Simon Furman interview regarding Transformers #81

I already signed. As much as I love the G2 book, I really hate all the retconning that Takara's done with cramming other toons into G1 cartoon continuity to unify everything, so a revival of Marvel continuity that creates yet another splinter thread is a win-win in my book. Align Marvel continuity as the past of Beast Wars, and the irreconcilable Beast Machines gets croqueted off into deep space, having less to do with that continuity than with Power Lords, so no matter how much I love Sunbow and Victory, Bob and Simon's book will always be the foundation my true TF universe, incomprehensible Earth Force stuff and all.

Signing the petition as I speak... type... or something. Anyway, I'd be behind this.

I'd pick up that in a heartbeat.

Honestly, I'd love to see it back-tracked to about issue 76. The last four issues of the series just seemed...rushed. Like they were trying to cram too much into the last issues before the curtain fell. As a result, the whole deal with the Neo-Knights and the Last Autobot and the final fight of the combined 'Bot & 'Con armies just seemed forced. I would gladly pick up this continuation series though no matter where it begins.

Joetx wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:Honestly, I'd love to see it back-tracked to about issue 76. The last four issues of the series just seemed...rushed. Like they were trying to cram too much into the last issues before the curtain fell. As a result, the whole deal with the Neo-Knights and the Last Autobot and the final fight of the combined 'Bot & 'Con armies just seemed forced. I would gladly pick up this continuation series though no matter where it begins.

ITA. Everything post Issue 75 seemed tacked on, as if they thought #75 would be the last issue, but got late word there would be 5 more.

Yep, though it was nice to see that the door was left open for more Autobot/Decepticon conflicts instead of ending it all after Unicron kicked the bucket.

Atleast now we could have shot resolving all the stuff we didn't get to see in G2.

A little while back we told you about an interview The Allspark held with Transformers comic legend Simon Furman about the possible publishing of Transformers #81 to continue the original Marvel continuity.
Well our good friends have published the second part of this interview that goes a little more into detail about the actual continuation, we have a short run-down of all the major points for you:

• The reason Optimus is oblivious the "big army of pissed off Decepticons massing" is because he's so shaken by his own death.
• The carnage on Earth "makes All Hail Megatron look like the teddy bears’ picnic"
• Return of Bludgeon, Galvatron, Megatron, Soundwave, Prowl, Grimlock
• Characters killed by the end of #80 are still dead
• Subplots: Grimlock goes off the rails trying to cure his Action Master condition. What happened to Scorponok's original head? What is the fate of Spike/Fort Max? What happened to the likes of Circuit Breaker and GB Blackrock?
• Sticking to US continuity, BUT wants to bring Ultra Magnus into it and possibly the Wreckers
• Simon envisions the characters close to their original 1980's G1 forms, but with Cybertronian alt modes
• No Donny Finkleberg

For the interview in all of it's glory, please, use the following links to it on the Allspark.com:
Part 1
Part 2
Also, don't forget to sign the petition to get this published!

excalibur1814 wrote:I'm a bit confused as, obviously, I've only ever read the UK G1 comic from issue 1 up to the final issue which was around(?) issue 300+. Does this mean that after issue 80 everything will be ignored?

"The original series lasted 80 issues!" ? Not in the UK

Confused?

The UK issues are different.
Due to the UK comic publishing format (biweekly) Marvel UK rann out of US comic material to reprint pretty fast but the comic was going pretty strong. So in order to continue the TF comic series, the US material was spread out over multiple issues as a story ark with extra UK exclusive stories to fill the pages of the issue. This allowed for more character development, Ultra Magnus I believe existed only in one issue of the US comic, more stories and less plot holes.
For a better more detailed explanation see here
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Transformers ... #Marvel_UK

Cyberstrike wrote:IDW's ongoing comic is the best Transformers comic ever.

LOL, now I'd really love to see #81 made

Cyberstrike wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:Lets see if us posting this can boost signatures for this petition.

Also, I might actually be interested in this, since it has nothing to do with the now ruined idw G1 comic.

IDW's ongoing comic is the best Transformers comic ever. I don't want to waste my time on bad 80/90s retro-book by a writer who is way past his prime.

I'm sorry, but are you still not over the fact that I don't have the same taste for thin spreaded badly written shlock like you?
Do you honestly have to keep quoting old posts of mine where I state my own opinion and taste just to tell me once again that you disagree with me? I mean, seriously even the newbies know that by now. Why can't I just stop buying and reading something I don't like, while at the same time voicing interest in something by the same company due to it being "relatively new and untarnished"?

Dark Optimum Supreme wrote:

What happened to the likes of Circuit Breaker and GB Blackrock?

Even if this happens, how could he use those characters? Marvel owns them right? I remember for a while they weren't even allowed to reprint the stories characters like that appeared in.

I believe they can use Blackrock due to not existing outside of the TF comics, also I guess Circuit Breaker might just be mentioned in dialogue or something like that.