Staz Johnson
Autor(a) de Civil War: X-Men Universe
About the Author
Obras de Staz Johnson
Rising Stars: Voices of the Dead (2005) Issue #1 "Voices of the Dead - Part I" (2005) — Ilustrador — 3 cópias
Rising Stars: Voices of the Dead (2005) Issue #2 "Voices of the Dead - Part II" (2005) — Ilustrador — 3 cópias
Transformers 289: End of the Road! / Deadly Obsession (part four) (1990) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 282: Shut Up! / Kings of the Wild Frontier! (part one) (1990) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 279:Divide and Conquer! / ...All Fall Down! (part three) (1990) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 273: Wolf in the Fold! / Ashes, Ashes... (part one) (1990) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 261: Starting Over! / The Primal Scream! (part three) (1990) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Vikings #1 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 252: Edge of Impact / Yesterday's Heroes! (part one) (1990) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 250: The Greatest Gift of All / Skin Deep (part two) (1989) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 249: Whose Lifeforce Is It Anyway? Skin Deep (part one) (1989) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 243: Mind Games / The Resurrection Gambit! (part one) (1989) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 236: Deathbringer part two / The Interplanetary Wrestling Championship! (part one) (1989) — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
New X-Men [2004] #04 — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
New X-Men [2004] #03 — Ilustrador — 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Transformers 302: Dreadwind's Christmas / The Human Factor! (part one) (1990) — Artista da capa — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 287: Inside Story! / Deadly Obsession (part two) (1990) — Artista da capa — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 285: External Forces! / Kings of the Wild Frontier. (part four) (1990) — Artista da capa — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 277: Internal Affairs! / ...All Fall Down! (part one) (1990) — Artista da capa — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 246: Demons / All the Familiar Faces! (part one) (1989) — Artista da capa — 1 exemplar(es)
Transformers 271: The Living Nightlights! / Power Struggle (part three) (1990) — Artista da capa — 1 exemplar(es)
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Johnson, Stewart
- Outros nomes
- Staz
Johnson, Staz - Data de nascimento
- 1965-08-12
- Ocupação
- comic book artist
penciller
Membros
Resenhas
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 33
- Membros
- 315
- Popularidade
- #74,965
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Resenhas
- 27
- ISBNs
- 20
This collection opens with a set of stories that slot in and around what was happening in the US strip at the time they were published.
Race with the Devil
This story is okay. A group of Autobots called the Triggerbots is assigned to shadow some Decepticon mercenaries, Darwking and Dreadwind; it turns out that the mercenaries are trying to recover Starscream's corpse, since it contains the Underbase, the collected knowledge of the Transformer race. (This is all due to the Underbase saga, from the US book.) Starscream kind of becomes a zombie and the Triggerbots stop him and save some humans. I guess if I ever could remember who the Triggerbots were, I might have cared about this more.
"Fallen Star!"
This vignette is focused on Starscream who, thanks to events in the US book, has been brought back to life... but is feeling like he's lost his mojo in the process. But then he realizes that maybe after all, he's still got it. Told in the first person, this is a fun story of Starscream at his best. (Well, worst.) Nicely done.
"Mind Games"
It's hard to talk about this story without getting into the weeds on continuity. Basically, when Simon Furman took over the US book, he decided he wanted to recurrect Megatron. But Megatron had already been resurrected in the UK book. He didn't want to alienate US readers by suddenly revealing Megatron had already been resurrected, so he wrote a story for the UK strip explaining that what everyone had thought was a resurrected Megatron was actually a clone of Megatron created by Straxus. Anyway, not much happens here; it's mostly to set up the next story.
"Two Megatrons!"
The "real" Megatron and the clone Megatron battle it out. Transformers fans have written whole dissertations on how this causes more problems than it solves, continuity-wise, but if you ignore all that, this is a great story with a perfect climax. Megatron is dead, love live Megatron!
After this, the collection suddenly jumps ahead to a set of Decepticon-focused stories from the "Earthforce" era, when the UK strip abandoned continuity with the US one. I wish Titan had just collected the era in publication order, but as they're the only publisher to collect it at all, I have to take what I can get.
"Flashkcab!"
What's that, Megatron has a time machine and is attempting to rewrite the events of the Underbase saga? Okay, sure. With five pages per story, Furman can't waste time on setting things up... or ever using these concepts ever again! This one is maybe overdoing the exciting standalone adventure thing (which became standard in the Earthforce era), but it's fine.
"The Bad Guy's Ball!"
There's been a Decepticon Civil War brewing, Shockwave versus Megatron, so the Decpticons call an "enclave" (should be "conclave," surely?) to settle who should be in charge. One of my favorite stories in this run: the whole idea of a Decepticon cease-fire social meet is a delight, and then the Autobots show up to cause problems in secret, preventing the two sides from reaching an accord. The only thing I don't like is I feel like this could be a premise for a whole twenty-page issue! Imagine this in the hands of James Roberts.
"Secrets" / "Bugged!" / "Internal Affairs!"
These three stories continue this collection's focus on the Decepticons, and they are all pretty fun. First, it turns out Soundwave is spying on Megatron for Shockwave, but he plays on a fellow Decepticon's paranoia to throw suspicion off himself in a masterful move. Then Starscream makes his own play, uniting with Soundwave to depose both Megatron and Shockwave. It's so complicated you've got to love it.
"Assassins" / "External Forces!" / "The Lesser Evil!"
More on the complicated shenanigans of the Decepticon civil war. Shockwave and Megatron team up to assassinate Starscream, making it look like Soundwave is responsible; the Mayhem Attack Squad attempts to kill Starscream and Soundwave; the Autobats have to save Starscream because they need a transfusion from him to defeat an illness Snarl has (we saw this illness in a flash-forward story in the 1990 annual). Enjoyable, but alas this is end of this plotline as the series itself is almost over. Shame, because I think there was a lot of mileage in it.
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