In a desperate bid to appeal to an alternate-universe version of myself in which the arrested development has taken on a kind of chronic, consumeristic fever pitch, someone has dreamed up and brought to reality G.I. JOE vs. TRANSFORMERS, featuring GI Joes and even some robot Janes. I was enthralled with the revamped GI Joe line when they went from the 12" figures to the small, micronaut scale figures. I never got into Transformers; I thought they were a rip-off of the Japanese mecha that I was watching from age 6. (linked via Seiburtron, though I have no idea how I ended up there)
“I came back for my own purposes,” said the Time Traveler, looking around my booklined study. “I chose you to talk to because it was . . . convenient. And I don’t want you to do a goddamned thing. There’s nothing you can do. But relax . . . we’re not going to be talking about personal things. Such as, say, the year, day, and hour of your death. I don’t even know that sort of trivial information, although I could look it up quickly enough. You can release that white-knuckled grip you have on the edge of your desk.” I tried to relax. “What do you want to talk about?” I said. “The Century War,” said the Time Traveler. I blinked and tried to remember some history. “You mean the Hundred Year War? Fifteenth Century? Fourteenth? Sometime around there. Between . . . France and England? Henry V? Kenneth Branagh? Or was it . . .” “I mean the Century War with Islam,” interrupted the Time Traveler. “Your future. Everyone’s.” He was no longer smiling. Without asking, or offering to pour me any, he ...
I hate to say it, but there was a Joe / TF crossover comic in the 80's that was a 3 or 4 issue miniseries. I think I may still have a couple issues from it.
ReplyDeleteAnd the female autobot was introduced with the movie like 20 years ago - her name is Arcee, and if you want to truly witness dork epilepsy I'm sure you can find some pornographic renderings of her if you look hard enough.
I'm pretty sure that's the series they're revamping in the article to which I linked.
ReplyDeleteAnd I will avoid looking for Arcee fanfics, slashfics, and fan art.