tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post4055589471427522346..comments2024-01-18T09:21:21.157-08:00Comments on Disciples of Boltax: Bish's Review: Marvel UK #118 "Hunters!" Part 2Jimtronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18138709079942253485noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post-70182682092418296762011-04-30T17:03:51.452-07:002011-04-30T17:03:51.452-07:00Anonymous 1 - it's my recollection that the UK...Anonymous 1 - it's my recollection that the UK printing of the crossover was always billed as being "the US version of Goldbug's origin" and people just accepted it as being out of continuity with what were by then years old events anyway. The fact that the alternative would have been yet more reprints of old UK stories made it easier to accept.<br /><br />There have been some fan attempts to try to reconcile the two stories & allow them to sit in a single timeline but they're a bit of a fudge and basically boil down to readers pretending the artist & letterer on issue #114 both made a mistake.Tim Roll-Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post-2481920302743656092011-04-29T13:34:28.730-07:002011-04-29T13:34:28.730-07:00The G.I. Joe crossover didn't really fit that ...The G.I. Joe crossover didn't really fit that will into the US Transformers continuity either, since it featured Ravage and certain Decepticon jets who had been taken out of the storyline already in the main series by Skids and Omega Supreme respectively.<br /><br />But strangely, as an adult I've come to prefer the G.I. Joe Goldbug origin to the Wreck-Gar one (which I saw first).<br /><br />MartinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post-40604829544505954552011-04-29T10:58:39.971-07:002011-04-29T10:58:39.971-07:00ironically the UK title did (eventually) print the...ironically the UK title did (eventually) print the GI Joe cross over, about a year late and completely out of context. No explanation for the contradictory origins for Goldbug were given and the UK readers were just left to assume the GI Joe cross over was an "alternate time-line". <br /><br />As for why the name change, erm... no ideas on that one. The "look" change was clearly Wreck-gar getting creative, but why Bumblebee would choose a new identity seems to me to simply be him showing he's "grown". Much the same as Hot Rod choosing to change his name to Rodimus, so going from a Bee to a Bug was BB's way of saying "I'm more mature". <br /><br />I hated the fact that the Throttlebots never had a shared origin in either book, for me it would have made more sense if his name change came attached to new powers and abilities due to some "re-format". But that idea wasn't even being considered back in G1.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com