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Cartoon Shockwave was nothing more than a mambi-pambi babysitter for a half dead planet. Comic Shockwave wanted to blast a stadium full of music lovers.

Its a no-brainer.

Granted, I did slightly like TFA SW.

Sustain wrote:I didn't have access to the comics until much later, so in a lot of ways I preferred the toon, but the marvel Shockwave made more sense to logic. Now having said that I still like the toon version.

agreed.

Comic version, definitely. Toon version was a button pushing cronie, comic version went toe to toe with the entire line up of Dinobots.

Rodimus Prime wrote:It was insinuated that he was killed by both Megatron and Galvatron, but I think Shockwave can take them both one on one, so maybe he got away from the both of them. We never actually saw him die.

We did in the UK comic. Death's Head killed him.

Comic Shockwave was best at least he had a personality.

OmnisValidus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:It was insinuated that he was killed by both Megatron and Galvatron, but I think Shockwave can take them both one on one, so maybe he got away from the both of them. We never actually saw him die.

We did in the UK comic. Death's Head killed him.

I see. I really need to read the UK series. I heard Time Wars, Dinobot Hunt and Target:2006 were really good.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

OmnisValidus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:It was insinuated that he was killed by both Megatron and Galvatron, but I think Shockwave can take them both one on one, so maybe he got away from the both of them. We never actually saw him die.

We did in the UK comic. Death's Head killed him.

I see. I really need to read the UK series. I heard Time Wars, Dinobot Hunt and Target:2006 were really good.

Shockwave was absolutely no match for Galvatron in the UK comics, he pretty much feared having to fight Galvatron. This was most evident in these stories:
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Enemy_Action!
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Salvage!
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Altered_Image!

Megatron is a different story, he seemed evenly matched. Any difference in power would have probably been rather small I suppose.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

OmnisValidus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:It was insinuated that he was killed by both Megatron and Galvatron, but I think Shockwave can take them both one on one, so maybe he got away from the both of them. We never actually saw him die.

We did in the UK comic. Death's Head killed him.

I see. I really need to read the UK series. I heard Time Wars, Dinobot Hunt and Target:2006 were really good.

Definitely, the UK comic was fantastic. Target 2006 is the stand out story of the entire run. IMO.

Check out the Titan trade paperbacks which reprint most of them. The Legacy of Unicron contains the issue where Shockwave dies.

OmnisValidus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:It was insinuated that he was killed by both Megatron and Galvatron, but I think Shockwave can take them both one on one, so maybe he got away from the both of them. We never actually saw him die.

We did in the UK comic. Death's Head killed him.

Comic Shockwave was best at least he had a personality.

and the BEST thing about that story ?

it tied into a story that wouldnt be written by furman or read by fans for over a year i.e time wars and ravages advice to him at the end of it.

shockers KNEW in that issue ,even though WE didnt, that there was going to be an assination attempt on him (hence why he dissappeard off the throne) but because cyclonus LIED to him in timewars about him being the one that killed him he never saw deaths heads dealing the killing blow coming (made worse that both cyclonus and scourge were both there too "logically" being the onces based on his info.)

that stuff cemented furman as my favourite writer.

i cant see anyone with the balls to do that these days.

so yeah comic shockwave is tops to me, he's actually DONE stuff and started a long tradition of kick arse decpticon upstarts to keep megs on his feet and the bots wary.

ive a feeling if anything the movie shockwave will be a nod of the head to comic shockwave. that worm thing is definetly the type of experiment he'd do.

partholon wrote:

OmnisValidus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:It was insinuated that he was killed by both Megatron and Galvatron, but I think Shockwave can take them both one on one, so maybe he got away from the both of them. We never actually saw him die.

We did in the UK comic. Death's Head killed him.

Comic Shockwave was best at least he had a personality.

and the BEST thing about that story ?

it tied into a story that wouldnt be written by furman or read by fans for over a year i.e time wars and ravages advice to him at the end of it.

shockers KNEW in that issue ,even though WE didnt, that there was going to be an assination attempt on him (hence why he dissappeard off the throne) but because cyclonus LIED to him in timewars about him being the one that killed him he never saw deaths heads dealing the killing blow coming (made worse that both cyclonus and scourge were both there too "logically" being the onces based on his info.)

that stuff cemented furman as my favourite writer.

i cant see anyone with the balls to do that these days.

so yeah comic shockwave is tops to me, he's actually DONE stuff and started a long tradition of kick arse decpticon upstarts to keep megs on his feet and the bots wary.

ive a feeling if anything the movie shockwave will be a nod of the head to comic shockwave. that worm thing is definetly the type of experiment he'd do.

Excellent post

Loved the Uk Comics, high point for me in gee wun universe. Shockwave from comics was so kick ass and calculating.

target 2006 was great,a s was the return when Magnus came back and had to face galvatron despite being demorilised and despondent, yet goldbugs bravery inspired him to go out fighting.

Proper characterisation

OmnisValidus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

OmnisValidus wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:It was insinuated that he was killed by both Megatron and Galvatron, but I think Shockwave can take them both one on one, so maybe he got away from the both of them. We never actually saw him die.

We did in the UK comic. Death's Head killed him.

I see. I really need to read the UK series. I heard Time Wars, Dinobot Hunt and Target:2006 were really good.

Definitely, the UK comic was fantastic. Target 2006 is the stand out story of the entire run. IMO.

Check out the Titan trade paperbacks which reprint most of them. The Legacy of Unicron contains the issue where Shockwave dies.

Sweet, thanks. I have all the Titans of the US Marvel issues. I guess I'll start collecting the UK stuff, starting with Legacy of Unicron then.