Friday Night Fights Free-For-All? More like free for ‘Da Bee!

So Spacebooger has set his new rules for this new tournament. And now that his site is back up he is ready for action as so are we. The rules? There kind of aren’t any. It’s a free-for-all, with no real theme.

However, I’m used to operating on a theme, so I decided to break out one near and dear to my spark. Yes, it’s time to spotlight my favorite Transformer…

No, we need him for future tournaments. I mean…

That’s the stuff. But not just any 12 rounds of Bumblebee. Even the Bumblebadass didn’t start out being as awesome as he is today. Heck, Chuck Norris had to start somewhere. So the early fights may be a bit embarrassing for the coolest yellow fellow this side of Pac-Man, but it will all work out in the end. So let’s begin our adventure.

Round 1 of 12

The Battlefield: The Transformers #1 (Marvel Comics, September 1984)

(hey, look what a new WordPress feature allows me to do with ease.)

The Promoters: Bill Mantlo (plot), Ralph Macchio (script), the late Frank Springer (penciler), Kim DeMulder (inker), Higgins & Parker (letterers), Nelson Yomtov (colored most if not every issue of this run), and Bob Budiansky (editor, wrote all the tech specs, fleshed out the concept, wrote most of the stories until Furman came along and screwed up everything and yet somehow HE is the one to get depicted as the “god” of Transformers well who got into the Official Hall of Fame first, Simon that’s right Budiansky not you, you worth…sorry, went off course there).

Here is the first ever appearance of Bumblebee in the comics.

He was so cute when he was younger.

See, Sunbow, you can work with the toy model and make it more accurate to both visual and the toy. Oddly, his next two panel appearances in robot mode was spot on for the toy, which didn’t work quite as well. It would be the last time outside of a splash page in #16 that he would resemble the toy in the Marvel series. So our heroes are sent out to meet the locals on the planet they just woke up from. Sadly, nobody told them about organic life, or that machines aren’t alive here.

Bumblebee promote abstinence hardcore-style.

Remember, he thought that car was a living being and he smashed into it hard enough to damage them both. And the Decepticons attacked.

Could be worse, Buster. At least it didn't steal itself, transform, and make the cops think you were taking doggy pain pills.

So I wonder what the insurance company said about that one. And who was Bumblebee’s opponent this round? Not the Decepticons, the other Autobots in the scouting party took care of that, which I’m saving for a future fight. No, Bumblebee lost this fight to his own impatience.

But next time he fights Megatron! Because that’s how he rolls (out)!

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