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tronprogram · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:35 am Post subject: Transformers UK Classics 2

This came out last week.

I also did an interview with the one and only Mr James Roberts about this release on Facebook. To have a read and see what James has to about the content in this volume, please go here:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=295137320556469&set=a.153259298077606.36631.146805978722938&type=1&theater
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Cattleprod · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 11:48 am Post subject:

Ah, clarification on what was up with Ancient Relics.
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nexus423 · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2012 6:36 pm Post subject: Re: Transformers UK Classics 2

jamarmiller · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 4:51 am Post subject:

I got this and volume 1 and love them, but I have most of the other stories so I am skipping the next few releases.

What I am REALLY REALLY interested in next is, the end of run Black and white only strips that were only re-released by Titan a few years ago in DIGEST sized. I skipped those editions because of the size .

Going by the first 3 volumes, can we guess what volume those will be in ? will they make it in one volume or will they be split up ?

Any chance of finally getting them colored ? Black and white is fine and all if that is the only choice, but if I had to choose between black and white and colored , I would want them colored
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Grimbo · I'm kind of a big deal Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 176

As with Vol 1, a great book... but the last page of The Icarus Theory (part 2) is two pages early Sad

Also, the last part of In the National Interest is kinda dark.

jamarmiller · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:30 am Post subject:

How many volumes will there be of these UK classics ?
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Grimbo · I'm kind of a big deal Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 176

Eight, apparently. Should be enough for everything.

jamarmiller · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:33 am Post subject:

thanks so much,

I need I think the last two and the first two only
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jamarmiller · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:44 am Post subject:

oh and
how often are these coming out ?
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Grimbo · I'm kind of a big deal Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 176

Vol 3 is listed for July, no listings for 4 onwards yet. Although I have the strips several times (the original run, the Titan books, the IDW 'Best of UK' series) I'm collecting them all, the essays and bonus features are fantastic.

martin-m · I'm kind of a big deal Joined: 27 Mar 2010 Posts: 135

'Transformers Classics UK Volume 2' is one of the two best things IDW has ever printed, the other of course being 'Transformers Classics UK Volume 1'. It's amazing. I came home to find it on my doormat this afternoon and immediately sat down and read every word of James' new text commentary in it.

When I go to bed I shall read some of the stories themselves. I do know most of them backwards, but the text stories other than 'State Games' are hazy in my memory and certainly due for a re-read.

For some reason I find the sentence "We all despised Captain Rik" hilariously funny.

Hand-painted artwork is the best. Computer colouring is pretty soulless by comparison. I'm curious - when was the last time a Transformers comic was hand-painted? Surely not 1986?

TF Classics UK Vol. 2 goes on my list of things to save if my house burnt down, along with Vol. 1 and the TF US Titan hardbacks. Well, actually, it doesn't, as I know I could replace it easily enough, but you know what I mean. These are my top TF books of all time.

The only reason one page of 'The Icarus Theory' is printed out of sequence is because it is contrary to the laws of nature for any work of man to achieve perfection.

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martin-m · I'm kind of a big deal Joined: 27 Mar 2010 Posts: 135

James really deserves all praise for these books. I'd never have thought so much of genuine interest could be written about a run of comics, which is perceptive, fair, revealing and completely free of gratuitous padding. In particular, he's done a tremendous job getting the writers - and not just Simon Furman! - re-reading their work from the '80s and then speaking about it. It makes all the difference.

Oracle1984 · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:04 pm Post subject:

For those hoping that the US Classics series would include the Headmasters mini-series where it falls in reading order, alas it does not.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1613771630/ref=oh_o05_s03_i00_details
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megatron1701 · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:38 pm Post subject: