Rated X wrote:Interesting how the Japanese cartoon made the concept work. I was never a comic reader but I do have an issue with Skulgrin fighting against some female super hero called “circuit breaker”.
One could hardly call Circuit Breaker a "superhero". She was deranged and bloodthirsty, with a pathological hatred of the Transformers and burning desire to kill them all.
Rated X wrote:In this comic, Skullgrin appears to be large the size of most other Transformers. How were the autobot pretenders portrayed by marvel comics compared to non pretenders ?
I explained before that Marvel Comics portrayed the Autobot Pretenders as giant humans in armored suits, but this wasn't to fool the Earth humans but instead to fool the Decepticons and aliens on other planets. There was one story in which two Autobot Pretenders went to another planet that was ruled by giant warrior female humans, which is the only time their giant human Pretender shells worked as believable disguises. But most of the time, the Autobot Pretender shells just served as additional power in battle, as the inner robot could subconsciously control the shell when outside of it, so as to be two soldiers instead of one.
Rated X wrote:I cant speak for Philly, but in Miami when Pretenders came out this was the scenario:
By 1988, Transformers sales had decreased in Miami. The American cartoon had ended, young fans were growing up, Nintendo was the toy of choice, and concepts that were considered “cool” to Japanese kids were considered lame by American kids. These concepts included powermasters, micromasters, and of course, pretenders.
I guess the scenarios were different in different parts of the country.
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