Transformers

Which is crazy.

Limburger in Biker Meister Mars, Klingon Commander in Star Trek 6, and Captain Witwicky in Transformers.

He passed away in 2019 at the age of 86.

So not a bad age.

Thomas Lane, Dylan, OnlyAgentZero is not here.

UNSC Infinity as a Transformer.

That would be sick.

That would be awesome.

Now, growing up in the 1980s, as I did in Brisbane, Australia, there was many different shows and many different cartoons that came on.

It was the time of toys and action figures like He-Man, Transformers, Robotech, Thundercats.

the list goes on all these great lines and we all enjoyed everything they popped out even action heroes like chuck norris had chuck norris and his karate commandos which i had i had the ninja the ninja was pretty cool folks

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Smurfs was

popular, though.

And then all of a sudden, you'd have a run of Transformers and followed by Robotech.

And, I mean, Robotech's still to this day.

We just celebrated the anniversary of that show.

We've been doing however long the Energon universe from Skybound under Image Comics has been going on with the Transformers and G.I. Joe and Void Rivals.

And now we got Mask in there and we got Rom the Space Knight and we got a whole bunch of stuff in there now.

But it's been going on for three and a half, almost four years.

That's right.

So until next time, get altered, get geeky with the Altered Geeks.

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A colossal monster tearing through the streets.

Did you know that Transformers the movie had a prequel story? I didn't either, until the recent reprinting of the entire runs of both the Marvel US and Marvel UK series of Transformers comics from the 80s.

Today, we'll go through the story of this entire saga, page by page.

The story is called Target 2006, and was published in the UK in the run-up to the release of the movie in cinemas there.

But the UK stories were never released in America back in the 80s, so American fans would never have even known about this prequel story.

Even in the UK, where I'm originally from, and where these comics were published, it doesn't seem super well known.

I guess Transformers is a relatively niche interest, and then the comics are an even smaller niche within that niche, and then just to make that niche even smaller, these comics are over 40 years old, and weren't exactly easy to get hold of until early 2026.

Ba-weep-grana-weep-noody-bon, and hello! I'm Gary, hostbot of Transformers Auto Book Club.

It's a light-hearted weekly video and podcast series where I read and deep dive into one issue or story per week from Marvel's Transformers comics, deep diving into the plot, the story, the artwork, and whatever related trivia I can find, as well as throwing in my own thoughts and feelings about what's going on too.

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Welcome back Autobodies and Decepticharms to Transformers Auto Book Club.

Usually a weekly video and podcast series where we read and deep dive into one story or issue per week from Marvel's Transformers comics.

But this is Transformers Auto Book Club mini episode number three.

If you haven't been keeping up, the reason for that is that Target 2006 was a big, long story.

And after I finished reading each part individually, I wanted to combine the entire thing into one long supercut, which is going up today.

As I've mentioned before in the past, I want to try, if I can, to give this channel a little bit of a push, so I think that might be something that really helps.

I've been a bit clickbaity with the title and the thumbnail.

I may have had one or two of your GIs, Joe, and a Transformer or two.

But see, Transformers were too expensive and complicated.

But He-Mens, on the other hand, were more affordable and available.

And so I had a fair number when I was a young child.

Gotcha.

For the Ghost Rider series, I said that would be written and drawn by Daniel Warren Johnson, who recently did the Transformers book for Skybound.

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Werewolf by Night book, I had Daniel Krauss and Roberto de la Torre.

Now, we have got a lot this month, so I'm trimming it down a little bit again.

Also, if you go to the comment section, Mark was kind enough to respond to every single person's comments.

So you can read all of that info on the show page at fireandwaterpodcast.com. Fleuridian by night, Rob Kelly says, going in, I knew this episode was going to be a grind, not because of the guests, but because it would be all about the Transformers.

My disinterest, to put it mildly, in these characters is well known, and while this episode did nothing to change that, the conversation was lively enough to keep me entertained.