http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:12:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/46682/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga-part-5/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46682/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga-part-5/#comments Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:00:30 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=46682 Continued from yesterday. The following American issue — #37 (Feb 1988), also by Budiansky, Delbo, Akin, and Garvey — follows up on the Throttlebots plot. It also features Ratbat and the Earth-bound Decepticons, who haven’t… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/46659/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga-part-4/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46659/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga-part-4/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:00:53 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=46659 Continued from yesterday. Issue #36 (Jan 1988) doesn’t only mark the conclusion (such as it was) of the Blaster saga. It also marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Optimus Prime — a year… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/46729/transformers-headmasters-and-cycles-of-violence/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46729/transformers-headmasters-and-cycles-of-violence/#comments Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:00:15 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=46729 When the Headmasters toys debuted, Marvel’s Transformers comic was selling well, in part due to the excitement surrounding 1986′s Transformers: The Movie. And so the Headmasters got to debut not in the monthly Transformers comic but… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/46596/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga-part-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46596/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga-part-3/#comments Wed, 25 Jun 2014 20:00:54 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=46596 Continued from yesterday. You might think that, after issue #32, Blaster would reconnect with the Throttlebots. But that never happens — at least not on-panel. When the story picks up again in issue #35 (Dec… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/46270/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga-part-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46270/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga-part-2/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2014 20:00:16 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=46270 Continued from yesterday. Issue #30 (July 1987) — also by Budiansky, Perlin, Akin, and Garvey — continues the story, but begins in an unorthodox fashion: by introducing the Throttlebots on Cybertron. The Throttlebots were small… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/46205/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga/ http://sequart.org/magazine/46205/when-the-good-guys-deserted-on-the-blaster-saga/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2014 20:00:23 +0000 Julian Darius http://sequart.org/?p=46205 In 1986′s Transformers: The Movie, set in 2005, both the Autobots and Decepticons got new leaders. Marvel Comics adapted the movie as a three-issue mini-series, but the main comic book didn’t leap forward to 2006,… [more]]]> 0