{"id":622,"date":"2007-07-08T14:52:45","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T14:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=622"},"modified":"2007-07-08T14:52:52","modified_gmt":"2007-07-08T14:52:52","slug":"transformers-maximum-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/08\/transformers-maximum-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformers: Maximum Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/tmaxf.jpg\" alt=\"Transformers: Maximum Force\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By<strong> Bob Budiansky<\/strong>, <strong>Jose Delbo<\/strong> and <strong>Frank Springer<\/strong> (Titan Books)<br \/>\nISBN 1-84023-955-7<\/p>\n<p>Following directly on from <strong>Trial by Fire<\/strong> (ISBN 1-84023-950-6), this volume reprints issues #40-42 and #44-45 US Marvel monthly comic of the 1980s. The beleaguered Autobots seek to resurrect their deceased leader whilst dealing with the twin debuts of new character \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and of course, toys &#8211; The Pretenders and The Powermasters!<\/p>\n<p>The histrionic hokum is superbly augmented by tantalising behind-the-scenes features which might be the spark that ignites future Kirbys, Moores or Millers. Nice thought, no?<\/p>\n<p>There just aren&#8217;t enough entry level comics for kids these days and it&#8217;s always a pleasure to see solid tales competently told and delineated. It&#8217;s great that comics have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153grown up\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but we must treasure the golden age of reading, which is of course, seven to ten years old. Buy for your kids but don&#8217;t forget to check them out yourself.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2004 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Bob Budiansky, Jose Delbo and Frank Springer (Titan Books) ISBN 1-84023-955-7 Following directly on from Trial by Fire (ISBN 1-84023-950-6), this volume reprints issues #40-42 and #44-45 US Marvel monthly comic of the 1980s. The beleaguered Autobots seek to resurrect their deceased leader whilst dealing with the twin debuts of new character \u00e2\u20ac\u201c &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/07\/08\/transformers-maximum-force\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transformers: Maximum Force&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels","category-transformers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-a2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}