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What idea from the Comic or Cartoon is your favourite? I'm quite partial to the whole "Primus Trapped Unicron in space junk" thing from the UK Comics, myself.

I guess I like the idea of there being a succession of autobot leaders.

And the Optimus Spotlight reinforces that.

Skyfire and Starscream being friends before the war.

That just proves that the war changed Starscream

I think the whole "Cybertron is actually a living god" concept is really cool, adding a real sense of purpose and importance to the Transformer race.

Wow, I have so much pent up sarcasm...

Don't worry I erased it all.

I like from the comic that Grimlock had a bit more intelligence, and that Blaster was a freakin' kick ass leader, and secret agent.

Guiltor. A super-powerful assassin that takes the best bits from Optimus and Megatron and merges them into one being just reeks of awsomeness. And he's practically the first "Scourge"(black Prime), but isn't just a lame repaint. Really stinks he only appeared once though, and never got a figure. But that obscurity just helps me like him even more.

I don't think the whole time travel concept and how it was used in the original UK comics can be beat.

I liked the concept of the Wreckers too, and loved the characterisation of Ultra Magnus throughout the UK comics. No doubt why he's my fave character now; to see some one constantly get beaten yet still have the courage to get up and fight another day... (didn't we all cheer when he finally pounded Galvatron in #161?)

Yep, I'm a Marvel UK fan for life

My favorites seem to be recent, now that I think about it.

I LOVED in War Within that the Autobots start out DOUBTING Prime. It even looks like Kup and the others are ready to follow Grimlock in insurrection if need be. I thought that was a great. I also really liked the Autobots being broken-up into factions (Lightning Strike Coalition, Wreckers) and that treaties were signed to keep the combiners/gestalts out of the conflicts.

Plus, Grimlock being a pit-fighter was just f'ing awesome. But the things I DON'T find awesome about comics-Grimlock are few and far between.

Me_Grimlock_King wrote:My favorites seem to be recent, now that I think about it.

I LOVED in War Within that the Autobots start out DOUBTING Prime. It even looks like Kup and the others are ready to follow Grimlock in insurrection if need be. I thought that was a great. I also really liked the Autobots being broken-up into factions (Lightning Strike Coalition, Wreckers) and that treaties were signed to keep the combiners/gestalts out of the conflicts.

Plus, Grimlock being a pit-fighter was just f'ing awesome. But the things I DON'T find awesome about comics-Grimlock are few and far between.

Being a Grimlock fan as well, I agree with the above statements.

I really like the approach that Dreamwave used, in that they were building a story approaching from multiple points in time, that would have eventually all meshed into one. The War Within stories were epic. I really like how they showed how Megatron and Prime grew into the war, especially how Prime started out with self-doubt and didn't have the undying support from other Autobots.

I also really liked how there was more of a purpose to the war itself that was started by Megatron. I liked how Megatron was more in the know about the secrets of Cybertron, and how he used the war as a 'deception' to unlock more of the secrets for his evil purposes. Also to add, how Shockwave and Starscream seemed to know pieces of the puzzle that Megatron himself was not even aware of.

I liked how the Quintessons were the true evil (perhaps even greater than Unicron) lurking in the background. They seemed to know everything that was going on with everyone, and they were in complete control.

I like the fact that Tfs aren't perfect. This makes them really believable, instead of a race of near demi-gods made up of technology. There are actually stupid Tfs, and psychotic Tfs, and emotional Tfs. What I find nice is that they don't know everything, and that they can even be fooled. They have hobbies and interests, and dreams. They don't always think of war, and the things of war, just like soldiers on a base in real life don't always think constantly of military and war things. When I was stationed at Ft. Eustis, one of my favorite things to do there was read books and magazines. And watch people play video games.

You would have burnout if all you ever thought of was your job.

Plus I like the fact that Tfs don't act so "roboty" as you would expect them to.

My favourite element is still the story of #1 of the Marvel comic. It's such a great origin. I love the passing of time as the Ark lies in the volcano, and then the probe pops up and scans Earth's machine life, reformats the Transformers. Great stuff. What could have been a slapdash explanation for why this range of toys are robots that turn into cars is instead this galaxy spanning, mythic, inventive plot that still holds up more than 20 years later.

I love cartoon than comics. My favorite cartoons are Digimon,Pokemon,Power Ranger,Doremon,Dragon Ball. this is because there are fightnig like an action games which me very intersted in it and makes me feel excited.

Zombie Starscream wrote:I like the fact that Tfs aren't perfect. This makes them really believable, instead of a race of near demi-gods made up of technology. There are actually stupid Tfs, and psychotic Tfs, and emotional Tfs. What I find nice is that they don't know everything, and that they can even be fooled. They have hobbies and interests, and dreams. They don't always think of war, and the things of war, just like soldiers on a base in real life don't always think constantly of military and war things. When I was stationed at Ft. Eustis, one of my favorite things to do there was read books and magazines. And watch people play video games.

Agreed! ^^

I did like the concepts of character development of TFs in the comics. As mentioned above by others Grimlock's intelligence. I'm also a big fan of the Mr. Logic Shockwave in the comics, not acting like some fembot waiting on the end of the phone on Cybertron for Megatron to call.

I also like how over the years Ratchet has become some surly SOB. The comic Ratchet was probably closer to what we know of him today, but the G1 cartoon Ratchet wasn't really that grizzled. The animated Ratchet was quite amusing. Of course, was it the fanbase that developed Ratchet this way and the official writers picked up on it?

Shirogoshi wrote: I'm quite partial to the whole "Primus Trapped Unicron in space junk" thing from the UK Comics, myself.

I liked that too, it's a shame it was introduced so late in the series, there was potential to expand on that.

Wow, Zombie thread, and I posted in it back in the day!

But anyway...

Breastforce. Not only do they have animal partners a la' Soundwave, but they're Targetmasters to boot!! How is that not cool? Oh, and the Breastforce become Liokaiser, another plus.