the vynsane asylum

Tom Foolery wrote:Yes but this time is different.

John. Barber.

The only way it would be more awesome is if it was James Roberts.

anarky wrote:I'm not even sure he could tell you what "perspective" or "anatomy" are if his life depended upon it.

anarky wrote:I have this crazy feeling Starscream will be the surprise hero.

Tomorrow. "It's over... finished!" Almost thirty years ago, the first comic books I can remember purchasing were a shrinkwrapped set of Transformers #4-6 (most likely at a Richway's store, or possibly a K-Mart, in Charlotte). I bought a few comics sporadically over the next few years, but mostly read them in mall bookstores without paying for them. A few years later, when there were two bookstores in Valley View Mall in Roanoke that sometimes received and shelved their books on different days, allowing moochers like me to read two consecutive issues in a day, I happened to find both #56 and #57 (writer Simon Furman's first issues in the American series, though I didn't know that) at the same time. Something about those two issues made me want to actually put down the money for them, and beg my parents to take me to a local comic shop a few days later to get some of the back issues in between (and I was pleasantly surprised to discover comic shops got issues earlier than "regular" bookstores, and found #58 a month earlier than anticipated). It was on subsequent trips to B&D Comics (in their old Williamson Rd. location) and the late Dusty Corner Bookstore that I discovered that an awful lot more of those comic books on the other racks were just as good.
The original title ended abruptly with issue #80, but a different publisher (IDW) resurrected it with #81 (not counting a "recap" issue #80.5) to give Furman a chance to bring to a more proper conclusion the dangling plot threads of what had evolved to become a space opera rivaling even Star Wars, twenty-one years after the original cancellation.
Thanks to writers and artists like Furman, Bob Budiansky, Bill Mantlo, Andrew Wildman, Geoff Senior, Jose Delbo, Frank Springer, Nel Yomtov, Guido Guidi, Jim Lee (yes, THAT Jim Lee) and everyone else who approached a licensed comic based on a, frankly, gimmicky toyline as seriously as they would an assignment on X-Men or Batman, I have been an avid reader of comics for three decades. And I'm not the only one.
So, perhaps a better "Furmanism" to have quoted here would be "It never ends!"

anarky wrote:I can't link on my phone, but I saw Regeneration One #100 Cover B, and it is fucking glorious. No "#100 in a 4-issue miniseries," but even cooler.