Transformers Marvel Comics Classics Volume 4 Review

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here. We have six quick hit stories. And then,

because this is also the pullback, we're going

to get into Transformers Marvel US Volume 4.

More than meets the eye. We'll get into that

after the news, folks. But first up, we have

Lorenzo D. Bonaventura talks about Transformers

Rise of the Beasts. Character arcs dominate the

story. All right. Well, in a two -hour movie,

I don't know how that's going to happen. but

this is what he says. From Collider, who sat

down with him for an exclusive lengthy interview

about the upcoming movie, Transformers Rise to

the Base, I think the overall architecture of

this movie is definitely definitely unique for

this movie, and it's always going to be influenced

by what we did in the Bay movies in certain respects

because that's how the robots have been rendered.

But just like in Bumblebee, we gave them a different

spin. Same here. I think the way to talk about

this is what were our goals in making this. In

making Bumblebee, our objective was to see how

far, frankly, we could create intimacy in a movie

with a robot. Well, AI is a thing now, folks.

And it was a conscious attempt not to make the

biggest scale, but to center the story around

an emotional construct. I think the movie is

very successful in what it did. There were fans

that complained there was not enough action,

but it was very well received as a movie, blah,

blah, blah. So our first objective was to figure

out how do we hold on to the emotionality of

the experience for the humans that are going

through it. And our decision was to give them

character arcs that are more significant than

we've done before. Transformers live -action

writers, right? It's hard to say that about Shia

LaBeouf in the first movie. You know, he goes

from being a young man essentially to a man,

right? In this case, Anthony Ramos and Dominique...

This is flashbacks characters are both characters

who are trying to find their way in life yada

yada yada so character arcs and okay sure again,

I don't know how many character arcs you can

fit into a Two hour three hour seven hour movie

I'm quite honestly done with crappy films I find

it funny Deadline .com reported this and they

went oh We have They're like the first and this

is totally related but not related right You

know the first Transformers animated movie is

Is is being cast or whatever? And I had to roll

my eyes. DJ goes, you've missed the point. I

need to find what he said. All right, well, while

you're looking for that, so we're going into

this, and we're going into Transformers 1. So

we're switching from Rise of the Beast to Transformers

1. Last thing I'll say about Rise of the Beasts

is that the quote unquote final trailer, because

we are recording and probably releasing this

somewhere around May 2nd, May 3rd, May the 4th

be with you, Revenge of the 5th, Revenge of the

6th, all that stuff. So we're releasing this

approximately one month before Rise of the Beasts

hits theaters. So I assume the most recent trailer,

which I'll probably throw in here somewhere.

For centuries. Our kind has stayed hidden on

Earth. But darkness has found us again. Brian.

This is about the fate of all living things.

Unicron is coming. I thought he was boys You

brought a human here I'm nobody I ain't even

seen nothing. I'm not even seen anything right

now This is not our war Optimus we must trust

each other to protect the whole we all share

How big can this guy be? Uh, he eats planets,

so like, way bigger than a planet. In the end,

everything you cared for will be consumed. Maybe

there's another way to save our home. You've

never faced anything like this. Let them come.

I didn't hate it. I liked it. I like what I saw.

I'm interested. But I'm not going to go to the

theater to see it. I don't leave my house half

the time. I don't leave my apartment half the

time. So that is what it is. So switching from

that to Transformers 1, you sent me this. And

I don't even have to scroll up in our Facebook

chat to see. You go, I don't say this lightly.

Fuck this. And then you put the link to the story.

We'll get into the casting of Transformers 1

in a moment. My reply to you was, oh, FFS, obviously.

For fuck's sake, I'm so tired of insert actor

here and the only blah, blah, blah. So let's

get into this casting. So casting for Transformers

1. First of all, I actually love the name. because

it's basically telling you, look, this is the

beginning. This is not tied to anything else.

We're not trying to tie it back to Beast Wars,

Beast Machines, Animated, G1, G2, Robots. This

is a new beginning. I like that. I love that.

I think that's great. Transformers 1, O .N .E.

Absolutely love that. The animated voice cast

includes Chris Hemsworth. I'll tell about the

characters in a moment. Chris Hemsworth, Brian

Tyree Henry. Scarlett Johansson, Keegan -Michael

Key, John Hamm, and Laurence Fishburne. Now,

those are the ones that have been reported as

of this recording so far. Chris Hemsworth is

playing Optimus Prime. Why? Hence my comment.

I know. I am so fucking tired of Hemsworth. Look,

he's an okay actor. He's fairly good. Well, it's

not even that. The thing that irritates me is

they're not giving the actors, like the voice

actors, their due. Like these people that have

worked their butt off to get these characters

on screen. Yeah. And they're just like, eh, what

are you, chop liver? And like they don't like

they instantly and I get it. They're going for

the the name appeal, which. Yeah. To each their

own on that. I am sick and tired of like the

Marvel people showing up Yeah, and it's more

so just I just don't care anymore like it's done

and I would prefer that they Like it's like what

they did with the Mario movie. Yes. Let's put

a bunch of names in there that people know but

Ultimately, I don't I don't have a love for for

when that happens It doesn't make me want to

go see the movie. What makes me want to see the

movie is that I can tell that the, the casting

is competent and the story is competent. If it's

not, it's an instant, like, no, I, I have. And

it, it, it boils down to writing. If the writing

sucks, like there's not there. Absolutely. It

does. Yeah. And I feel like there hasn't been

a decent transformers movie made in years because

the powers that be continue to, you know, garbage

in, garbage out. Yeah. Yeah. And the thing is,

is that you, I understand they're going for high

value celebrities to get this to mass appeal

to mass audience, not just us who have been fans

all our lives kind of thing. I understand that.

But that's not what this needs to be like you

could give these roles to John Bailey and Jason

Marnosha the optimist in Megatron. Yeah, and

you give it to them You could give it you could

give it to who they really should give it to

which is obviously Peter Cullen and Frank Welker

if they're trying to start a new generation Give

people that either sound like they can play the

role competently. Yeah Like, it doesn't have

to be a sound alike of Peter Cullen and Frank

Walker. Yeah. Just give us, like, competent,

you know, competent actors, you know, in the

place. And I don't want to see a Beast Wars Megatron.

Yes! Megatron! You know, give me something with

some, you know, I don't know, just... With a

pleasant surprise. Exactly. Give me something

with some gravitas, man. Yeah. And the thing

is, I'm still gonna see this. Like I said, I'm

probably not gonna, I'm gonna wait until it hits

Voodoo or whatever streaming service it's gonna

hit, probably Paramount Plus or whatever the

hell. And I'll watch it, we'll talk about it,

we'll discuss it with the Mario movie thing.

I haven't even seen it yet. I know it's coming

out on digital May 9th later this month, but

I've seen plenty of people discuss it. I've seen

plenty of clips of it where I'm okay with. The

voice cast that's there and I love what they

did with Charles Martinet who is the The original

voice of Mario kind of thing. So I like that.

It's all right in the Mario movie is freaking

I've heard it's freaking fantastic. And obviously

it's I've seen it. It's actually really good

Yeah, absolutely and we'll cover it at some and

that's not and again, they had big actors in

it But I didn't care about that. Yeah, I like

the story. Yep Absolutely. Like you said earlier,

it all depends on the writing. I just can't...

I just can't envision Thor as Optimus Prime,

because really, outside of the Marvel Cinematic

Universe, I only know maybe four of Hemsworth's

other films, Ghostbusters 2016, the two extraction

movies, and something else that I can't remember

off the top of my head at this point. You played

Captain Kirk's dad in the original Star Trek.

Okay, now... that I mentioned but that was good

right that okay good see that's the thing if

he uses the voice like if he changes if he doesn't

go into thor if he doesn't make optimus prime

thor if he doesn't make him you know that you

know that kind but if he goes with kirk's day

if he goes with george tiberius kirk i think

it was george i know it was tiberius it was it

was george kirk yeah okay well whatever point

is is that If he uses that kind of voice, I'll

be okay. And I'm still gonna check it out. I'm

still gonna see how, because I need to know how

Hemsworth is gonna do that character. I don't,

without looking it up, and I don't feel like

looking anything up right now, Brian Tyree Henry,

I have no idea what else he's done, but he's

voicing Megatron. Scarlett Johansson voicing

Alita. Okay, fine. I like her voice. That's that's

fine Don't you find it funny though that they're

gonna do like Orion Pax and Megatron and then

it's Alita one instead of Ariel Yeah, well, yeah

See, I mean technically they are the same character.

But yeah, it should be Yes, this is the origin

of Optimus and Megatron as friends and then enemies

and whatever else like you draw from the lore

Don't try and reinvent the wheel Like, it's not

needed. Yeah, exactly. Keegan -Michael Key kicked

ass as Toad, so I'm interested to hear his bumblebee.

John Hamm did something recently. I don't remember

what the hell it was, but Sentinel Prime, okay,

fine. And then my favorite, I cannot wait. I

wish it was George Takei, but it's not. But,

Florence Fishburne, freaking Morpheus as Alpha

Trion. Which that should be like A3. Yeah. Yeah,

absolutely. Cannot wait for that one. All right.

Up next, we have I found this on Twitter and

this is like you were kind of ranting about the

Transformers one thing and all that. And this

is well, it's funny because DJ Deadline brought

it up. Oh, you got it. OK. And he goes, in one

headline, you made everyone despise a movie due

to historic incompetence. Because they put is

the headline. Paramount Animation, Hasbro, and

E1 are teaming on the first ever animated Transformers

movie. First ever. First ever. And then just

below it, Twitter puts a, you know how they were

doing the fake news thing. It says, readers added

context they thought people might want to know.

An animated Transformers movie came out in 1986.

Yeah. And I was like, yes. Absolutely. Yeah,

I just. Yeah. I just I thought it was hilarious

that that came out. And then and then Ben Yee.

Yep. He gets in there, too. And and he's like.

Deadline the first transformers film was in 1986

animated feature the transformers the movie I

understand president of paramount animation said

this was the first but they were mistaken I would

recommend a correction be posted in the article

Exactly. I'm like you people like and this is

what and this is what drives me nuts and I've

mentioned this with even job interviews With

when they refer to to writing If you're going

to write an article, make sure it's factual.

Yeah, exactly. And I get you can't know everything,

but a simple Google would have done wonders.

Google is your friend for everything at this

point. And don't try and be clever with the titles.

Yeah. And what's funny is a lot of people were

just backing up the argument by posting images

saying Hasbro, really, and then posted images

of Transformers the movie. And so somebody goes,

you know, okay, so I didn't see this Transformers

the movie in the 80s with the theme sung by By

a lion. I love how journalists like to rewrite

history these days And I know most of that one

just because like it's yeah and I get it like

you're not if you're not into it You're not gonna

know and I do get that I give them some some

wiggle room there. However Do just do a Google

search, yep That's even when I wrote tech articles

and I had to write them for Macs. Yep, and I

didn't have one. I just would do a Google search

to find what I was looking for. Absolutely. I

don't know. Alright, yeah, no, absolutely. You

are absolutely 100 % correct and I don't know

what the hell has happened. to the art of journalism.

I don't know. It's become like, who can we pay

the least amount of money and do the laziest

job? That's why they're rewriting people with

AI. Exactly. And this is a complete topic that

we are going to cover on Geocast Radio, the flagship

podcast here at the GCR, and at some point soon

in the future, because this is a whole topic

we can all... huge issues with AI and creating

writing and all that wibbly wobbly wacky whack

-a -boo whack -a -doo stuff that AI does. Alright,

up next is something that, again, just like I'm

tired of Chris Hemsworth, I have nothing against

the man personally, I'm just tired of seeing

him everywhere kind of thing. And I get it. Yeah.

I'm tired at this point of Robosen. Yeah, I I

get the appeal of the transforming optimists,

but I don't care See the thing is out there product

because one I'll never buy it. It's too expensive

It's too expensive and I understand why it's

expensive. Yeah, I mean it's it's it's it's a

good, you know Artistic, you know Marvel. Yeah

But you need to have a mansion in order to use

it. Yeah Mean I have I don't even know I would

have to look online to see if I can find what

the actual square footage of my one -bedroom

apartment is I know I could probably put him

over here on the carpet where there's nothing

currently right now, but again cost and whatever

else but Robosen We are going primal Autobots

assemble prepare to embrace the next level of

the battle RoboSend's Rise of the Beasts Performance

Optimus Prime rolls out online May 25th, 2023.

And it's basically Rise of the Beasts Optimus,

you know, in the RoboSend and whatever else,

and I'm sure it's gonna have Peter Cullen's voice

and all that, but it's the Rise of the Beasts

design. Okay, fine, great. I'm not gonna buy

it. Like, if I wanted... So you're talking about

the original RoboSend one. I waited to see what

else they were going to do with that, and then

they finally released the RoboSend one. They

actually released the trailer, and the trailer

comes with... So it's kind of like MP01 versus

MP04 kind of thing. MP04 came with the trailer,

MP01 did not. And if I want a full Optimus Prime,

whether it's auto converting or not, I want not

just the tractor, I want the trailer too. That's

the whole point. And then, second to last story

we have, and I think this is kind of cool. Unicron

.com posted on Instagram that Delzord asks, is

the face of Optimus Prime in this movie designed

off of the legendary voice of Prime Peter Cullen?

And he tagged Stephen Cable Jr., Transformers

Rise of the Beast, blah, blah, blah. And it looks

kind of like Peter Cullen, a little bit. Mean

prime doesn't have a mustache like Peter does

but no, but I mean well actually does if you

look really closely Yeah, yeah, it is kind of

like the formation is there. Yeah, it is kind

of there But but yeah, I do think that's cool

that they're paying attention to that kind of

detail I wish they'd pay attention to other kinds

of details The other thing that I noticed from

unicron .com on Instagram is Coleman Downing

will be the voice of Unicron in Rise of the Beasts.

I have no idea who this person is. I've never

heard of them. I'm going to have to look them

up after the show because I'm not clicking through

70 hundred IMDB things to find him at this point

in time. So I thought that was cool. And then

finally, just before we hit record for this episode,

folks, we do have final product shots of Nemesis,

the ship, the robot, for the Transformers legacy

evolution, whatever multiple title things the

line is. She looks good in robot mode, I like

all the poses, but I love the ship. I just, I

want this and I want the Ark just to sit on my

shelf and I would never transform them out of

their ship mode, their alt modes. It looks so

good. I Don't mind it. I just I it's it's a Titan

figure. I probably won't ever any of them Absolutely,

just because I could get a I could get a Beast

Wars masterpiece character for the same cost

true But again, I guess G1 and if there was an

axel on yeah, see that I see this is what I'm

thinking I'm biased I would probably do it just

so I have the ship I would never transform it

I would just have the stinking ship on my my

desk. So most of my posts on my personal Facebook

page folks are memories from like three, four,

five, 10, 11, 15 years ago kind of thing. And

the other day, actually as of this recording,

it was 15 hours ago. memory came up from 13 years

ago when I took a screen cap of, I think it's

in the first, whenever they first reveal the

axelon, like after it crashes, and it's all snowy,

it's the snow scene of where the axelon finally

crashes, where it finally ends up in the cartoon,

and I just posted 15 hours ago, but winter is

over, because Facebook wanted me to post the

picture again after 13 years. So this is my thinking.

With them having the Ark and having the Nemesis

now, I think they're going to eventually get

to the Axilon and the Dark Side. If they can

pull it off with these two ships, they can pull

it off with those two ships, and I really love

the way the Ark looks and Nemesis She looks great

too. The Ark, he looks fine. He looks great.

And this looks great as well. In both modes,

I just would never have it in robot mode. That's

just me personally. But yeah, so I think that

could potentially possibly be coming. Anything

else you've noticed before we head to a quick

break? Well, I have... in addition to some of

those things. We have the Transformers Takara

Beast Wars Versus sets. Oh yes, I missed that.

Is it on TFW? It is. They've got, presently,

there's going to be one of, I mean obviously

we know Primal and Megatron. Yep. which people

are sorely disappointed with the Megatron because

they didn't really change all that much in the

way of the colors over the Kingdom one. Uh -huh.

And then there's Rhinox and Scorponok. Oh, boy.

And then Waspinator and Cheetor. That's a good

combo. That'll work. And they gave Cheetor the

Netflix body. Oh. Well, no, the Netflix paint

job where he's actually got the proper blues.

OK, yeah. They don't have a close up picture

of them yet. And Waspinator was pretty close,

but it looks like they've also changed like the

wing color. It's not that purple like it's the

translucent with the shade of purple. So it's

not like completely purple purple. It looks like

the show. So, yeah, I'm I'm excited to see what

it looks like. I already have all of these figures.

I I don't care like I I'm gonna buy the same

toy again for a different paint job. I'll just

paint it. Yeah but I thought it was interesting

that they're coming out with that and then the

the red prime Starscream Has been revealed yeah,

and to be honest like his wings pop off and You

can change the hands and you can put his null

ray on I kind of like it. I mean, there's some

lack of color for sure, and there's some bending

of some of the rubberized plastic, which that's

the main gripe I have with modern toys, is the

rubber. You can't paint it, and then once it's

bent, it's screwed. And then they figured out

a way to repurpose the War for Cybertron Megatron

figure once more. Nice. As minor Megatron. Like

the origins Megatron Interesting like that paint

job and he's got the the caution tape and yep

They don't show what his head looks like or his

hands yet. Okay But yeah, that's that's one that

they're they're working on and people are screaming

in the post Please no more siege Megatron repaints

remolds. I'm good for now. I promise And then

there's red Grimlock Okay coming as well Cool.

Cool. It looks pretty he looks pretty decent

The red ones I'm looking forward to but at the

same time I'm waiting for more Beast Wars Yeah,

I really want if there's a Megatron I'll get

them if not, I'll probably pass on anything red.

I I've been tempted for Starscream ultra Magnus

and G1 Megatron And even prime to some degree,

but I like the option to transform them Yeah,

if I have that option so like for instance I

found Forget what the sites called Yeah, it's

Ally Express yeah, okay, so anyways you can find

Transformers figures or just about anything you

can find knockoff versions of figures on their

site for like a fraction of the cost and so I

found a knockoff alligator Megatron nice and

he's he's oversized so he's deluxe instead of

basic nice that's cool and and it was like 12

bucks shipped Nice and I found quick strike same

same deal, right and I was like, okay that I

I could because I mean you're gonna pay 30 to

a to 60 just for those brand new from the Hasbro

and You're lucky if you can get them And then

these are oversized so they're the size of a

deluxe. So I was like, okay for that I could

I could you know toy around with them, tweak

the colors, you know, remold things as I see

fit. But it, you know, it gives me a bigger figure

to go on my shelf. Very cool. I was like, all

right, well, that's that's cool. So anyways,

yeah, I I've gotten into those a little bit,

but yeah, I think I think I'm good as far as

that stuff goes. I'm working on my Star Trek

ships now. Yes, yes, you are. That's a whole

other. Defiant thing that we'll talk about later.

Yeah other conversations. Yes Yes, so the last

thing I found before we head to a break and come

back with the comic review is Have you had any

interest in fig pin? You've heard of them or

you know that they're the pin company that does

various Like enamel pins and things like that.

They have an optimist. Yeah, I've I've heard

of them I just haven't looked into them I put

the link to the latest one in our Facebook chat

so you can click on that really quick. So they

have, so far, Optimus, Megatron, Bumblebee, Starscream,

Jazz, and Soundwave. And they're all the G1 designs.

Well, they have Hot Rod and Galvatron, too. That's

the new story that, yeah, exactly. And I don't

dislike Fig Pin at all. I think it's a kind of

cool thing and whatever else. Was like I never

had like oh my god, I I need another optimus

That's the only optimus I need at this point

like I don't need another optimus I wish I had

a Megatron as far as like a voice Megatron wide,

you know, you know that That doesn't really count.

Well, you know what they do with them, right?

Mm -hmm. You have an app and you can scan them.

Yep I don't know how much I care about a digital

item. Well, true, right? But it's also a physical

thing. Yeah. It is also a physical thing. And

it's not hidden behind an NFT wall or anything

else. So yes, the two new FigPin announced two

new items for the officially licensed Transformers

collection Hot Rodding Galvatron. Each FigPin

is crafted in cast zinc alloy inlaid with Hard

enamel and is finished with an electro -plated

nickel coating that include their own display

cases. Both are scheduled for release mid -May

2023. These new characters join the first ones,

as I already said. And I've already saved these

website links to FigPin, because I will most

likely buy these in June, because I kind of dig

them. I've seen a lot of other FigPin stuff,

and I've never really like, oh my god, I have

to have these. Hot Rod and Galvatron, I kind

of have to have them. I like the Prime. That's

about as far as it goes. I like it because it's

got that animation feel, but it also looks like

what's on the cover of the Transformers the movie

DVD. Yep. So that's the only reason I like it.

Yeah. But unless, unless there was like a Beast

Megatron or Optimus Primal, I don't think I would

ever get any of these. But I do like them to

some degree. I just don't. Not something I would

necessarily. Yeah. And again, for me, it's like

I'm not like Hot Rod and Galvatron. That's that's

pretty much all I need. Like, I don't need any

of the others. I don't want any of the others.

Hell, I didn't even see this story until I was

scrolling for the other one that you were talking

about with the two. the two new whatever figures

of whatever it was you're talking about a moment

ago. And then I ran into this and I'm like, ooh,

want. So we're going to take a quick break. We're

going to come back with Marvel Comics Transformers

Classics Volume 4 reprinted by IDW Publishing.

And we're going to talk issues 39 to 50 right

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fast -forwarded to this moment, 30 minutes later.

Transformers... Classics Volume 4 Starscream

is the cover for this one. very obviously G1

cover, and this one, as I mentioned, includes

issues 38, 39 to 50. These were published from

April of 1988 to March of 1989. The stories we

have in this are The Desert Island of Space,

Pretender to the Throne, Totalled, People Power,

Oh god, we're gonna skip that one. The big broadcast

of 2006, The Cosmic Carnival. Oh god, more humans,

no. Mastercon from Mars, Cash and Carnage. That's,

it's Carnage, but the way, it's Car -Nage. Weird.

Club Con, The Flames of Boltax, Cold War, and

Dark Star. These were all written by Bob Budiansky

and all of them were done by, for the art, was

done by Jose Delbo, inks by Danny Balundi, letters

by Bill Oakley, colors by Neil Yamatov. I'm slowly

getting to be okay with this series, I guess.

Yeah, I mean, it gets better. For sure you've

been saying that for three episodes before this

it is this this issues where I start getting

interested, okay So fort max gets the shaft So

they we start back with buster on the on the

island and we have rat bat and shockwave and

dealing with buster and Busters giving them lip

And all that That's how it goes in the transformers

world. Yep. I Do get a little excited because

they start wiping out humans a little at a time

like we stopped seeing them as much. Yeah Yeah,

she GB black or BG or GB black rock and and And

all that stuff, but they add more humans in to

like I mentioned issue 42. I'm like no like I

think if I remember right, 39, 40, and 41 were

all kind of really good robot kind of stuff.

And then issue 42, it's like, hey. Nebulos. And

the nebulons, I don't mind some of it. I like

when the nebulons work with the Autobots. I like

when the nebulons are in the Autobots' bodies

or when they have the exosuits or whatever else.

Oh, wait. Rebirth is what I like. Whoops, this

isn't the cartoon. This is the comic. But but

yeah, so this issue We have an island that's

gonna go an encapsulated island. That's gonna

go into space Oh God the space needle it yeah

pretty much it really kind of is I and this issue

man just I'm Still rat bat being the leader technically

That what I was just gonna say I am still tired

of rat bat as the leader of the did like Put

sound wave in charge push off wave in church.

Fuck put Starscream in charge. Oh, you be careful

what you asked for. Yes. I know Yes, I know it's

coming. I know I understand but I'm saying like

rat bat Senator rat bad or whatever the hell

he like he's a bat that supposedly turns into

a cassette. I don't know I I don't know this

first issue is issue 39 just And then we have

for the next one for 40 we have introducing the

pretenders Never I was already out of Transformers

toys when pretenders kind of like hit the scene

and I was like It's a cool concept. I think it's

interesting, but I was like, okay I Don't know

Pretenders aren't bad. I do think it's funny

that we get prime in a digital world and he just

thinks he's a character still Yeah, in a video

game. That is funny, and that was cool. Yeah.

But again, this issue, just like the last one,

90 % human, 10 % robot. And I get it. You want

to have human characters relating to human readers,

but we also relate to the robot's characteristics.

Peter Collin and everybody else from G1 always

says, oh, Optimus Prime is like a mix between

John Wayne and Abe Lincoln or whatever the hell.

And that's great. And that's awesome. And I love

G1 Optimus Prime, but man, this comic. And yeah,

it's like, he thinks he's in a video game. It's

like, okay, that's a cool concept. That's an

interesting concept, but. At the end of the day

and all of this pretender stuff with them in

the tubes and whatever else reminds me of only

the episode only human where Rodimus RC ultra

Magnus and Springer were turned human by Victor

draft and Cobra commander Everything is for sale.

Mr. Draft. Oh boy I have that clip somewhere.

I'll probably erase my own voice and put that

clip in there because obviously Chris a lot of

does it better than me because it's his voice

But yeah, this issue. I don't know. What were

you feeling with this one? Did you like it? Did

you not like it? For the space needle or for

issue 40 with the with the tenders the pretenders

Yeah, the pretenders I didn't mind it because

we got optimus back in gold bug. Yeah and and

we got to see some of the Autobots getting more

or less birthed from Prime. Prime is Jesus, yep.

And then we see, you know, Prime starting to,

he still thinks he can be recreated, but he goes

back in to infiltrate the Decepticons. And I

just loved it. And Scorponok is just kind of

confused. What is going on here? Yeah, Scorponok

is like, you know, a deer in headlights or a

robot deer in headlights. But Scorponok is a

better leader than Ratbat. Yeah, I will concede

that. But at the same time, he's an idiot, too.

He's an idiot, too. But it's like that old that

thing. from the Jim Carrey Grinch. You're an

idiot. You're an idiot. You're an idiot. Yep.

Idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot. All idiots, all around

us. I believe on page 40, what page? Page 48.

So at the top of page 48. It says, Commander

Scorponok said we would surprise them now isn't

the time to be recalling the words of that micro

brained moron sub marauder. And the reason why

I'm bringing this up is because you have, again,

yellow blasters, white background with like yellow

and orange flame kind of things from them being

blasted and the Scorponok side characters are

blue are red and the other robots are all blue.

This is the original red versus blue. Red laser

blue laser. Oh God. Yeah issue 40 and. And the

ending for Prime, you know, where Prime is like,

I must admit though, these recent events have

helped crystallize my purpose. My reason for

being is suddenly clear to me. I certainly do.

And now I know what it means to be a warrior,

a leader like never before. I will never forget.

Never! And then next up is Grimlock versus Blaster.

I love the battle you demanded, Grimlock versus

Blaster, and about 100 more Transformers duking

it out to. I love that. I will say, before we

get into issue 41, I don't know if I would have

liked this as a kid, if I had seen this. I mean,

I liked comics, but again, I was always a cartoon

kid, not a comic kid. But as I was reading through

this in order for us to discuss this on the show,

I'm like, I would much rather read this as a

prose novel than see, like no disrespect to any

of the people doing the art on this series, but

The way they're telling the stories, the way

Budiansky is writing the stories, I feel like

it's better as a book or an audiobook than a

comic. Yeah, I mean, I can see that. It's just...

Yeah. It is what it is. Yeah, it is what it is.

We can't change it now, but... So we get issue

41 and Skrank totaled Because prime, you know,

he just can't seem to grasp that he's not a cartoon

character anymore Yeah, he's not a cartoon character.

He's not a game character. He keeps blowing himself

up And then they just see his parts laying on

the ground so let's see Transformers the Transformers

the movie Dark awakening and Well, technically

he didn't die again after it but return of Optimus

Prime Well, then he died us again in headmasters

like episode 3. Oh, okay. Well in the original

98 episodes Dark awakening he came back as a

zombie and then rebirth he came back as as himself

and I I do love the end of that. I always have

I mean, I love rebirth in general. That's just

me But I love the end of that where where dick

Gaudier made the man rest in peace as hot rod

is like or whatever he's like, but the matrix

is empty and Optimus is like and it's up to all

of us to fill it again. Uh -huh. Yep That's That's

the line Yeah, man, I don't know I might Somehow,

and I know this is gonna sound stupid, and you're

gonna probably take offense to this. Ladies and

gentlemen, I might assign Steve Megatron to do

volumes five, six, and seven with somebody else.

I don't care who he picks, but I don't know if

I can continue with this. Like, again, I like

this story, but just, I don't know, it's the

format. Like, if it was a different format, it

would be fine. I don't know. Yeah, anything else

we need to talk about for issue 41. I'm trying

to see here's any Okay blaster versus Grimlock

and that's a whole Whole thing and then they

finally come together. Oh, we work better together

than a part or versus each other So there's that

Omega Supreme shows up Anything else on issue

41 that you want to talk about Well, I just like

the fact that they head to the nebulous, you

know, or they're beginning to head in that direction,

despite idiot Grimlock. Yeah, despite idiot Grimlock.

I think it's funny, though, that they just take

his crown. Get off, you know, I like the fact

that there's finally a showdown between Blaster

and Grimlock. Yeah, but. And then it's just it

gets real confusing because of so many things

going on. I do find it funny, though, as they

read the arc. Uh huh. There's the the bodies

of Starscream, Frenzy, Skywarp, Thundercracker,

Buzzsaw all being shipped off. Yep. It's like

this will come back to play. Oh, yes, this will

come back to play. This will come back to bite

you in the ass, Autobots. Oh, Lord. I do like

Buddy Jansky's writing in these issues, though.

I think it's really good writing. I think it's

an interesting Transformers story. You know,

so they'll come a certain point where the art

and the writer changes. Oh, great. Well, that's

not this trade. That's the probably the next

number. I think it starts in the next. Yeah I

like this next issue. This is probably one of

my favorites of the group issue 42. Yes Okay,

take it away I I love it because it starts off

with two two of the power masters, you know going

off and in dark wing and and Dreadwind and they

combine yeah, and then they're their head they're

Power master guys are just eaten away and in

getting fuel and that's how they're fueling these

Decepticons and then you see the throttle bots

Show up more or less. Yeah You know slapdash

joyride getaway gold bug and then funny enough

the nebulons look human They're not green people

And They're asking the leader of this group,

Galen, to help them build Optimus Prime. And

they're like, oh, well, you're going to poison

yourselves. We poisoned all the supplies for

Transformers to not live here. That's why they

have the Power Masters. it's great because the

the Autobots are just not a match for these power

masters and No bumblebees, you know gold bug

is pleading with them and like please just load

prime build him a new body. Yep, and They build

him and he looks slightly off like slightly different.

They finally program him Mm -hmm, and then He's

slowly having an issue And then they're like,

combine with your trailer. And he's like, oh,

the trailer. And he's like, oh, wow, this is

the most power, you know, and then he still thinks

he's in a game. Yeah, he still has pain hit him.

Yeah, the pain hits him. And all of a sudden

he's like, oh, this is real life. Yikes. You

know, and then, you know, he drops to the ground.

And I love this look for prime. Yeah, I love

the power master look. I love how powerful he

gets. And then the other guys become. Power Masters.

Yep, and then Prime just goes in there and just

mops the floor with the Decepticons. Yep and

You know Haikyuu Haikyuu is the the one in Prime

I believe and he's he's got a pretty cool suit

and he pops out to talk to them and You know,

basically they all have to leave Cybertron pretty

much. Yeah, and but His story, like Haikyuu,

sticks around through the remainder of this series.

Right, yeah. Haikyuu is interesting. I think

he's cool. He's just one of those characters

that you kind of want to read. You kind of want

to know more about him. Kind of thing, so. You'll

get to learn more of his personality as the series

continues to go on. If you're wanting to learn

more about him, you'll get your shot. Absolutely,

absolutely. I'll let you take the next one because

I don't care about this one. Yeah, so talking

about Power Master Optimus Prime really quick.

Yeah, you're right. I like the design. I like

the shot on page 97 of volume four. I think not

Decepticons. I just like the way he's standing

there. And I went on eBay just to see what original

Power Master Optimus Prime is going for now.

It goes for various prices. And not that I'm

gonna buy one of these anytime soon, I'm not,

but there is a price on here for buy it now.

Power Master Optimus Prime Transformers G1 1987

original box and instructions. Now, if it doesn't

include, I'm gonna make sure the listing actually

includes, especially for that price. I'm not

paying that price for just the box and instructions.

Because I think this is a scam I don't know if

it is or whatever but I remember having power

master optimus prime as a kid and He was so very

very cool. But yeah, I mean he's the so this

listing is $290, but it's like a complete with

the box with the instructions. It's not necessarily

see it's not MSI be it's not mitten sealed box,

but It's it's damn near close and I remember

as a kid all he was used to play with the big

optimus prime Head that is supposed to be the

the power man, but man, I love this toy as a

kid so good Alright, I need to stop looking at

eBay because I will make bad financial decisions

I don't do that anyways But but yeah this next

issue can just fuck off Okay, moving on. Yeah.

Oh, no, wait. Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. No,

no, no. This is, uh, I thought it was first,

uh, yeah. Rodimus versus Galvatron. I thought

that was okay. Uh, speaking, you know, the big

broadcast 2006. I like this. I actually like

the art. I like the story that's in this. I could

do without Skylinks, but everybody could do without

Skylinks. I like seeing Astro Train. I actually

saw some of these frames in here, pictures I

put on the HTTF post about us recording this

episode on the Facebook page for all things Transformers.

And yeah, no, this isn't the one that I just

say, screw it, but no, this was okay. This is,

this is kind of cool. This is kind of fun. It's

the next one. It's issue 44. The Cosmic Carnival?

Yeah, I get it. It hurts. Oh, Marvel. Oh, Generation

1 Marvel. The one thing I am enjoying is seeing

how many various colors they can make the Transformers

letter logo. On each each issue. I'm like, okay,

that's an interesting color. Wait a minute would

they do there? Uh the beginning of this cosmic

and we're not gonna go through all the cosmic

carnival because we're just not it's whatever

But the beginning of this i'm like wait, isn't

this skylinks? No, it's some weird Silvery snake

serpent looking thing in space. I'm like, okay

And it's hurtling towards earth and they're bringing

all their cosmic carnival peoples and What's

optimus doing here earth children, oh, it's gold

bug earth children down in front and oh man Some

of the time I can take this like the Rodimus

issue like the power master optimus prime issue

I can take those seriously and very much enjoy

them when you have four kids with giant robots.

I just can't take that seriously. And then they

start a whole or they go to a whole car, an actual

carnival. This feels like Optimus Prime playing

basketball all over again, ladies and gentlemen.

Yeah, it pretty much is. Nope, not for me. And

this one. I don't like that issue. No, it just...

No Cosmic Carnival for me. Yeah, and again, we

talked about this and I think we've probably

talked about it in all of them, but when we recorded

Volume 2 a few months ago and we recorded Volume

3... There is at least not at this point I know

there's going to be at the end of this trade,

but there is no real Continuity from like I love

the the whole thing at the end of every issue

next time on blah blah blah Like this one says

next time flash Decepticon Skogran becomes Hollywood's

latest movie star Monster Con from Mars premieres

at newsstands near you in 30 days. Obviously,

because comics come out monthly. I like the way

they do that. But again, issue 45 like Skullgren

is a character I've never cared about. And this

story didn't make me want to care about him any

more or any less than I already do or don't.

Skylinx is here. That's fun. But there are at

least I want to say 12 humans or something like

it is a lot more again that 80 80 20 90 10 70

30 of like humans versus transformers and I just

don't care Yeah, so I will preface this with

saying the next couple issues suck And and I'm

yeah So It's very this is the problem with the

the the marble run. It's very hit or miss It's

very episodic. It's very like it has no like

you you've known me for 15 years Oh my god, you've

known me. We've known each other 15 years now

2008 Wow There is no continuity. I'm a continuity

person I'm not saying every like if we started

out issue 39 that Continued the story from the

end of issue 38 like like it did because it went

from the end of issue 38 Buster was on the island

issue 39 Buster's on the island as it starts

and then it goes into something else. That's

fine have through lines have something that is

going to I'm I'm not on video folks, but I'm

like doing all these hand gestures as I'm sitting

here talking about this But yeah, like they were

really trying to make this 30, you know at once

a month comic an episodic television series that

just was adventure of the week and Well, I liked

somewhat like I said the power master and the

Rodimus versus Galvatron Adventures of the week

were good for me the rest not so much Yeah, I,

yeah. And then we get to the good stuff, because,

oh no, we have to salvage the, the, the Seacons.

I never knew about the Seacons, because they

weren't in the cartoon, but issue 47, uh, actually

no, so the, the, this is, okay, so the Seacons

are in this, but this starts... The under base

saga part one so this starts the continuity of

a four -part series and As I'm reading through

this I've never I've noticed it before but I've

never noticed it more than I do now at the top

of that first page where Starscream is Stanley

presents the Transformers Mm -hmm, so flippin

cool Absolutely love that so club con apparently

Starscream and other Decepticons have Started

a vacation What do they call those damn thing

the timeshare They've started a timeshare where

they're like, oh get in me. I'll be your plane

to the island or I'll be your plane to this and

that's Interesting I guess But it leads to interesting

things. That it does. That it does. So what were

you thinking with this first part of the Underbase

saga? I was wondering why Starscream was a like

a cruise ship. Yeah. As the other Autobots are

kind of, you know, having a battle and some of

them watching. things. I find it funny that Grimlock

is hanging out with Prime and Fort Max. Yeah,

that was hilarious. And Prime finally pipes in.

And then we get, you know, Blaster and some of

the other ones and then Starscream's, you know,

fake commercial for their their residential island

underground. Yeah. And I hate Ratbat. Yeah, that's

all that needs to be said. And then they have

Jesse. Yeah, they have Jesse. And they're in

the Ccons. I don't like the Ccons. Yeah, I never

got the appeal of that. Like every other combiner,

I kind of get why people like or dislike the

combiners. Like, you know, Devastator, which

Devastator is very likable or, you know. Minasaur,

Defensor, Computron. I know I'm now naming all

just Autobot ones, but I get the appeal of all

the other combiners. I never got the appeal of

the Seacons. I think it's funny though that Blaster

leaves his cassettes for surveillance and after

he coughs them up. And then she manages to escape.

Yeah. And one of the other, you know, and the

star screams like, you know, sorry for the incident,

you know, sorry for the incident on the beach

earlier. Thank you all for coming, humans. You

know, it's just I don't know, it's just really

weird, not a character form, but I happening

to know what happens to him later. Yeah. Yeah,

exactly. It's entertaining. Yeah. And the whole

time I'm reading that scene, the beach scene

with Starscream, it makes me think of, is it?

No, it's not prime problem. It's the master plan,

two -parter, where you have Sean Berger. the

Decepticons forced the Autobots to go into the

Sun and all that and they leave Earth and whatever

else and Sean Berger and Megatron take over kind

of thing and you have Starscream Dressed up as

as optimists that that's what this makes me think

of and very comical for Starscream So that's

that's very cool. Very interesting and very well

done Anything else on 47? Nope Alright, issue

48. The return of Megatron. The end of Optimus

Prime, question mark, exclamation point, question

mark. I think this is probably the first time

in 48 issues that I actually like Megatron's

face and black helmet, because if you zoom in

on Megatron he has this like smile. It's not

a smirk. It's more of a smile, but it's kind

of like a It's a devious smile kind of look and

I really dig it This cover is so good for issue

48 We start with the flames of boltax and more

humans get off my comic More humans, more Ratbat.

At least Starscream is giving him lip. Starscream

always gives lip. Well, yes, but like it's freaking

Ratbat. Like, come on. Well, then he's showing

him like a flashback. Yep. Of Prime. Yep. And

the Underbase. Yep. What do you think of the

concept of the Underbase? I think it's interesting,

like this all -knowledging, you know, resource

for them. I like the idea of it, but I also see

that as another one of those MacGuffins. Another

plot device, but I do like the idea of it. Yeah,

it's a plot device, but it's a plot device that

actually functions properly. It's not you know,

just another broken inator Kind of thing. It's

not just a matrix. It's not just a All spark

it's not just the normal Transformers McGuffin's

it's not a it's not a solar needle. It's not

a space needle. It's not a ultimate doom where

they're gonna fire into Cybertron and bring Sarah

to that so And of course, this being the powerhouse,

powerful thing that it is, Starscream wants it.

Duh. Yeah, why wouldn't Starscream want it? Exactly.

Didn't see that coming a mile away. Oh, wait,

we did. So. But I do love Megatron. Clearly,

the objective is Boltax, comrades, a blatant.

violation of our neutrality agreement then we

should destroy them commander ruckus you micro

brain buffoon they are unwittingly showing us

how to avoid every one of bolt axis traps I again

if this was in like written prose book form I

would be eating these words up Because it's in

the format it's in I almost don't care Almost

don't care almost but the next page Optimus Prime

our destination lies before us Autobots. I Love

this panel of optimus. I love the way it's Ladies

and gentlemen, we've done four trades of this

series and I've always said five colors. That's

it. Come on How the shading and shadows are done

to show optimus being transformed from his truck

trailer truck mode to the robot mode is Amazing.

I am going to make you do so many damn different

things for this banner You probably won't cuz

whatever but I'm gonna try But I love this image

of optimus it is so fucking good absolutely amazing

wonderful things with with optimus here and it's

just so simple it's such a nice way to get the

character in an action pose in a static Comic

Blake literally like we've talked about it before

there was a rise about a decade ago or so of

motion comics where you could buy motion comics

and they Move into all kinds of special things

this like I could see this panel here in a motion

comic and like just be flipping out like he's

basically doing Pretty much that's what it is

So yeah This one panel is almost my favorite

thing of this entire trade. It's a shot of Optimus

Prime transforming. Oh, God. Somebody shoot me

now. Wait till you get home. Shoot him now. Shoot

him now. Wait till you get home. Well, I say

he does have to shoot me now. So shoot me now.

So Optimus gets, you know, lasered into this,

the under base with the power. And this is kind

of where... Starscream comes in and realizes

oh the power and And all that Megatron wants

to want With ultimate knowledge comes ultimate

power Decepticons and that knowledge is mine

for the taking the Autobots of Cybertron are

as good as Terminated you talk because I think

my voice is about to give out So yeah, there's

Then you have the issue 49 and 50, because I'm

going to roll them together. Absolutely. 49 is

just them, various Autobots and Decepticons racing

to find their end goal. Skywarp or Thundercracker

actually come back in one scene. You see the

Seacons combine. You see, you know, kind of the

clashing of the leaders between Starscream, Zarek

and Ratbat and the Autobots all conversing with

Blaster and Prime and, you know, seeing the human

being confronted by Starscream who takes him.

which is Buster, the brother of Spike. Yes. And

kind of leaving everyone to fight each other

on the island. All Starscream has gotten away

with the human who has the device to signal the,

you know, the Autobots and he kind of dumps him.

Yeah, pretty much. When it suits his needs. And

then the, you know, the under base, it shows

up in the next issue and it kind of reminds me

of a golden Borg cube. Yeah, it does. As it smashes

through things and you see Buster freezing to

death with a transmitter to keep the Autobots

busy and the aerial bots, you know, save them.

Yeah. And then we get Spike. you know, putting

his brother in Fortress Maximus to kind of reheat

him. And so a Fortress Maximus has been reduced

to being a microwave for humans. Well, that and

he's about the size of Power Master Prime. He's

not a city. Right. Yeah. So he fits on a ship

with everybody else. And, you know, you continue

to have everybody fighting while. you know, Spike

is there. And then Starscream is in his ship

chasing down the underbase. Yep. By himself,

which seems to be a theme. He does this in G2.

Yeah, Starscream is all alone. And so the Autobots

and Decepticons stop fighting. And learn that

they need to stop Starscream. Yeah, and so they

take off on the the luxury world and Starscream

gets out of the ship and gets hit by the under

base and He's like fill me with your own holy

power and Which kind of reminds me of when he

got zapped in combiner wars. Yeah Which is probably

where they got the idea so anyways, they shoot,

you know from the ship and Starscream was able

to absorb more power from the under base than

they expected and Just rips the ship apart Yeah,

he rips the ship apart and then he gets ripped

apart because he's absorbed way too much power

mm -hmm, and then he starts becoming you know,

they're They're realizing that they underestimated

Starscream Big time. Mm -hmm and Yeah The the

they're all together collectively on the arc

Which is somehow rebuilt completely They did

it off camera. Yeah and in Starscream is battling

all of the fliers Of course he is and knocked

them all out with one shot. Of course he does

and then he's he's damaging everyone as he's

starting to get these mechanized bits on him

almost like Doctor Doom in the first Fantastic

Four film. Yep. And they're all collectively

blasting him, all collectively fighting him,

and Starscream continues to take them all down

as he kind of grows. And somehow he's holding

off the entire Autobot and Decepticon army. Somehow.

No matter their capabilities. Yep. And you get

to a point where he's just. He's like, I'm Starscream,

the destroyer. Yeah. And it has very little of

his armor still intact. Completely, because he's

just kind of bits and pieces of under base and

Starscream. Yeah. And then he's the size of Omega

Supreme. Picking up the Washington Monument to

swing it and. Omega puts it back down and then

Starscream kind of looks like a mix between like

the Grinch and something at one point as he's

fighting Fortress Maximus I can kind of see Starscream

as the Grinch So yeah, so he kind of flies off

and then you know you get Scorponok running off

on his own after he blasts Prime And he's trying

to get the underbase as well. Yeah, everybody's

after the underbase, folks, because it is the

most powerful thing in the Transformers world

at this point. Yeah. And, you know, Prime is

like, I didn't want it before and I don't want

it now. Yeah, exactly. And then You know, the

underbase completely enveloped Starscream. Yep.

And Prime is like, as I expected, he would. Yeah,

he grows huge to the size of like almost a almost

a unicorn and is touting his power. And as he's

in his monologue, he blows himself up. They blew

up. Because the power of the Underbase was too

great for anyone being to possess and send him

into madness and destroyed him and so Prime actually

saved Scorponok and so they they made amends

and Yeah This was by far the best issue of this

entire trade I like like I said power master

and I like the Rodimus Galvatron stuff, but this

issue here was by far The best. Because you only

had Buster and Spike. You have like a million

other Autobots and Decepticons. And I will have

the link in the show notes for this, folks, so

you can go look at the TFWiki article that lists

them all. Because I'm not going to read all these

names. Yeah, so these stories, I like them. But

I don't know. Again, if I want something that's

episodic, I will watch an 80s TV show or a 90s

TV show. If I want something with straight continuity,

that's what I want. And it's not a knock against

this because I know what this was when it was

made. It was supposed to be a new adventure.

Every month and then they gave us the under base

saga with this continuing as I mentioned before

through line And it just got like I wanted like

I want under base adventures all the time now

like I want Everybody after this thing I want

them to somehow show where instead of like not

a Starscream can be destroyed by the under base.

That's fine, but like Let's say Skywarp gets

the hold of the underbase, but it does something

to him. It changes him somehow. It doesn't destroy

him, but it transforms him into something else

or whatever. I think that would be really cool.

But again, this is Marvel from the 80s. Not going

to happen now, but it would be cool. So classics

of volume four I am probably zero to five on

our GCR in scale Which everyone can click on

the link in the show notes for this episode to

find the scale on our website D cast radio calm

I'm probably gonna give this a straight three

middle down the road Maybe a 3 .5 just because

of issue 50 and how good it was but yeah, I'm

in that range. What about you? I'm the same boat

I I like when the the art changes To be honest.

Yep. Um, cause that's when we start getting into

some different territory even, uh, cause they,

they kind of take this and run with it, but they

also change the direction that it kind of goes

and it gets more serialized and less episodic.

Cool. Cool. Very cool. Very cool. All right,

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