at long last, here's my essay on Transformers One. I've had it written for months, but people being insane online about this movie led me to postpone its release again, and again, and again, because the thing is
I'm not sure Giant Days is actually a good story, on the macro level, but as a series of vignettes set at a hyperspecific bri'ish university, with fairly entertaining idiosyncratic dialogue, I enjoyed it! The occasional hyper-real or supernatural elements reminded me of Anthology of the Killer
anyway so I have updated the wikipedia page to incorporate this information. God knows if it'll stick, if not I'll try and throw a reading guide on my website en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_D...
- despite the fact that the various holiday specials and short stories are written for specific points in the timeline, there was literally nowhere online like "hey, it's best to read this here". Rare case where publication order actually IS unhelpful
- issue #1 is written to follow directly from the first three pre-BOOM! webcomics. I jumped in and went "hang on, this montage is WAY too specific to NOT be summarising stuff I haven't read". Again, the library editions just sort of throw the webcomics in wherever!
read Giant Days this month and as always, comics drive me up the wall - trade paperbacks collect just 4 issues at a time, despite the whole series clearly being structured around 6-issue semesters - hardcovers named after the semesters... but collect 8 issues each, so it still doesn't correspond!
the best I've got for all three is "Nitro", which evokes both a nitro engine (itself flame-adjacent) and liquid nitrogen, and also sounds like a name Budiansky would use. Also I need to make it clear I did not spend the last two hours on this
well it's sort of a "pick two" situation where you can either focus on the fire-ice stuff, as in something like Flashfreeze, Freezeburn, White-Hot. Or you can do ice-bike, and get Icicle or Ice-Cycle or something like that. Or fire-bike, and get something like Burnout...
I should just get the full set of six Spychangers and be done with it. I feel like a few conventions ago they were everywhere but I'd really just like to get the full set at once with all the guns and it's a bit of a tall order innit
the thing about Nightracer right is that she's so sick. I wish they'd make another one but frankly nothing is ever gonna beat the fact that she's a working Hot Wheels car. Also they can't get the trademark can they
the only reason I don't go crazy on things like this is that it's nearly always more space efficient to put things of the exact same size together. A lot of my transformers are stored by size class, not series. But god knows if space wasn't at a premium for me I'd be getting into some Weird Shelves
I'm still absolutely fuming about how Skybound invented a really cool new riff on the G1 text and then Hasbro made them change it to the 2014 one! Maddening!
the MTMTE logo comes from Star Wars Transformers packaging btw! Dunno if it was ever used anywhere else, just in generic packaging from the time, or what!
been looking for a shockblast for YEARS for this exact reason. When you realise there's direct shared DNA between Energon Rodimus and Classics Rodimus your third eye will open and you will unlock Secret Classics Toys
even Cyberworld, which is pretty good, is slop. The fact that it's good feels like a miracle, except obviously people worked hard on it so it shouldn't be THAT surprising
sometimes I wonder if what I'm feeling is just the same knee-jerk negativity the fandom oldheads felt towards The Beast Within, but I do genuinely wonder if in 20 years from now there'll be newheads acting like they give a shit about the Hexagonal Batterseatron Comic. It's all slop
sometimes I think the Bionicle fandom doesn't know how good they've got it. Like it's dead isn't it! It's not bothering you. All fanworks all the time babey
whenever I see a sales post that's like "legacy bludgeon never transformed" I fully just assume they're lying. I cannot imagine not transforming the transformer. get out of here with these baby shoes ass listings
the trick is tied to like, post-postmodernism, or new sincerity, or whatever the right phrase is. And I do suspect it only works if it's rare. In the horror genre I see people who seem quite sick of "horror as metaphor", which is maybe what happens if it's commonplace
