Standing on the sun is never recommended.
The Transformers #67
Marvel Comics (June, 1990)
“Rhythms Of Darkness!” WRITER: Simon Furman PENCILER: Jose Delbo INKER: Danny Bulandi COLORIST: Nel Yomtov LETTERER: Jim Massara EDITOR: Don Daley
In an alternate future, the Decepticons have won. Unicron succeeded in destroying Cybertron, and let the Decepticons have Earth. Galvatron has killed Rodimus Prime, stringing his corpse between the World Trade Center towers in New York (so we assume 9/11 never happened in this reality since this takes place in 2009). Only a handful of Autobots and humans remain but the other countries will nuke New York…which is fine with the Decepticons since they want to absorb all of that energy. Spike risks his life to place an American flag on top of the Decepticon Powerbase in order to tell the world they’re still fighting and not to launch the nukes. As Galvatron prepares to fire on Spike, Hook, Line, and Sinker from the usual timeline arrives and take him to serve their version of Unicron, giving the Autobots new hope.
I don’t have a problem with the concept of the story. In fact, my only critical nitpick is the dialog. The usual “Furmanisms” are on display, with lines like “it’s over–finished!”, “better to fight and die than live with the knowledge I ran” and philosophical discussions that make no sense at the worst logical time to have them. On top of that, Furman’s darker side is really on display here. Galvatron is nuttier than he was in the original cartoon and even his troops, the Monster Pretenders, acknowledge that. He even blasts Cyclonus because Chainclaw got the drop on him. No, wait, one more nitpick. Galvatron claims that Cyclonus was forged by Unicron. That means in this version Cyclonus was created (or re-created since the UK books kept the movie adaptation as canon) by Unicron instead of being one of the Targetmasters from Nebulos.
Back to the darker tone. New York is devastated and Galvatron tortures Rodimus Prime’s corpse when he thinks about the rebel group of Autobots and humans. Regeneration One was not a fluke people, it’s Furman unleashed. By the way, the Monster Pretenders were a Combiner team whose shells had rubbery skin. That’s how they were marketed. Here, we see one phase out of his shell with a voice command. That’s it. Kind of lame, really.
This issue is not fun. It’s dark, disturbing…it’s the 90s before they really got started in ruining comics. Just avoid this issue.
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