tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post4976018964655050639..comments2024-01-18T09:21:21.157-08:00Comments on Disciples of Boltax: Bish's Review: Marvel UK #137 "Ladies' Night!" Part 1Jimtronhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18138709079942253485noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post-18977196143853379652011-10-05T08:01:54.303-07:002011-10-05T08:01:54.303-07:00again art was my biggest gripe here, other than th...again art was my biggest gripe here, other than that it was ok. I never picked up on the tie-in to the US issues as I wasn't collecting the series in order at this point - I took a break from the UK magazine and was forced to trawl through back issue boxes for most of the 1985-1987 issues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post-56697627850161476772011-10-03T01:41:01.629-07:002011-10-03T01:41:01.629-07:00That’s a good point about the Throttlebots’ guns. ...That’s a good point about the Throttlebots’ guns. If you wanted to explain it away, you could say that the Autobots made facsimile weapons from the surrounding military debris (they only threatened the Combaticons with them, and never actually fired them). Once they had escaped, the Decepticons realise their mistake, and give chase.<br /><br />I thought this was a really neat tie-in between the UK/US plotlines (reading only the US comics, it seems as if Vortex just found the Throttlebots by chance – not impossible, but not satisfactory). Until much later in the series, the additional stories usually added to the universe, rather than setting up continuity clashes.Chufferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03100510579733340261noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post-16778202475732600282011-10-02T11:46:24.089-07:002011-10-02T11:46:24.089-07:00Except that in the UK story the Throttlebots have ...Except that in the UK story the Throttlebots have got guns from somewhere (though Ratbat didn't give them any in the Scraplets story), which they've clearly lost again by the time Vortex starts chasing them in 'Used Autobots'.<br /><br />MartinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9163141447241149534.post-52304193042637619092011-10-01T07:58:24.423-07:002011-10-01T07:58:24.423-07:00This story more than any other so far really shows...This story more than any other so far really shows up the mess of completing the earlier Galvatron saga in the annual. Ladies' Night was printed a couple of months before Christmas so a significant portion of the readership would not yet have been given a copy of the annual, to say nothing of those who never had one. Whereas with Grudge Match you can understand the story without having read the prequel, here you pretty much need to have read the annual already for the flow of the story.<br /><br />Did Furman ever actually get a grip on Budiansky's take on Blaster? In Blaster's UK appearances he's pretty much a generic sub-commander lacking his more Batmanesque leanings.<br /><br />One surprise is that this story directly ties into the Throttlebots/Combaticons conflict coming up in Used Autobots in the US strips - a rare case at this stage of a UK story slotting directly into US events, rather than the by now more normal practice of focusing on background or unused characters instead.Tim Roll-Pickeringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12589024696145675963noreply@blogger.com