Anyone reading the new UK comic?

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:59 am

I've got over a year's worth of unopened comics. Are they any good? I'm loathe to cancel my subscription. I want to support it and... well... I'm a collector aren't I?

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 7:15 am

Zwah?

There's a new UK comic and it's been out for a year?

Man, am I out of touch...

Post by **spiderfrommars** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 11:33 am

It's been going since the first live action movie.

I have no idea if Furman still writes it?

Post by **Kaylee** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:43 pm

spiderfrommars wrote:It's been going since the first live action movie.

I have no idea if Furman still writes it?

Write a letter in and ask. Make sure to address it to "Soundwaves", though...

inflatable dalek · Post by **inflatable dalek** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:46 pm

My considered reviews can be found on the right here:

http://tfarchive.com/comics/titan/

It's basically a good solid kids comic that's rather heartening in its no nonsense fun approach, especially in comparison to the incredibly dreary and made by people who don't like the films IDW film comics. What's not to love about a book that decided the best way to reprint All Hail Megatron was to cut it short at the half way mark with a final part made of about three of the original issues that made just as much coherant sense?

There are lows as well as highs mind, but the alternate Universe run of stories in the second half of the first volume are amongst Furman's best modern TF comic work (even if it still suffers slightly from his inability to do climaxes, I don't think Evil Ressurected Jazz ever got his plotline resolved) and features one of the best and freshest uses of a character I was rather sick off after years of misuse.

After that it gets a bit more kidified and with sales not brilliant long term stories pretty much disappear, but it's still harmless fun for the most part. Someone at Titan obviously has a lot of time for it as well, because, as with the later days of the olde Marvel UK comic, there's clearly been some effort put into keeping it going past the point most companies would have canned it.

The second and third of the Transformers Adventures books contain most of the alternate Universe storyline and are basically as cheap as chips on Amazon, so are well worth a look.