The Before Times

[kingandy]

Ahh, the wonderful internet. How else would we find letters pages from fifteen-year-old issues of Transformers magazine?

This little nugget is from early 1989, so I would have been all of eleven years old. Wasn't I a little git?

Comments

[bacony.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I'm pretty damn impressed at your eleven year old mastery of the language, and sucking-up.

[kneeshooter]

I've heard that he's always been good at suc...

[areteus.livejournal.com]

So, 2006 is a big year then... :)

God, I remember Transformers magazine... don't remember your letter, though. Small world...

And I think my mastery of the language was probably as good as yours at 11. I too was a precocious brat... I often wonder if all LRPers were at some point... :)

[kingandy]

Not a particularly big year - I'll be 29. My birthday's late in the year. :)

[kingandy]

Yes, I was surprised to see that I'd called somebody an arrogant fool at that age.

Of course I do that all the time these days...

[kingandy]

Oh, wait, did you mean ... the thing about Starscream? Yeah, lots of stuff was supposed to happen this year ... though that's only really because the UK comics were lagging about a year behind the Americans (Transformers: The Movie happened in 2005).

[mrssshhh.livejournal.com]

Holy shit, I might actually have that issue in the loft.

The cover is extremely familiar...

[kingandy]

I know I have a copy. Still got every6hing between abot 42 and 305-ish, I think...

[kingandy]

/me looks it up.

I stopped collecting at 320. Upon seeing that the comic only ran to 332, I am officially gutted.

[ash1977law.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! You used the word "Brill"
Awww

[kingandy]

I also questioned their knowledge of astrophysics.

ARROGANT FOOL!

[paulgregory.livejournal.com]

I probably stopped before it hit the first 100, let alone the second, but will have a rummage anyway.

What "mini Transformers toy" did you get for your letter?

[kingandy]

Seawing. he was Pirahnacon's right arm!

[si-lloyd.livejournal.com]

I read that out loud in the voice of 'comic book guy.' It was funny.

[kingandy]

Hate you so much.

[si-lloyd.livejournal.com]

Lins read it and said she loves you more and more.

[kingandy]

Awww.

I can't stay mad at you.

[arwel.livejournal.com]

Mine were all sold! I thought the collections like Dinobot Hunt had been saved, but I can't find them anywhere. I think issues 1-80ish were the hay day of Transformers. It really went down hill towards the end I seem to recall.

[kingandy]

Looking through the summaries, I think my favourite period was around 200 - the Time Wars were cool. Certainly by 300 I thought it was getting a bit dull, despite what should theoretically be a gripping plotline (Unicron invading Cybertron 20 years too early, massive casualties, origins revealed etc) the art was suffering and I thought to a degree it was treading old ground.

Still, if I'd known it was the Big Finale I might have stuck around.