By Furman, Anderson, Senior, Simpson & Ron Smith (Titan Books)
ISBN 1-84023-510-1
The Transformers took the world by storm in the 1980’s and the monthly US Marvel comic book was a smash hit. The UK division had their own weekly comic which reprinted the American material but the scheduling mismatch quickly necessitated the creation of original material.
With the potential for continuity chaos uppermost in editorial minds this extended time-travel epic was created to enthral the kids and not step on any upcoming storylines or new toy launches. Evil Decepticon leader Galvatron travels back twenty years from 2006 to unmake his own unwanted reality by judiciously altering events, but once here he finds that the Autobots are not the only alien shape-changing robots that want to stop him…
Challenging at the time of release (in Transformers #78-88, 1986), the plot has lost a lot of its impact simply because so many films and TV shows have used it in the intervening years, but in conjunction with the taught scripting of Simon Furman and the fast-paced action and great colour artwork from veteran Ron Smith, and such then- newcomers as Jeff Anderson, Geoff Senior and Will Simpson, Target: 2006 is still a thriller with a lot of punch.
This is a great book to bring kids into comics, and I wish we had a few more like it.
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