Ooh, very cool! Thanks for sharing.

Still, that's organic evolution...a bit different than an brass-coated precision cut gear. I always liked the concept of Transformers being built, not naturally evolved (never cared for the Primus angle to the comics).

 

There are no words to how fitting this is. The Transformers community was birthed in a bitchfit and has remained that way ever since! May we have many more years of disproportionate anger and hurt feelings!      

 

That's crazy.

 

Transformers on the Internet: 30 Years of Complaining

So poetic  

 

So in all seriousness .. the first in post was by a troll....

 

Happy Birthday Transformers!!!

How I remembered those days! For most fans in my country, it was the cartoon that started their love for TFs but as a comic geek, it was always the comics for me! Loved the G1 Marvel run to bits!!!

It had a lot of cool concepts such as 'death' was almost never permanent for them as long as they could be repaired (e.g. issue 3 seems to hint about this with regards to Gears) and the 'Creation Matrix'! Issues 1-12 for me one of the most epic TF story arcs for its time!

I never felt that the introduction was cheesy. I honestly felt it was pretty 'robotic' (in the way the TFs introduced themselves) and when they bragged about their abilities it added the 'human' touch to them!  

 

Awesome thread!
Transformers are best shared, like all things in life. Glad we can all discuss and have for 30 years. May the opinions flow freely.

 

Oh I agree 100%. I detest the comic's Primus origin and prefer the Quintesson/build idea. I think it works much better for many reasons. I just thought I'd throw in that science bit 'cause it's cool  

 

TransFandom in a nutshell.

 

haha that is to funny that was the review thirty years ago wonder what that person would say now haha

 

Were the figures in scale in that first comic?

Btw, complaining makes you a TRUE fan, as proved here.

 

"And that's why Optimus and I are husband and wife"

"F@#! You Hasbro."

"What's with all the Bumblebees on the shelf! Shelfwarming piles of !@$@!"

"What do you mean CANCELLED?"

"Your country gets all the good stuff!"

"Mmmm.....and that's when Arcee was alone and vunerable"

"Hey a girl is on who likes Transformers! Are you single?"

"Michael Bay ruined my childhood"

"Trukk not Munky"

Yeah.

 

And so Transformers was ruined forever, from the brand's first available product. Heh. Happy 30th anniversary to Transformers' online presence!

 

Interesting. Even in 1984, there were comic reviewers.

 

It's interesting that he never mentions the toys or cartoons anywhere in the post. It's a bit like he had no idea he was picking up an early form of transmedia narrative trying to teach kids how to play with their figures (i.e. advertise a toyline).

Instead, he compares the comic to other comics, as if he thought it was an original title that Marvel was releasing to compete with other comics.

And he's using Internet technology to chat about comics in 1984, which means he has to be either a college student, graduate, or a very precocious teenager using the USC mainframe. He's wandered into the newly emerging kids' marketing strategies of the 80s not really sure what to make of it, not realizing that it is more advertisement than art.

 

May 8th is the anniversary of TF today is the anniversary of the first internet post relating to transformers

 

Lol reviewing things isn't a recent phenomenon.

 

The decimal has moved a bit though ha.

 

A bit hard to discuss a cartoon that won't air for another four months...

 

But Marvel had already proven that licensed media franchise tie-in books could BE as a good as any other comic - the success of their Star Wars book basically saved the company from going under, their Godzilla book did SO well that Toho kept increasing the size of the license fee, and as as I said earlier, Hama's G.I. Joe was a great book. The first issue of Transformers was *not good* in comparison even to its fellow licensed properties.

But this isn't me damning the book - it's just not surprising that it turned out the way it did when the entire concept of Transformers was shuffled around the Marvel offices from editor to editor who basically wanted nothing to do with the project until Budiansky got stuck with it. That opening four issue mini is a cludge of work by three different plotters and scripters who had so little interest in what they were doing that they decided to stick fuckin' Spider-Man in it.