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sir_razorback (sir_razorback) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-08-12 17:36:00

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char: megatron, creator: alex milne, creator: eric holmes, publisher: idw, title: transformers

Megatron and his wild hair

Two requests for the price of one, a few pages from Megatron: Origins #2, including the scene that he takes his helmet off.
As a little bit of background, he was part of a miner riot in the previous issue and went underground. Now he's part of an arena-fighting league that's very Roman.

BTW, does anyone have a good suggestion for an image hosting site? Don't want to use Photobucket, I hear they're quick on the trigger for yanking images violating ToS. Don't want to keep using LiveJournal because I think the oldest images get cycled out of existance after a while.

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	pyynk 2009-08-13 04:28 pm UTC (link)
	Issue 75 of the original Marvel run is still awesomeness incarnate. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greenmask 2009-08-13 04:34 pm UTC (link)
	Remind me which that is? I don't have them on hand just now. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rorge 2009-08-13 05:06 pm UTC (link)
	That would be On The Edge of Extinction. In US issues, anyway. UK numbering would make #75 part two of In The National Interest, one of Furman's many Dinobot stories that were rendered moot by Budiansky's inept treatment of the characters. Anyway, that's the big showdown with Unicron story. Pencils by Geoff Senior, colouring, unfortunately, by Nel Yomtov. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	angelophile 2009-08-13 08:12 pm UTC (link)
	Honestly, Nel wasn't even good by the standards of the time, but I honestly think the heavy, thick, dark Photoshop paints that have been applied to stuff like this, Stormbringer, War Wihin and much of the Dreamwave run in general are actually worse. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rorge
2009-08-13 10:19 pm UTC (link)

Dreamwave was pretty nasty, and the art in these scans is just incomprehensible. I think Yomtov grates more with me because even as a kid, collecting the UK Transformers run, the change from the US penned stories and their shonky artwork, to the far superior UK based stuff was jarring.

But Senior's art shone so much more when Steve White was doing the colouring, on stories like Fire on High and Galvatron: Wanted Dead or Alive. Any of the Marvel UK colourers (if that's the right plural) really.

It always just baffled me how there could be such a massive, obvious difference in the quality of the work, and the care taken by those involved.

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