From: vgriscep@wam.umd.edu (VGR (Craig Pell))
Subject: Re: Transformers T.V. Series History
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 22:43:49 GMT

In article <Bt1zBG.Aov@news.cso.uiuc.edu> pmm34393@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Dr. Claw ) writes:
>>
>>  Tying this in to rec.arts.comics/rec.arts.comics.misc, anyone care to
>>speculate how Simon Furman would have continued his US TRANSFORMERS comic
>>storylines if the title wasn't cancelled? Issue #76, for instance, had a bit
>>of exposition by Grimlock about the "inevitability" of the Transformers
>>duality, making allusions to Yin and Yang...
>
>Devastator, none of them were in it. Autobots:"Oh no, there's Devastator,
>nothing we have will stop him!" Oh well, it was stilll good. I find

I assumed that when that assault on Metroplex took place, the Aerialbots
and Protectobots simply were not on Earth.  After all, even Prime himself
was away (recall, Blaster had to call him).  And we know Omega Supreme
is capable of extensive space travel.  Broadside was the size of Superion
and Defensor, but he was not seen in the movie;  for all we know maybe he
didn't exist as of 2005.
    The same rules can be applied to the comic:  certain transformers
just can't always be where you want them, when you want them.

>it interesting that Furman would choose Grimlock to be a philosopher. 
>There was also the storyline he started concerning the nucleon that
>Grimlock gave the Dinobots. With the death of Scorponok, I assumed
>that Megatron would take control of the Decepticons again. The leadership
>of Ratbat and Scorponok really didn't accomplish much. It was almost
>as bad as the leadership of the insane Galvatron for the TV series. Would

You remind me of one the best Transformers episodes of all, IMHO:
"Webworld."  If you've seen it, you know what I mean.   :-)

>be nice for Transformers to make a comic comeback...as long as 
>Budiansky is NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT involved!!!!

Well, like so many, when I saw the commercials for Action Masters, I
nearly puked.  I understood that making transformable figures that also 
looked good was tough, but ... dinky figures that did nothing?  Bleah.
But it became evident that the comics were building an excellent story
using nucleon.
    I am certain that Optimus Prime and Hi-Q would have merged as part
of the effects of the nucleon.
    The "Last Autobot":  I don't think it was meant just as a device for
ending the series so abruptly.  I suspect another plotline was in the
works.
    I figure both Starscream and Shockwave would have obtained an infusion
of nucleon in order to gain power, though each of them for different reasons.
How Soundwave would have become an Action Master, I can't imagine.
    What I *really* would have liked to see:  since there is a Devastator
Action Master figure, can you imagine those poor Contrusticons, being
transmuted by the nucleon while combined?  Forced to stay together as a
sluggish, slow-thinking (and apparaently shrunk) behemoth?  :-)
    Obviously, once Megatron had undergone his nucleon transmutation, he
would have beaten the living shit out of the yanked-from-another-time-line
Galvatron.  That settles that conflict.  B-)
    If the comic does ever pick up again, and I believe one day it will,
I hope that it starts with #80.  Replace that goofy clotheslined 
all-encompassing wrap-up.  I understand the writers did what they had to do,
but ... that doesn't make it any better.

  VGR

"They're gawking at us, how mortifrying...!"                    -Breakdown
"The word, Breakdown, is `mortiFYing';  my sentiments exactly." -Dead End

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