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General Comics Chat: Transformers Magazine

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    Does anyone else think the quality of the magazine has readlly gone down hill latley. Not only is the celotape ridiculous and half the time only the plastic part comes off, leaving the glue, now that they've stopped using glossy covers your in danger of tearing.
    And you don't even get as much contect as you used to. When it first started we got a new story, and two small prts of other stories. Then we got to volume two and only got 2 stories.
    Now the magazine is less than half the size as it first stared, and at a higher price.
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    Yeah, the axed is poised over my suibscription I have to say. The strip (until last issue, with that awful football realted nonsense) has been pretty good the last few issues. However, 8 pages of originated strip is not worth £2.50 (£2.75 when they do those oversized covers for no good reason). I wouldn't mind if the rest of the mag was filled out with Transformers related articles, but its not. Its largely game reviews, interactive puzzles and a lot of house ads. Its very disappointing, and not good enough.

    However, in comparrison to some other UK comics, this is not unusual. Most licensed titles (be it Marvel characters or movie tie-ins) are the same. Its not just Transformers, its across the board. Eight pages of strip, and then the rest is filler. Its a really depressing state. So I was really cheered when I picked up the Beano last week (er, it had free Lego), which hasn't caved into this trend just yet. Despite the high cover price (now £2.25 a week - more expensive than the NME!), its cover to cover comic strips, with a break for a couple of pages of readers letters and stuff. And, do you know what, its still as great as I remember (I last read the Beano in about 1991). That said, it has stuck to a raft of enduring concepts - the newest character in it is Les Pretend, who first appeared in the late 1980s. Some of the characters have been fiddled with. Ball Boy seems to have lost four years of age and Lord Snooty has been rechristened 'Lord Snooty The Third' and is unrecognisable from the top-hatted public school boy I grew up with. He doesn't have much in the way of a supporting cast, suggesting that indeed money can't buy you everything. Best of all, Tom Patterson's mighty Calamity James is still going strong - squelchy things and all.

    i wrote to Titan a month or so back about the changes they had made, but didn't get a response. Kids do have brains and like to read, so I'm constantly suprised that publishers can only afford tripe like this. Is it really so costly to produce comics these days that this is all we get in the UK? At best, its insulting and at worst its patronising.
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    The Beano is £2.25???? Jesus, how times have changed! I think it was 22p last time I read it.
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    I two tried complaining to Titan but to no evail, however they don't seem to mind me countlessly asking for replacement issue due to minor damage if I return the origionals, then even went as far as to package some in those giant cardboard boxes amazon tend to use...
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJun 7th 2010
     
    The Beano costs more than NME?! That's great.
    • CommentAuthorCaptain Si
    • CommentTimeJun 10th 2010
     
    The Beano also costs more than 2000AD. Thats really weird.

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