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See also Devil's Due's G.I. Joe vs. Transformers section in G.I. Joe (comics). Panini Comics [ edit ] Thunderwing's vice is, simply, obsession. When his mind sets its sights on a who or what that furthers his goals, he will stop at nothing to achieve victory. Slowly but surely, his esteem for his colleagues is replaced by single-mindedness, until finally Thunderwing awakens from his haze, potentially victorious, but either abandoned or surrounded by the bodies of the few friends who tried valiantly to snap him out of it. In these dark moments, the usually noble Thunderwing is as deceitful and two-faced as any halfwit Decepticon.

The British Transformers comic, or TFUK as it’s affectionately known, launched in September 1984 and ended in January 1992, making it one of Marvel UK’s longest-running titles.

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The first monthly issue of Real Ghostbusters would have hit the stands at the same time — and been in the same format — as Transformers #333 The Marvel UK series ran for about a year longer than its American counterpart and altogether had about twice as many stories. IDW also published a bimonthly Transformers Magazine. It features strips from the original Marvel US The Transformers series, Dreamwave's Transformers: Armada comic and IDW's own The Transformers: Stormbringer series. Spotlight artist Robby Musso provides original covers. The first issue came due out in June 2007. [54] Transformers: Regeneration One [ edit ] The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #1–34 & Annual 2012 (2012–2014); The Transformers (IDW vol. 2) #35–57 (2014–2016) & Revolution; and Optimus Prime #1–25 (2016–2018) — John Barber's series spinning out of The Death of Optimus Prime, initially set on the revitalized Cybertron before moving to Earth

The rivalry was heated but short-lived: in 1987, 2000AD would pull ahead, hitting a circulation peak of 112,000 in late 1988, while TFUK would suffer a gradual but irreversible decline in readership until its cancellation in January 1992, seven and a half years after its launch. Following a renewed interest in the brand, coinciding with the big "nostalgia boom" of the early-Oughts, Hasbro granted the rights to produce Transformers comics to up-and-coming Canadian comics house Dreamwave Productions, a decision based heavily on a piece of "concept art" by Pat Lee (well, theoretically by him, at least. He was given credit for it. But... well....) For the last few issues of Volume 1, the Transformers: Universe toy line logo was used on the cover.

While Marvel US had some more involvement from Hasbro until the later years (when they'd lost interest), Marvel UK didn't even have to show Hasbro UK the scripts! This sort of laissez-faire attitude is very much not how licensed comics are done anymore. [10] The Transformers: Redemption of the Dinobots: The Transformers: Punishment #1–5 (2014), The Transformers: Redemption (2015) and The Transformers: Salvation (2017) Marvel UK produced a G1 comic which ran for 332 issues, reprinting the American stories and adding in many new stories built around them. Panel 5: A blue-chested, red-legged Optimus Prime is among the invading Decepticons! In the same panel, Optimus himself is colored entirely red and is missing his chest windows. Prime's thought "Our firepower - no match" is missing its punctuation. Question Why do you feel continuity suffered more instead of less, between Marvel UK and US when you took over the US book?"

According to the third issue of All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z 's entries on Death's Head, the events of the Marvel UK Generation 1 comics take place on Marvel Earth-120185. The universe is named after the publication date of the first Marvel UK-exclusive story, " Man of Iron". There is some confusion over when issues first appeared, due to changing practices regarding the cover dates. When the comic began in 1984, Marvel issues were normally cover dated four months ahead of their going on sale. This was partially a hangover from the days of fierce newsstand competition when each company tried to make its comics look newer than its rivals and partially a mechanism to compensate for slower distribution on newsstands and overseas sales.

The Transformers: Regeneration One (2012–2014) — A limited series set in the main Marvel Comics continuity that continues on from the final issue of the Marvel's original Transformers series 21 years later, ignoring the events of both of the Marvel UK material and the Generation 2 comics.

Transformers Comic was a British comic book series based on the Transformers toyline and film series, published monthly by Titan Magazines from 2007 to 2014. It initially featured strips re-printed from American comics and graphic novels, but later included original comic strips. The first issue was published in July 2007 to tie-in with the release of the Transformers feature film. The comic went through five different volumes and title changes before the final issue was published in August 2014 after a run of seven years. By this point, what kept TFUK alive were the new UK stories, the first of which (‘Man Of Iron’ by Steve Parkhouse) had appeared in 1985. Drawn by a variety of artists but nearly all written by Simon Furman, they began as a buffer to buy time between reprints of the American material but soon took on a life of their own, telling epic adventures about time travel, gods and monsters. This idea was later abandoned when it became apparent that to include the Transformers in the Marvel Universe would cause issues with both the Transformers title, and the other Marvel books (not to mention the rights issues that would later come up, like with ROM the Spaceknight). A few of the early issues were reprinted by Marvel in a digest sized magazine called The Transformers Comics Magazine that ran 10 issues from 1987 to 1988. [2] Marvel had also reprinted some of these early issues in 1985, as the Transformers Collected Comics which ran 2 issues. [3] [4] Subsequently, Thunderwing took action on his own, subjecting himself to a "polydermal grafting" process of his own design, one that had previously been summarily rejected by Megatron as "unnatural" and "ill-conceived". This process of grafting tissue culled from living subjects onto a Transformer to create an armored symbiotic carapace somehow also appears to have made him the avatar of the very apocalypse he had warned against. The process drove Thunderwing insane but made him invulnerable; even the combined might of the Autobots and Decepticons couldn't stop him. In the end, he was swallowed whole by Cybertron itself, leaving the planet completely uninhabitable. Stormbringer #1Various parodies and homages to its distinctly surreal cover art including an incentive cover of " The Death of Optimus Prime", Cover B of the final issue of Regeneration One, a convention exclusive cover for Till All Are One #1, the "cover" for " The Inexorable March", and a retailer incentive cover to Unicron #1. Thunderwing was among the Decepticons that invaded Metroplex. Two Giant Bases! Everybody Getting Along, Come On, Fight! Of Masters and Mayhem Similarly to the U.S. comic, there is also some confusion over when issues of the UK comic were published. The date on a British weekly during Transformers 's run was normally the off-sale date when it would be replaced by the next issue. For example issue #283 has a cover date of 18 August 1990 but was released on the 11th August 1990. During at least most of the run, the norm was for weekly comics to come out on a Saturday. Optimus Prime - Tillbaka till jorden - a translation of issues #28-32 and #34-38 of The Transformers: Robots in Disguise and the Punishment mini-series. Bonus material consists of an afterword by Andrew Griffith.

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