With Peter Cullen's passing, Now is as good a time as any to read some Transformers comics. Beginning with the one that started it all: the original four issue miniseries from Marvel Comics that actually predated the cartoon, making it the first non-toy Transformers media. Time to transform and roll out.
>>155228918>gears, levers and pulleysEric Clapton would have a field day.
>>155229007>>155229033>make peace>mutually assured destruction>sweating Megatron
>>155229116Oh man, I forgot all about those old Ironhide and Ratchet forms.
>>155228934It's Big Red!
>>155228917These are rips of the Till All Are One compendium, right? There's some extra pages at the end of volume 1 that show the original ending, so you can easily shuffle in those pages and make issue 4 have a conclusive ending instead of a cliffhanger.
>>155229361No, this is the 40th anniversary rerelease from Skybound and Image. It's the US version, meaning we're stuck with the Shockwave ending.
>>155228927Huh, kinda wacky to think Ravage of all characters has the first speaking line
>>155229441Every story goes back and forth on how smart the Cassetticons are
That's right, Spider-Man's in this story. And Black Suit Spidey, since it was the 80's.
>>155229441In the long run, Ravage unironically got more character development than Soundwave.
>>155229743It's nice I already read the Marvel Godzilla comic when I read this for the first time. It's all connected.
>>155229963And that's the last connection to the Marvel universe. Kinda a same they didn't keep that going. Well, there is a little more depending on how you read, In the UK stories, there is one appearance of Roxon, but that's it.
>>155228917Are you gonna do a full storytime? (and if you do are you gonna include G2 or Regeneration One?)
End (?) of storytime. As everyone probably knows by now, originally Marvel ordered just four issues of Transformers, but it sold so well they altered the ending to be a cliffhanger and turned it into a monthly series that lasted until 1991. But I just wanted to do the first four today. If I storytimed more, which would you rather see: more of the Marvel stuff, or something modern like the Skybound comics?
>>155230361Skybound comics
>>155230058Once they realized this was going to be a big ongoing thing, they decided it would just be too disruptive to the Marvel Universe as a setting to have an ongoing alien robot war happening on Earth and it not affecting everything else.The Savage Land continues to occasionally be a place in Marvel Transformers stories thoughever.
>>155230058The Savage Land shows up again in issue 8. And possibly in a UK annual in 1990.
>>155230361>If I storytimed more, which would you rather see: more of the Marvel stuff, or something modern like the Skybound comics?Dreamwave
>>155230361I would like both but go with marvel for nowSkybound gets thread a day or two after rips are outDreamwave could be good tooNo sense in doing either of idws1st idw is good untill all hail megatron and then its years of quirk chungus millenial writingWho tf buys a transformers book to read about optimus being mecha hitler and his trans fat assistant being conflicted about having gay sex and war crimes ?
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>>155228918Technically, it probably had oxygen. Those planes need to fly somehow.
>>155229116I thought Cybertron didn't have any water?
>>155231354They apparently have something "water-esque", but they don't call it that.
>>155230129Its cool that Fall of Cyvertron kept the Dinobots/Shockwave connection.
>>155230361Marvel pretty please.
So how much of this established the actual lore and names and how much was already put in place by the toy line?
>>155232427The comic is based on bios and lore written by Bob Budiansky.
>>155228966Imagine fighting a war for thousands to millions of yearshttps://youtu.be/1RCCfb185ZE
>>155230361Marvel or Dreamwave
>>155230361I could go for marvel, especially if it transitions to the UK run. Don't know anything about Dreamwave, so I'd be up for that too.
>>155231750The Marvel comics are also the start of Shockwave being a real motherfucker. In the cartoon he was a spinless lackey with some tech skills, but in the comics he is a whole different beast.
>>155236878>In the cartoon he was a spinless lackey with some tech skillsHe was a guardian! Of an entire planet!
>>155236878Cards on the table: The Marvel comics are what made me into a Shockwave fan.
>>155236905>>155236905When they referenced his battle with the Dinobots in the IDW comics I felt ten years old again
>>155230361OP here. People are asking for more Marvel, so I'll post the next few issues tomorrow. Either in a new thread or this one if it's still up.
>>155228927>starring John Belushi as Megatron>>155229441>>155229785Ravage is the manSoundwave is the dog
>>155236878I can see that since he one shot the autobots.
>>155230050damn Jesse, don't hurt 'em
>>155236905same but with Scorponok; imagine how that's been going
>>155229115Sometimes, peace is a desert.
>>155237790Yay!
>>155228917man those were so good
>>155228917Thank you Big Jim, RIP to him and Cullen both
>>155228917thanks anon.
>>155236905Same, Shockwave was an absolute menace in Marvel. Wish the cartoons did him justice
>>155229594Nothing like having THE Marvel A-lister guest-star in your limited series. Usually it's the other way around.
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>>155240672It is funny that Marvel Shockwave betrayed people in a grab for power more than Starscream.
