by Fear or Courage | Jun 11, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written June 2019. Forgive some of the images, I was in the middle of moving house at the time. TFCon 2019 is almost upon us (2021 note: Missing that these days). While we wait, let’s go through a bit of history and look at one of last year’s hottest...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 7, 2021 | Blog Bots
There’s usually a hierarchy when it comes to updating Transformers characters. Your a-listers and your first-episode-people come first, so when it’s something like Beast Wars, the one or two updates we got before Kingdom went all-in tended to focus on cast members...
by Fear or Courage | Jun 4, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written May 2019. Chromia’s sort of an obscure character, but one that fits in with the rest of Transformers: Siege’s “Early 80’s Cartoon character selection.” Chromia, along with a team of other “Female Autobots” (yes, that’s what they called them, gender...
by Fear or Courage | May 31, 2021 | Blog Bots
You know who needs to be in more modern Transformers fiction? Jazz. Back in the 80s, he was Optimus Prime’s second in command, and managed to be one of the few 1984 Autobot Cars to actually get a decent level of characterization in both the cartoon and comics. He...
by Fear or Courage | May 28, 2021 | Blog Bots
Originally written May 2019. Like most of the characters in Transformers: Siege, Ironhide’s one of the original members of the 1984 Transformers cast. Unlike some of his fellow Siege Deluxes, which are characters that never had really large media roles, but are...
by Fear or Courage | May 24, 2021 | Blog Bots
IDW Comics is probably the best place to go if you want good Transformers stories. One of my favorite ongoing comics they’ve put out over the years was More than Meets the Eye, and its follow up series, Lost Light, both written by James Roberts, and both of which...
