It’s time for Core Dinobot number four, and we’re onto the flying member of the team, Swoop! Seriously, “the flying one” is basically his only personality differentiator in most of the media he’s in. He had a weirdly proficient career in the Marvel UK Comics, at...
It’s been awhile since I got a chance to snag any of the mini-Dinobots being used to build Volcanicus, and wouldn’t you know it, three of them dropped at once, so that’s the next few weeks sorted over here. And lo and behold, the first of the newest bunch is Grimlock,...
Everyone’s talking about the new Transformers movie, so why not me, too? I’m writing this in one shot, about 48 hours after watching the movie, so this is going to be a bit rambly. I’ll try and keep the spoilers out. Does that matter? Maybe. Probably. I’ll be nice and...
Rest in peace, IDW’s Transformers license, you made some good comics. One of which was More than Meets the Eye, later retitled Lost Light. Taking place in the uncertain times after the end of the Great War, it starred a Ragtag Group of Misfits (™) led by Hot Rod (now...
Look, I was a kid in the 90’s, which means, by default, I watched Power Rangers in the heyday of the original series. I liked it, too! Though I’ll say that, having revisited an old episode or two in the years since, it doesn’t hold up nearly as well as the...
It’s been a long time since I looked at an Ironhide. That’s odd, because he’s a fairly important character in basically every G1-derived story, as a part of Optimus’s little stable of right-hand guys who are also Old Friends, even if Ironhide’s characterization...