpose -- to spare this world from the scourge we have unwittingly unleashed upon it!" Entertainment News International (ENI) is the #1 popular culture network for adult fans all around the world. While the decision-makers at Marvel UK could not have known in late 1991 that Generation 2 was on the horizon, TFUK was nonetheless selling enough at the time of its demise to warrant continued investment in the license in the form of the aforementioned holiday specials.