#256
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#256-258
By this point it was the summer of 2008, and the next lineup
of Classics toys had recently been released. I couldn’t wait to include more
updated G1 toys into the comic, so I decided to start a second storyline to run
alongside the live action movie spoof.
Looking back over the entire run of the comic, this run
holds a special place to me. Ratchet’s articulation upgrading machine is one of
my favorite props. As soon as I knew ratchet would be building a machine to
reconstruct the G1 characters I immediately got a rush of ideas. I love that
Ratchet tested out the machine using (totally “not”) a drinking start which
turned it into a bendy straw when it gained articulation. And I had a blast
thinking up reasons to explain why some of the upgrades would be with a normal
aesthetic and why others would have the aesthetic belonging to the toyline of
the next Transformers cartoon, Animated, which mostly consisted of heavily
stylized versions of G1 characters as well.
As a side note, I never really cared for the Animated
designs but having both it and the new Classics line (which was called
Universe) being released at the same time suddenly gave me a huge amount of
choices as to which characters got upgrades and which didn’t. It was a great
time for me as a writer, and it made me very excited to inject some new
characters into the stories, even if that meant some older characters never
really got the attention I might have originally intended to give them.
And as a second side note I really feel my excitement
over getting new toys to bring new characters into the mix really pushed me to
write better. I’ll never say I’m a great writer but it’s always been something
I enjoy doing, and with more characters available it really made me think about
a variety of characterizations, why these characters would do and say what
they’re doing and really strive not to stray too far from what I established
them to be (minus obligatory character development of course).
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