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Date Posted: 5/08/02 9:31:28 GMT+10
Author: Perceptor II
Subject: Re: Transformers Armada #1 - responses sans anal retention (contains minor spoliers)
In reply to: Goktimus Prime 's message, "Transformers Armada #1 - thoughts and anal retention" on 10/07/02 4:47:36 GMT+10

>Wheee, Armada #1 came out today, and here are a few
>random thoughts about it:
>
>1. I like the fold out wrap-around cover.

So do I.

>3. I do like how the story is set in ancient
>Cybertron, as it takes advantage of the Armada toys'
>futuristic/Cybertronian vehicular modes well. Of
>course, the only vehicle we really see is Hot Shot,
>but considering how un-Earth-like some of the other
>Armada TFs alt modes are like, I think setting the
>story on Ye Olde Cybertron was a good idea.

It won't stay that way. Eventually the story in the comics will move to Earth and involve the kids and all that good stuff, but apparently Sarracini wanted to touch parts of the Armada story not covered in the cartoon, which includes its beginnings back on Cybertron.

>4. Good use of cinematic technique -- although it does
>mean that the comic becomes a quicker read. However I
>found that this issue had more substance than the G1
>issues, though that's not hard.

More plot, yes, but the plot itself seems to be less substantial. It's more along the lines of "Whee! Giant robots are fun!" than "Gee! Giant robots could do a lot of damage!"

>Pat Lee's choreography
>is improving, but still has some distance to go before
>I'll even begin comparing it with my favourite Marvel
>TF artists.
>5. No humans! Whee, cos Pat Lee can NOT draw fleshies!

Um, check the credits again. Armada is pencilled by James Raiz, not Pat Lee.

>6. This issue one is MUCH better than the first issue
>of G1. It actually had action and did more than just
>skim the surface of the story. It actually felt more
>like a first chapter of a story, rather than a
>slaggin' epilogue.

Agreed.

>7. Okay, time to nitpick -- WTF are Autobots doing
>using the English language as their script all over
>Cyber City?!?! The English language didn't even exist
>one million years ago -- hell, NONE of our languages
>in existence today existed one million years ago, let
>alone the slaggin' Roman alphabet. Hell, even the
>Phoenician alphabet didn't even crop up till c.900B.C.
>(click rel=nofollow target=_blank >href="http://www.wam.umd.edu/~rfradkin/latin.html">here
> to see a funky animated gif on the evolution of
>the Latin alphabet) Although I could easily accept
>that the language being spoken in the speech bubbles,
>that we perceive as English, is supposed to be a form
>of spoken Cybertronian (just as the English language
>in Star Wars is actually supposed to be spoken
>Aurabesh, aka 'Basic'), but it would not justify why
>Ancient Cybertronian Script, which predates the Latin
>alphabet by almost a million years, could possibly
>even resemble the English language. What is this? Some
>kind of incredible intergalactic coincidence?? Shyeah
>right, and monkeys might fly out of Chris Sarracini's
>arse!!
>Hey come on! Star Wars fans nitpick about the one and
>only time written English was used in one scene of
>Episode IV, I think as fellow scifi fans, we have just
>as much right to be nitpicky about this too!! :p

You know, I might nitpick, but then I would be one of *those* type of fans, and I don't want to be that.

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  • (OT) thoughts and anal retention -- AxadayZero, 23/08/02 8:02:34 GMT+10
  • Re: (OT) thoughts and anal retention -- Robert Mueller, 24/08/02 4:19:13 GMT+10
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