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Orion Ghia
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Podcaster and opinionated so and so. He / Him, answers to Orion Ghia, Sleeves, Sleeven... whatever really.
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #36
UK No. 1: "A Good Heart" - Feargal Sharky
Cover Artist: Kyle Baker
Highlights: Robot war II fill us in on the story so far! The anti-climax of the year as the Constructicons Unite! #tfukforty
Front Cover: The Transformers #36 "Dawn of the Devestator" Cover of single "A Good Heart" - Feargal Sharky Pages 4 and 5 "Robot Wars II" Page 10 in which the Contructicons unite to form Devesator.
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #35
UK No. 1: "Power of Love" - Jennifer Rush
Cover Artist: Will Simpson
Highlights: Optimus Prime becomes a parent to 6 bouncing baby Constructicons! Introducing Bomber Bill! #tfukforty
Front cover: The Transformers issue 35. Art by Will Simpson Page 3 of The Transformers issue 35, first page of "the next best thing to being there!" story with art by Ricardo Villamonte. Page 6 of The Transformers issue 35, the constructicons are created; art by Ricardo Villamonte. Page 11 of The Transformers issue 35, we meet a new human character by the name of Bomber Bill; art by Ricardo Villamonte.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Oh yeah its November innit, here's your 1985 Transformers calendar! #tfukforty
Marvel UK Transformers November calendar as featured in issue 33.
November 3, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #34
UK No. 1: "Power of Love" - Jennifer Rush
Cover Artist: Mike Manley
Highlights: Jazz abducts G.B. Blackrock! Circuit Breaker looses her shit! Secret Wars goes full colour plus ZOIDS! #tfukforty
Front cover: The Transformers issue 34 Page 5 of Transformers 34 were Jazz abducts G.B. Blackrock Page 10 of Transformers 34 where Circuit breaker takes down Jazz. Page 14 of Transformers 34 advert for Secret Wars and Zoids
November 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #33
UK No. 1: "Power of Love" - Jennifer Rush
Cover Artist: John Higgins
Highlights : A printing error results in new colour schemes for everyone! Circuit Breaker is born! Win a stunt flyer! #tfukforty
Front cover of The Transformers issue No.33 published 26th October, 1985 (regardless of what it says on the front cover!) Pages 6 and 7 of The Transformers issue No.33. A printing error resulted in the magenta and cyan plates of printing process being switched! Page 13 of The Transformers issue 33 where Circuit Breaker make her shocking debut! Page 17 of The Transformers issue 33 containing a competition to win a Transformers Stunt Flyer by Identifying the airborne Decepticons pictured, can you?
October 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #32
UK No. 1: "Power of Love" - Jennifer Rush
Cover Artist: Will Simpson
Fact File: Inferno
Highlights : The wrath of Grimlock! Headless Prime! Swoop saves the day but pays the ultimate price? Back to the US story next issue! #tfukforty
Front cover of The Transformers issue 32 "The Wrath of Grimlock!" Pages 4 and 5 where Optimus Primes disemheaded body makes an intervention. Page 13, Swoop sacrifices himself to save the team. Page 23 with a teaser for the next issue and a Fact File on Inferno.
October 19, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #31
UK No. 1: "Power of Love" - Jennifer Rush
Cover Artist: Will Simpson
Highlights : Another Simon Furman original with Barry Kitson on art duties! The Dinobots meet their match? #tfukforty
October 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #30
UK No. 1: "If I was" - Midge Ure
Cover Artist: John Ridgway
Highlights: That scene from the cartoon with the energy axe and the mace on top of the dam and so on! Guardian is back and he's pissed! #tfukforty
Front Cover of The Transformers issue 30 "The Decepticon Dam-Busters Unleash a Tidal Wave of Terror!" Midge Ure - If I was - UK number 1 on this day 40 years ago. Pare 3 of The Transformers issue 30 in which Optimus Prime and Megatron fight atop a dam... seem familiar? Page 13 of The Transformers issue 30 "The Wrath of Guardian!"
October 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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I forgot to post 1985s October calendar... well here it is 5 days late. As you can see it's (crappy) reworking of the awesome front cover of issue 22 drawn by Mark Bright (RIP). Fast forward 40 years and this looks very much like the Blokees version of Shockwave! #tfukforty
Marvel UKs Transformers October calendar featuring Shockwave as published in issue 29. Front cover of The Transformers issue 22 drawn by Mark Bright (RIP)
October 5, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #29
UK No. 1: "Dancing in the Street" - David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Cover Artist: John Ridgway.
Highlights : Marvel UK re-tell ‘Arrival from Cybertron’ their way... around the campfire to the Dinobots! Soundwave does a little admin! #tfukforty
Front cover of The Transformers issue 29 featuring Optimus Prime and Megatron fighting atop a Dam "Decepticon Dam-busters!" Page 4 The first page of of Decepticon Dam-Busters featuring Grimlock giving a human a proper fright! Pages 12-13 the thrilling cliff-hanger of this version of the story told in the pilot episodes of the G1 cartoon. Optimus Prime falls from the dam defeated?
September 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #28
UK No. 1: "Dancing in the Street" - David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Cover Artist: M.D. Bright and Kyle Baker
Fact File: Snarl
Highlights : Ratchet double crosses a double crosser! Machine Man is revived in the cyberpunk future of 2020! #tfukforty
Front Cover: The Transformers issue 28 Pages 8 and 9 in which Ratchet and the Dinobots give Megatron a little surprise. Page 13 the story concludes for now. Plus Snarl Fact File. Page 19 where Machine Man is revived.
September 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Optimus Prime's dodgy alt-mode is just one of the many weird and wonderful things in issue 1 of Marvel UK's Transformers. Read my new Substack Newsletter 'Dumb Stubbies' to find out more! #dumbstubbies dumbstubbies.substack.com/p/the-transf...
The two panels which introduce Optimus Prime in The Transformers comic in which we see his robot-mode and frankly lame alt-mode.
September 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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'Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?'

Yup!
Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp.
September 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #27
UK No. 1: "Dancing in the Street" - David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Cover Artist: Robin Smith
Highlights : It's Transformers UK's Birthday! In celebration let's go weekly and full colour! Ratchet revives Slag! Shockwave trolls Megatron! #tfukforty
Front cover of The Transformers issue 27 Sensational new look! Full colour on every page! Now Weekly! Page 8 in which Ratchet retrieves Slag from the tar and conducts a little brain surgery. Page 7 in which Shockwave really rubs it in that he's much better than Megatron. Page 19 new Machine Man
September 14, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #26
UK No. 1: "Dancing in the Street" - David Bowie and Mick Jagger
Cover Artist: Mark Bright (amended Megatron by Herb Trimpe)
Highlights : Changes are afoot! Ratchet cooks protein cylinders and gets in in a scrap with Megatron! #tfukforty
Cover of The Transformers #26 by Mark Bright with amended Megatron by Herb Trimpe. "Ratchet registers for Warrior School!" Single cover of Dancing in the Street by David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Ratchet discovers hot dogs and devises a new way to cook them. Megatron discovers Ratchet and devises a new way to hurt him.
September 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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September is coming... and 40 years ago Transformers obsessed kids were poised to start ticking off the days on this bad boy. The image of Ratchet used was an adaptation of William Johnson art due to appear in issue 27 a few later this month... tbf the original artwork is better. #tfukforty
August 31, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #25.
UK No. 1: “Into the Groove" - Madonna.
Cover Artist: Alan Kupperberg.
Fact Files: Warpath and Ramjet.
Highlights: Megaton (temporarily) puts Shockwave in his place! Machine Man gets an update! Good riddance to Planet Terry! #tfukforty
Front cover of The Transformers issue 25, featuring an ariel battle between Megatron and Shockwave that does not happen in the book! As close as we get to an ariel battle, Megatron blasts shockwave through the side of Mount St. Hilary on page 9 of this issue. Introducing... the NEW Machine Man. From the next issue we will jump from the machine man of 1979-81 to the 1984 relaunch set in the distant future of 2020! Megatron's victory is short lived and Shockwave restores his control of the Decepticons. Plus Matt The Cat is still going strong!
August 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Around this time 40 years ago the UK Transformers comic got itself a new editor and a new look. Gone was the usual 'Opener' page, replaced by a more compact 'Transformation' catch up/contents page and a dedicated letters page hosted by none other than Soundwave! #tfukforty
The very first 'Transformation' page from issue 22 of The Transformers... and the first page of Robot War! a catch-up on the story so far for new readers. Soundwaves from issue 28... in the future (well it was this time in 1985) A double page Soundwaves from issue 24 of The Transformers. the inside front cover of The Transformers issue 24 "Transformation"
August 17, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #24
UK No. 1: “Into the Groove" - Madonna
Cover Artist: John Higgins
Highlights : Shockwave takes command of... an oil rig!? A lady gets hurt! Buster gets a bit of a headache! Win Transformers transfers! #tfukforty
Cover of The Transformers issue 24 featuring Shockwave in flying gun mode attacking an oil rig. "Shockwave's act of war... Offshore Strike!" Cover of Madonna "Into the Groove" single featuring Madonna and Rosanna Arquette in a promo shot from the 1985 movie "Desperately Seeking Susan" Page 13 of the comic in black and white, Shockwave attacks the oil rig and causes Josie Beller to be seriously injured. Pages 16 and 17 of the comic, Buster Witwicky talks to Optimus Prime's disembodied head and agrees to help in any way he can...
August 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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To all those attending TFNation "Pick your targets and make sure your wallet can handle it"
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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OK OK I'm about a week (and 40 years) late again. Here is your 1985 August Calendar featuring, no question, the best Deception seeker.. .Skywarp. #tfukforty
The Transformers UK August 1985 calendar published in issue 23. Featuring Skywarp.
August 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Well what a turn up for the books! I've enjoyed both this summers Super-heroic movie offerings! I guess I'll have to find some way to chat about them soon. Yes I do have a favourite.
August 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #23
UK No. 1: “There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" - Eurythmics
Cover Artist: John Ridgway
Highlights : Shockwave takes charge! 'Discover Prime's Fate - Inside!' Ahem... on the back cover for all to see actually... SURPRISE? #tfukforty
Front cover of Issue 23 of The Transformers. Buster surrounded by strung up deactivated Autobots wonders "but where's Optimus?!" “There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" - Eurythmics - Music video still. Shockwave plans world domination. Back cover of issue 23 of The Transformers. The big 'reveal' Optimus Prime's head removed from his body.
July 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #22
UK No. 1: "Frankie" - Sister Sledge
Cover Artist: Mark Bright
Highlights : Ian Rimmer becomes editor and ushers in a new look and a new custodian of the letters page! Shockwave witnesses something a little different on the telly. #tfukforty
ICONIC front cover of The Transformers #22 An illustration of a scene from The Honeymooners in the US version was replaced with the publicity still from the television series V in the UK printing. Shockwave walks through the ark as a the mis-coloured mis-drawn Autobot Ark Crew hang above him deactivated. The very first 'Soundwaves' letter page ushered in by new editor Ian Rimmer.
July 13, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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'Grail' piece acquired. Yeah I know... He's bloody weird but I love him, plus it replaces my old one who succumbed to 'brown sparkly plastic syndrome'.
July 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM