Mars Attacks! Transformers #1 shot

Mr_Tigg · Post by **Mr_Tigg** » Wed Jan 23, 2013 4:41 pm

I was going to skip this originally as it's written by Shane McCarthy (and I'm still bitter about AHM truncating the -tions saga).

Instead on spur I decided to download it - and you know what it's pretty entertaining. Based in the original Gee-wun universe instead of the Ongoing, McCarthy basically pokes fun at the whole set up and it works well.

I found my usually-cynical-glum-stereotypically-british-face warping into a snigger on a fair few occasions. Spike in particular gets some fun lines.

I'm not sure if it's totally worth £2.50 on comixology but I'd recommend it once it goes down in price.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 12:48 am

Bought this on Comixology. Nice, had me chuckling some. Worth $3.99? Probably, given some of the other inferior **** I buy for that price.

Post by **Best First** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:31 am

I bought this after reading Tiggster's comment, again on comixology.

I suspect in Shane's mind this probably happens between issues 11 and 12 of AHM.

Still, by far his most useful contribution to TF lore.

Professor Smooth · Post by **Professor Smooth** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:43 am

I'm the only person in the world who liked AHM, aren't I?

Hound · Post by **Hound** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 4:14 pm

Professor Smooth wrote:I'm the only person in the world who liked AHM, aren't I?

I re-read it again recently and it wasn't so bad. As a continuation of the fantastic work Simon Furman put into rebooting the series for IDW it was an abortion.

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:52 am

Professor Smooth wrote:I'm the only person in the world who liked AHM, aren't I?

There were about three issues that were excellent. The rest were mediocre at best.

But don't feel bad. I'm the only one who liked DW's War and Peace and the ongoing.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 5:59 am

Yaya wrote:
Professor Smooth wrote:I'm the only person in the world who liked AHM, aren't I?
There were about three issues that were excellent. The rest were mediocre at best.

But don't feel bad. I'm the only one who liked DW's War and Peace and the ongoing.

I LOVED WAR & PEACE. Ending was cumbersome, putting it kindly, but I still think it holds up. Dreamwave ongoing was *****, though. You're on your own there.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 11:24 am

I liked DW's ongoing

Post by **Best First** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 2:34 pm

Haha. MV and Yaya agree.

And worse still, are both horribly horribly wrong.

I reread AHM recently. It's still a load of rim cheese. And not any old rim cheese, rim cheese that has been there for years, old fat man rim cheese.

War and Peace started well but ended with an entire issue of exposition and the baddie falling down a hole. Bad endings make for bad stories (see also DW's first Transformers/GI Joe).

Most TF comics are sh1t basically.

For the last ten years or so anyway.

Post by **snarl** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:49 pm

I agree with bif.

AHM - right bag o' wank.

And DW TFs?

Seriously?

UNMITIGATED ****!

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:27 pm

[composite word including 'f*ck'] this, people. Where the hell is MTMTE?

Yaya · Post by **Yaya** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 3:13 am

bumblemusprime wrote:**** this, people. Where the hell is MTMTE?

Actually yeah, where is MTMTE? January is over and no issue?

Post by **Best First** » Mon Jan 28, 2013 9:38 am

bumblemusprime wrote:**** this, people. Where the hell is MTMTE?

i know - i feel like i am missing a limb.

And i mean one of the better ones.

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 10:53 am

Next week apparently;

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transform ... layed.html

boo.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 11:08 am

Argh, no! I need to know what happens!

Hopefully this means we get two issues in February though

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 3:49 pm

Five weeks in January and they couldn't be arsed to get an issue out?

Post by **Best First** » Tue Jan 29, 2013 9:49 pm

they were hungover

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 3:16 am

I bought all the January comics in one go, so here's the third of five reviews:

If MTMTE #13 hadn't made my day, this would have. OMG. My estimation of McCarthy went way up. If nothing else, he understands TFdom enough to write a hilarious, hilarious parody.

I mean... "stylish human?" Rubber yellow boot jokes? And the greatest paraphrase of all TF teamups ever: "You're just going to try to kill us again, aren't you?"

I'm ashamed to say that if it could be sustained, I would buy a series in this mode. I would buy it bimonthly. I suspect the parody couldn't hold up. But. Really funny.

Metal Vendetta · Post by **Metal Vendetta** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:16 am

They'd sold out at Orbital

Post by **Best First** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:26 am

bumblemusprime wrote:I bought all the January comics in one go, so here's the third of five reviews:

If MTMTE #13 hadn't made my day, this would have. OMG. My estimation of McCarthy went way up. If nothing else, he understands TFdom enough to write a hilarious, hilarious parody.

I mean... "stylish human?" Rubber yellow boot jokes? And the greatest paraphrase of all TF teamups ever: "You're just going to try to kill us again, aren't you?"

I'm ashamed to say that if it could be sustained, I would buy a series in this mode. I would buy it bimonthly. I suspect the parody couldn't hold up. But. Really funny.

eh - does it feel like a parody that half of the fandom could not have churned out though? I don't think so.

bumblemusprime · Post by **bumblemusprime** » Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:33 pm

Point. In fact, Thunderwing (username) over at the IDW forums made some much funnier comics using photos of his toys, including that sidesplitting manga parody of Drift.

But. But but. Parody can be harder to write than it seems, and if nothing else, McCarthy has shown that he isn't quite the GeeWun devotester we take him for.

Course, McCarthy, like Barber, had a lot of good ideas, and had AHM not displaced Furmanation, I think we would all be kinder toward the existence of it, even if equally harsh to the story. I did a column on the subject a few years back: http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.co ... rticle=032