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26 June 2014
They Made Me Watch Transformers: Dark of the Moon
So please God read this so it’s not in vain. I even tried to find something interesting and maybe even educational to say about it. That took effort! [more]
When the Good Guys Deserted: On the Blaster Saga, Part 4
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]
Brian’s Comic Book Grab Bag: Warheads Volume 1 #5
Last Christmas my brother gave me a booster pack of random, non-sequential issues from a variety of popular comic book titles that syndicated in the late eighties to mid nineties. The nineties was a time… [more]
Transformers: Headmasters and Cycles of Violence
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]
Why I Dig the Transformers Movies, Part 2: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)
Continued from yesterday. Say what you want about the Transformers sequels — and I’ll say plenty of good and bad things below. They were directed by the original movie’s director, Michael Bay, executive produced by… [more]