Transformers vs. G.I. Joe Volume 1 Review

Hey everybody, this is Dan Gilbazan, voice of

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transformers episode celebrating 10 years of

all things transformers that's right folks august

ninth two thousand eight steve megatron started

all things transformers and of course you can't

have all things transformers without megatron

so say hello megatron Excellent! Yes! Okay, you're

supposed to do that ironic thing where you say,

hello Megatron! I will say no such thing. I have

a penchant for intelligent conversation. Then

why don't you talk to yourself? I will not have

witless banter with you. Apparently you will.

So Autobotly August 2018 is continuing on here

inside the pull bag and on all things Transformers.

We've got... Two episodes released so far, and

now we talk about something that we both love.

Steve loves part of it more than I do, but, um...

G .I. Joe! That's right. G .I. Joe on a Transformers

podcast. What the hell kind of stuff is this?

Well, the Transformers did start out of a G .I.

Joe podcast originally. Or not podcast, but a

comic book in Marvel. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely.

Um, so... Transformers vs. G .I. Joe, this is

an IDW 12 issue miniseries, I believe, or 12,

13, I don't know. Anyway, it was a independent

story set aside from the 12 or 13 years of IDW

Transformers continuity. uh... written and drawn

by tom skewley i hope i'm pronouncing his name

right i've added him on face book i've asked

him on twitter he butchered it anyway butcher

of names So yes, the this was like I have not

written like I did not Transformers my beginnings

were it was the cartoon series. It was not the

Marvel Comics So I you know, we covered that

volume one that IDW re -released the Transformers

US classics a while ago in the pull bag you and

I did so I've seen The old stuff, but I have

not I'm just so far not into that kind of thing

right now and when I saw they were doing this

I'm like oh cool I'd like to actually get into

that eventually of course now it's like two years

later after the series is over or whatever it

is I forget when this initially came out but

yeah what were your initial thoughts when I asked

you to do this? To begin with I thought it was

the 1980s comic that I'd already read before

And then I realized it wasn't. Mostly, I mean,

it takes a lot of cues visually from the original

1980s comic, where G .I. Joe and Transformers

cross over. And it also has some elements of

some other G1 Marvel comics involved. With with

some differences. I mean it's it's not completely

like copied from various storylines that have

been through the two but Some of it I was kind

of like boo based on who they killed off and

Yeah, so it was it was kind of It was kind of

different to check out. Yeah, and that's the

cool thing like I love that They did this so

just for everyone that knows Transformers versus

GI Joe volume one collects the 2014 free comic

book day issue Along with Transformers versus

GI Joe issues number one to four You know again

written by Tom skill Ian John barber art colors

and lettering by Tom uh... series that it's by

carlos guzman cover artwork is done by tom i

wasn't sure what to expect out of this i remember

when i tried reading the free comic book day

issue way back when that i'd did not like this

at all that very first page of the prologue story

where they're like dvd like the little you know

sign in the translation like this is a really

weird way to read a comic like having the bot

sounds and then the translation things I didn't

like that to be honest but they did it in the

1980s version right and I understand that and

I respect that and I like it now I didn't four

years ago I'm fine with it now as I'm you know

getting into reading this now I love the way

that this is laid out I love the way when you

read it in Comixology digitally how the the guided

view takes care of each panel and it's pretty

much kind of set up as far as the panel layouts

and all that kind of like how the old ones were

a little bit not all the way through but I absolutely

really enjoyed this I thought this was super

fun I enjoy obviously the transformer stuff more

than the GI Joe stuff and IDW not this story

specifically but the IDW continuity having humans

in there has always been an issue because it

just is the only way I found that it works is

if the GI Joe were involved Because unless it's

like the Witwicky family, not the live action

movie crap, the original stuff from the Marvel

run, it kind of sucks. And so in the Marvel run,

they even brought in some version of the Defenders

type thing with Circuit Breaker and various other

characters involved later on in the 60s and 70s

issues. But as a whole, I... Didn't mind the

the 80s run and then with with humans involved

with that the way it was written a Lot of the

modern stuff like I haven't just been able to

get into so it's not and I know predominantly

It's just the transformer so it's not as big

of an issue there But when they're doing crossover,

I find GI Joe is the one that fits the best Yeah,

yeah Yeah Well, I've got certain bullet point

these issues except for issue four for some reason

I don't know why So some of my notes from issue

one one issue in and I want to read this forever

The story is a great mixture of the two brands.

I thought it was so cool Love Ravage battles

on earth between the Joes and the Decepticons.

That's nice Tom's writing and art are a true

testament to both franchises And next we go to

Cybertron. What did you think of this first issue

and the story set up? I wasn't sure what to think.

It did, like I said, look very 80s comic -ish,

which was different to go back to with, you know,

your kind of plain colored backgrounds for the

most part. Or gradients and in certain little,

you know, dot to dot to dot things The color

palette is very different but I I didn't mind

the story. It was kind of interesting seeing

how early they decided to jump in the GI Joe

run compared to other Timelines where Duke is

pretty much the leader And you don't have Hawk

kind of running the show. Yeah But it was interesting

in that aspect, too. But I'm not surprised Bumblebee

started out, because he did an original run,

too. And then in Play to the Bumblebee and the

original comic run, you had the Seekers kind

of searching him out, too, to destroy him. So

it's not much different in any of the G .I. Joe

run or the Marvel run of any of the series. No

matter what, the Seekers are trying to kill Bumblebee

and usually succeed. It was nice seeing Cobra

Commander, albeit short -lived. Was not fond

of the Baroness or Pentor. Yeah, it was a little

strange. I was a little sad Cobra Commander bit

the dust so early, but yeah. And then the fact

that the whole thing with the... the plants growing

on the machinery was a little disturbing and

strange. I felt like I was watching something

from one of the, what is it, SWAT cats. Ah, yes.

Where they had that kind of stuff, you know,

Dr. Viper. Dr. Viper, yep. Absolutely, yeah.

And then you get, you know, Cobra Commander getting

stabbed through the chest, which was unfortunate.

And it's you know a different way of of snake

eyes getting injured in this Mm -hmm. Yeah, I

was I was super interested in that part of it

because I was like How are they gonna do the

whole snake eyes thing and that was super cool?

Yeah, that was definitely different how they

they handled that and then you get to see Megatron

basically just like I'm not getting involved

yet. Mm -hmm. So And then, you know, you get

more characters introduced in the second one

where, like, Destro's like, I'm part Cybertronian.

I'm like, no. I'm Destron. I am Destron. Yes.

Yeah, no, the way that Tom writes this, the way

that he draws and colors it and all of that and

does the lettering, I just absolutely dig it.

The story... engages you to the point where you

know if I was going to show anyone any kind of

quote -unquote one -off transformers thing right

now I would show them this and I would show them

Merigrid Scott's wind blade stuff that you don't

really have to like spend you know X number of

days or hours catching up on the last 12 13 years

of what IDW is doing That being said if you start

with the IDW continuity with the death of optimus

prime and then either verge to transformers slash

optimus prime or More than meets the eye slash

lost light your you'd be fine if you want to

you know one is basically Politics on Cybertron

the other is a space adventure in space but no

as a as a self -contained thing for this This

is what I would tell people to read if they want

that traditional feeling Marvel stuff. I had

a hard time reading the Marvel stuff when we

did that episode in episode 105 of the podcast

or something way back when. I had a really hard

time with the Marvel stuff, but this is super

dynamic and really interesting and cool. Oh yeah.

by the time they get to chapter three um i think

at this point megatron has his bumblebee necklace

and i'm like oh dang like i know bumblebee died

but wow that's a little creepy yep then Starscream

has the Cobra Commander thing over half of his

face and whatever and like they start calling

themselves Decepticobra and I'm like oh my god

this is just in a good way this is just too much

how do you feel about the art as we've gone along

it's still a little jarring because I've hit

this I don't know if it's age where I just I

don't care for nostalgia anymore for visual nostalgia

like certain like certain things I of course

I'm going to enjoy more than if they remade them

however that being said like in my comic books

I don't quite jive with the old Marvel style

anymore but at the same time I don't necessarily

like the This the style of the current IDW run

either So I'm not one of those. I'm not the target

demographic. So it doesn't really fit very well

with me But this same time I'm I'm kind of torn

like I like it because it's simpler and there's

a lot less going on other than the million bubbles

of text, which is almost jarring. And the announcements

that, oh, so and so has hit the scene by having

the little title cards. So on the one hand, I

don't mind it. But on the other hand, I'm kind

of like, OK, I'm over it. See, this is just so

different from what the current IDW universe

is. Kind of like how different it is. I kind

of like that the title card things are there

when we get into Chapter 3 the cover for that.

It's like Cybertron now in color. I just love

that. I think that's so funny. I think that's

super cool and interesting The yeah the way the

story plays out it's interesting it's fun the

the image of Destro in chapter three where he

continually talks about Destro gun maker Destro

life -taker like at first I thought this image

of him below where Megatron is I thought it was

friggin Mal from Captain Planet, Dr. Blight's

like seriously the way that his face looks and

all that like it I'm like whoa wait that what

the heck and then I realized it was Destro yeah

I'm surprised that I love the colors I love the

backgrounds and the good like you said there

isn't really anything to the backgrounds I mean

there is but there isn't it's more the pops of

color on the bots and the joes and everything

else. I love the final page of chapter three

where poor Soundwave, he lost his head. It happens

a lot. Yeah. Oh, I'm sure. Now, I will say that

I originally thought that I wasn't going to like

this because it is the old style, but I just

think it's just super cool. I think it's super

fun. It's different. It's different enough that

it takes you back to the old days while telling

a refreshing story, because Tom is writing his

own story here. This isn't like... This isn't

like us going to the next volume in the IDW reprints

of Transformers classics and saying, oh, it's

updated art, which obviously it isn't. It's just

reprinted from the old Marvel stuff. This is

a completely unique and interesting and diverse

story. And I just, I'm super pumped that we've

gotten this thing. And I can't believe this,

you know, got released three, four years ago.

Like, wow. Yeah, I didn't realize it was that

far ago that it came out or that long ago that

far ago But I think I may have had the first

issue I've never opened it though. Yeah when

when I had it like yeah It was one of those things

I bought it because of the cover Which is like

my my like ultimate downfall when I'm picking

out things it's like I'm like I like the cover

Because the art and then like I don't open the

book. Like it's just it's there for like a poster

piece and that's it So yeah, my favorite alternate

cover was done by was done by Tom. It's Megatron

and Optimus with their energy mace and energy

axe with Cobra commander flying in Starscream

that Starscream and Cobra commander are flying

at you That's my favorite alternate cover from

this. I thought that was super fun and interesting

We will at some point in the pullback. I don't

know if it'll be this year folks I've just got

so much going on inside this podcast be doing

more of these volumes and to finish the story

but these first five issues because like I said

it started with the free comic book day issue

really really fun absolutely love it I thought

it was super cool I know I've said that about

a million times at this point but that's just

the way I feel about it art is amazing story

is unique and diverse Yeah, I like when I first

saw shockwave in issue 3 I was like whoa that's

cool Very much enjoyed this So what would you

give this zero to five? I'd probably give it

a four just because it kind of gives me the nostalgia

feels with it. And the story is kind of interesting.

The only gripes I had and why I have to knock

it down a little bit is because of so many word

bubbles all over the place that I felt didn't

really need to be there in certain situations,

especially when you had... scenes where part

of the foreground would cover up the text, which

was kind of irritating when you're going to read

the text from somebody and you can't read half

the words because it's printed underneath the

coloring. So that's one of my major gripes with

it, aside from that. bad aesthetics as far as

when it's a red room, they have like orange background

around it with black text, which makes it really

hard to see on some of the bubbles and a couple

of the things like during the plan area. But

I mean, it's overall, it's great. Those are just

my main pet peeves were like some of the word

bubbles mostly, which is why I have to give it

a four. Yeah, absolutely. I'm right there with

you with a four. Some of the word bubbles at

first took me off balance, but after a while

I got used to it. And I was mad that they killed

Scourge. Yeah, poor Scourge. Blew a hole right

through him. I'm like, no. I mean, at least it

was Megatron, but still. No, yeah. Maybe he'll

come back as Nemesis. I doubt it. You won't just

keep alive. Yeah, no. But yeah, I mean, this

was super fun. This was a departure, because

right now, as you'll hear, folks, here in Autobotly

August on the pullback and all things Transformers,

Ryan Markley and I are starting the Optimus Prime

and Lost Light series, which are the new series

after More Than Meets the Eye and Transformers

ended. So they're the continuation. They just

rebranded the titles So I'm reading those as

well as keeping current with the fact that the

universe is ending and Unicron is here so going

back and forth is kind of So yeah, yeah, they're

gonna they're gonna reboot the universe Next

year and it's not it's not a bad thing like they're

gonna wipe them out This story is ending and

some new story is going to happen. Whatever happens

next year will have nothing to do with the current

continuity. It's going to be a whole new continuity.

Yay! I can start over. Okay, but I think that's

a good thing. No, I said it's a good thing because

I don't want to go back over the last, like,

however many years IDW's had it. 13. Yeah. I

was a Dreamwave subscriber, so... Well, see here's

the thing like I said you start with the death

of optimus prime And then you read a couple issues

of either one of the the the main ongoings And

then you pick one you can pick one and stick

with that Or you pick the other one and stick

with that or you've read them both like it's

not like you have to read all of that like Unicron

you can read that without having to catch up

But you should really if you if you're wanting

to read the transformer stuff from IDW. You should

start at the beginning And at least it's only

13 years versus like 80 years of Superman or

80 years of Batman. Well, I can't help Transformers

gets rebooted every few years. I have the 80s

line and the 90s line of Transformers comics.

And to be honest, I would be more interested

if it was the sole Beast Wars comic. Yeah, I

mean... That's the only way I would honestly

like subscribe to a Transformers comic, but I

don't want like any like... Cross -contamination

with like G1 Okay, like I just want straight

like animal beast, right? Here's the thing I

will try to figure this out for you so you can

read part of this part of the wind blade story

part of her story with the colony of worlds and

all that one of the colonies that they Basically

pull into Cybertron's council is called Eucharist

Which is basically the Beast Wars planet, Dinobots

there, Cheetor's there, Optimal is there, you

know, all of those guys are there. Which, you

know, it's cool to see them, but they don't play

a main, main role in the story, because... It's

a cop -out. Well, no, it's not a cop -out, it's

an homage. It's a cool homage at the time, and

it really doesn't even matter. Because Unicron

eats all the colony world planets, so it's not

like it's gonna matter in the end because like

I said This is a set continuity That will end

so good. I'll stop We're gonna do that's what

they get for killing my friends in the beast

planet world Okay, we're gonna take a quick break

come back with some All things transformers news

after this die cast construction. It's a lost

art We are back here on all things transformers

inside the pullback. We've got some rare Transformers

news for the pullback listeners because I don't

do any kind of news on the pullback So what have

you got for transformers news this time around

Steve? Alrighty, so Well There has been numerous

things in transformers news from these 32nd anniversary

of the film debuting in theaters which is that

by you yeah I think it's just about everywhere

because I think it's even close to here but I

honestly don't care enough to go oh no you you

should go okay so what he's talking about folks

is fathom events on September 27th is nationwide

500 theaters they've actually expanded I believe

but right now as of this recording when I saw

the news article It was a nationwide 500 theater

run of Transformers the movie 1986 back in theaters

for the first time ever You should check and

see if it's by you because oh it is okay. It's

in three theaters by me I did look okay I was

gonna say cuz once I posted about it posted that

I got tickets for my wife and I to go Good old

matrix prime from TF wire Good old Jesse, he

chimes in and says, oh, it's not in my area.

And then like three days later, after they went

on sale August 30, he's like, oh, they expanded.

I can now go, woohoo. I'm like, yes, cool, awesome.

Yeah, they're going to be in like for Michigan

anyway. There's only like, I think, three different

areas. I think Lansing, which has an IMAX. I

don't think it's going to be in IMAX, just at

that theater. Then there's one in Saginaw, Michigan,

and then the other one's in Flint, Michigan.

Very cool. Yeah, it's going to be the Shout Factory

30th anniversary HD. It's gonna be the most recent,

best version of the film. It's gonna be the remastered,

all that version that Shout Factory released

on DVD two years ago is what's going to be shown.

so I am super stoked about that I cannot wait

to go because I never like when I found out that

Optimus Prime died it was like 1987 and I already

saw that Duke lived so when Optimus Prime died

I'm like that's not true that's not right that's

not true because I'll be you know just for you

young whippersnappers 1986 1987 a film that released

in 1986 didn't get released to VHS or Betamax

until 87 or later because it took a year and

a half or more for things to get out of theaters.

Whereas now it's like, you know, six months and

it's like Avengers Infinity War just released

and that just came out back in what? March or

May or something or other? I forget, but like,

yeah, so I'm super stoked that I'm able to go

see this for the first time. I cannot wait. Yeah,

I mean it's it is exciting to see that back in

theater for one just because it's Basically the

icon that especially that fanboys were screaming

for like no Burn down the movie franchise bring

this one to life So yeah, it was kind of that

that element there That that makes it exciting

yeah, and then the fact that I bet it's going

to make more than what it did when it was in

theater in 86. Do we even know what it made in

the theater in 86? It says the film came out

on August 8, 1986, which is actually quite hilarious,

timing up with the All Things Transformers anniversary.

It says, 1986, at the end of the summer, making

only $5 .8 million at the box office, which is

below its production budget of $6 million, which

means that it technically bombed. I mean, it

didn't bomb, but it didn't make money. Financially,

yeah, it didn't make money. Which is sad. You

know, it was also movie fatigue because kids

were already seeing Short Circuit, Top Gun, Space

Camp, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Karate Kid

Part II, My Little Pony Movie, The Greatest Mouse

Detective, Robotech, The Movie, Flight of the

Navigator, and Howard the Duck. Not to mention

that it was the ninth animated film of the year.

At this point, it hit theaters as animated films

like GoBots. Those are just knock -off Kmart

Transformers. That's all those things are. Yeah,

KB Toy Transformers. Oh wait, they had Machine

Wars. Care Bears Movie 2, Heathcliff, and several

other films. And then you had things like Star

Trek 4, The Voyage Home, and Little Shop of Horrors,

Platoon, and other. Crocodile Dundee. So there

were way too many movies in theater that year,

and so this unfortunately suffered. I estimate

that this will make its money back. Oh, yeah

Because now it's pure nostalgia for all of us.

It's fueled by nostalgia now. I mean, I'm not

saying that I wouldn't see it But the the same

time like it's It's It would be so close to what

I can work. I don't I wouldn't make it like right

to the start anyway so but I've seen it thankfully

enough that it doesn't faze me, but I'm not saying

that I wouldn't see it ever again. Because, you

know, they're going to do it again at some point.

Probably. And even if they don't, I own the movie.

I can pop it in my computer and watch it on my

own screen without hearing somebody making racket

in the theater. That's the one thing I can't

stand about going to the theater. Okay, and that's

true, but I zone out when I'm in the theater.

I, you know, I, I, you know, and most of the

time when I, it's going to suck because this

is a 7 PM showing local time, whatever the local

time is for 7 PM. Um, that's what sucks about

it is that it is a 7 PM only showing on July

27th. It's a Thursday. yeah well that doesn't

matter I know that matters for you but it doesn't

matter for me but like for me when I go when

I've told Karen I said if we're if we're gonna

go see a movie we're gonna go at like one o 'clock

in the afternoon on a Tuesday or something when

no one is there so yeah But no, I'm super excited.

I can't wait to see it. It's gonna be super fun

Seeing it on the big screen and hopefully I won't

basically be reciting the entire film as it's

playing because I can still do that Well coming

from the same guy that was quoting the movie

on Twitter Blindly or his computer screen is

dead. Yes. Yes blind just doing it by sound alone

exactly That was the whole okay, so that's the

whole point though when I was a kid I wanted

a tape recording of the movie I was never actually

able to get it. You know fast forward You know

25 some odd years later to 2008 or 2009 or whatever

it was and I was able to get you know I Had the

the the 20th anniversary edition that they had

put out from Sony BMG or whatever it was and

I'm like oh I have Audacity I can actually just

let the movie play because I've seen it a million

times and just record it and go away because

Audacity records through my speakers and I don't

have to worry about people interrupting or sound

effects interrupting or anything like that so

I still have that original recording and I was

playing it when my monitor went dark and I was

tweeting the entire thing out Yes, he did. Yes,

I did. Yes. Yes, he did. I Remember. Yes. I know

what other news do we have for Transformers right

now? Well aside from the IDW transformers reboot

coming in 2019 Yeah, I mean I read about that

because obviously, you know, they're also gonna

reboot the movie franchise after Bumblebee Among

other things then we have Takara Tomy Masterpiece

MP40 Beast Wars Megatron 360 to you on Online

and it's a beautiful figure I Like this toy It's

so detailed ah Yes, it looks excellent most excellent

indeed The dinosaur mode looks great. There's

no Robo kibble. It looks exactly like the CGI

model which makes it Spectacular and of course

these images are all over the net right now Whether

you go to like all spark or TFW or any of them.

It looks infinitely better than The original

figure that I remember having not only in color

but in stylistic capabilities that they have

now compared to back then it Look the original

one looked atrocious With the amount of Robo

kibble that was available and This one. I mean

some of the Robo kibble like the tail The funny

thing is the tail looks almost like exact from

the original toy just based on how it's The panels

are on it just from these images. I'm saying

but it then they have a couple action poses showing,

like, you know, where Megatron's attacking Primal

or Primal's lifting Megatron over his head or

Megatron's holding Dinobot's head and his dinosaur

head. It just looks awesome. Can't wait to see

this thing come out, to be sure. And then, of

course, Walmart, speaking of toys, is getting

the G1 reissue figures now with, like, really

chintzy packaging. The Toys R Us ones we used

to get had nicer packaging, but these are purely,

like they have Starscream, they have Bumblebee,

they have Devastator. They're basically the OG

Transformer G1. the instead of like the round

corners and on the edges the box lap they have

sharp corners and you know stuff like that I

mean it it doesn't matter to me like I would

never buy like the g1 figures again only because

you can get masterpiece and they're infinitely

better but that's that's kind of where my my

nostalgia doesn't really take place like I have

nostalgia for the character An original model,

but I don't have nostalgia necessarily for the

for the design Yeah, I can see that or for the

figure itself I should say And I don't know if

you've seen any of the stuff for transformers

evergreen. I have not Okay They actually look

halfway decent. It looks like if they merged

more of the TF Prime aesthetic into the animated,

Transformers animated look. Like they're more,

they look like they're more G1, but the color

palette, like the coloring that they use is more

in tune with animated. So they look more like

they're G1 counterparts, but they're more like

if you mix the modern comics of the characters.

And in kind of cartoonized and just slightly

so like they have prime they have bumblebee.

They have wheel jack ratchet hound Grimlock wing

wind blade Megatron Starscream sound wave shockwave

and they've inserted barricade which why but

But yeah, so they've got these as their their

starter figures as it were for the series, so

I'm impressed I will see where it goes yeah I

mean I think it's great that the classic toys

are coming back and and Hasbro has done this

before not this specific but they've done like

not generations but like the there was one there

was things years ago where it was like you know

not timelines but it was like Here here's your

nostalgia back kind of thing so they like the

universe and yeah They'll they also have like

blur hot rod prowl Acid storm, which is a seeker

slipstream seeker Shadow striker kind of a weird

obsidian slash seeker thundercracker and then

hot rod Involved so yeah, I'm looking forward

to seeing what this this series takes place as

they're gonna kind of announce more as it gets

closer, but I'm kind of excited to see what they

do with it. Just because it's something different

Very cool. Very cool. Have you seen power of

the primes? Yes So you've seen optimus primal

and so on I've seen it all. Okay, so we mentioned

this over on Altered Geek that Go90 was going

away and Go90 is now gone. Go90 .com completely

gone. you could you couldn't be at the time we

reported that you couldn't even download the

app anymore on your phone i still had the app

on my phone and sadly now it's like sorry you'll

have to find the content elsewhere so i burn

through my favorite series that i was already

watching on go ninety plus i'd burn through and

i know i go to machinima's youtube channel and

watch them there because that's where i sent

several other people to watch them had the app

and why not so i burned through all three series

uh the the combiner wars titans return and power

of the primes um and they're like 11 12 minute

videos so it's not like it you know i think uh

lady of wreck amy had did the math on it it was

like three hours of content or something in in

the long run um yes uh i love ron pearlman and

I get that this was a slightly different Optimus

Primal, but I miss Gary's voice. I do too. I

was sad. I love Ron Perlman. I think he did an

amazing job, but I think that Gary Chuck should

have been the voice on that. Yeah, I was a little

sad myself, but he did do a great job. I love

how they took the Unicron's matrix out of hot

rod finally by the end of it. Yep, and then I

did not expect Megatron to lead them all and

to sacrifice himself and then prime to come back.

Yeah, I Said after I watched this I said it to

Amy Nicole and Heather who are my femme bots

that I record the comics with After all these

years Megatron secretly is the good guy like

it's just the way it is Which is super cool because

that's kind of how like if you want a different

G1 Megatron read the Read the the IDW comics

I can point you to the right ones like I can

point you to the right point to read it But he

basically takes over the lost light from Rodimus

and they become kind of like co -leaders, and

he actually puts an Autobot symbol on for the

first time ever in the IDW comics anyway. It's

super fun, super cool. What I loved about Power

of the Primes was you basically have Joker as

Megatron. Or Megatronus, I should say. Yeah Megatronus.

Yeah, that was real. I'm like all's I can hear

is the Joker I'm just waiting for the Joker to

just pop out of like like Megatronus is a headmaster

and Joker just pops out of his head I Could see

that because Mark Hamill as Megatronus Wow I

know you don't care about this. I will mention

this next week on the pull bag as well or a couple

weeks from now actually I did not know the voice

of Predaking in Power of the Primes is Samoa

Joe from WWE. That's super cool that Transformers

and WWE now have a connection. Very cool, very

cool. Yeah, no, I love Power of the Primes. It's

my favorite of the three. Oh, yeah, definitely.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I mean, I thought they

did really well with it as a whole. They did

I mean there are certain like little things that

might not make sense kind of a thing but other

than that It was really really good. I really

enjoyed it. We may eventually Myself you and

somebody else we may be doing episode by episode

because they're short We may be doing episode

by episode reviews at some point on all things

transformers for the power of the prime stuff

I don't know yet Any other news you got? Nope,

I think that about rounds it out. All right Well,

we're not rounding it out just yet because holy

crap is all things transformers old Yep God,

it's ten years, man Yep, it's old Wow, I Almost

feel like going back and cutting up the This

ATTF This Is Your Life episode I did where I

put in all the old clips at the beginning. I

almost feel like putting that right here. This

is All Things Transformers, episode 1, recorded

August 9th, 2008. episode of All Things Transformers.

I'm your host Steve slash Megatron. The purpose

of this podcast is to feature discussions with

other possible hosts and fans on the Transformers

as a whole. We will also feature some small transformer

related news tidbits, but we'll leave most of

that to various other TF podcasts such as TF

Wire and TF Anonymous. In case you're wondering,

yes I am the same Steve slash Megatron from the

TFYR War Stories podcast. in the future and we

do news episodes when there is news and when

there's stuff that we want to actually talk about

um but i'm telling you like i gotta find a way

to get it like get you into the idw stuff because

it is super fun it really is it looks at these

characters all of these characters in whole different

ways that's kind of the thing though like i'm

not a fan of the aesthetics or half the cast

which is part of what turned me off to it like

I used to get them during when they did the spotlights

and I tried getting them when they first started

up and then I just I couldn't it didn't engross

me any I mean I did like the miniseries type

stuff right but beyond that I never I never went

into the main series just because it never resonated

with me Because again, I was a fan of the old

stuff and I was really a fan of the Dreamwave

stuff and I understood that you know, it wasn't

coming back but Yeah, I mean it's You know, I

know I'm in the minority on that but I kind of

just live with it. I don't have any regrets on

I'm not collecting but Like I said if they really

want to capture somebody like me that I want

the beast era I don't I could care less about

The the main cast anymore they beat that with

a shovel so many times I'm just tired of listening

to it Just saying I'm not a saying but just saying

Alright folks who knows what's coming up next

on all things transformers I do because it's

episode 320 of the pull bag Continuing on with

autobotly august where Ryan and I dig into optimus

prime and lost light volume one the first volumes

of each of these New series that they had done

a soft reboot on so there'll be that that's what's

coming up next here inside the pull bag on all

things transformers Where can the people find

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