Nutting (and bolting) it out

[dragontail]

It's early days, of course, but we may already have a candidate for the best purchase of 2012: Transformers Classics UK volume one. A long time has passed since a comic last brought me such sheer joy. There's been moments of glee (even squee) in the DCnU, but nothing can top the heady mix of nostalgia, rich character development, world-building and

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[bc_scrubs]

I'm glad that the Transformers Classics UK: Volume one is such an outstanding collection. More collections need to take into account that people these days are looking for the "DVD" extras not just a straight reprint and it sounds like this collection has delivered that in spades. I hope your punt on the new series yeilds satisfactory results, at the very least.

I was wondering what in particular it is about "Kraven's Last Hunt" that made it stand out as an example of what we wont see at Marvel/Disney? I can think of a couple of things but I'm interested in hearing your reasoning.

[dragontail]

We're likely thinking of exactly the same things: the darkness, the suicide, Vermin, the overall feel and mood of the piece. JM DeMattias and Mike Zeck designed "Last Hunt" as a way of proving the grim-n-gritty-killer-hero trope didn't work for Spider-Man (just as Denny O'Neil and co. would do, a decade later, for Batman via Knightfall). I doubt the Mouse would allow such a story to go through, given the need for Spidey to remain a lunchbox-and-thermos-selling intellectual property/American icon.