I Love Ya However You’re Unusual is a characteristic that spotlights unusual however finally endearing comedian tales. Right this moment, we have a look at the time that Optimus Prime sacrificed his life over…profitable a online game?!?!

As I’ve defined various instances through the years, whenever you’re writing a comic book e-book collection that’s principally primarily based on quick two-parters or “completed in ones,” you are consistently on the look out for plot concepts. Clearly, EVERY comedian e-book author is on the lookout for plot concepts, in fact, however whenever you do long-form storylines, you’ll be able to take one plot and stretch it out for three-six points. If you happen to’re doing repeated “completed in a single” tales, then again, you must provide you with a brand new plot for every challenge, and that may be maddening. This was how comedian books had been completed for DECADES within the Forties-Nineteen Fifties, which led to comedian e-book writers like Invoice Finger carrying round “gimmick books” the place they’d jot down concepts that might be used for doable plots.

One other useful device in the case of developing with recent plots is the concept of FADS. There are virtually all the time some new fad happening on the earth (and infrequently, what we THINK of as a fad seems to be one thing that may simply turn out to be a part of on a regular basis society, like, for example, computer systems). Archie Comics had been well-known for years for doing a number of quick tales in every challenge of its comics, and so Archie, specifically, was ALL about fads, as you may simply faucet into regardless of the then-current fad was, and voila, you could have a plot on your story! This form of factor continues to this present day, like with a Stranger Issues-themed Archie story. The Marvel Transformers comedian e-book collection was additionally principally a “completed in a single” collection, and so author Bob Budiansky needed to all the time try for attention-grabbing plot concepts for the e-book, and in Transformers #24 (by Budiansky, and artists Don Perlin, Ian Akin, and Bryan Garvey), he used a typical theme for a comic book e-book plot within the Nineteen Eighties – the characters get sucked right into a online game (I lately famous 5 instances DC characters had been sucked into video video games).

Nevertheless, on this case, the story led to the DEATH OF OPTIMUS PRIME!!

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How did Optimus Prime and Megatron come to struggle one another in a online game?

On prime of attempting to provide you with new plots for every challenge that might be wrapped up in a single story, Budiansky additionally needed to cope with the truth that the comedian e-book was clearly principally seen by Hasbro as a strategy to promote its Transformers toyline, and so Budiansky needed to consistently write tales that may combine regardless of the latest line of Transformers toys was at that given second (and as soon as the toys turned outdated, Budiansky needed to then write these toys OUT of the comedian e-book).

In Transformers #24, the brand new toys had been the Protectobots and the Combaticons (the Protectobots had been all emergency response automobiles, like ambulances, rescue helicopters, police vehicles, and so forth., whereas the Combaticons had been all army automobiles), and so Optimus Prime and the Protectobots headed to cease Megatron and the Combaticons steal a brand new highly effective machine that would presumably gasoline the Decepctions. The pages introduce the characters and their ideas nicely, together with the truth that the Protectobots might then all comhine into Defensor, whereas the Combaticons might all merge into Bruticus…

Nevertheless, the younger pc programmer who labored on the place supplied an alternate resolution to the heroes and villains battling it out (and really probably destroying the whole lot within the space, together with the machine they had been there preventing for). They may struggle inside the realm of the online game, and the winner might get the machine!

They agree, however Megatron insists that they add an additional wrinkle, whichever staff wins, the dropping staff’s chief needed to comply with be destroyed! Optimus Prime agrees, and the younger programmer, Ethan, now has a joystick that would destroy both Optimius or Megatron (I simply adore that they’re each agreeing to this loopy plan). The battle then begins!

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How did Optimus Prime die within the comedian resulting from profitable a online game?

So, proper off the bat, the heroic Autobots start to befriend the characters inside the online game, whereas the Decepiticons are jerks to them, and certain sufficient, as the sport goes by, the truth that they’re associates with the denizens of the sport proves useful to the Autobots, and the Decepitcons are picked off one after the other till it’s simply Optimus Prime and Defensor versus Megatron.

Nevertheless, one of many Combaticons realized that Ethan had developed a backup system within the recreation, in order that whenever you die, you’ll be able to come proper again to life, so Megatron makes use of the cheat code after he dies, taking Defensor with him. He then pops up proper again alive, and assaults Optimus Prime from behind…

Issues are trying bleak for Optimus, however then he comes up with a determined gambit, he knocks down a tower, which topples beneath, killing Megatron within the recreation, but in addition killing among the non-player characters, as nicely….

So Optimus Prime has now received the sport, and Megatron is to be destroyed. BUT WAIT! Optimus Prime received by killing harmless individuals, though they’re simply pc recreation characters, and so he says that that may be a betrayal of his ideas, and thus he insists that they really LOST the sport, and thus Optimus ought to be destroyed…

Ethan follows Optimus’ command, and a bunch of little child comedian e-book readers probably had their goals haunted that evening by the sight of Optimus Prime exploding…

The villains headed off with their stolen prize, however fortunately, it seems as if Ethan had saved Optimus Prime’s consciousness when he entered the online game…

Sure, all of Optimus Prime’s consciousness was current on a freakin’ FLOPPY DISK! As you may need guessed, this led to his eventual return to life (possibly I am going to cowl that sooner or later as a Loss of life shouldn’t be the Finish. Let me know if you would like to see that lined)!

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