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By Simon Furman & Various (Titan Books)
ISBN: 1-84576-059-X
This Transformers collection in Titan Book’s Black and White digest format is packed with stories that originally saw print in the British weekly of the 1980s and 1990s, featuring the scripting of Honorary Mechanoid Simon Furman and a veritable host of home grown talent, most of which moved on to greater, trans-Atlantic things once they’d proved themselves drawing heads with sharp corners on them.
Jeff Anderson, Simon Coleby, Stuart ‘Staz’ Johnson, Peter Knifton, Dan Reed, Geoff Senior, John Stokes and Lee Sullivan, aided and abetted by inkers Stephen Baskerville, Michael Eve, Tim Perkins and Pete Venters illustrate the extended tale of Carnivac, a Decepticon defector who joins with the benevolent Autobot Skids only to become the quarry of The Mayhem Attack Squad, who have been tasked with hunting them down and teaching them the real meaning of betrayal.
These are immensely enjoyable, entry-level comics, originally published in Marvel UK’s Transformers #219-222, 229, 237-239, 272-274, 282-283 and 249-250 and still capable of enthralling the young at heart.
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