by Fear or Courage | Dec 12, 2022 | Blog Bots
Well, time for yet another Generation 2-themed repaint. I’m a mark for them, because this early 90’s version of Transformers is where I came into this whole thing, through watching a cartoon that was 80’s reruns pretending they were new, and getting a few early toys,...
by Fear or Courage | Nov 14, 2022 | Blog Bots
Flamewar was a super-obscure D-lister of a Decepticon, until she got what used to be called the “Furman bump” (back when Simon Furman was the only writer that did it), where a Transformers writer cherry-picks a random, under-used character to feature in their stories,...
by Fear or Courage | Oct 31, 2022 | Blog Bots
Like most of the Bumblebee Movie entries in the Studio Series, Shockwave had a single-line cameo in the film’s opening sequence, mostly memorable for his voice actor doing a spot-on impression of Corey Burton’s G1 performance. In that brief appearance, he was scaled...
by Fear or Courage | Sep 19, 2022 | Blog Bots
I recently had the chance to finally read Marvel’s vintage Transformers: Generation 2 comics (which ran from 1993-1994), and let me tell you, those things were a fever dream. Between the exaggerated 90’s art, the self-serious, edgy storyline, and the general confusion...
by Fear or Courage | Sep 5, 2022 | Blog Bots
One thing I like about shopping at Transformers conventions like TFCon is that it gives me a chance to catch up with figures that I missed, especially considering how Transformers at retail these days can be here-then-gone in a matter of months, unless they’re a...
