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We return to the alternate future of the Starriors, robots battling for the future of mankind, even though few of the bad guys know they are the bad guys. For those of you who missed our previous trip here, Starriors was a line of robot action figures that came in bipedal and motorized wheeling version. Like other robot toys of the time (even Robotix did this for a brief time) they were split up into two warring factions because that’s how we did things in the 1980s. The plot revolves around the Protectors trying to find and reawaken man. Standing in their way are the Destructors, but only their evil boss Slaughter Steelgrave knows what the Protectors are really up to, since at least some of his forces would change sides if they knew man might still exist.
The mini-comics were produced by Marvel Comics, who also made shelf versions of the comic, some of which I actually own and have already reviewed on this site. I searched for a while for scans and Virtualnaut finally answered the call…then changed their URL for some reason so I thought I wasn’t going to be able to get back to this series. Now that I can let’s see the second issue, as the Protectors find themselves in a forest…but in a post-apocalyptic world we’re not allowed to have nice things.
So the comic takes place in California?
Starriors #2
Marvel Comics/Tomy (1984)
“The Forest”
Unfortunately no credits are given in these mini-comics. Here’s the site you can find the scans I’m using. Hopefully they don’t change the URL again before our next go-around for this series.
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There was a surprise end to the race.
Invincible Iron Man #7
Marvel Comics (January, 2009)
“The Five Nightmare” epilogue: ” Clifton Pollard
WRITER: Matt Fraction
ARTIST: Salvador Larroca
COLORIST: Frank D’Armata
LETTERER: Joe Caramagna
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Alejandro Arbona
EDITOR: Warren Simons
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From the comment I made on this video:
What I love is that Transformers can be almost anything. Even Pretender shells are useful for disguise depending on the continuity, while the various Masters give us a human who can interact with other humans and help out the Autobots that way as well as linking up for battle. The alt mode could be for disguise, as an advantage in battle, or benefit in other tasks. It’s a great concept to explore.
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Chapter By Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
And so we come to the final chapter of the book, and if not for a slightly longer than normal epilogue this would be our final installment of reviewing this book a chapter at a time. It’s the huge finale of…this part of the book, technically the third story in the book. Last time Joanna challenged Kerensky and how much of this was Ravill’s doing is up for debate. That’s the least spoilerly I can get for the intro.
For a series about people who fight in giant robots this is only the second such fight in the book. All the other fights have been between people not using giant robots and that feels like a shame. The characters and level of the fights make up for it, but can you truly make up for having giant robots and not using them? So this fight better deliver something amazing.
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“We have to stop Ryan Reynolds from playing me before it’s too late!” (I still need to watch that.)
DC Nation Super Sampler/Superman Family Adventures Flip Book
DC Comics (June, 2012)
I didn’t list the Superman Family Adventures flip side of the book because it’s just the first few pages of issue #1 of regular series. Likewise Young Justice is just the first few pages of issue #16. Only the first story is a complete one…or at least feels complete as it’s just part of issue #9 of Green Lantern: The Animated Series, which I don’t own, so I don’t know what happens in the other half of the story.
“Myrwhydden” (pages 1-10)
WRITERS: Art Baltazar & Franco
ARTIST: Dario Brizuela
COLORIST: Gabe Eltaeb
LETTERER: Saida Temofonte
EDITOR: Kristy Quinn
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