Photocomic: Shut Up!

[Saintly]

nice Gok..

I finally made an attempt to read through it all! :P


ps. I don't usually

[GoktimusPrime]

But I make them for you! *sniff* d:

Okay, here are the "Easter Eggs" revealed.

1. Confiscated weaponry:
+ Bludgeon's katana, turret-shield, rifle & cannon
+ Stranglehold's flail, shield & pistol
+ Octopunch's trident, rifle & pistol
+ Megaplex's energy flail
+ Rumble/Frenzy's gun
+ Tackle's cannon (Landcross' foot)
+ Animated Voyager Prime's gun
+ The Headmaster (he got totally owned )
+ Box cutter <spotted by liegeprime>
+ MEGATRON! <spotted by Paulbot>

2. This story comes from the G1 comics - and guess what, the prison itself is made of TF comic books! The doorway itself is made up of two white boxes full of G1 UK comics and the brown box which comprises the back wall is full of other TF comics (US G1, G2, convention exclusive comics, Dreamwave TF comics etc.). Another wall is made from the reprinted G1 manga!

3. Inferno bleeds purple mech fluid, a reference to IDW's Megatron: Origins.

4. The door to the Confiscated Weaponry room is orange, a reference to the G1 cartoon where Autobot bases are typically coloured orange (and Decepticon bases are usually purple).

5. The first page is in grey-scale, a tribute to the fact that this story (and the entire Earthforce saga) was printed in black and white. I was going to do the entire photocomic in grey scale but I changed my mind after doing page 1. I think colour looks better for at least this photocomic, but I left page 1 in grey scale as a homage (and cos I couldn't be bothered changing it back to colour )



Complete coincidence: the Earthforce saga was something Furman created because Hasbro wanted to their Classic series of G1 reissues to feature in G1 canon. It just so happens that I used Classic Prowl and Transformers Collection Inferno (G1 reissues!) for this photocomic!

[kup]

Complete coincidence: the Earthforce saga was something Furman created because Hasbro wanted to their Classic series of G1 reissues to feature in G1 canon. It just so happens that I used Classic Prowl and Transformers Collection Inferno (G1 reissues!) for this photocomic!

There was also the factor that at that time the threat of cancellation for Marvel UK was very high so it was decided to do single issue episodic stories instead of a large story arc that risked getting cut before its conclusion.

The Earthforce story had a fair bit of kiddy humor and more light hearted stories than the main 'real' story arc (although it did have some dark elements) but these were well balanced and produced an entertaining series of short stories that I can see being enjoyable to kids and adults even though they were a bit 'simplistic' in their story telling approach.

It would have been awesome if they had made the G1 cartoon like that.