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I get that. The way it was released here was super unappealing and it just didn't fit with anything by that point. I didn't appreciate it until getting the full backstory - realizing how early it was meant to be helped so so much. That and experiencing it with the hand painted coloring found in CC 3, which elevates the art in a way the Marvel US recoloring does not. Still a weird story, but as time goes on it's that weirdness that makes it really cool, to me.Rodimus Prime wrote:Maybe I had to grow up in the UK to appreciate it, but as a G1 comics fan, I did not like Man of Iron. At all. It had to do with the artwork as much as the story itself, but it didn't appeal to me. When Titan reprinted the G1 comics 20 or so years ago, I'm glad they left issues 33 and 34 out of the collection.
I actually found out why "Man of Iron" was printed in the US run after asking Bob Budiansky at BotCon 2022. He told me that it was printed because he needed more time to work on the next proper US issue ("Child's Play"), as he hadn't met his deadline in time. He said the same was true with the other two Marvel US issues that he likewise didn't write ("Plight of the Bumblebee!" and "The Big Broadcast of 2006"), that he didn't meet his deadlines for "The Smelting Pool!" and "The Cosmic Carnival" in time, so those two other stories were added to fill-in for those publications to give Bob more time to finish the next chapters.ScottyP wrote:I get that. The way it was released here was super unappealing and it just didn't fit with anything by that point. I didn't appreciate it until getting the full backstory - realizing how early it was meant to be helped so so much. That and experiencing it with the hand painted coloring found in CC 3, which elevates the art in a way the Marvel US recoloring does not. Still a weird story, but as time goes on it's that weirdness that makes it really cool, to me.Rodimus Prime wrote:Maybe I had to grow up in the UK to appreciate it, but as a G1 comics fan, I did not like Man of Iron. At all. It had to do with the artwork as much as the story itself, but it didn't appeal to me. When Titan reprinted the G1 comics 20 or so years ago, I'm glad they left issues 33 and 34 out of the collection.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Same here. I really appreciate the feel it was going for, trying to capture how alien an encounter with TFs would be from a child's POV. Still, now that I've read all of Marvel U.S. and U.K. (except a few annual text stories), it doesn't quite feel like it fits. Whenever I reread Man Of Iron, I feel like what I'm reading is the adaptation of some live-action TF movie that was released in England in early 1985, then vanished without any other trace; even knowing better, sometimes when I'd pick the carcass of a dying video store, I'd look through the piles of tapes thinking, "If only...", for just a second or two. For all its faults, it's haunting.ScottyP wrote:I get that. The way it was released here was super unappealing and it just didn't fit with anything by that point. I didn't appreciate it until getting the full backstory - realizing how early it was meant to be helped so so much. That and experiencing it with the hand painted coloring found in CC 3, which elevates the art in a way the Marvel US recoloring does not. Still a weird story, but as time goes on it's that weirdness that makes it really cool, to me.Rodimus Prime wrote:Maybe I had to grow up in the UK to appreciate it, but as a G1 comics fan, I did not like Man of Iron. At all. It had to do with the artwork as much as the story itself, but it didn't appeal to me. When Titan reprinted the G1 comics 20 or so years ago, I'm glad they left issues 33 and 34 out of the collection.
I actually somewhat recently figured out a good place for "Man of Iron" to fit into the larger Marvel G1 continuity, in regards to both the US and UK continuities.Bumblevivisector wrote:Same here. I really appreciate the feel it was going for, trying to capture how alien an encounter with TFs would be from a child's POV. Still, now that I've read all of Marvel U.S. and U.K. (except a few annual text stories), it doesn't quite feel like it fits.ScottyP wrote:I get that. The way it was released here was super unappealing and it just didn't fit with anything by that point. I didn't appreciate it until getting the full backstory - realizing how early it was meant to be helped so so much. That and experiencing it with the hand painted coloring found in CC 3, which elevates the art in a way the Marvel US recoloring does not. Still a weird story, but as time goes on it's that weirdness that makes it really cool, to me.Rodimus Prime wrote:Maybe I had to grow up in the UK to appreciate it, but as a G1 comics fan, I did not like Man of Iron. At all. It had to do with the artwork as much as the story itself, but it didn't appeal to me. When Titan reprinted the G1 comics 20 or so years ago, I'm glad they left issues 33 and 34 out of the collection.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Yeah, most of us who grew up with the G1 comics are now in our 40s...Starscream wrote:Wow we really called it Ask Your Dad
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