Yeah, so I made a book! A bit of context first before I get in to the actual book itself. Being from the UK, the US TF cartoon that most of the rest of the world grew up with wasn’t readily available outside of VHS collections like “Arrival from Cybertron” or some episodes on early…
Category: Comic Cover Recreation
Cover Recreation – Target: 2006
A bit of a mega-post this time. DECEPTICONS, TO EARTH! And so during the time that it took Galvatron to get to Autobot City Earth, this Epic adventure took place. Target:2006 is probably the story that most people would hold up as the defining story of the Marvel UK Transformers run. And for good reason…
Cover Recreation – Transformers Marvel UK 262 – Bird Of Prey! Pt.1
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Cover Recreation – Transformers Marvel UK 156 – Trial By Fire! Pt.1
Always loved this cover and it was always going to be one of the first ones i tried. But it was a bit of a tricky one to put together due to all the background panels. What made it tricky was that the background isn’t from one page but multiple sources. Before i started i…
Cover Recreation – Transformers Marvel UK 106 / US 24 – Afterdeath! (or “Really?? Killing yourself over a videogame??”)
This is an issue that i was a massive fan of when i was a kid. I was just getting into computers and I loved the virtual world that Ethan Zachary created. Looking back with cynical adult eyes though, really, what was Prime thinking at the end 😀 Original Covers: Marvel UK Cover Recreation: Marvel US…
Cover Recreation – Transformers Marvel UK 48 – Dinobot Hunt! Pt.3
Not much needs to be said here but “Jetfire rustling Slag in the desert, and it is indeed awesome!” Original Cover: Recreated Cover: Recreated Cover – No Cover Elements:
Cover Recreation – More Than Meets The Eye 12 – Before & After (Cover A)
This was another fun one to do. The Maketoys Rearend figure is a pretty perfect MTMTE Tailgate that looks like it’s jumped right off the page. So much character and posability in one little bot. Original Cover: Recreated Cover: Recreated Cover – No Cover Elements:
Cover Recreation – Transformers Marvel UK 28 / US 8 – Repeat Performance
ME GRIMLOCK SAY THIS BEST COVER Original Covers: Marvel UK Issue 28 Recreated Cover: Marvel US Issue 8 Recreated Cover: Recreated Cover – No Cover Elements:
Cover Recreation – Transformers Marvel UK 1 / The Complete Works Pt.1
And so we come to the cover that’s responsible for my unending love for Soundwave. Saw it as a six year old kid and it made quite the impression. Probably why I’ve always been more of a Decepticon fan than an Autobot one too. It’s got Soundwave and Buzzsaw fighting Optimus Prime in space above earth…
Cover Recreation – Transformers Marvel UK 200 – Time Wars Pt.2
Time Wars is one of my all time favourite UK storylines and this cover along with the Time Rift Splash Page (still envious of your ownership of that one James!) are the defining images for me. A lot of what makes this stand out for me is that the ’86 movie (& Marvel UK Future…
Cover Recreation – Transformers Marvel UK 150 – The Legacy of Unicron! Pt.5
The recreation that made me seriously consider painting Primus/Cybertron silver! I’d actually love to find a cheap junker one some day to give it a go. This is another of the many issues that Simon Furman wrote that still has echoes in what Transformers is to this day. Without his fleshing out of the Unicron/Primus…
Cover Recreation – Last Stand Of The Wreckers
Last Stand Of The Wreckers (or LSOTW to save some typing), the book that made me love modern Transformers Comics again after the decidedly dodgy Costa IDW-era. In direct comparison to the Costa run, this was a coherent, massively fun 5 parter that got the blood pumping with all out action and a few dark undercurrents…
