by Fear or Courage | Jan 24, 2025 | Blog Bots
When a good friend of mine walked out of the theatre after seeing Transformers One last year, he sent me a text, with zero preamble, that just read “Megatron was right.” That about sums up the flavor of discourse around Bryan Tyree Henry’s take on the bad guy. From...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 17, 2025 | Blog Bots
So, Transformers One! I never really wrote about the movie here, thanks to being knee-deep in getting married around the time it came out, which is a shame (well, not about the wedding, that was great), because I rate One pretty high on the tier list of Transformers...
by Fear or Courage | Jan 10, 2025 | Blog Bots
Before we confront the existential horrors of the science-fiction year of 2025, let’s look back at 2024’s year in Transformers, and Transformers-adjacent stuff. I wasn’t as prolific on the review front as I usually am, largely because I got married last year, and...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 20, 2024 | Blog Bots
Earlier this year, a very interesting Optimus Prime figure was released by Takara. The first in a Transformers toyline called Missing Link, the idea was that it was a replica of the original 1984 toy, in all of its show-and-comic inaccuracy, but with the joints and...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 13, 2024 | Blog Bots
I guess I’m on a Marvel Comics kick! I talked last week about a new figure of Marvel UK’s biggest original Transformers character, Death’s Head, so this week, it’s only fair I talk about probably the most well-known Marvel US original character: Straxus, the...
by Fear or Courage | Dec 6, 2024 | Blog Bots
This is a situation where technically, this figure is not a Transformers product. But I guarantee at least half, if not more, of the people interested in this figure are coming at it as Transformers fans. To begin with, let’s talk about Marvel UK’s Transformers...
