Promoting Evil II: Unedited Evil

Since people have been doing their own color-corrections of the Marvel UK mini-posters based on the ones I did, I thought it'd be a good idea to put up the original versions of my scans. Maybe they'll be easier to work with - I think I ended up making Skywarp's face in the Megatron image too dark when I did mine. Apologies for not getting these up sooner!

Promoting Evil!

It can! It is! It's... me, Monzo!

Fresh from 1984 - and imported over the Atlantic, besides - have a trio of promotional mini-posters featuring Soundwave, the Decepticon jets, and Megatron, made using stills from the earliest Transformers comic and toy commercials. These ridiculously high-resolution scans were made, respectively, from Marvel UK's Transformers #4, #5 and #6.

I actually scanned these some time ago, but at the time wrote them off as being useless because, due to the terrible color reproduction involved, they were incredibly red-tinged. However, I recently learned about Photoshop's "Variations" tool (which is kind of embarrassing, given how long I've had the program), and my new stab at fixing them up produced much better results. Megatron is still terribly yellowish, though.

Fun fact: in these scans, Starscream is the one with the grey chest and white/red wings! These early ads seem to have been the source of his first Marvel Comics color scheme, which appears to have switched the grey to blue because of comics' limited color palette at the time.

There were also mini-posters featuring Optimus Prime and the Autobot cars, but their animation designs didn't change as drastically, so I didn't scan them at the time. Might go back and do them anyway now...

Enjoy!

Iván's Gallery: Megatron (redux)

Another Monday, another installment of Iván's Gallery. This week Iván brings us Megatron! (A different Megatron than his excellent Megatron from a few weeks go - what can I say, I'm in a Decepticon kinda mood?) Here is what he has to say about it:

This illustration was made long ago in class, in my last year of high school,

For this reason it is in black and white, I made with the materials they had at that time, black ink pen

and regular pencil. I wanted to draw megatron in a typical position, which would force sensation,

It is clearly a g.1 design. Anything else, is a typical and simple illustration.

Iván's Gallery: Megatron!

This week Iván brings us: Megatron! Here is what he has to say about it:

Since I was a kid, Megatron was my favorite transformer. I was always attracted by the designs with a helmet recollections of those who used the Germans during the Second World War, is not strange that i like characthers for example, Judge Death or cobra commander, I think these designs are very elegant.

So I decided to do a tribute to the decepticon leader in a typical posture.

I did it with a black pen and pencil, when I worked in construction sector.