Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
So between the G1 cartoon, G1 US comics and G1 UK comics, which do you think have withstood the test of time the best? I dunno about you, but when I go back and watch the G1 cartoons, they feel really campy and often goofy to me. There are a few good episodes here and there (I like most of the episodes written by David Wise), but overall the series feels quite camp to me. The US comics not so bad - IMO Budiansky was the best writer in G1 in terms of making the Transformers feel other-worldly... I agree that Furman does make them too human at times. But there are a lot of other moments in Budiansky's writing that makes me cringe (like Optimus Prime & the floppy disk!). Overall I prefer Furman over Budiansky though. So between those three, I would personally rate the UK comics as the best overall.
Yup, that's pretty much where the greatness of the Uk Comics lies, compared to the Cartoon, and the US comic overall the UK comic was the best, and the one that still stands best today. It has many dodgy plotlines and some so-so art at times. But the UK comics gave the young Transformer fans of the time something the cartoon and the US comic couldn't a weekly fix of exciting Transformers stories. As a kid the UK comic was always an exciting read for me, you could never tell which TF might turn up or who would suddenly be offed they had a real sense of drama at the time, compared say to the Cartoon where unless it was a 2 parter the story would always end with the good guys winning and the Autobots laughing at somelame joke. The US comic, while having some thrills and spills failed to make them particularly dramatic, at least in the early issues.

The other thing I like about the UK comics is they featured such a broad range of characters, and gave some interesting personalities. While there are definate issues I have with some of Furmans stories, he seems to be one of the only TF writer who doesn't focus exclusively on TF chracters from the first 3 years.