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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
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And while I'm here, the second part of our long... but in my opinion ENTERTAINING... chat about issues 5-8 (or in Marvel UK numbering 22-28) is now up on the We've Got Back Issues Podcast. Lots of talk about the UK comic, the back matter at the time and how shit it was! #tfukforty #wgbipod
wgbipod.bsky.social We've Got Back Issues @wgbipod.bsky.social · 4d
Did you wait almost a whole week for part 2 of our deep dive into issues 5-8 of The Transformers or did you sneak across to AARGH! MY OPTICS! to get it early? Weill if you did wait the wait is now over! Part 2 is now 'LIVE' on We've Got Back Issues! #wgbipod
November 23, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Released on this day 40 years ago: The Transformers #37
UK No. 1: "A Good Heart" - Feargal Sharky
Cover Artist: John Ridgway.
Highlights : Outstanding art by Hulk veteran Herb Timpe! Jetfire is created! Iron Man 2020 enters the fray in Machine Man! #tfukforty
Front cover of The Transformers issue 37 "In Search of Buster... and the creation matrix" art by John Ridgway. Page 3 of The Transformers issue 37 art by Herb Timpe. Page 6 of The Transformers issue 37 art by Herb Timpe. Page 22 of The Transformers issue 37 the final page of Machine Man art ALSO by Herb Trimpe and next in in Transformers/Matt and the Cat by Mike Kazybrid.
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Around about this time 40 years ago the second Marvel UK Transformers 'Special' AKA Collected Comics 2 was published! It featured a full colour reprint of issues 3 and 4 of the US comic AND a fun anagram challenge! #tfukforty
Front cover of The Transformers Special - Collected Comics 2 Pages 4 and 5 featuring an advert for 4 other Marvel UK specials and the first page of "Prisoner of War" Page 47 featuring Megatron's (momentary) victory over Optimus Prime. Page 50 featuring "the Great Optimus Prime" How many words can you make out of Optimus?
November 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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In the latest episode of We've Got Back Issues/AARGH! MY OPTICS! we may well have gotten to the bottom of where Optimus Prime got his name from. Listen to this and more for free right now on all good podcast apps. #wgbipod
November 19, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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So I got the band back together and wanged on about The Transformers comic for over 3 hours. Sorry, not sorry. Check it out on both the We've Got Back Issues and AARGH! MY OPTICS! Podcasts. #tfukforty
wgbipod.bsky.social We've Got Back Issues @wgbipod.bsky.social · 10d
Transformers Warrior Robots in Disguise... this month on We've on back Issues we Indulge Sleeves' alter ego @orionghia.bsky.social and read issues 5 to 8 of Marvel's Transformers. This 3 hour epic is available to here for free NOW! #wevegotbackissues #wgbipod
November 17, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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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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Go on... humour me... read my latest post on Substack exploring issue 3 of Marvel UK's The Transformers! dumbstubbies.substack.com/p/the-transf...
The Transformers Issue 3
Bumblebee, Friend or Foe? The sting in the tale!
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October 26, 2025 at 8:08 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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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!
wgbipod.bsky.social We've Got Back Issues @wgbipod.bsky.social · Oct 21
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
October 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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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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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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October 5, 2025 at 2:21 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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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!
Nemesis - trade cover. Nemsis (a white suited batman with no ears) riding at top a white care firing two usi's
September 22, 2025 at 6:32 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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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
Dumb Stubbies! | Orion Ghia | Substack
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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September 16, 2025 at 7:03 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