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[F Prime]

Regardless of the inconsistencies, Marvel U.S. TF G1 and Marvel U.S. G.I. Joe: ARAH are officially in the same continuity. Both Marvel and the Transformers brand confirm it so.

Marvel states that the two exist within the same universe with the Marvel Mulitverse identifier of Earth-91274 (while the Marvel UK G1 and Marvel UK Action Force comics exist in Earth-120185).

Vector Prime declared the following in an "Ask Vector Prime" session:
"The events depicted in the 155 issue Marvel [G.I. Joe: ARAH] series are canon for Primax 984.0 Gamma."

<Primax 984.0 Gamma> is the universal stream designation of the U.S. Marvel G1 comics continuity.

Yup, this is certainly all true. I didn't say that they weren't the same universe, only that the writers were not keeping that in mind with each issue/story. They were concerned (to an extent) with in-comic continuity, but not necessarily in-universe continuity.

G2 is certainly part of Primax 984.0 Gamma. Does this mean Furman will be sticking to it? Not sure. I assume the events of 81-100 could take place between issue 80 and G2 issue 1, but does that mean I am concerned about Furman keeping them consistent.....not really. I will be happier with a well-written story that contradicts G2 than a poorly-written story that is consistent. (Of course, the best possibility is a well-written story that does *not* contradict.)

Upshot: I don't worry much about things like Primax 984.0 Gamma when I am reading a comic, so I will not be upset if something happens that contradicts G2. It certainly wouldn't be the first contradiction. And if something does contradict I will just assume that the super-positioned wave function collapsed to a different eigenstate.

[Marcdachamp]

Furman has already stated that he's going to ignore G2. He said it aged bad and is far too 90s for his tastes.
So he stated he'll ignore it and take the Marvel continuity into a different direction with 81.
He may incorporate a few G2 things, like characters and concepts here and there.

It's kinda like what HellSpawn is to Spawn, takes everything up to a certain point as canon and then just moves into a different direction.

I hope we get Sideswipe in his G2 look.

[Dead Metal]

Furman has already stated that he's going to ignore G2. He said it aged bad and is far too 90s for his tastes.
So he stated he'll ignore it and take the Marvel continuity into a different direction with 81.
He may incorporate a few G2 things, like characters and concepts here and there.

It's kinda like what HellSpawn is to Spawn, takes everything up to a certain point as canon and then just moves into a different direction.

Not that I don't believe you, but you got a source on him saying this? I'm interesting in reading further into this.

The 2 part interview the Allspark had with him about it, back when this was just a petition. I'll go and find it for you.

Edit:
Here you go:
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... -81/21874/

Oh and the same goes for the UK material by the way Marvel US G1 only.