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You got the touch. Stan Bush here, and you're
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about to transform and roll out. Only on the
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Geekcast Radio Network. Yeah! Hey, it's Jesse
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Rass here, and you've made the great escape into
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comics by jumping inside the pull bag today.
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Catchphrase. You've just jumped inside the pull
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bag. Join TFG1 Mike and the rest of the comic
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escape into comics. From DC, Marvel, and Image
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to IDW, Boom Studios, and Xenoscope, we have
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everything right here. We cover things like Transformers,
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He -Man, Super Heroes, TMNT, and Radiant Black.
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Yeah, we have all that and so much more. It's
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all inside the pull bag here on the Geekcast
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Radio Network. So, without further ado, it's
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time to talk about the comics we're reading right
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now, here inside The Pull Bag. You've just jumped
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inside The Pull Bag, which is crossing over with
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all things Transformers. I am, of course, THU
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and Mike, and normally you don't hear my voice
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first on the ATTF side of things, but since this
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is The Pull Bag... Here we are. Today, I introduce
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Steve Megatron to the Skybound Entertainment
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Transformers comics. Hi, Steve. How are you?
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Yo, yo, yo. That didn't answer the question.
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Put your yo -yo away. I am doing well, but some
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Autobots and Decepticons are not new. Yeah, it's
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a little rough, isn't it, in there? Especially
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the humans. Yeah, well... We'll get into that.
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Let's say this. The humans are... I don't know.
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They're caught in the middle, aren't they? Today
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we will be discussing Volume 1, Robots in Disguise
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from Skybound, which collects issues 1 through
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6 of the ongoing Transformers series. But for
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me, this is kind of a refresher course, because,
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man, did I forget half this crap. But I've been
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recording and reviewing the Energon universe
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with Jesse, aka Matrix Prime, for the last almost
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three years on his podcast, Another Comic Review,
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since the Energon universe debuted back in 2023.
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Yeah, so for those that do and don't know, I
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had carpal tunnel and ulnar nerve surgery done
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on my left arm, which, as I've mentioned before
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on other podcasts, I have cerebral palsy on my
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right side, so my left arm is the only good one
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I can use. Yeah, well, last year that needed
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to have some work done on it, apparently. And,
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yeah, I couldn't really do any editing. I could
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basically just beg people to have me on their
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podcast and just show up. I could do the reading.
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I could do the watching. I could listen to whatever
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and just show up and talk and not have to worry
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about doing any of the actual work for once.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Joke's on me. But yeah, here
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we are three years later in the pull bag, and
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I'm bringing Steve in on the volumes because
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I was curious to see how Skybound was going to
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do the volume collections for the Transformers.
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Skybound Entertainment is an imprint under Image
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Comics. Here inside the pull bag, we've done
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a ton of Image Comics stuff over the years, like
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Radiant Black and Cowl and a bunch of other stuff.
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So, yeah, there's that. But the creative team
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on Transformers for this first arc, for the first
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24 issues, for the most part. Writer, artist,
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Daniel Warren Johnson. Colorist, Mike Spicer.
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Letterer is Russ Wooten. Woot! Yay, Russ, you
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rock. It's a joke we did on another comic review
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because of his name. But, yeah, this is my first
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experience to Daniel Warren Johnson when we started
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this. I did a little bit of research on him.
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I know he did a series called Do a Powerbomb,
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and that's where all the wrestling stuff comes
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in in this trade here. And just because I was
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curious, and I'm not going to read most of this,
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but I was curious to see how Google AI Summary
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would handle Transformers Volume 1 Robots in
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Disguise. It basically key spotlighted certain
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things. It's interesting. It got most of it right.
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I'm still not... But I do have a lot of my notes
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and whatever else, but more so interesting folks
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is what Steve thinks of this stuff, because you
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guys can go over and listen to the last three
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years of another comic review. I can, I'm pretty
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sure I can pull up and link to the first six
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individual issues or the six individual episodes
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where Jesse Ryan and I reviewed these specific
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issues. But what were your thoughts reading this?
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So, to be quite honest, I wasn't sure what to
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expect going into it. Just from the fact that
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I never even attempted. I haven't read a Transformers
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comic outside of Beast Wars from IDW since the
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early couple of years of IDW. Yeah. Like, I haven't
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read a Transformers comic since then. I was interested
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in this alternative universe that they kind of
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opened up with. And I was kind of puzzled, like,
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this isn't how the story goes. Because, I mean,
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I grew up with not only G1, you know, the cartoon
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on reruns. I saw those. And I rented them at
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the video store on VHS tapes and grew up with
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Beast Wars. So I was familiar with, you know,
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some of that. But it was also familiar with the
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G1 Marvel comics. Like I grew up on those. I
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saw those at the comic shop. I had pretty much
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all of them except for like 12 issues in some
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of the G2. And some of this went that direction
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and some of it did not. And so it was quite interesting
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to see how some of these things kind of came
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to be. I found myself intrigued and wondering,
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you know, how all of this was going to come into
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play later. So I did not expect the level of,
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uh, gore. Uh, but I guess I should have, cause
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I mean, the guy did the walking dead. So, uh,
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so yeah, like, well, no, uh, this, this comic
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universe, not specifically the writers. Yep.
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Yep. Yep. But, Yeah, so I was a little bit confused
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in kind of going, oh, what's going on here? And
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then I was like, oh, crap. I would not want to
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be a human in this universe. Granted, Marvel
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didn't quite go this level, but they did paralyze
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people and torture them to a crisp and put them
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in, you know, exosuits and all kinds of crazy
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stuff. So there's a little bit of a difference,
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but it's just, you know, modern writing and stuff
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compared to back in the day, what had happened.
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But yeah, I don't know. surprised by a lot of
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the characterizations a lot of the random stuff
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that was kind of happening and the way that they
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cobbled some of the transformers and yeah it
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was it was quite interesting though yeah for
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me what is interesting on this read rereading
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through this First of all, like I said, like
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I mentioned, when Jesse Ryan and I did these
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as single issues, we only did them as single
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issues. This is the first time I've looked at
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it in trade paperback. And again, not saying
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I'm just making a statement here. Most of the
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time when I read trade paperbacks from any company,
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could be anybody, DC, Marvel, IDW, whatever.
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They each have a specific type of format where
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they will split the issues up so you can tell
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where one issue begins and the other issue ends.
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And as you go along and go forward, so you kind
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of have a story break and you also get to see
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like specifically comparing. Apples to oranges.
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The previous license holder to the current license
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holder, IDW, would do cover breaks. So at the
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end of one issue, you would see a variant cover.
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The next issue, you would see the cover of whatever
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that issue is. Skybound doesn't do that. Skybound
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does, it opens it up with volume book one, volume
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one, whatever it is, and you just go through
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the whole thing. I literally had to sit on the
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TF Wiki page to make sure I remembered where
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the actual stopping point was from issue to issue,
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because how I took my notes for this recording
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was I broke it down by the six issues, because
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what surprised me was out of the six issues,
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issue three and four, are where most of my notes
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are. Issues 2, 5, and 6 are where my least amount
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of notes are. So that was interesting to me.
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But yeah, the formatting for the trade paperbacks
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for Skybound, they just... want you to read the
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whole book which i get i understand that but
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even just putting a and i didn't notice it this
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time i first read through maybe i'll look through
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it again really quick but i'm pretty sure there
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are no markings at the end of when that first
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Issue ends. There is no. Yeah, there is no. There's
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nothing to delineate. I didn't know where one
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issue started and the next began. I was like.
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Yeah, no. Yeah, no, there isn't. That's why I
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had to go back and I had to go to the TF wiki
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and I literally read the last point of the synopsis.
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And I'm like, oh, I know where that is in the
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book. Okay, cool. Which I guess technically,
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if you want to read this as a whole book that
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works as a whole story that is uninterrupted,
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that's great. But again, I don't know. It is
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what it is. For me, as someone who usually breaks
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these down issue by issue for taking notes for
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a podcast, it was a little unhelpful. And Daniel
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Warren Johnson had said in interviews leading
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up to this and right after the first issue had
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been published that it was his dream to create
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his own version of Generation 1. And it is his
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own version. he had said that he was grew up
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with the toys, grew up with the cartoon, grew
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up with the Marvel comics, but he was more so
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into the cartoon. So in those early in that,
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that first issue here, you see that it feels
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familiar. Like we know kind of, but Oh no, it,
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it, he changes it up a lot and that's good. So
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we don't just feel like it's the calm. It's the
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cartoon in comic form. I actually think it's
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kind of cool and funny seeing Transformers doing
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wrestling moves. I don't think I've ever seen
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that before. It was quite humorous, actually.
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Prime flipping the Decepticons over his back.
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And I was like, okay, he really took them out.
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Yep, yep, yep. Optimus Prime's FU or AA's Skywarp,
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that was crazy. That happens in issue three.
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That was nuts. I like Daniel Warren Johnson's
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writing in this story. I think the writing is
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good. I like the art in this first arc for the
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most part. I like his art throughout most of
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his run, but towards the tail end of the run,
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I kind of get... I kind of got tired of him at
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the very tail end. By issue 17 or 18, I'm like,
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okay, what's next? So we'll get to that eventually.
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Not today, though. Do like Spike and Carly here
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in this, but. I think they were kind of throwaways,
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like Carly was more of a character than Spike
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and Spike spent most of it out of commission.
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Yeah. Spark plug. They called Sparky. Yeah, that's
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fine. I yeah, I. Go ahead. I was going to say
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his whole arc is rather strange in this one.
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I mean, they gave him a totally different vibe.
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Yeah. That's good, though. How he went out was
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different. Yeah. Well, it's been three years.
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I think we can spoil it at this point. He...
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Well... He became one with the Matrix. Yeah,
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he became one with the Matrix. And I'm like,
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wait, what? I just still to this day do not understand
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that. And I still don't understand. And I took
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more of a note of it now versus three years ago.
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How is he going to open the Matrix to save Spike
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when he ain't got no other arm? He doesn't have
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a hand. He's like me. He's Mr. One Arm. Like,
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I don't understand that. I know I'm very nitpicking
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on this here, folks, but Optimus only has one
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arm. Don't you need two hands to open the Matrix?
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Like, especially finger holes? Like, I mean,
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come on. That happened in issue four. How did
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you feel about Starscream in this comic? I mean,
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he was being Starscream. There's really not much
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I can say about the whole situation because he
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was very on point. I could totally see him. You
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know, he did shoot Skyfire in the. In the cartoon,
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I could see him raking over one of his buddies
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over the coals to fix himself. I could see him
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kicking Ravage because he's like, no, we need
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a bigger fighter. I really don't see any difference
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in his personality, per se. I mean, I guess I
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see a little bit more of the Machinima, you know,
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Power of the Primes saga. The self -preservation,
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but also the, you know, I'm going to take them
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out. I'm the leader, blah, blah, blah. G1 never
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really got that because he got torched before
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he got to that point. Yeah. And I feel like the
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G1 comics from Marvel and Transformers Animated
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and Transformers Prime and all these other mediums
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have done it pretty much to the same degree.
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The only thing is flesh creatures uh squish yeah
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that's where i was going with this because that's
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the only thing that that struck me weird is he's
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like oh squishy you know yeah he's yeah i would
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have expected more of the quick strike approach
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of uh you know oh you mean with all those hairy
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critters on them yeah like running away like
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that's kind of more the vibe i was expecting
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not squish squish like i could see him sitting
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out there with a magnifying glass like torching
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them on purpose yeah just for the funds of it
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yeah that's yeah but star scream apparently likes
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his his violence parties in his own words oh
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my god like And again, I get it. Daniel Warren
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Johnson, I believe, said Starscream was his favorite
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character. So I get it. You're going to write
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your favorite character the way you want to write
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him. But damn, that was a little much. I love
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seeing Devastator. That was awesome. And Prime
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attacked him, too. Yep. Oh, man, we got it. Oh,
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boy. So where does that happen? It's... Okay,
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where is he? So that's how Optimus lost his arm.
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It was the damn humans in Skywarp. But I had
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forgotten that the humans started it. The human
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military, it wasn't Sparky, but it was the human
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military guys that shot at Optimus and kind of
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basically tore his arm. off ish. And then Skywarp
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really tears it off. So that's how often I forgot
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how often has lost his arm. Cause I haven't gone
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back and read these issues. Like we're up to
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issue. We just finished issue 32 as of this recording.
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Uh, and I haven't got like, this is the first
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time I've gone back and read this. So by now,
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uh, Optimus hasn't had his arm in a long time.
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So, yeah. But Optimus not having his arm, he's
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got to find a replacement arm. And apparently
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he's got one in the back of his trailer he can
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use. Oh, I can't use that. No, I can't use that.
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Oh, come on, Optimus. What could it hurt? Yeah,
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I love the fusion cannon that he used against
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some of the Decepticons, and he told Starscream,
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oh, like, you haven't been at the end of this
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barrel. I was like, okay, that was good. I was
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like, that was pretty cold, but it was good.
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But then how he took out some, you know, like
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Reflector and, you know, some of the other guys,
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like, I was like, oh, and they were like, you're
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gonna pay, Prime, you're gonna, oh, crap. Yeah,
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oh, crap. So I can honestly see why people wanted
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the toy attachment for Prime to turn him into
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this. Yeah. Which the knockoff has. Like, not
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mine, but a different version of the knockoff
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came with. So you could swap out that arm. I
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mean, I could 3D print it or buy an Amazon eBay
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version too, but I don't care enough to do that.
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Yeah. But it's still kind of cool. Or, you know,
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you could buy the official version, too. So,
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there's that. Because there was the official
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version, right? I literally just saw it on Hasbro
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Pulse, so I know they made an official version.
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I'll have to look again, because I can't remember.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure they did. Yeah, they came
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out with... Oh, no, it was New Age. Oh, no, wait.
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No, Hasbro has it. Yeah, they came out with one.
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It was $80. Yeah, that's probably why you went
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looking for a knockoff. It was $80. What's sad
00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:33.660
is this version of Prime, it's the Energon Universe
00:21:33.660 --> 00:21:35.960
Prime, and he's literally no different than the
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Studio Series 86, other than he has Megatron's
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arm and the fusion cannon. Yeah, that's why you
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went, I remember. And he costs $80. He doesn't
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even come with a trailer. I know. I remember
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us talking about this. He doesn't even come with
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this stinking trailer. I know. I can pay the
00:21:55.160 --> 00:21:56.940
same price and get the trailer, or I can buy
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the knockoff and get all of it. Yep. I remember
00:22:01.900 --> 00:22:09.660
that conversation. Stupid. Yeah, stupid. Hasbro
00:22:09.660 --> 00:22:13.410
wanting their money for nothing. I do love that
00:22:13.410 --> 00:22:15.490
shot of Megatron on the ice, though, at the end
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of that issue. Oh, yeah. Like, I'm just wondering,
00:22:18.089 --> 00:22:22.210
like, one, how did he get there? Mm hmm. And
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then two. Like, how, you know, now I'm just like,
00:22:29.309 --> 00:22:32.450
oh, how are they going to bring him back? Oh,
00:22:32.609 --> 00:22:34.609
we'll find out because we're still going to be
00:22:34.609 --> 00:22:43.049
doing this. So we'll find out. But. Yeah. But
00:22:43.049 --> 00:22:47.230
yeah, so Optimus doing blammo -whammo with the
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fusion cannon. Oh, poor Reflector, because that
00:22:52.069 --> 00:22:54.809
scene, I'm up to that page now in the comic,
00:22:54.890 --> 00:23:01.529
where I'm like, Reflector, hmm. He doesn't reflect
00:23:01.529 --> 00:23:04.309
so well anymore, does he? No, and the sad thing
00:23:04.309 --> 00:23:07.049
is all I can hear in my head is Thundercracker.
00:23:07.289 --> 00:23:10.369
All right, Reflector, let's see what you can
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see. That's all I can hear in my head is Thundercracker
00:23:13.549 --> 00:23:16.730
and Reflector from that one scene in Generation
00:23:16.730 --> 00:23:19.150
1. And now I'm like, well, I guess Reflector
00:23:19.150 --> 00:23:23.130
isn't reflecting so well. And was this frenzy
00:23:23.130 --> 00:23:26.529
or rumble? I couldn't tell. Reflector, buddy.
00:23:27.789 --> 00:23:31.819
Oh, boy. And since it's Generation 1 cartoon,
00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.539
I'm assuming that's frenzy. That just bit the
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bucket. I do love the way he drew Arcee's alt
00:23:39.819 --> 00:23:46.240
mode when she saves Carly. That is cool. I'm
00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:47.819
surprised she didn't get the squish treatment.
00:23:48.799 --> 00:23:52.640
Carly? Yeah. I saw the bones cracking. It was
00:23:52.640 --> 00:23:54.099
like, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack. And
00:23:54.099 --> 00:23:56.039
I was like, oh, great. She's going to be paralyzed
00:23:56.039 --> 00:24:03.490
in Chip Chase. No. Chip chaser. Please, no, let's
00:24:03.490 --> 00:24:08.089
not go there. They didn't. Thankfully. And then
00:24:08.089 --> 00:24:10.769
we bring in the heavy metal with the Constructicons
00:24:10.769 --> 00:24:13.869
and Devastator. I was like, how the heck did
00:24:13.869 --> 00:24:16.730
they get repaired so quickly to just magically
00:24:16.730 --> 00:24:24.069
be there? It's... I'm like, I had to have missed
00:24:24.069 --> 00:24:28.910
something because I was like, why? How? So let's
00:24:28.910 --> 00:24:33.309
see. They have Skywarp and Teletraan 1 now, right?
00:24:34.829 --> 00:24:38.349
Right? Because that's what they needed. They
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needed Sky... And then he and Starscream go for
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a ride. That's issue 5. Thundercracker gets woken
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back up. And then he sees that Skywarp made his...
00:24:49.990 --> 00:24:53.450
Yeah, Thundercracker got woken back up. Sees
00:24:53.450 --> 00:25:00.589
that Skywarp made his sacrifice. Uh, cause Skywarp
00:25:00.589 --> 00:25:03.190
is now a part of Teletraan cause that's how,
00:25:03.329 --> 00:25:08.309
yeah, cause the Decepticons have moved into the
00:25:08.309 --> 00:25:12.670
Autobot base. So that's how the, that's how the,
00:25:12.670 --> 00:25:16.190
um, Constructicons got. I knew I missed something
00:25:16.190 --> 00:25:17.869
there. Like I was reading through it and I'm
00:25:17.869 --> 00:25:22.509
like, I'm confused. Yep. I think a second read
00:25:22.509 --> 00:25:25.509
probably would have gotten me there, but. Yep,
00:25:25.529 --> 00:25:30.869
that's how they did it. Yeah, because the Autobots
00:25:30.869 --> 00:25:35.769
are outside the Ark, which means the Decepticons
00:25:35.769 --> 00:25:42.529
are inside the Ark. So that's how they have them.
00:25:43.009 --> 00:25:46.089
And then Devastator just goes on devastating.
00:25:46.869 --> 00:25:49.670
And you get Cliffjumper and Starscream inside
00:25:49.670 --> 00:25:53.390
the Ark, fighting for all that it's worth. And
00:25:53.390 --> 00:26:01.900
then... Optimus on the slab. And the Matrix,
00:26:02.299 --> 00:26:06.960
take it, take it. Pulse to the ground, as all
00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:12.619
MacGuffins do. And that's when, I think that's
00:26:12.619 --> 00:26:15.299
when, yeah, that's when Sparky walks into it.
00:26:17.099 --> 00:26:19.480
Which again, I thought was really strange. He's
00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.660
like. Yeah. I'm just going to waltz my butt right
00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:25.980
into the center of the matrix. But I was like,
00:26:25.980 --> 00:26:32.779
what? It was a weird choice, but I get it. It's
00:26:32.779 --> 00:26:35.799
a, I don't know. Hey, it's one less human we
00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:39.119
have to deal with. It's true. Yeah. And then
00:26:39.119 --> 00:26:41.059
as we end it. Although I didn't mind him as much.
00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:49.619
I feel like Spike is going to be a whiner. I
00:26:49.619 --> 00:26:53.200
honestly could not tell you. I honestly do not
00:26:53.200 --> 00:26:55.380
remember. So that's one of the reasons why we're
00:26:55.380 --> 00:27:00.359
doing this in trade. Uh, cause I, I, I mean,
00:27:00.359 --> 00:27:03.640
y 'all can go back and listen to the next trades,
00:27:03.740 --> 00:27:08.160
the next step is seven through 12. I don't remember
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:11.480
like spike wakes up at the end of the very last
00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:15.299
page of this is spike wakes up. Where's my dad?
00:27:16.180 --> 00:27:19.210
He had to write it on a note. Well, because I
00:27:19.210 --> 00:27:23.089
mean, he's got a breathing apparatus on his face,
00:27:23.170 --> 00:27:29.529
but yeah. So, you know, overall, I like it. I
00:27:29.529 --> 00:27:33.650
still like it. This first arc, I think it's a
00:27:33.650 --> 00:27:36.690
good arc. I think it's interesting. I like the
00:27:36.690 --> 00:27:40.730
characters that Daniel Warren Johnson used. I
00:27:40.730 --> 00:27:45.269
think they're all very. season one generation
00:27:45.269 --> 00:27:48.210
one characters for the most part maybe a little
00:27:48.210 --> 00:27:52.069
bit of season two blaster was there blaster okay
00:27:52.069 --> 00:27:54.990
blaster was there that was all i saw season two
00:27:54.990 --> 00:27:58.789
wise well in season three with rc okay there's
00:27:58.789 --> 00:28:01.809
a little bit of mixing links there's sprinklings
00:28:01.809 --> 00:28:10.299
of stuff yes but For a Generation 1 comic that
00:28:10.299 --> 00:28:15.059
is new to this generation of Transformers fan,
00:28:15.380 --> 00:28:19.940
2023 to 2026, whatever, however you want to say
00:28:19.940 --> 00:28:23.839
it, I think this is a good retelling of Generation
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:28.500
1 in his own style, in his own art style and
00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:31.079
writing style. I like it. I think it's a good
00:28:31.079 --> 00:28:34.259
introduction to it. I'm trying my best not to
00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:37.799
be as nitpicky as I was in the moment three years
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.319
ago as these issues were coming out, because
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:44.019
I think we were all being more critical back
00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:46.720
then because we were doing these as they were
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:49.779
coming out month to month to month. Well, I think,
00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:52.319
too, there was some polarization, too, because
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:57.309
we're coming off of IDW for years. Like I wasn't
00:28:57.309 --> 00:28:59.049
the biggest fan of it, so I didn't care either
00:28:59.049 --> 00:29:03.549
way. But now that this has been out, you know,
00:29:03.549 --> 00:29:08.930
numerous trades later. Yep. I'm like, hmm, maybe
00:29:08.930 --> 00:29:13.190
it's time. Well, and plus I was going to have
00:29:13.190 --> 00:29:14.930
you do it anyway, because we're going to do a
00:29:14.930 --> 00:29:19.150
lot of that. Well, I got my buddy Eduardo is
00:29:19.150 --> 00:29:22.480
doing the G .I. Joe stuff with me. You and I
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:24.539
are going to do the Void Rivals and then this
00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:29.819
too. Because you're a sci -fi guy. I'm on the
00:29:29.819 --> 00:29:33.039
edges of sci -fi as I'm learning with a few other
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:37.059
things. But I really like Void Rivals. Void Rivals.
00:29:37.180 --> 00:29:41.500
And I think you'll like it too. It's wholly new
00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:45.259
characters with a little bit of Transformers
00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:49.049
here and there. Not much. It's like... You want
00:29:49.049 --> 00:29:51.150
to talk about season three Transformers. Well,
00:29:51.269 --> 00:29:54.089
that's where season three lies is in Void Arrivals.
00:29:54.250 --> 00:29:59.509
But yeah, no, Transformers volume one, Robots
00:29:59.509 --> 00:30:02.210
in Disguise, Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer,
00:30:02.549 --> 00:30:07.210
Russ Wooten. This time around, I really dug it.
00:30:07.230 --> 00:30:10.609
I thought it was really well done. I don't have
00:30:10.609 --> 00:30:15.130
as much criticism as I did three years ago. I
00:30:15.130 --> 00:30:17.710
would recommend it to people. Are we itching
00:30:17.710 --> 00:30:22.150
to read the next volume now? I would say so,
00:30:22.210 --> 00:30:25.250
just because, again, I was pleasantly surprised.
00:30:27.690 --> 00:30:30.450
Did this keep your interest throughout it? Were
00:30:30.450 --> 00:30:33.970
you, like, captivated throughout it? Did you
00:30:33.970 --> 00:30:39.150
want to put it down, or were you... any anything?
00:30:41.579 --> 00:30:44.759
I was captivated. I didn't want to put it down.
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.099
I actually got distracted numerous times by other
00:30:47.099 --> 00:30:50.460
stuff, and I was like, ah, crap. It's like, come
00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:54.559
on. Come on. Give me a break. I was interested
00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:57.960
in seeing where it was going to go. Yep. All
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:01.119
right. Zero to five with half points on the Geek
00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:03.619
Meter. What are we going to give Transformers
00:31:03.619 --> 00:31:06.799
Volume 1 Robots in Disguise from Skybound Entertainment?
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:10.299
I can't give it a perfect score, but I'll give
00:31:10.299 --> 00:31:14.720
it a 4 out of 5 just because the robot squishing
00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:19.019
stuff. And I felt like some of the dialogue and
00:31:19.019 --> 00:31:22.019
the way that the MacGuffins of Prime constantly
00:31:22.019 --> 00:31:28.440
like, can I throw the Matrix at it? Those kind
00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:30.559
of grated on me, but otherwise I felt like it
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:34.480
was pretty good. Yeah, I'm right there with you.
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:39.579
4 out of 5. Really good. So that's where we are
00:31:39.579 --> 00:31:46.480
on that. This is Volume 1, as I mentioned. We're
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:48.779
going to take a quick podcast ad break. Here
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all one word. So swing by, have a laugh. Stay
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lyrical, stay audacious, here at Lyrically Audacious.
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Grab your helmets, because it's time to assemble
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Mask. Mask Mayhem is here with your hosts, TFG
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and Mike, Optimus Solo, and brand new host, Toon
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Master Tim. This podcast, covering all 75 episodes
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of Mask, will feature in -depth analysis of every
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episode, talk on the toys, and more. Mask Mayhem
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will run 30 podcast episodes. You can find us
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on iTunes and www .geekcastradio .com. So get
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your spectrums ready, as podcasting is the ultimate
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weapon. What's up, folks? My name is Mike, and
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I am the host of the Mike Seibert Radio podcast,
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your favorite Transformers adjacent podcast.
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And I've got 60 seconds to tell you all about
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my show. Good thing I've got a catchy theme song
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to do most of the work for me. I also talk about
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the Transformers the movie about as much as I
00:35:59.739 --> 00:36:02.239
talk about Boba Fett. My guests are independent
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artists who tell their stories and give terrific
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advice about pursuing your creative interests,
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and I encourage you to do the same thing, even
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if I can't take my own advice. Gravity is not
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my first best strength, but you can subscribe
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to Mike Seibert Radio on most podcast apps so
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you never miss an episode. Make good choices.
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It's time for Mike Seibert. Discover a world
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of vintage and modern toys that's more than meets
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the eye with the Triple Takeover ToyCast. Hosted
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by toy writers and photographers Toybox Soapbox,
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Sixo and TF Square One, this informal and chilled
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out series of discussions cover everything from
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vintage Transformers to Mask, Diaclone, Microman
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and more, be it nostalgic or current. Whether
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you're a seasoned collector or a casual robot
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enthusiast, all are welcome. Triple Takeover
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ToyCast. Hi, welcome to UpNerd. What is UpNerd?
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UpNerd is a podcasting network of shows hosted
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by me, The Uneven Flow. People have told me I
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like to talk at them about a pretty wide range
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of topics. Comics, games, movies, books, whatever.
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And now I'll be able to talk at you. Along with
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the weekly show will be two bi -weekly shows.
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First we have Fine You Pick, a show where one
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host picks a movie, then both hosts have to watch
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it. Then the next episode, the other host picks
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the movie. Each show will have a breakdown of
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why it is that movie was picked by that host,
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after which will be a discussion about what it
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is we just watched. Lastly, we have the show
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Top 3, Bottom 3. Similarly to Fine, You Pick,
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one host picks a television series, and the next
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week, the pick alternates to the other host.
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Here, the episodes of the show are chosen by
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the top three episodes and the bottom three episodes,
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as rated on IMDb .com. Yes, this is probably
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the worst way to watch and review a television
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show, and yes, that's the idea. On our shows,
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I'll detail out how you can suggest things for
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us to watch. You can reach out and talk with
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the hosts and maybe even appear on an episode.
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I hope you'll join me for this exciting new podcast
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adventure. I swear we're going to make it more
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than eight episodes. On the Simplistic Reviews
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Podcast, we talk movies. We talk TV. We talk...
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Hello, Julie, what the heck are you doing? Trying
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to make our spot sound more exciting by adding
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explosions. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could have
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got the point across with sound effects, not
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the real thing. Download the show on iTunes or
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at simplisticreviews .blogspot .com. I'm sure
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your insurance company will cover that. No, they
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won't. No, they probably won't. All right, folks,
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that's going to do it for this episode of The
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Pull Bag, which is crossing over with all things
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Transformers. Any final thoughts, sir? No, I
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was quite surprised that I actually took interest
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into it. Because, again, like I said, I haven't
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had an interest in Transformers comics. I mean,
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I've had a passing interest in this one. Yeah.
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But still. Yeah, I mean, it's a really good comic.
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And I think certain things will pique your interest
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here and there. And I think overall the Energon
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.059
universe three years in is a good, it's in a,
00:39:42.059 --> 00:39:46.179
for the most part, good place. I think you're
00:39:46.179 --> 00:39:49.380
going to like transport to oblivion, which is
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the next trade, which is what we'll be covering
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next time. Any social media stuff you want to
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give out? People can find me on the Twitter or
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X at SCP 21. Who names a thing a letter anyway?
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I don't understand that. You can also follow
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at Geekcast Radio. I am at TF2 and Mike on Twitter
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as well. Next time, episode 585 of the Pull Bag,
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Skybound Entertainment's Transformers Volume
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2, as I mentioned, Transport to Oblivion. For
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now, I am TF2 and Mike with... Steve Megatron.
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You'll hear us back in that's not the right damn
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thing. Make your great escape into comics and
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we will catch you next time. You've just heard
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the latest episode of The Pullback, the GCRN's
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first comic review and discussion podcast. There
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are several ways to get in touch with us and
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great escape into comics and unleash the geek
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in you.
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You got the touch. Stan Bush here, and you're
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about to transform and roll out. Only on the
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Geekcast Radio Network. Yeah! Hey, it's Jesse
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Rass here, and you've made the great escape into
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comics by jumping inside the pull bag today.
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Catchphrase. You've just jumped inside the pull
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bag. Join TFG1 Mike and the rest of the comic
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crew here at the GCRN as they make their great
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escape into comics. From DC, Marvel, and Image
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to IDW, Boom Studios, and Xenoscope, we have
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everything right here. We cover things like Transformers,
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He -Man, Super Heroes, TMNT, and Radiant Black.
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Yeah, we have all that and so much more. It's
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all inside the pull bag here on the Geekcast
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Radio Network. So, without further ado, it's
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time to talk about the comics we're reading right
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now, here inside The Pull Bag. You've just jumped
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inside The Pull Bag, which is crossing over with
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all things Transformers. I am, of course, THU
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and Mike, and normally you don't hear my voice
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first on the ATTF side of things, but since this
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is The Pull Bag... Here we are. Today, I introduce
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Steve Megatron to the Skybound Entertainment
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Transformers comics. Hi, Steve. How are you?
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Yo, yo, yo. That didn't answer the question.
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Put your yo -yo away. I am doing well, but some
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Autobots and Decepticons are not new. Yeah, it's
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a little rough, isn't it, in there? Especially
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the humans. Yeah, well... We'll get into that.
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Let's say this. The humans are... I don't know.
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They're caught in the middle, aren't they? Today
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we will be discussing Volume 1, Robots in Disguise
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from Skybound, which collects issues 1 through
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6 of the ongoing Transformers series. But for
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me, this is kind of a refresher course, because,
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man, did I forget half this crap. But I've been
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recording and reviewing the Energon universe
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with Jesse, aka Matrix Prime, for the last almost
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three years on his podcast, Another Comic Review,
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since the Energon universe debuted back in 2023.
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Yeah, so for those that do and don't know, I
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had carpal tunnel and ulnar nerve surgery done
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on my left arm, which, as I've mentioned before
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on other podcasts, I have cerebral palsy on my
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right side, so my left arm is the only good one
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I can use. Yeah, well, last year that needed
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to have some work done on it, apparently. And,
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yeah, I couldn't really do any editing. I could
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basically just beg people to have me on their
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podcast and just show up. I could do the reading.
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I could do the watching. I could listen to whatever
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and just show up and talk and not have to worry
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about doing any of the actual work for once.
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Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Joke's on me. But yeah, here
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we are three years later in the pull bag, and
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I'm bringing Steve in on the volumes because
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I was curious to see how Skybound was going to
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do the volume collections for the Transformers.
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Skybound Entertainment is an imprint under Image
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Comics. Here inside the pull bag, we've done
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a ton of Image Comics stuff over the years, like
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Radiant Black and Cowl and a bunch of other stuff.
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So, yeah, there's that. But the creative team
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on Transformers for this first arc, for the first
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24 issues, for the most part. Writer, artist,
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Daniel Warren Johnson. Colorist, Mike Spicer.
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Letterer is Russ Wooten. Woot! Yay, Russ, you
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rock. It's a joke we did on another comic review
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because of his name. But, yeah, this is my first
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experience to Daniel Warren Johnson when we started
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this. I did a little bit of research on him.
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I know he did a series called Do a Powerbomb,
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and that's where all the wrestling stuff comes
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in in this trade here. And just because I was
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curious, and I'm not going to read most of this,
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but I was curious to see how Google AI Summary
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would handle Transformers Volume 1 Robots in
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Disguise. It basically key spotlighted certain
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things. It's interesting. It got most of it right.
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I'm still not... But I do have a lot of my notes
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and whatever else, but more so interesting folks
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is what Steve thinks of this stuff, because you
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guys can go over and listen to the last three
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years of another comic review. I can, I'm pretty
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sure I can pull up and link to the first six
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individual issues or the six individual episodes
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where Jesse Ryan and I reviewed these specific
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issues. But what were your thoughts reading this?
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So, to be quite honest, I wasn't sure what to
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expect going into it. Just from the fact that
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I never even attempted. I haven't read a Transformers
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comic outside of Beast Wars from IDW since the
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early couple of years of IDW. Yeah. Like, I haven't
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read a Transformers comic since then. I was interested
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in this alternative universe that they kind of
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opened up with. And I was kind of puzzled, like,
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this isn't how the story goes. Because, I mean,
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I grew up with not only G1, you know, the cartoon
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on reruns. I saw those. And I rented them at
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the video store on VHS tapes and grew up with
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Beast Wars. So I was familiar with, you know,
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some of that. But it was also familiar with the
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G1 Marvel comics. Like I grew up on those. I
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saw those at the comic shop. I had pretty much
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all of them except for like 12 issues in some
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of the G2. And some of this went that direction
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and some of it did not. And so it was quite interesting
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to see how some of these things kind of came
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to be. I found myself intrigued and wondering,
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you know, how all of this was going to come into
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play later. So I did not expect the level of,
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uh, gore. Uh, but I guess I should have, cause
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I mean, the guy did the walking dead. So, uh,
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so yeah, like, well, no, uh, this, this comic
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universe, not specifically the writers. Yep.
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Yep. Yep. But, Yeah, so I was a little bit confused
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in kind of going, oh, what's going on here? And
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then I was like, oh, crap. I would not want to
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be a human in this universe. Granted, Marvel
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didn't quite go this level, but they did paralyze
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people and torture them to a crisp and put them
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in, you know, exosuits and all kinds of crazy
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stuff. So there's a little bit of a difference,
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but it's just, you know, modern writing and stuff
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compared to back in the day, what had happened.
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But yeah, I don't know. surprised by a lot of
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the characterizations a lot of the random stuff
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that was kind of happening and the way that they
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cobbled some of the transformers and yeah it
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was it was quite interesting though yeah for
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me what is interesting on this read rereading
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through this First of all, like I said, like
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I mentioned, when Jesse Ryan and I did these
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as single issues, we only did them as single
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issues. This is the first time I've looked at
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it in trade paperback. And again, not saying
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I'm just making a statement here. Most of the
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time when I read trade paperbacks from any company,
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could be anybody, DC, Marvel, IDW, whatever.
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They each have a specific type of format where
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they will split the issues up so you can tell
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where one issue begins and the other issue ends.
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And as you go along and go forward, so you kind
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of have a story break and you also get to see
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like specifically comparing. Apples to oranges.
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The previous license holder to the current license
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holder, IDW, would do cover breaks. So at the
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end of one issue, you would see a variant cover.
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The next issue, you would see the cover of whatever
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that issue is. Skybound doesn't do that. Skybound
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does, it opens it up with volume book one, volume
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one, whatever it is, and you just go through
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the whole thing. I literally had to sit on the
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TF Wiki page to make sure I remembered where
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the actual stopping point was from issue to issue,
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because how I took my notes for this recording
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was I broke it down by the six issues, because
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what surprised me was out of the six issues,
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issue three and four, are where most of my notes
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are. Issues 2, 5, and 6 are where my least amount
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of notes are. So that was interesting to me.
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But yeah, the formatting for the trade paperbacks
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for Skybound, they just... want you to read the
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whole book which i get i understand that but
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even just putting a and i didn't notice it this
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time i first read through maybe i'll look through
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it again really quick but i'm pretty sure there
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are no markings at the end of when that first
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Issue ends. There is no. Yeah, there is no. There's
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nothing to delineate. I didn't know where one
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issue started and the next began. I was like.
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Yeah, no. Yeah, no, there isn't. That's why I
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had to go back and I had to go to the TF wiki
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and I literally read the last point of the synopsis.
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And I'm like, oh, I know where that is in the
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book. Okay, cool. Which I guess technically,
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if you want to read this as a whole book that
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works as a whole story that is uninterrupted,
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that's great. But again, I don't know. It is
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what it is. For me, as someone who usually breaks
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these down issue by issue for taking notes for
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a podcast, it was a little unhelpful. And Daniel
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Warren Johnson had said in interviews leading
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up to this and right after the first issue had
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been published that it was his dream to create
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his own version of Generation 1. And it is his
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own version. he had said that he was grew up
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with the toys, grew up with the cartoon, grew
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up with the Marvel comics, but he was more so
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into the cartoon. So in those early in that,
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that first issue here, you see that it feels
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familiar. Like we know kind of, but Oh no, it,
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it, he changes it up a lot and that's good. So
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we don't just feel like it's the calm. It's the
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cartoon in comic form. I actually think it's
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kind of cool and funny seeing Transformers doing
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wrestling moves. I don't think I've ever seen
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that before. It was quite humorous, actually.
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Prime flipping the Decepticons over his back.
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And I was like, okay, he really took them out.
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Yep, yep, yep. Optimus Prime's FU or AA's Skywarp,
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that was crazy. That happens in issue three.
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That was nuts. I like Daniel Warren Johnson's
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writing in this story. I think the writing is
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good. I like the art in this first arc for the
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most part. I like his art throughout most of
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his run, but towards the tail end of the run,
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I kind of get... I kind of got tired of him at
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the very tail end. By issue 17 or 18, I'm like,
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okay, what's next? So we'll get to that eventually.
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Not today, though. Do like Spike and Carly here
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in this, but. I think they were kind of throwaways,
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like Carly was more of a character than Spike
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and Spike spent most of it out of commission.
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Yeah. Spark plug. They called Sparky. Yeah, that's
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fine. I yeah, I. Go ahead. I was going to say
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his whole arc is rather strange in this one.
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I mean, they gave him a totally different vibe.
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Yeah. That's good, though. How he went out was
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different. Yeah. Well, it's been three years.
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I think we can spoil it at this point. He...
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Well... He became one with the Matrix. Yeah,
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he became one with the Matrix. And I'm like,
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wait, what? I just still to this day do not understand
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that. And I still don't understand. And I took
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more of a note of it now versus three years ago.
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How is he going to open the Matrix to save Spike
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when he ain't got no other arm? He doesn't have
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a hand. He's like me. He's Mr. One Arm. Like,
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I don't understand that. I know I'm very nitpicking
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on this here, folks, but Optimus only has one
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arm. Don't you need two hands to open the Matrix?
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Like, especially finger holes? Like, I mean,
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come on. That happened in issue four. How did
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you feel about Starscream in this comic? I mean,
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he was being Starscream. There's really not much
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I can say about the whole situation because he
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was very on point. I could totally see him. You
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know, he did shoot Skyfire in the. In the cartoon,
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I could see him raking over one of his buddies
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over the coals to fix himself. I could see him
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kicking Ravage because he's like, no, we need
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a bigger fighter. I really don't see any difference
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in his personality, per se. I mean, I guess I
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see a little bit more of the Machinima, you know,
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Power of the Primes saga. The self -preservation,
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but also the, you know, I'm going to take them
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out. I'm the leader, blah, blah, blah. G1 never
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really got that because he got torched before
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he got to that point. Yeah. And I feel like the
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G1 comics from Marvel and Transformers Animated
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and Transformers Prime and all these other mediums
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have done it pretty much to the same degree.
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The only thing is flesh creatures uh squish yeah
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that's where i was going with this because that's
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the only thing that that struck me weird is he's
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like oh squishy you know yeah he's yeah i would
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have expected more of the quick strike approach
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of uh you know oh you mean with all those hairy
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critters on them yeah like running away like
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that's kind of more the vibe i was expecting
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not squish squish like i could see him sitting
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out there with a magnifying glass like torching
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them on purpose yeah just for the funds of it
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yeah that's yeah but star scream apparently likes
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his his violence parties in his own words oh
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my god like And again, I get it. Daniel Warren
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Johnson, I believe, said Starscream was his favorite
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character. So I get it. You're going to write
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your favorite character the way you want to write
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him. But damn, that was a little much. I love
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seeing Devastator. That was awesome. And Prime
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attacked him, too. Yep. Oh, man, we got it. Oh,
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boy. So where does that happen? It's... Okay,
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where is he? So that's how Optimus lost his arm.
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It was the damn humans in Skywarp. But I had
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forgotten that the humans started it. The human
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military, it wasn't Sparky, but it was the human
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military guys that shot at Optimus and kind of
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basically tore his arm. off ish. And then Skywarp
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really tears it off. So that's how often I forgot
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how often has lost his arm. Cause I haven't gone
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back and read these issues. Like we're up to
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issue. We just finished issue 32 as of this recording.
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Uh, and I haven't got like, this is the first
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time I've gone back and read this. So by now,
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uh, Optimus hasn't had his arm in a long time.
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So, yeah. But Optimus not having his arm, he's
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got to find a replacement arm. And apparently
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he's got one in the back of his trailer he can
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use. Oh, I can't use that. No, I can't use that.
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Oh, come on, Optimus. What could it hurt? Yeah,
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I love the fusion cannon that he used against
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some of the Decepticons, and he told Starscream,
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oh, like, you haven't been at the end of this
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barrel. I was like, okay, that was good. I was
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like, that was pretty cold, but it was good.
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But then how he took out some, you know, like
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Reflector and, you know, some of the other guys,
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like, I was like, oh, and they were like, you're
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gonna pay, Prime, you're gonna, oh, crap. Yeah,
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oh, crap. So I can honestly see why people wanted
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the toy attachment for Prime to turn him into
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this. Yeah. Which the knockoff has. Like, not
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mine, but a different version of the knockoff
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came with. So you could swap out that arm. I
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mean, I could 3D print it or buy an Amazon eBay
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version too, but I don't care enough to do that.
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Yeah. But it's still kind of cool. Or, you know,
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you could buy the official version, too. So,
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there's that. Because there was the official
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version, right? I literally just saw it on Hasbro
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Pulse, so I know they made an official version.
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I'll have to look again, because I can't remember.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure they did. Yeah, they came
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out with... Oh, no, it was New Age. Oh, no, wait.
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No, Hasbro has it. Yeah, they came out with one.
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It was $80. Yeah, that's probably why you went
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looking for a knockoff. It was $80. What's sad
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is this version of Prime, it's the Energon Universe
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Prime, and he's literally no different than the
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Studio Series 86, other than he has Megatron's
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arm and the fusion cannon. Yeah, that's why you
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went, I remember. And he costs $80. He doesn't
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even come with a trailer. I know. I remember
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us talking about this. He doesn't even come with
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this stinking trailer. I know. I can pay the
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same price and get the trailer, or I can buy
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the knockoff and get all of it. Yep. I remember
00:22:01.900 --> 00:22:09.660
that conversation. Stupid. Yeah, stupid. Hasbro
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wanting their money for nothing. I do love that
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shot of Megatron on the ice, though, at the end
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of that issue. Oh, yeah. Like, I'm just wondering,
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like, one, how did he get there? Mm hmm. And
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then two. Like, how, you know, now I'm just like,
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oh, how are they going to bring him back? Oh,
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we'll find out because we're still going to be
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doing this. So we'll find out. But. Yeah. But
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yeah, so Optimus doing blammo -whammo with the
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fusion cannon. Oh, poor Reflector, because that
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scene, I'm up to that page now in the comic,
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where I'm like, Reflector, hmm. He doesn't reflect
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so well anymore, does he? No, and the sad thing
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is all I can hear in my head is Thundercracker.
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All right, Reflector, let's see what you can
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see. That's all I can hear in my head is Thundercracker
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and Reflector from that one scene in Generation
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1. And now I'm like, well, I guess Reflector
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isn't reflecting so well. And was this frenzy
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or rumble? I couldn't tell. Reflector, buddy.
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Oh, boy. And since it's Generation 1 cartoon,
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I'm assuming that's frenzy. That just bit the
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bucket. I do love the way he drew Arcee's alt
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mode when she saves Carly. That is cool. I'm
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surprised she didn't get the squish treatment.
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Carly? Yeah. I saw the bones cracking. It was
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like, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack. And
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I was like, oh, great. She's going to be paralyzed
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in Chip Chase. No. Chip chaser. Please, no, let's
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not go there. They didn't. Thankfully. And then
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we bring in the heavy metal with the Constructicons
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and Devastator. I was like, how the heck did
00:24:13.869 --> 00:24:16.730
they get repaired so quickly to just magically
00:24:16.730 --> 00:24:24.069
be there? It's... I'm like, I had to have missed
00:24:24.069 --> 00:24:28.910
something because I was like, why? How? So let's
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see. They have Skywarp and Teletraan 1 now, right?
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Right? Because that's what they needed. They
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needed Sky... And then he and Starscream go for
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a ride. That's issue 5. Thundercracker gets woken
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back up. And then he sees that Skywarp made his...
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Yeah, Thundercracker got woken back up. Sees
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that Skywarp made his sacrifice. Uh, cause Skywarp
00:25:00.589 --> 00:25:03.190
is now a part of Teletraan cause that's how,
00:25:03.329 --> 00:25:08.309
yeah, cause the Decepticons have moved into the
00:25:08.309 --> 00:25:12.670
Autobot base. So that's how the, that's how the,
00:25:12.670 --> 00:25:16.190
um, Constructicons got. I knew I missed something
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there. Like I was reading through it and I'm
00:25:17.869 --> 00:25:22.509
like, I'm confused. Yep. I think a second read
00:25:22.509 --> 00:25:25.509
probably would have gotten me there, but. Yep,
00:25:25.529 --> 00:25:30.869
that's how they did it. Yeah, because the Autobots
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are outside the Ark, which means the Decepticons
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are inside the Ark. So that's how they have them.
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And then Devastator just goes on devastating.
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And you get Cliffjumper and Starscream inside
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the Ark, fighting for all that it's worth. And
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then... Optimus on the slab. And the Matrix,
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take it, take it. Pulse to the ground, as all
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MacGuffins do. And that's when, I think that's
00:26:12.619 --> 00:26:15.299
when, yeah, that's when Sparky walks into it.
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Which again, I thought was really strange. He's
00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:22.660
like. Yeah. I'm just going to waltz my butt right
00:26:22.660 --> 00:26:25.980
into the center of the matrix. But I was like,
00:26:25.980 --> 00:26:32.779
what? It was a weird choice, but I get it. It's
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a, I don't know. Hey, it's one less human we
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have to deal with. It's true. Yeah. And then
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as we end it. Although I didn't mind him as much.
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I feel like Spike is going to be a whiner. I
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honestly could not tell you. I honestly do not
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remember. So that's one of the reasons why we're
00:26:55.380 --> 00:27:00.359
doing this in trade. Uh, cause I, I, I mean,
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y 'all can go back and listen to the next trades,
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the next step is seven through 12. I don't remember
00:27:08.160 --> 00:27:11.480
like spike wakes up at the end of the very last
00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:15.299
page of this is spike wakes up. Where's my dad?
00:27:16.180 --> 00:27:19.210
He had to write it on a note. Well, because I
00:27:19.210 --> 00:27:23.089
mean, he's got a breathing apparatus on his face,
00:27:23.170 --> 00:27:29.529
but yeah. So, you know, overall, I like it. I
00:27:29.529 --> 00:27:33.650
still like it. This first arc, I think it's a
00:27:33.650 --> 00:27:36.690
good arc. I think it's interesting. I like the
00:27:36.690 --> 00:27:40.730
characters that Daniel Warren Johnson used. I
00:27:40.730 --> 00:27:45.269
think they're all very. season one generation
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one characters for the most part maybe a little
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bit of season two blaster was there blaster okay
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blaster was there that was all i saw season two
00:27:54.990 --> 00:27:58.789
wise well in season three with rc okay there's
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a little bit of mixing links there's sprinklings
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of stuff yes but For a Generation 1 comic that
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is new to this generation of Transformers fan,
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2023 to 2026, whatever, however you want to say
00:28:19.940 --> 00:28:23.839
it, I think this is a good retelling of Generation
00:28:23.839 --> 00:28:28.500
1 in his own style, in his own art style and
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writing style. I like it. I think it's a good
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introduction to it. I'm trying my best not to
00:28:34.259 --> 00:28:37.799
be as nitpicky as I was in the moment three years
00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:40.319
ago as these issues were coming out, because
00:28:40.319 --> 00:28:44.019
I think we were all being more critical back
00:28:44.019 --> 00:28:46.720
then because we were doing these as they were
00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:49.779
coming out month to month to month. Well, I think,
00:28:49.779 --> 00:28:52.319
too, there was some polarization, too, because
00:28:52.319 --> 00:28:57.309
we're coming off of IDW for years. Like I wasn't
00:28:57.309 --> 00:28:59.049
the biggest fan of it, so I didn't care either
00:28:59.049 --> 00:29:03.549
way. But now that this has been out, you know,
00:29:03.549 --> 00:29:08.930
numerous trades later. Yep. I'm like, hmm, maybe
00:29:08.930 --> 00:29:13.190
it's time. Well, and plus I was going to have
00:29:13.190 --> 00:29:14.930
you do it anyway, because we're going to do a
00:29:14.930 --> 00:29:19.150
lot of that. Well, I got my buddy Eduardo is
00:29:19.150 --> 00:29:22.480
doing the G .I. Joe stuff with me. You and I
00:29:22.480 --> 00:29:24.539
are going to do the Void Rivals and then this
00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:29.819
too. Because you're a sci -fi guy. I'm on the
00:29:29.819 --> 00:29:33.039
edges of sci -fi as I'm learning with a few other
00:29:33.039 --> 00:29:37.059
things. But I really like Void Rivals. Void Rivals.
00:29:37.180 --> 00:29:41.500
And I think you'll like it too. It's wholly new
00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:45.259
characters with a little bit of Transformers
00:29:45.259 --> 00:29:49.049
here and there. Not much. It's like... You want
00:29:49.049 --> 00:29:51.150
to talk about season three Transformers. Well,
00:29:51.269 --> 00:29:54.089
that's where season three lies is in Void Arrivals.
00:29:54.250 --> 00:29:59.509
But yeah, no, Transformers volume one, Robots
00:29:59.509 --> 00:30:02.210
in Disguise, Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer,
00:30:02.549 --> 00:30:07.210
Russ Wooten. This time around, I really dug it.
00:30:07.230 --> 00:30:10.609
I thought it was really well done. I don't have
00:30:10.609 --> 00:30:15.130
as much criticism as I did three years ago. I
00:30:15.130 --> 00:30:17.710
would recommend it to people. Are we itching
00:30:17.710 --> 00:30:22.150
to read the next volume now? I would say so,
00:30:22.210 --> 00:30:25.250
just because, again, I was pleasantly surprised.
00:30:27.690 --> 00:30:30.450
Did this keep your interest throughout it? Were
00:30:30.450 --> 00:30:33.970
you, like, captivated throughout it? Did you
00:30:33.970 --> 00:30:39.150
want to put it down, or were you... any anything?
00:30:41.579 --> 00:30:44.759
I was captivated. I didn't want to put it down.
00:30:44.880 --> 00:30:47.099
I actually got distracted numerous times by other
00:30:47.099 --> 00:30:50.460
stuff, and I was like, ah, crap. It's like, come
00:30:50.460 --> 00:30:54.559
on. Come on. Give me a break. I was interested
00:30:54.559 --> 00:30:57.960
in seeing where it was going to go. Yep. All
00:30:57.960 --> 00:31:01.119
right. Zero to five with half points on the Geek
00:31:01.119 --> 00:31:03.619
Meter. What are we going to give Transformers
00:31:03.619 --> 00:31:06.799
Volume 1 Robots in Disguise from Skybound Entertainment?
00:31:08.039 --> 00:31:10.299
I can't give it a perfect score, but I'll give
00:31:10.299 --> 00:31:14.720
it a 4 out of 5 just because the robot squishing
00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:19.019
stuff. And I felt like some of the dialogue and
00:31:19.019 --> 00:31:22.019
the way that the MacGuffins of Prime constantly
00:31:22.019 --> 00:31:28.440
like, can I throw the Matrix at it? Those kind
00:31:28.440 --> 00:31:30.559
of grated on me, but otherwise I felt like it
00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:34.480
was pretty good. Yeah, I'm right there with you.
00:31:34.519 --> 00:31:39.579
4 out of 5. Really good. So that's where we are
00:31:39.579 --> 00:31:46.480
on that. This is Volume 1, as I mentioned. We're
00:31:46.480 --> 00:31:48.779
going to take a quick podcast ad break. Here
00:31:48.779 --> 00:31:50.859
are some podcast ads and some other stuff. We'll
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00:31:53.700 --> 00:31:57.440
The time for the battle approaches. Autobots,
00:31:57.480 --> 00:32:11.160
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Mask. Mask Mayhem is here with your hosts, TFG
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:02.599
and Mike, Optimus Solo, and brand new host, Toon
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of Mask, will feature in -depth analysis of every
00:35:08.019 --> 00:35:10.900
episode, talk on the toys, and more. Mask Mayhem
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will run 30 podcast episodes. You can find us
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on iTunes and www .geekcastradio .com. So get
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your spectrums ready, as podcasting is the ultimate
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weapon. What's up, folks? My name is Mike, and
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I am the host of the Mike Seibert Radio podcast,
00:35:26.309 --> 00:35:28.829
your favorite Transformers adjacent podcast.
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And I've got 60 seconds to tell you all about
00:35:32.030 --> 00:35:34.670
my show. Good thing I've got a catchy theme song
00:35:34.670 --> 00:35:57.260
to do most of the work for me. I also talk about
00:35:57.260 --> 00:35:59.739
the Transformers the movie about as much as I
00:35:59.739 --> 00:36:02.239
talk about Boba Fett. My guests are independent
00:36:02.239 --> 00:36:04.980
artists who tell their stories and give terrific
00:36:04.980 --> 00:36:07.920
advice about pursuing your creative interests,
00:36:08.079 --> 00:36:11.300
and I encourage you to do the same thing, even
00:36:11.300 --> 00:36:14.260
if I can't take my own advice. Gravity is not
00:36:14.260 --> 00:36:16.320
my first best strength, but you can subscribe
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you never miss an episode. Make good choices.
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It's time for Mike Seibert. Discover a world
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:30.800
of vintage and modern toys that's more than meets
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:33.960
the eye with the Triple Takeover ToyCast. Hosted
00:36:33.960 --> 00:36:36.579
by toy writers and photographers Toybox Soapbox,
00:36:36.739 --> 00:36:39.619
Sixo and TF Square One, this informal and chilled
00:36:39.619 --> 00:36:41.760
out series of discussions cover everything from
00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:44.860
vintage Transformers to Mask, Diaclone, Microman
00:36:44.860 --> 00:36:47.179
and more, be it nostalgic or current. Whether
00:36:47.179 --> 00:36:49.599
you're a seasoned collector or a casual robot
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:52.340
enthusiast, all are welcome. Triple Takeover
00:36:52.340 --> 00:37:02.480
ToyCast. Hi, welcome to UpNerd. What is UpNerd?
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:05.659
UpNerd is a podcasting network of shows hosted
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by me, The Uneven Flow. People have told me I
00:37:08.539 --> 00:37:10.760
like to talk at them about a pretty wide range
00:37:10.760 --> 00:37:14.199
of topics. Comics, games, movies, books, whatever.
00:37:14.579 --> 00:37:17.820
And now I'll be able to talk at you. Along with
00:37:17.820 --> 00:37:20.099
the weekly show will be two bi -weekly shows.
00:37:20.480 --> 00:37:23.159
First we have Fine You Pick, a show where one
00:37:23.159 --> 00:37:26.960
host picks a movie, then both hosts have to watch
00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:30.050
it. Then the next episode, the other host picks
00:37:30.050 --> 00:37:32.949
the movie. Each show will have a breakdown of
00:37:32.949 --> 00:37:35.449
why it is that movie was picked by that host,
00:37:35.670 --> 00:37:38.489
after which will be a discussion about what it
00:37:38.489 --> 00:37:41.150
is we just watched. Lastly, we have the show
00:37:41.150 --> 00:37:44.670
Top 3, Bottom 3. Similarly to Fine, You Pick,
00:37:44.889 --> 00:37:48.250
one host picks a television series, and the next
00:37:48.250 --> 00:37:50.769
week, the pick alternates to the other host.
00:37:51.360 --> 00:37:53.760
Here, the episodes of the show are chosen by
00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:56.639
the top three episodes and the bottom three episodes,
00:37:56.739 --> 00:38:01.260
as rated on IMDb .com. Yes, this is probably
00:38:01.260 --> 00:38:03.559
the worst way to watch and review a television
00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:07.139
show, and yes, that's the idea. On our shows,
00:38:07.199 --> 00:38:09.860
I'll detail out how you can suggest things for
00:38:09.860 --> 00:38:12.340
us to watch. You can reach out and talk with
00:38:12.340 --> 00:38:14.760
the hosts and maybe even appear on an episode.
00:38:15.579 --> 00:38:17.980
I hope you'll join me for this exciting new podcast
00:38:17.980 --> 00:38:20.820
adventure. I swear we're going to make it more
00:38:20.820 --> 00:38:26.400
than eight episodes. On the Simplistic Reviews
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:34.380
Podcast, we talk movies. We talk TV. We talk...
00:38:34.380 --> 00:38:36.239
Hello, Julie, what the heck are you doing? Trying
00:38:36.239 --> 00:38:38.679
to make our spot sound more exciting by adding
00:38:38.679 --> 00:38:40.960
explosions. Yeah, I'm pretty sure you could have
00:38:40.960 --> 00:38:42.760
got the point across with sound effects, not
00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:47.400
the real thing. Download the show on iTunes or
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at simplisticreviews .blogspot .com. I'm sure
00:38:50.659 --> 00:38:52.960
your insurance company will cover that. No, they
00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:55.619
won't. No, they probably won't. All right, folks,
00:38:55.820 --> 00:38:58.480
that's going to do it for this episode of The
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:01.260
Pull Bag, which is crossing over with all things
00:39:01.260 --> 00:39:06.880
Transformers. Any final thoughts, sir? No, I
00:39:06.880 --> 00:39:09.739
was quite surprised that I actually took interest
00:39:09.739 --> 00:39:14.619
into it. Because, again, like I said, I haven't
00:39:14.619 --> 00:39:17.500
had an interest in Transformers comics. I mean,
00:39:17.519 --> 00:39:21.500
I've had a passing interest in this one. Yeah.
00:39:22.219 --> 00:39:29.539
But still. Yeah, I mean, it's a really good comic.
00:39:30.460 --> 00:39:34.440
And I think certain things will pique your interest
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:37.639
here and there. And I think overall the Energon
00:39:37.639 --> 00:39:42.059
universe three years in is a good, it's in a,
00:39:42.059 --> 00:39:46.179
for the most part, good place. I think you're
00:39:46.179 --> 00:39:49.380
going to like transport to oblivion, which is
00:39:49.380 --> 00:39:51.679
the next trade, which is what we'll be covering
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:55.639
next time. Any social media stuff you want to
00:39:55.639 --> 00:40:01.260
give out? People can find me on the Twitter or
00:40:01.260 --> 00:40:08.920
X at SCP 21. Who names a thing a letter anyway?
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:14.039
I don't understand that. You can also follow
00:40:14.039 --> 00:40:18.079
at Geekcast Radio. I am at TF2 and Mike on Twitter
00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:23.460
as well. Next time, episode 585 of the Pull Bag,
00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:26.980
Skybound Entertainment's Transformers Volume
00:40:26.980 --> 00:40:30.280
2, as I mentioned, Transport to Oblivion. For
00:40:30.280 --> 00:40:34.480
now, I am TF2 and Mike with... Steve Megatron.
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:39.380
You'll hear us back in that's not the right damn
00:40:39.380 --> 00:40:43.119
thing. Make your great escape into comics and
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:46.360
we will catch you next time. You've just heard
00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:50.400
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00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:53.280
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