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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. https://linktr.ee/wevegotbackissues https://linktr.ee/aarghmyoptics
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Oh yeah its November innit, here's your 1985 Transformers calendar! #tfukforty
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
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
Fancy listening to two guys reading and commenting on a scary comic that (for a change is) was actually published this century? Well listen to the latest Halloween episode of We've Git Back Issues then!
the nights are drawing in and we are fast approaching the 31st of October... All Hallows Eve! The scariest, most horrifying of evenings. What better way to get in the spooky mood than with a podcast about a comic where monsters murder children! Right? Well it's out now! Listen... if you dare! #wgbi
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
Thanks for the heads up @mikediver.bsky.social (yes I am also Sleeves) I also have better versions of almost all of that.
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
Dumb Stubbies #2 'dropped' the other day. It's like my #tfukforty posts only a bit more in-depth. Go on try it, you might like it! If you do please subscribe. IT'S FREE FFS! dumbstubbies.substack.com/p/the-transf...
The Transformers Issue 2
The Robots Have Landed - The metal invasion has begun!
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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
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
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
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What happens when a supervillain has the same expertise, same intelligence, same combat skills same wonderful toys that Batman has... Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's Nemisis apparently!? Listen to our latest episode to find out what we thought of it!
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
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...
Introducing my brand new Substack Newsletter Dumb Stubbies! A sort of long form version of my #tfukforty posts where I take a closer look at my old issues of The Transformers and wang on about what's in them and what they meant to me then and mean to me now! dumbstubbies.substack.com
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A newsletter in which 40+ years on I work through my tatty collection of Marvel UK's The Transformers... probably until I die! Click to read "Dumb Stubbies!", by Orion Ghia, a Substack publication. La...
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'Think back to your childhood. Do you remember when the anxiety started?'

Yup!
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
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
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
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
Listen as I FORCE Galactosh to read the work of my personal favourite creators Mike Allred and his comic book alter ego Frank Einstein AKA The Madman of Snap City. Available NOW!
Well it's time for another 'ginchy' episode of We've Got Back Issues! This time we invite you to peruse the pages of Mike Allred's surrealist superhero creation Madman! Available to listen to for free from midnight tonight!
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
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