Issue #199-Time Wars
Written by Simon Furman, art by
Andy Wildman and Eaun Peters
Cover art by Art Wetherell and Dave Harwood
Contents
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Information
When is it?
This story takes place after the future story of
issues #182 - 187.
Continuity scmontinuity
The events of this story take place in
the year after the Space Pirates saga, after the Quintessons trashed Autobot
City on Earth. From the appearance of the City, I would say not that long
after the attack, but from the question of Ultra Magnus, asking Kup if
he remembers what happened to the planet of Quintesson, I'm not so sure.
One thing to note is that the casualties of the attack did not include
any of the Terrorcons, and neither Red Alert, or even Blaster, who
was hung up like a slab of meat on the city walls, were killed.
Please welcome...
Aside from a couple of un-named Cybertronians on
page one, no new faces are seen. I'm not sure if Spike and the very annoying-looking
Daniel have been seen before this point, other than in the movie.
Bloopers
The only thing really wrong with this issue is
on a few pages the colouring has gone horribly wrong - check out page10,
where the colours are about a third of a centimetre out of place. I would
also question Hun-grr's transformationon page five, as it looks like he
does a back-flip to change to his robot-mode, when I would expect he just
stands up on his two heads. Oh, and another thing - the source of the disturbance
is 1989? I thought the source would be the instant Galvatron and his henchmen
arrived on twentieth century Earth would be the source - but then, the
writers had to stick to the year they were writing in.
Musings of a Transformer comic reading disciple
How nice, the planet of Quintesson didn't just
blow up for the sake of resembling the cartoon. I'd have a stab at the
cause of the space-time rift, but I'd probably end up with a headache.
Oh, what the hell - I'll just pick some holes in it; such as why does Cyclonus
dying before he is created have an effect upon the rift? Surely the simple
fact is that every single time-jump would cause the ripples that destabilize
time; perhaps causing the events of the movie to not take place, thus resulting
in Galvatron, Scourge, Cylonus and Rodimus not being created. Now, that
would cause universal badness.
I'd like to question just what the Autobots thought
they were doing this issue - surely if they went back in time and solved
the problems none of the aforementioned badness would have taken place,
so there would have been no need to attack Soundwave's energy leech. And
wjy did the Autobots leave the time-portal open? Were they hoping that
the local 'cons would come by to join them in 1989 or something? Crazy-damn
fools.
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