Recent content by Salt-Man Z

It's so weird to me that a handful of folks are just absolutely fixated on this take, as if every other TF comic universe was G-rated sunshine-and-rainbows.

Amazon continues to eff up digital subscriptions. Transformers #15 and 16 weren't made part of the "series" on Amazon, and so I didn't get them. I did buy 15 later, but I'll probably wait until 16 drops in price at this point.

I think I came onboard in Jan/Feb 2000 as TheGuruNow. I had been hanging out at somebody's website where they hosted a simple forum. One of the members (a "MisterOptimusPrime" or something like that?) linked to this place and I've been here on-and-off ever since. I feel like the EZBoard version...

Finally saw this over the weekend. A tangent on the topic of people just not going to movies as much anymore: the last movie we went to was Dune Part II last summer. About 75% through the film, the picture started to break up and we had to wait 20 minutes or so while they rebooted the equipment...

TF #13:

I do love the comic focus on this new card set. (Reminds me I should dig out my old 80s TF cards and put them into my new card binder alongside my old Jim Lee X-Men and X-Files cards. And now I'm curious what my brother did with his TMNT sets from back in the day...)

That's all waaaay too much, but I am still excited to pick some of these up at, say, Target when they come out. I'm crossing my fingers for a per-pack retail price of around $5, not sure I can justify much more than that on 10 random cards. The Kickstarter seems to bear this out, as the...

Consuming animals for energy?? In a comic book?!? The horror He doesn't seem to move at all through the flurry of "time passes" panel changes, so this seems plausible. I mean, DWJ literally says in the letters page that he always hated BB and preferred Cliffjumper, so he chose to immediately...

I think it'd be hilarious if this Straxus mold did see a mainline release... but remolded with the Stupid Sexy Straxus head. :D

This actually reminds me a bit of Brian Ruckley's early IDW run, which is kind of a neat thing to feel nostalgia for.

That robot mode is gorgeous. It's really too bad the vehicle mode (which isn't terrrrible) looks nothing like his old Viper form. (And I know haterz gunna hate, but that original Side Burn toy remains one of my favorite TFs to transform. Yes, it's ridiculously fiddly, but there's a certain joy...

Anyone else digitally subscribed to Void Rivals through Amazon/Comixology and not get #8? Usually you get charged for an issue a week or two in advance, but it looks like my subscription hiccupped and paid for #9 early (two weekends ago) and skipped #8 entirely. I suppose at this point I'll just...

I'm sorry, but "Here's 12 new toys redecoed as 12 old toys"--while perhaps the sanest/safest course of action to take with a MW-themed convention set--is by far the most boring option.

Lunar-Tread (Siege Countdown recolor)?

I didn't mind the slowness. I think Ruckley wrote the slow buildup better than he did the action, which got a bit samey towards the end. I loved his penchant for grabbing characters from absolutely anywhere and mixing them all up. It would have been really interesting to see where he would have...